Posted on 12/22/2021 8:54:22 AM PST by Red Badger
There's a whole host of reviews of the 2022 Lucid Air electric sedan popping up online, from long-form written works to quick walkaround videos and lengthy first-drive critiques. If you can only find time to watch a few, we encourage you to check out our own Tom Moloughney's first drive review, as well as the latest from Throttle House (above).
If you're not a Throttle House fan or subscriber, we suggest you check out the YouTube channel. Not only are its videos highly informative, but also hilariously entertaining. We will warn you, however, that there may be a few instances here or there that aren't the safest to watch at work or around children, mostly due to the occasional innuendo.
Throttle House opens the video with an interesting "SNL-style" skit, which is supposed to paint of picture of what the Lucid team may have gone through as it made final decisions surrounding the Air electric sedan, and how it might best compete with Tesla.
Clearly, Lucid upped the ante and did everything in its power to provide an electric car that wouldn't be cast aside as another "Tesla-killer" that failed to deliver. The Air boasts significantly more electric range than any production EV to date, lightning-fast charging, gobs of horsepower, an opulent and spacious interior, and so much more. However, is it a good daily driver, and how does the heavy cruiser handle itself well enough while carving canyon roads? Throttle House writes:
"With hopes of going toe to toe against the mighty Tesla Model S Plaid, the Dream Edition Performance packs 1,111 horsepower. Thomas and James are eager to see what the Lucid Air can do on a California canyon road. Will it be able to keep up with the sharp turns and bends despite being quite large and rather heavy? And just how livable is the interior on a day to day basis?"
Written words simply can't do this video justice. Get out the popcorn, sit back, relax, and be ready to be highly entertained. It's time to laugh out loud and learn all about the Lucid Air.
If money wasn't an object, and either car was readily available at a moment's notice, which would you choose, the Tesla Model S Plaid or Lucid Air? Share your pick with us, as well as why you think one car is better than the other.
Source: Throttle House (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXiDU5qjfOPxgOPeFWGwKw
“You should see how thick on the ground they are here in North Texas”
Makes sense, it’s warm most of the time and very flat terrain.
Also, Dallas is a very liberal city with a lot of money.
Top 3 states for EV numbers:
California: 425,300
Florida: 58,160
Texas: 52,190
Three states where EVs are very useful due to climate and terrain.
Yes, trade-in value is zilch.................
Note that Tesla is something like 28th on Consumer Report’s list of 29 cars rated for reliability. Whoever first offers an electric with strong quality and reliability (as opposed to range, speed and cool factor) will clean up.
“If money wasn’t an object”
It is.
Tesla has practically stopped making high end cars because demand for lower price models is so high.
Under their own power?....................
“Note that Tesla is something like 28th on Consumer Report’s list of 29 cars rated for reliability.”
EVs are about status, not utility.
I live in Denver and Teslas are everywhere here. I can drive 4 miles to the grocery store and see 5 or 6 Teslas. There are two huge Tesla showrooms in Denver. I stopped by one a couple months ago to look at a Model Y. They didn’t even have one in the showroom to look at because they were all sold. A lady at our church has a Tesla Model 3 that she rents out on Turo. She makes more than enough on rentals to pay her car payments.
I know, but it still needs to be said.
I don’t know what you mean but it sounds interesting - can you elaborate?
This is something most EV naysayers completely miss: you buy an EV, you charge it mostly at home.
Home charging means it’s topped off every morning, taking only a few seconds to plug/unplug it - actual charging time is rarely relevant. Given good range for normal use, charging anywhere else is rare. Contrast having to go to a gas station every single time an ICE vehicle runs low.
And yes, sometimes a gas/diesel generator is involved. Great that so many energy sourcing options are available, and pollution control doesn’t rely on a few cubic inches.
That’s a sharp looking car, but no way would I pay that much money for it.
One of my cars is an EV. Ford Mach E. All wheel drive, cost about 60 grand, excellent commuter car. Don’t buy it if you’re driving more than 100 miles per day every day (standard battery). Yeah, the range is double that but for daily battery maintenance I only charge it to 85 or 90% and don’t let it go below 20%.
Unlike Tesla, mine had the full tax credit.
I charge at home unless I happen to be eating lunch near a free charging station, of which there are some around me. Yeah, I’ll take advantage of the free juice.
I have not noticed a change in battery efficiency with weather near freezing over the last few weeks. And I plan on rotating my tires every 5000 miles.
Nope, it’s because they produce too many cars. There’s a limit, if the company is over the limit they don’t get the credit.
The gas savings alone makes the high up-front price palatable.
“Nobody? Really. Nobody means exactly that, N O B O D Y, period.”
Only to a thin skinned fragile-ego millennial. Everyone else knows what a figure of speech means. millennials need explicit instructions for everything, so they need only words that are absolutes; otherwise, they have meltdowns like you just did.
Nobody buys Tesla, so the same nobodies will buy Lucid. Maybe?
...REALLY? And Bitcoin is a tulip bubble? Why don’t you come join us in 2021. You don’t have to be behind the times in order to be conservative- conservatism works in any time period.
This year, Tesla sold 500,000 cars in the US with just one small factory in Fremont whish used to make Chevys. Giga factory Shanghai has just started production. Giga factory Austin and Berlin will open up this year. Demand for these cars is 8 months out on the model 3 and model Y. Pickup trucks, semis and buses are on the way. Prices are high, but have you seen the price of a regular car this year?
The Market allows a person to be an options writer for call contracts. This is the revolution of the new cell phone financial apps are bringing to the stock market.
You can ask your broker about options writing if you have one.
Its a way of using block shares of 100 to extract money from the market by selling contracts for a person to buy them from you at a specific price within a timeframe. All transactions on the market are anonymous.
When you are an options writer you get to set the price, the premium in the contract (which is affected by the timeframe for the contract to be exercised at the set price and the stocks market value) and what actually generates the money from the options contract, along with how long the time of the contract.
There’s a lot of information out there about it, but I’d consult a stock broker.
You basically use the stocks you own as a tool assuming some
measure of risk (that the stock doesn’t go up really fast and high suddenly and stays that way at a much higher ceiling) to extract money from the market.
The neat feature of writing options contracts is that you can roll them into new ones or buy it back if you don’t like the way the market on the stock is behaving. But you can make a stock like Tesla give you tens of thousands a month by taking on a certain risk such as in simply owning it if it goes to astronomical heights.
The best part is that if its stock you own its never an actual loss to your account. If someone calls on you for those shares at the price you set and exercises them he still pays you for that set price, plus the premium in time for the contract. A strike price of $900 a share and time value of $11 a share for 100, means that if they dare to take your stock its actually $911 per share you sold it for. (minus fees)
The risk is if you gambled a lot that the stock wouldn’t got to $912 in the life of the contract and lost that bet, say it goes to $1000. You miss out on that profit for only an $11 profit ontop of your strike price.
For the price of a high-end Tesla Model S, you can own a piece of history:
https://superformance.com/factory-models/daytona-coupe
And as par, the real Karen here goes on a name calling tyrant simply because your lame ass does not know how to talk or write without using dumbass absolutes. Bye Karen.
Agreed
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