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The playing field will never be level between ICE and EV cost structures. As battery technology advances, EVs will inevitably become cheaper to build than ICE cars. And EVs require far less ongoing maintenance, thereby lessening the need for a massive dealer service infrastructure. (Dealers...

Lucid is showing itself capable of creating a car with astonishing performance. Whether it or Tesla shaves additional fractions of a second off what are already outrageous track times for both has reached the point of irrelevance, except to the pubescent internet crowd. People who can actually...

Tesla has now added the Plaid to its Model S order configurator. Unlike with every other model on the configurator, Tesla gave only vague numbers for the Plaid: "estimated" range, "<2.0 seconds" to 60, quarter mile time of "<9.0 seconds". Lucid released a range based on credible FEV testing...

I've bought two Teslas and was required to wire the full balance to Tesla before they would set up a delivery appointment. They expect you to rely on their 7-day return policy if something is wrong with the vehicle. Some sketchy communications from Lucid about delivery plans suggest they are...

The Lucid Air will be revealed online tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. PDT (7:00 p.m. EDT). The new Lucid website with full configuration details is supposed to go live shortly before the beginning of the reveal. Anyone who wants to watch the reveal can go to lucidmotors.com, look for the "calendar" tab...

The "Teslarati" article said the $169k car is "comparable to a performance configuration." "Teslarati" seems to be referring to the tri-motor car, which Lucid calls its "Performance" version. However, Rawlinson said in an interview at the Sonoma Raceway that the tri-motor car would not be...

I am. My 2015 Tesla Model S P90D, with less technology, less performance, less space, and fewer amenities cost me $128,000 five years ago. So I was kinda expecting a price of $150k or more. However, the Lucid sales staff was caught off guard by the story that broke on pricing today. I and...

Lucid was planning on building 80 beta test cars. They got just over 40 built before Covid-19 put their beta program on hold. They resumed building the test fleet a few weeks ago but, as they're not holding up their main production schedule, they might be completing beta testing with something...

Lucid has been very sparse with the information until just recently. They're now ramping up the communications ahead of opening their configurator next week to order cars that will go into production at the end of December or early January. I suspect Rivian will begin a similar ramp-up of...

There are going to be two basic passenger configurations: a 5-passenger version with rear bench seats and a 4-passenger version with rear seats that recline to 55 degrees and a rear center console. (The recliner version is aimed more at the Asian market and won't be produced for a while.) The...

Here's the battery platform:

Lucid has said it will produce only one integrated drive unit for the Air, with the platform being able to accept one, two, or three of these units. The motor/drive unit has an output of 670 hp and 2950 lb-ft of torque . . . so the single-motor version will be no slouch.

Lucid will begin production at the start of the year on its "Dream Edition", a highly-optioned dual-motor version of the car. Less expensive versions will come once all the "Dream" reservations are fulfilled. CEO Rawlinson has said the "Dream" will cost "well north" of $100k. Press...

Lucid just released the Sonoma Raceway speed trial results for its 5-passenger Dream Edition: 9.912 sec quarter mile 144.40 trap speed The auto press is saying those numbers were attained repeatably. This was with the 1,080-hp Dream Edition 5-passenger sedan with the 113-kWh battery pack.

[Can't get the quote feature to work, so . . . ] Ajdelange wrote: "It really would be better if you left the physics to the physicists but the heat you feel before you see visible light is not NIR." It might be better not to open a post with a categorical statement that "all glass blocks IR...

My understanding is that the term "near infrared" does not mean the wavelength is near the infrared spectrum. It means the wavelength is in the infrared spectrum, but at the wavelengths nearer to the visible light spectrum. Thus NIR is still infrared light. According to the article below...

I've been reading up on sun-blocking films for sunroofs, and one of the most frequent warnings is to avoid a film that is too dark. While a darker film will be more effective at dealing with sun glare, it will transmit more heat into the cabin than a lighter reflective film that is engineered...

I've seen two very different phases of Tesla service. In the first two years I had only a couple of minor problems with the car. In both cases I reached Tesla service very easily, and mobile service techs came to the house quickly and fixed the car on the spot. In one case, I called Tesla at...

I'm one of the early reservation holders for the Lucid and have since upped the reservation to a Dream Edition, which will be the initial production run. Lucid is still paving parking lots, but Phase I of the factory itself is completed and the production machinery installed. Warehouses in...

I have a 2015 Tesla Model S P90D. It made me an EV addict, and I love the car. In fact, I'm passing it along in the family when my new Lucid Air arrives. It'll even stay in the same garage. The reason I am switching to the Air for my next EV is not because of its performance but because it...