2022 Lucid Air Review // Tesla’s Living Nightmare

all right come on last votes this is the steering wheel we're gonna go with the final choice on our now lucid air dream okay four to one it looks like we're going with something conventional not something stupid or idiotic but now it's time for the big one we're not alone in the eevee world okay there's a number that everyone's going to be talking about you know it horsepower we need to pick a number that's going to accurately reflect our values and our product we're going to do four options 800 900 950 and the big one a thousand cast your votes adrian you first eh big one it's gonna mean a lot [Music] [Music] you can't vote for all of them you're watching throttle house i'm thomas and i'm james and this is the lucid air dream p when thomas says dream p he doesn't mean like when you wet your bed when you're 14 years four years old he means performance so that's two and a half seconds to 60. and if this is anything like the plaid it's relentless from there it's act 2 where it keeps going and it gets to a certain point where okay this doesn't match it in order 60 but that power just starts to become pain and that shouldn't really be a surprise because the lucid air dream edition performance has a skull crushing 1 11 horsepower a power number i'm sure they came upon very scientifically if you're new to us we do car reviews track tests and quite a lot of messing around so subscribe and hit the bell [Music] [Music] and even though it's 400 pounds heavier than the plaid it's still shockingly quick in a straight line and there's no funky increased artificial sound like a tie can or the eqs it's just motor why but it sounds pretty cool it's like a formula e car so i'm in sprint mode right now which is the only mode that uses the 4 11 11 horsepower any other mode only has a maximum i think 784 horsepower think of it as like the black and red key for srt and dodge this is red key mode and that speed is available to you immediately you know a combustion car there's a torque it builds this you put your foot on the floor and suddenly this over 5000 pound machine is flying and on these canyon roads that can be a little bit scary it's pushing me back into my seat and i'm losing grip on my steering wheel as time goes on because my hands are getting sweatier and driving it i'm quite surprised actually because apart from the fact that i'm granted the beauty of a full 360 degree wheel there are quite a few similarities between this and the model s plan for starters the current ceo used to be one of the top vehicle engineers for the tesla model s and then he buggered off and set about trying to make the lucid the ultimate road car one that could make both model s owners and even mercedes s-class owners think twice about their decision and in fact that insane horsepower number is kind of just a byproduct of the size of the batteries which in this car give the lucid air dream edition performance an incredible 758 kilometers of range a number that climbs to 836 kilometers if you get the dream edition ah 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 well apparently i'm doing a video of the lucid mate why don't you stay in your video i am in my video you stay in every stay out of my timeline this is my timeline anyway as you were okay so the lucid shares the 0.2 club with the eqs but unlike the eqs the lucid has appeal so sorry so while it might not have the appeal of a ferrari laferrari that has a drag coefficient of 0.3 so this has a better outcome vision than pretty much all the supercars but sitting here now this feels like a luxury car first despite its crazy straight line speed and initial reports of this suggested that it was quite loud on the highway and i actually haven't got that experience at high speed well i am experiencing though is a bit of creaking in the rear of the chassis maybe it's some panels clicking together maybe it's a pre-production thing but still not quite good enough in a car that costs 170 000 us dollars yeah we don't mention that that is taikan turbo s money and thankfully like the tycoon this starts earlier the air pure which no isn't something you plug in to make your washroom smell nicer starts at just over 100 canadian or 77 400 us dollars and you still get the other luxury stuff most of it i as as with all things like this and because of how well this drives i would lean towards whatever for the money whatever gets me the most range because range becomes the most important thing here especially while the charging network doesn't match the gas station network and right now i'm just driving this i've switched it to swift and the ride thankfully because it's an ev the center of gravity is low so the control is taken care of so i can just drive it smoothly and it allows you to do that the throttle input is smooth coming to a stop it breaks smoothly i've put it on creep right now because i don't actually like when it's completely stationary after i left the break i like emulating cars that i'm used to but over time i'm converting i'm starting to use regenerative braking more and more but i put it in smooth because this doesn't have air suspension this has semi-adaptive dampers on coil and the ride is good it's it's soft it doesn't waft like a rolls royce but it's it's just smooth and as a driver it still leaves me a ton of confidence so i can do the luxury thing and absolutely it can do the straight line stuff as well but it's also pretty good at stopping and that's because it has six piston brakes in the front four piston brakes in the rear stainless steel braided lines a huge gap between the rotor cheeks to dissipate heat and some clever aerodynamics designed to move temperature away from the brakes which by the way was done by an x red bull f1 engineer and it even comes with a car it's not a twenty thousand dollar optional extra added to the website months after the car was released because people kept crashing them but that's not an innovation that's just common sense in a car with over a thousand horsepower that weighs five thousand pounds what is an innovation are the motors one in the front and one in the back the motor differential and inverter are all together and tiny and weigh just 163 pounds and they're capable of producing each 670 horsepower so obviously they don't weigh very much so where does the weight come from well batteries clearly there's a lot of them at least uh they've packaged them in an interesting fashion and they're not taking up very much space and they're liquid cooled in a cool way as well the liquid kind of runs over top of them but even then the car still weighs as much as james said hundreds of pounds more than a model s plaid so right around the same weight as an anvil factory but based on what i'm feeling here the suspension must be made of adamantium because i cannot believe how well this thing is controlling its mass like you could you can feel it you can feel this is not a miata but i can just chuck this thing into the corners and it just goes around the other side it is so ridiculously quick there is traction control and you can turn it almost all the way off there's still a little bit of traction control intervention even in off mode but you can spin the tires lucid's released some pretty dope footage of this thing doing four-wheel drifts but oh yeah see when it's off now i can feel it spinning its tires it feels wrong to be able to chuck a thing like this now the front seems to give up the ghost first before the rear based on what i'm feeling here but one thing that i am feeling is confidence just so much confidence in the steering and the chassis and the brakes brakes are good like i'm dumping this thing i'm just i'm just dumping 5000 pounds back to slower speeds over and over again going into these corners making myself a bit sick but being honest and it's a hundred percent confidence still on the pedal no softness pedal is firm it's crisp it's good this is the most fun ev i've driven since the first time i drove a tesla model 3. having a good time driving this you can just use the throttle and you know there's a little bit of slip coming out of the corner yeah the performances is truly unbelievable like i don't i have an iron stomach i'll be honest i don't get sick i can race for hours in a car but this car's starting to make me sick because it's just generating so much four and a half g forces on the brakes and the throttle i'm starting to feel a little woozy yeah this is a very well very well sorted car suspension brakes power there's obviously a lot of power i don't uh i don't really think that i can critique the way that this drives for you know kind of how big and luxurious it is and don't have any critiques i mean i have there's some creeks i have some of those as james mentioned i can hear them there's leather is kind of squeaking on itself there's some plastic panels this is a semi-pre-production car so maybe the one that you buy won't be as squeaky but uh i'll tell you right now that even with that kind of electric motor whine and a little bit of road noise all i can hear is my heart beating in my ears and squeaky interior but hey it's the price of silence right all right okay a new player this is the scene yep a scene which by the way is quite nice yeah i think you know i'm really glad we we made the effort to come out to california when we can it's been it was an effort it was like a 15-hour travel day it was horrendous but it's not minus temperatures and there's no snow that is definitely a plus and the car is quite pretty yeah i mean i'm gonna say anything's pretty right now cause i'm like wow well it blows mountains it blends in with the desert mountains yes because this is eureka gold eureka gold yeah and i've seen people have commented on this it looks like a kind of like a modern rendition of a citroen ds well throw a picture up oh yeah it kind of does yeah very similar well i'm not allowed to not like it because i found out chief designer of this yeah also designed the fourth generation mazda mx-5 which is argued by few to be the most desirable guy by james to be the most desirable car of all time is that true that's really that's awesome derek okay they've poached a lot of people there's like a lot of like cool the cv is pretty impressive okay so i i do like the look of this car i like to look at the front end and the lights are really you know there's some really fancy headlights going on up there right we know about those there's a gazillion a ray there's almost 9 000 led lights yeah and then and then they're being cooled by the vents here yes those vents are to call the lights but will they also help in achieving that 0.2 drag curfew as we know and then there's this is also doing that so this this this is big like while we're here like it has to be said that's that's a frunk that is a very big frunk yeah and and and it's powered on the way down too if i hold this watch yourself will it okay will it auto stop i don't know that's not find out today that's not fair anyway i i want to say like so the trunk is really cool um but i don't know i think that if they did like a shooting break version of this yes that would and if you look at this if you look at this as the profile with the trunk up you can actually see what the shape you can like picture what it would look like right yeah but this is neat because there's no like ledge you just put stuff in and there's another storage bin underneath here well it's quite shallow though that's quite it's wide but and then it cuts in so yeah i mean well there's lots of space inside as a result right um so i do like it ponder me this yeah why if as you said they put so much work into the brakes and why are they hidden them with what appears to be not very good looking wheels well i'll tell you that um because they're more aerodynamics you get better range but then if you need to you can just do this what you do what are you doing you can't do that your hands out there you go hold that i don't know how much these are worth and i don't want to drop them right and now the wheels look freaking cool so you can see the master brakes i think i think these wheels look really cool without that on and much better like assuming that you don't lose that much range i would totally just drive around without them on yeah because i think this looks way cooler honestly i i'm still tempted and it's obviously subjective but i think as far as core evs go yeah you know if the eqs is like here i still think that tycon cross turismo is up here like visually visually it does look very very good but it doesn't have the room that this has on the inside we go look yeah all right we got oh it's soft every time i forget and we have these are really interesting these days i was distracted by the door handles yeah they feel like toy gun triggers in like the best way it's weird because like you look at it and you go like oh well that's just over-engineered but it's actually very intuitive you just kind of pull it i think that's my biggest top-line compliment to this car is you get in yes and it's we haven't had to guess anything no it kind of makes sense like that like the menu isn't over complicated there's like this is this makes me sound so old but i like how big the icons are like it doesn't make you sound old it does it's everything's spaced out in a way that kind of makes sense but on a touch screen it matters because when you're bouncing around yes you don't want to have to be super accurate right this is the santa monica theme interior so we have okay so it's like all the light grays yeah i i think it's horror yeah alpaca wall alpaca wall yeah this looks like a scandinavian chair it does and we've got like the thai khan meat escalade floating yep no it's ash it's nice and if you don't like this you just swipe that up out of the way it's gone and it's gone and there's extra space it's not the most elegant sounding motor in the world but uh free production free production yeah and as a result of it being pre-production some this screen to us now it's a little bit laggy we've been informed that it will be quicker in the are you getting a massage right now yeah or did you do toot um women are going to like this that is quite a vibration that's happening yeah how do i turn mine women are going to like this car a lot where is it where is it have you whoa it's aggressive it's really aggressive yeah they've obviously partnered with victoria's secret they have yeah stop looking at me like that turn it off why are you stop massaging it's like abort eating a banana and looking into the items you can't do it you can't get a massage in a lucid and look at someone no you can't okay moving on and moving on speaking of california yeah california i feel like gets a bad rap as being a pretentious better than everyone states yeah and that certainly hasn't happened here in no way because they definitely added carplay and didn't just shoehorn you into there lucid has followed suit with tesla and i think rivian at this point anyway where you don't get car playing android auto maybe available later on we don't know yet for sure but carplay and android auto is like the best thing to happen to modern cars so easy and they just haven't done it because i don't know anyway thankfully were you to use the in-car deck it's quite intuitive and it's quite easy to use um it is as i said one thing i do like is that what are you doing you click this okay you click the car icon and then you click the steering wheel icon and then you can adjust that is two clicks i will say but it is there and it is adjusting out this is the same amount as a tesla kind of really yeah and what's nice well actually there's a bit of porsche going on here because they have blocked certain things yeah yeah i don't think you can get away with that unless these lines absolutely follow the curvature that would never happen because people are different driving positions so they're kind of stuck with it no matter what right dashboard is cool nice and clean and simple like the air logo on the side that's neat and we have this massive glass roof yeah i mean people have said that it's the largest single pane glass windscreen but is it i i don't the tesla model x felt i swear it was longer bigger yeah anyway also the tesla model x has these come in from the a-pillar so that it's completely clean it's completely clean yeah so i don't know what maybe there's legislation that's changed or something but because this isn't as clean out here this looks like an ipad these these float um so the back seats have to say they are big they are big big big worlds away from a ticon oh yeah in terms of headroom there's not a ton of headroom back there but it's it's good you could be over six feet and still sit and it's got that glass roof yeah it's a it is very nice and like the glass roof is nice because you have this like big pillar of alcantara in the middle it kind of looks it looks very classy and they're nicely tinted as well like yeah because people are concerned about that in the model threes and the testers yes it's just going to be sun all the time it's uv yeah i'd like to see a magic sky type of thing like at some point right mercedes kind of has the magic sky yeah yeah don't forget that's in a very small piece of glass compared to this right it'd be very difficult to do that to between so so the magic if you're not if you're not aware of magic sky mercedes has a thing where you press a button and literally the glass goes dark it's cool kind of like in the fancy new airplanes oh yeah that's true but what else is going on here we've got these buttons which look like they would be touch capacitive touch but there's a click actually oh an actual physical speaking of actual physical buttons this is nice right we've got like just the the three things that you need the fan the temperature and the volume are just physical yes right just like just keep like that's the bare minimum of what i want to be i would i would also add in personally a heated and cooled seat button which this does have but you got to go into the menu to do it yeah i mean there are things that this is missing in my mind like for 230 grand canadian it's a lot of money this is the performance one look at the pedals yeah kind of reminds me of driving school when like they have the pedal over here that they use that's what happens like if vw id4 has the play and the pores of fun stuff like lucid could have had some fun yeah yeah it could be yeah but i think they have done a great job with this wheel it's it looks very nice yeah is it two spoke or four spoke how does that how does that work oh interesting is that a philosophical question i feel like it's a two spoke identifying it as a four spoke that's right it does uh no i i like it listen there's not a whole lot more i need to talk about this interior i think it's intuitive i think it's simple enough nice it's easy to figure out do on apple carplay but what i kind of want to do is can we zoom out and kind of see how this fits in because it's expensive yeah well that's what they've done they've zoomed out right because this is california proud santa monica we've got the california bear on here proudly made in arizona in arizona all right let's talk about it okay every tesla enters the world with a trust fund in the form of the supercharger network it's an added advantage one that requires the alternative evs to be scrappier hungrier more innovative not just as good as but better thankfully the lucid air appears to rise to that challenge is this the perfect ev sedan no but it might be the closest we've seen yet that said it should be because for the average buyer it's still prohibitively expensive even in base form however if the technologies and innovations made here are able to trickle down to lower priced models in the future you might just be looking at the brand that can give tesla a proper run thanks for watching [Music] do [Music] you

Channel: Throttle House

Views: 2,025,475

Keywords: Lucid air, Lucid air dream edition performance, lucid air performance, lucid air 0-60, lucid air 0-100, lucid air drag race, lucid air quarter mile, lucid air launch, lucid air vs tesla model s, lucid vs tesla, lucid motors, lucid air pure, lucid air delivery, lucid air test drive, lucid air interior, lucid air glass roof, lucid air acceleration, lucid air speed, tesla model s, model s plaid, model s vs lucid, lucid race, lucid cockpit, lucid range, lucid charging

Id: 88_uV86GYAo

Length: 23min 50sec (1430 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 21 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/noxx1234567]

Let's see if they can ramp up production capacity to decide if it's a worthy opponent

I am rooting for them , we need more competition

[u/rogersmj]

Brilliant as always. I like how Thomas just casually shows up with an EQS.

[u/StraY_WolF]

Look at that, you CAN make an EV that looks good, goes great and doesn't have any stupid gimmicks that's either useless or barely functional.

[u/The_Exia]

I still love that the intro's are still original and I love that the close up of Carstons face during it is basically a meme and he shows no emotion and is always serious.

I watch these videos not just for the great content on the vehicles but I watch for the intro's alone.

On topic in the next few years a Rivian truck or SUV would look pretty great beside a Lucid if I could ever give up ICE.

[u/italia06823834]

Oh nice. Have been waiting for the channels like Throttle House/SavageGeese to get their hands on one of these. They're by far my favorite "small" car channels (small compared to like Carfection/Hagerty).

[u/Michelanvalo]

It's just too much money to compete with the Taycan and Model S. Those cars are in the low 6 figures and this is nearly 200k. That's a huge jump in price.

[u/Ziakel]

How would go about servicing these type niche luxury EVs?

[u/toniglandy1]

regarding handling, how's it compared to the Taycan ?

I mean, Adrian is very critical of the Taycan because it's powerful and quick and precise but not fun, how is this different ?

[u/Ragnaroknight]

I think the chrome strip on the front is insanely ugly. But the rest of the car is incredibly beautiful. I want one.