- The lucid air is just hands
down the best electric car that I have ever driven.
Mechanically, at least.
This thing was designed
by the same guy that did the original model S
and it freaking shows.
Sure. It might have 118 kilowatt hour battery.
That's massive, but it gets 800 kilometers of range.
That's more than everything.
The IX, the EQS, the Taycan
Even the model S.
And they did not do it by being slow.
This one right here apparently has 819 horsepower.
We're gonna be the first ones in the world to properly test.
Yeah, we're at stratified automotive once again
and we're gonna put this thing on a freaking Dino.
Hopefully.
Before we put it on the Dyno
we need to make sure we can put it on the Dino.
So we're lifting it up
finding some good points to attach tote straps
making sure it's all nice and safe.
And it's really freaking heavy.
Now that we have it up
This is so freaking cool.
The bottom, just flat
Completely flat.
You expect on electric cars
because it's just so much better for aerodynamics
And also like there's a battery pack there.
Not very difficult to do.
All of the suspension links are aluminum.
Love to see it, and they are freaking massive.
Up front we have double wishbone suspension
love to see it
just makes your handling better, period.
We also have some interesting toe arms
that look like it might be a provision
to have real real steer in the future.
Pretty cool.
All good?
- Perfect.
- We've got it all strapped down and almost ready to go.
It is gonna be kind of weird.
Normally you do your power curve
in terms of like engine RPM
versus power output.
But here that doesn't really work
cause for one we don't know what the ratio is
and two, it kind of just doesn't matter.
So we're just setting it to
a set speed and it'll be power versus speed.
And it will probably look about the same.
Let's do it.
The car's getting really mad at us.
Says there's a brake system fault
and so on.
This is very common on a dyno
just because your front wheels
and your rear wheels might be spinning
at slightly different speeds.
And the electronics get really mad.
This is common, not only electric cars
but any modern four wheel drive car.
- Okay. Now, now we're getting somewhere.
- Not bad, Not bad.
That run right there
Apparently had 566 horsepower
nowhere near the 820
but we're gonna try it again.
- That was just kind of still easing into it.
- Yeah.
Alex - 670
And that was pretty much floored.
693, actually.
- Run number 2, 693, not bad.
It seems like it is kind of tapering
off as we get going faster that was
when we were going
like better part of a hundred miles per hour
when it did that.
- Yeah.
We're up right up to a hundred miles per hour.
And you can see that actually
it's leveling off in terms of power
even before a hundred miles an hour.
- So I guess we just have to give her
the bean sooner and hopefully we'll see it.
Alex - Full Throttle.
- All right, we did it.
Now if we look at what we got
our final result is 693 horsepower.
Now you might be thinking, oh (Inaudible) blood tears.
It's actually pretty fine.
Now. I don't entirely understand
what the difference is.
It has to do with the type of Dino this is.
The load calibration.
So normally in like a gasoline car, you would take it
up to speed, put in neutral, let it slow down.
You can put that into your calculations.
We can't do that here.
Can't turn off regenerative breaking.
So this is what we get.
They guess that this right here
actually translates into
790 horsepower
somewhere around there
which is very close to what it's rated
especially given we didn't have it wide open
until 40 50 miles per hour.
And electric cars have their most umph
down at, well zero.
This is really cool.
Let's do a tour around it Brandon.
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And it's freaking sick.
All right, from the outside
the lucid air grand touring
looks freaking excellent
in my opinion.
Going around it, first of all
the key looks pretty cool.
And if you just hold it
You get access to the frunk
which is nice and massive.
You can see down in here
it has storage for a
big boy LTT water bottle, you know,
screwdriver, LTT store.com.
That's just released.
Love it.
Moving around to the side.
We do have the 21 inch arrow wheels
which means our range is somewhere around
like 794 kilometers, I believe.
if you have the nineteens
that's how you get over 800.
Right here is the charging port.
And this is really freaking good.
The whole system is 900 volts
and allows you to have 300 kilowatt charging.
At 300 kilowatts, 15 minutes of charging
is able to get you 350 kilometers of range.
That's more than a lot
of electric cars have.
The charging experience
and the Range
Is the sort of thing that makes this
just different than any other
electric car that I've had.
You don't want to drive 800 kilometers in a day.
And as long as there's a charger at your destination
you can charge it overnight.
It's like actually different for road trip.
That was the one thing about the Taycan
that I just couldn't get over.
I was like
this would be the best grand touring car ever
but you can't go anywhere, not far.
With this it's different.
You can actually just drive until you're tired.
The handles here, when it's locked
they go in, unlocked
they pop out nice and easy.
Also, as you go around
you can see that there's just
a literal (inaudible) load of cameras.
Like there's one there,
one there, one there
there's probably more around here somewhere.
Coming around the back, again
this thing just looks so good.
Like this light bar right here.
Oh, fantastic.
Also the trunk is massive.
As you can see
you can fit probably two Jakes in there
pretty easily.
And that's not even all of the room.
You could probably, if you chop him up
fit another one down there as well.
- Oh
- Coming around to the rear seats.
I actually haven't been in here yet, so
let's find out.
I would 100% enjoy being driven around
in this thing.
In the center we also have
let's see here.
Yep. Couple cup holders,
nice little storage area.
There's also a rear screen
that can, you know
do your seats, heating,
four way climate control.
Very nice.
Getting in, the first thing that you notice
is that these seats are exceptional.
Actually, all of the interior is exceptional.
There's Alcantera
there's this other cloth material
that feels really good.
There's real wood,
leather on the seats.
These seats are some of the best that I've ever sat in.
Actually the best I've ever sat in.
There's loads of adjustments.
The ones that you want are on the side
of the seat and the rest of them are all in here.
This is all pretty easy to use.
It's not too bad
So you can see all of this
including like back rest with
lumbar support, cushion tilt
all of that sort of stuff.
As well as that, we also have seat massagers.
Unfortunately, Dennis is out today.
Otherwise I'd have him here.
But this is the best seat massagers
that I've ever felt in a car.
Instead of just sort of poking you
these ones sort of like (inaudible)
and it just feels fantastic
if you're sort of sore after a long day
or were just standing for a while
or something like that.
First thing, this surround camera is just
one of the best that I have experienced.
Not only does it give you a very nice view
around the entire car
it gives you distance measurements
to walls and cars and stuff like that.
I believe Tesla's the only other one that does that
and huge fan,
love it.
For most day to day operation
you're gonna want it in smooth mode.
Smooth mode in this is more aggressive
than the sport mode in basically
any other car.
Also for regenerative braking
you get a lot
and heaps loads and all of it.
So this is the first car
that I've ever had it
on standard regen braking.
The other option's, high.
I don't know why you'd ever want that
because that's like more regen breaking
than I don't know, most cars normal breaks.
One thing that I do find kind of strange
overall incredibly quiet in here
like one of the most silent cars
that I've ever been in
besides maybe the EQS.
But the inverter line on these motors
is quite a bit.
Especially rare on 60 kilometers per hour
Like, let's see.
It's not brutal.
But I think these are the loudest
electric motors
that I've ever heard
that weren't like
pumping in fake sounds.
Now for the bit
you guys have been waiting for though
820 horsepower
Zero to 60 of 3.2 seconds
Sprint mode, sprint activation.
Yep. Launch mode activated.
Ooh, holy freak this thing is fast.
3.2 seconds Zero to 60 is just obscene.
And like, even when you're going quite fast
that is still just sorry, Brandon, but this
Oh, so fast.
This thing is, it's just epic.
Now like the guy who owns this car
and was just an absolute legend
for letting us take it.
I have no clue why he'd do that.
Anyway, he used to have a model S plat
and he says this does not accelerate like that.
And I do believe him.
That's what like 50%, less times zero to 60.
But that said like, oh
you can not complain about that.
Holy freak this
this or Brandon?
while I wait for a corner to arrive
just right quick.
All of the switch gear
on this steering wheel is excellent.
This is super nice leather.
You have your volume here.
Pause in the center.
Next song.
We have Alexa here, which just sucks.
We'll talk about that later.
And then on the left
you have your cruise control stuff.
I refuse to call it dream drive
cause that just doesn't exist yet.
Again, we'll talk more about that later
but we're gonna focus on the driving right now.
It is exceptional!
the way that they have tuned
the suspension in this thing it's
well you can tell that it's 5,200 pounds
but at the same time
it is just so nice to huck into some corners.
Now it doesn't have air ride
so it isn't quite as supple as like
the IX, but at the same time
it has adaptive dampers.
And if we just (inaudible)
It is so planted in the corners.
You don't get a lot of communication
through the steering wheel,
but it's, it just feels so good
I don't really care.
Compared to other electric cars
this is just straight up.
It's the best I've ever driven.
Taycan was really good too.
It's on the same level as the Taycan
which is pretty much
the biggest compliment you can give
anyone ever, oh, while we're driving here
should I just complain about the nav?
This thing, it's the worst nav
I've ever experienced.
It's genuinely impressive
how much they have managed
to just have the nav be terrible.
Cause like when I paired title to this
it said that it's running Android automotive
Android automotive is sick. Amazing.
Comes by default with Google map.
This is not Google maps.
This is terrible.
I have used it three times.
And two of those times
it did not take me to the right spot.
And also one of the times
it was just straight up wrong.
I kind of knew where I was going.
So I was like, the exit for the highway's here.
I'm going to get on the highway.
Even though it's telling me to like
drive another 500 meters
and then get on the highway
where there's no exit.
Yeah. Is just actually terrible.
Genuine (inaudible)
Also Alexa just like straight up doesn't work.
So, you know, Google assistant
which is built into apple maps
and Android automotive
that they would've had to get rid of
in order to put Alexa on here
just does not work.
So like, let's see
okay, this button's doing nothing.
Oh, oh she's back.
Hello Alexa
Can you play Beyonce for me on title.
Alexa - Playing music from provider title
is not supported.
- Great. I'm warm.
Okay She's gone.
Alexa - Do you want to decrease the temperature
by five or turn on the driver's seat bent?
- Yes.
Alexa- What should I do when you say that?
- Turn on the driver's seat ventilation.
Is she thinking?
it's genuinely impressive
that they made something worse
than Hey Mercedes.
Props to you guys.
Now one thing that you might be thinking is
oh, they say they have Android automotive
an apple car play
that would fix your stuff.
Yeah. If they freaking had it.
The problem is
nothing exists for this car
that they say it does.
So all of it's coming later
much like all of their dream drive stuff.
So this has dream drive pro
and the hardware is genuinely impressive.
So it has lighter up front.
all of those cameras
bunch of sensors.
it has Invidia hardware for the AI
and processing.
And it in theory works very well.
This is exemplified by the adaptive cruise control
which is some of the best that I have experienced
in a car.
It is just so good at seeing someone in front of you
and able to just adjust your speed accordingly
do it very safely.
Very confidence Inspiringly.
Love that everything else just does not exist.
Doesn't work.
Not at all.
So let's look in the settings here.
Dream drive
lane departure protection.
Turn it off because it's way too aggressive.
I'm just going around a corner and it's like
Nope, I'm just taking the corner normally.
Sucks.
Speed limit alert, sucks.
You're going down the highway
speed limits 90 kilometers per hour.
Every single time that you pass a sign
that says 90 kilometers per hour
it'll ping you and be like
new speed, 90 kilometers per hour.
Yeah. I figured that out
the last five times you told me
you piece of (inaudible).
A distracted driver warning.
If you're driving into the sun
and have sunglasses on
it just doesn't work
the whole time that you're driving
It's like (beeping sound) distracted driving.
No, I'm looking at it
You just can't see me
because I have sunglasses on.
What you might be thinking is missing
is I don't know
the features that you get in a base civic.
There's no lane center in this.
So would I pay the 13 grand for their dream drive pro?
Absolutely not!
You will never see it, ever. Probably.
We're still driving back
to where I was going to complain about
how everything in this is broken
but you know (inaudible)
I'm mad now
everything just doesn't work
in this at all.
Genuinely horrifying that they have shipped this car.
Like last night
while I was unpacking Brandon's stuff
after we got stratified.
It just didn't work for 15 minutes.
Look at this clip.
Well this is just peachy.
I was unloading the stuff from the stratified shoot
and she's just doing nothing, nothing at all.
So like I press this, not a thing.
Brandon's camera equipment's in there.
Yep. Not opening.
I can come in here.
The windows are open.
Can open it like that.
Completely dead.
Nothing at all.
This was working 35 seconds ago.
You know.
Nothing, foot on the break.
Nope.
Gas, zero.
Yeah. I just had to go
and sit for 15 minutes
and when I came back it worked.
So that's first big thing you should do Lucid
is just have a very simple reset
the all of this button
because you, you really, really need it.
Everything breaks
like that screen that I showed you
in the back
I would call this 3.1 screen set up
because the fourth one has only worked
Maybe 10% of the time.
The door handle on the passenger side
just stayed open
for like half a day One time.
The surround view and the cameras
just didn't work one time that I was in it.
Every time that I get into it
it logs me into the wrong profile,
even though there is facial recognition
that's never worked once for me.
It is just genuinely impressive
how just (inaudible) all of the software
in this is, and just the fact
that they are giving people this car
when most of the features that they advertise
just simply do not exist.
Oh, the switch gear rate here is kind of nice though.
I like to give you a physical volume knob
and these switches aren't great
but at least physical climate controls.
I appreciate that.
Oh, this is really cool.
If you push right here and go up
there's a storage compartment
which conveniently has my sound level meter
that I'm going to use to show you
off the sound system.
For the sound system, this is the first one
with dolby atmost integrated.
And, in order to use that
you need to have a title subscription
and then if it has a supported album
like the one from Odessa
it sounds really cool.
It surrounds all around you.
Very crispy highs.
There's nice placement of all the different instruments.
Very good.
If it's not dolby atmos mastered
it probably sounds very bad.
Any sort of low bit rate
that you put into this
just makes it sound like crap.
And also there's zero extension down into the base.
Oh, another thing that I didn't mention
every time that it goes into the wrong profile
it goes to their seat settings.
And then when you switch them, it takes forever.
Like watch how long this takes.
We're going to do the poor man's frequency sweep.
So I have my frequency generator here.
Let's see, there we go about 75 DB at 92 Hertz.
We'll go down a bit.
82 still is fine.
72 we have
maybe a two DB drop
62 we're down five decibels
so we're down below the F three of this
32 nothing's happening.
42 is 60 DB which is essentially
just non-existent
when you're talking about it should be 75.
Yeah. It really, really needs a Subwoofer.
There's just no extension at all.
So any like immersion that you might be getting
from the Dolby Atmos is just completely ruined
by the fact that there's no reproduction of the lows.
Yeah, so crab rave doesn't have atmos support
so it sounds pretty crushed.
I would be okay with that in a $40,000 car
not acceptable when it's 240 grand.
Have I mentioned that yet?
Did I bring up that this is 240 grand?
That's Canadian dollars
but like
that's a lot of software problems
for that much money.
I'm just so confused about how to
wrap this up.
This is far and away
my favorite electric car that I have driven
the handling's exceptional
the seats are super comfortable
the power train
just straight up, straight up amazing.
The range. You actually cannot beat it.
And it transforms a grand touring electric car
into an actual grand tour.
If they just actually had it work
I would be over the moon right now.
I don't even need to add in like
amazing super cruise autopilot, competitor stuff.
I don't care about that.
I need to trust that when I walk up to it
it's going to turn on.
I have never been scared before
like opening and closing the trunk of a car
that it might just stop working
and not wake up for another 15 minutes.
I would take this over a model S, easily.
I genuinely love this car
but I'm afraid it's not
going to work every time that I walk up to it.
And that's just inexcusable for $240,000.
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Huge thanks for watching.
And if you work at lucid
please just fix it.
The mechanical engineering
and the electrical engineering that went into this
does not deserve to be let down in this way.