Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver and I'm in Texas right now and this is the unbelievably
futuristic and brand new beautiful Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance but there's also a
Dream Edition Range version and this version has 1,111 horsepower and 1,390 newton meters of torque
you do 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds and it's been geared for 205 miles per hour at 20 000 rpm
from that electric motor although it's software limited to 168 miles an hour because of the tires
right now so this is a very very very fast car the performance edition has 471 miles of range and the
range edition has 520 miles of range there's no other electric car which exists right now which
has this kind of range the range on this car is further than lots of gas powered cars so this is
a really really exciting bit of technology but not only that it has the smallest drag coefficient of
any cars and one of the most important ways for an ev to be efficient is to make it cut through the
air to make it slippery the more it cuts through the lower its drag coefficient and as we all know
drag coefficient is measured as two times the drag force over the mass density of the fluid
times the flow speed squared times the reference area obviously can't believe i knocked that out
in the first take anyway lucid have managed to make this have a drag coefficient of 0.2 which
makes it the car with the lowest drag coefficient ever i'm sorry did i interrupt you this car the
dream edition costs 170 000 but you can't get it the entry level model is going to be called the
air pure which is around 77 000 then we've got the touring and then we've got the grand touring
which has over 800 horsepower so the dream edition is the most advanced version that lucid have
made and it's going to remain that way until i guess lucy bring out something else but it has
real presence and it looks fantastic look at this huge glass panel over the top here and you can see
it when we get inside the car and look but this is one piece it goes all the way along made in japan
which is where the best glass is made according to lucid and it just looks amazing this car not
only does it have all this advanced technology which i'm going to show you in a second but it
also is all built in house in arizona so this is a made in america car and that is something which is
really really interesting to know and the quality is unbelievable there are lots of people i know
that have issues with their teslas not being put together just looking around this car this is this
is attention to detail is amazing this beautiful color is called the zenith red there's also black
white and a special gold eureka gold which is also available and then we've got this contrast roof
line so this is something which is really really interesting unique which lucid have done they've
got this silver roof line which goes to the back and then the quarter panel here actually says the
model down at the bottom this car looks really really big but actually it's about the size of
a bmw 5 series even though interior wise it's got the same space as a mercedes s-class which is a
much bigger car the wheelbase is 116 inches from front to rear it's got some touches maybe you can
see a bit of porsche in it maybe you can see a bit of citroen a bit of french inspiration as well but
for the future these headlights are the smallest headlights in the world they use an intelligent
micro lens led array and there's actually air pressure that builds up at the front here
so lucid have added air vents behind here to take the air out and bring it out here to reduce that
pressure and reduce the drag as well of the car and everything on here is very very functional and
well at the front here also worth noting down here there is a sensor here lucid have an unbelievably
advanced drive assistance system with over 32 sensors including radar ultrasonic and there's
even a lidar which shines a laser down the road to measure the distance to cars and objects in front
of the car in fact this car is able to be level three autonomous with software updates it's got
far more sensors on it than anything else and in fact tesla have removed all of the sensors apart
from cameras whereas this car has got cameras and sensors and lidar as well if you're not familiar
with lidar lidar is on lots of those self-driving cars at google and uber have been testing
they're the big things which are on top of the roof which spin around and shoot a laser out well
they've made this really compact here which is something which is very unique
let's talk about the batteries in these cars so this is 118 kilowatt hour battery which has
the ability to go as i mentioned in this model about 471 miles and this car also has 900 volt
charging technology built in which means that it also has a 300 kilowatt charger built into the car
so if you've got the infrastructure to connect this car up this car can actually charge 200
miles of range in 10 minutes which is amazingly fast in five minutes you get about 100 miles which
is similar to what you get from a typical petrol or gas car this car can do it but this has got
more performance and more torque than any other car this car has 1390 newton meters of torque
which is where it really really shines because if you're overtaking above 60 miles an hour it
means that you have far more torque and far more power to overtake than anything else which means
that when driving you have a better experience lucid say this car has been designed for driving
experience and then the environmental credentials are just an extra benefit that you get being an
electric car this car really does drive like a sports car let's just talk about the wheels for a
second this car has 19s on it but you can also get 20 and 21 inch designs if that's what you're after
the 19 inch wheels give a better ride quality which is one of the benefits that you can get so
one of the cool things about this car is how the handles pop out when you press on the key twice
they pop out like this and then you can open the car very easy i love these pop-up handles and then
soft closed as well and then this key is very very interesting as well it's basically a little shape
of a car looks a bit like a boomerang maybe and then you press it once to lock two presses will
unlock the car and then if you long hold it it will open the front let's talk about the front now
this car has 202 liters of space in the front here which is powered and automatic which opens
like this using the key power trunk is really really cool there's actually a little button
inside here so you can close it as well the 202 liters of space here are very big and it also
has an adjustable floor so there's a lot more space down here as well this is a huge front
and the reason why this is possible is because of the motors the motors that lucid have made fit
in this space here they're basically about this size they can fit in your carry-on luggage and
they are miniaturized and it's intelligent designed by lucid which means you got all
this space here with the powered front opening as well it means that you can put stuff in here
and still have your boot available to you which we'll have a look at in a second so anyway press
the button and it will close down let's talk the rear design of the lucid air so first things first
you'll notice we have this light bar all the way across this is the biggest light bar in the
automotive industry right now when you press a lock button you can see the indicators are
really really narrow here at the back of the front they're vertical at the back they're
horizontal and then if we open the back of the car here we've got a clam shell design back here
which means there's a really wide opening which means there's lots of space
to slide things in isn't a hatchback it may look like a hatchback but it isn't but this is a really
wide opening and there's 456 liters of space back here we've of course got a floor which comes up of
the back here which has got nice and deep put my arm all the way in here so there's lots of space
an interesting fact to note you'll notice these here are brake lights and the reason why there
are brake lights there is because u.s law says that the brake lights cannot be on a moving part
of the rear of the vehicle so when the boot is up these are the brake lights when the view goes down
then the normal position becomes the brake lights so how much space is there
inside the lucid air well i am actually honestly astounded by the amount of space there is in
this car as i mentioned before it's got 116 inch wheelbase which means it's got the same interior
space as a mercedes s-class even though the car is actually similar in size for five series and you
can see the amount of space i'm about 178 and you can see how much space i have to my knees
to the seat in front how much space i have to this panoramic blast roof above me is just so
comfortable and so spacious back here it is a huge surprise a very very good surprise you
could easily carry people in comfort in the back here in fact part of me wants to sit in the back
myself and be driven around considering how comfortable it is and then we have all the little
details the build quality in here is incredible we've got the alcantara on the headlining we've
got these materials on the back which go with the california theme because this is themed on
santa monica and each lucid model is steamed on a different part of the usa these seats are so
comfortable they feel really nice we've got the perforated leather here we've got airline style
places for you to put stuff in front of the back seats and there's little california bears as well
on the carcass lucid is based out of california even though all the cars made arizona so they all
have little bears on them all over the car other things on the interior we've got sun shades built
into the doors and the back which i can press this button here and the sun shade will go up
automatically and then down again and the back is exactly the same which could be controlled
by this screen in the middle which allows me to adjust settings it allows me to pop the back shade
put it down and also turn the heated seats on and off at the back here very very nice we've
got the little air vents too on the inside here which are covered in metal as well it's just a
beautiful beautiful interior it really is quite something it's very very special back here huge
cued us to lucid for doing this back here it really is quite something in terms of seating
space obviously you can see my knees are quite high up the floor is quite high in here because
it does have 118 kilowatt hour battery under here in the entry level models which come with an 88
kilowatt hour battery that will actually have more space for you to put your feet lower down because
there'll be less batteries so that's an interesting bit of design which lucid
have done back here so awesome back here let's get in the front and see what that's like now
welcome inside the lucid air dream edition so the interior of this car is really quite something
to look at i mean the interior is just beautiful i'm going to say that again i've said it many many
times i think this encapsulates modern design and luxury at the same time from this floating
34 inch 5k display which is actually made out of three separate displays which i'll talk about in
a second to this floating display here which you can end up moving away by swiping up like that
and then you've got a massive space here where you can store stuff and then you can tap it and it'll
come back again we've got different colored front seats and rear seats the front seats here are the
sort of gray color and they've got lucid in the headrests and again very very very comfortable
in here we got an alcantara on the dashboard here we've got leather behind that we've got
this wooden grain in the middle we've got the aluminium running along the inside and again this
weave here it's just quite something to behold in this car really really is and then look at these
buttons here something of an unusual move from lucid but we have temperature control buttons
up and down and fan buttons yes it's not all done on the display there are actual buttons for it
as well and then let's talk about the steering wheel so there's been a lot of contentiousness
about the steering wheel on the model s plaid now personally i'm all for yolks i am a yoke lover
a joke or not but i love modern new changes in technology and i love flying hence why i'm out
here in texas right now filming this car and so for me having a car with a yolk is a steering
wheel makes me feel like i'm flying an aeroplane i don't mind but lucid have done something very very
interesting with their steering wheel there's a little doubt about that this steering wheel takes
a classic design and updates it for the modern era this is a bit like um i consider this car to
be a bit like a modern masterpiece if i'm honest with you and we've got this steering wheel which
is squared off of the bottom just like sporty cars have let's not talk about the 2022 audi rs3 with
the driver assistance package but this has got a really nice stereo i love these little buttons
here these little knobs which look a bit like a bit like classic light controls or something
maybe on an old lamp which allow you to adjust the settings so on the left here we have our driver
assistants remember the dream drive assistance system which i think is what it's called we've
got over 32 sensors including ultrasonic we've got tons of cameras i counted i think there's
10 or 11 cameras around the outside of the car as well how many cameras are there on the
lucid air let's have a look so over 32 different systems for driver assistance so how many cameras
are there on the air so first of all here's one camera that's one there's another camera here two
three
four five
six seven
eight and then in the middle here there are three nine ten eleven so eleven cameras plus
we have lidar two this lets you turn it on this lets you set the distance and then this lets you
turn it off and then you can control the amount of distance by turning the little button here on the
right hand side we've got our volume our controls which are here again on the little wheel and then
forward backwards and our voice control very very simple and easy to use when you complement
it with the buttons here for climate control it means i can very very easily adjust it to off
on so these buttons mean i can adjust the climate control i can turn the fan up i can turn the fan
down i can adjust the temperature and then i can use this to adjust the volume of the infotainment
again actual physical buttons inside the car and then we can actually control the air vents using
physical buttons if i had maybe one little complaint here these do feel a bit plasticky
they could probably do with being metal but other than that that's the only thing i would say about
this now the other cool thing about this car is and what i like about touch screens is the
ability to add and remove buttons lucid have done something very very interesting on the left here
this little panel here actually is buttons on a touch screen this lets you control
your d misting for the front area of the car and your windscreen wipers and open and close the
charging port and unlock it and the windows as well there's lots of functionality there
and this is really really clever because it means lucid can change the buttons in
software if they want to so now i know that some people might have the complaint that
certain things are hard to control for example i can't adjust the wing mirrors here without going
into the settings on here which is a bit fiddly we have our steering wheel and mirror controls here
mirror as well the ability to adjust our seats here and do our climate control obviously we
can control this also from up here because we've got physical buttons here for turning
on the air conditioning as well and the other thing you can do here is if we go into media
up here i can slide the media down to the bottom so it can be adjusted here and then i can slide it
back up here for the driver very very very cool there is a fantastic camera system and
then we can go into our awesome camera system which allows you to see your reverse up there
front rear and zoom in and zoom out which i've never seen before
and then down here we've got our 360 view that i can move the car around and see what's around us
very very very cool we have three drive modes smooth swift
and sprint which gives you the full 11 11 horsepower we've got our trunks and
locks able to open the boots the glove box as well up here we can go into our seat settings
which then allows me to adjust my seats and when i swipe over to the driver
you can see the seat is facing the opposite direction which is pretty cool
and i can move it forwards and backwards and adjust lots of individual settings
which i wouldn't be able to adjust otherwise we've then got massage and we got very nice massage
options here we then got our themes where you can go through escape space solitude serene
and there are charging options here as well which lets you also
pre-condition the battery again i love this glass panoramic roof above my head we've got
our visors here if you want to have a more epic view then maybe you want to do that with the visor
lucid say that it has to by us law have them attach here like this tesla have done it
differently however who knows what is correct and what isn't correct but it's a minor little thing
there's also lighting down here which reminds me of a bugatti chiron yes you've got lighting
up here as well all in all this is a really really beautiful interior there's space here
and we've got a and we've got a wooden solid panel which and i don't want to be stealing dusty murals
thunder here but it disappears and it's unclear where it goes because there's no space behind here
there is actually another space here if you're putting stuff in and we've got two cup holders in
the middle here and then there's wireless charging inside here as well and this amazing vanishing
wooden cover what a beautiful beautiful interior and what a beautiful beautiful
car as well one other thing which is really really cool is the door handles on this car
they're like little triggers and you pull them and then the door opens
and don't forget these are soft clothes as well so that's my first look around
the beautiful lucid air dream edition performance hope you enjoyed the video i filmed it here at
lara garage in houston texas where they have over 400 cars stored in a climate-controlled
environment so if you're looking for someone to saw your cars please give them a visit
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