Driving A Lucid Air From Seattle To Denver With Starbucks DC Fast Charging!

Jordan goes back in time! Returning the Lucid from Seattle in a road trip film that actually took place before the I-90 Surge. Complete with car-camping, Starbucks charging, and plenty more!

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[James_Ryan]

Love how you sleep in the car rather than in hotels - now that's road trippin'!

[be]

Glad you explained about this video at the start so we know its time period when you filmed... great road trip and showing all the places you went along the way...

[ChasCam]

How did that windshield get such a bad crack?

[davidhanna]

Thank you for finally releasing this video. I was worried that it wouldn't be released.

[ahbushnell]

The most important factor in range between stops is bladder range. :)

[roberteonta]

I watched the whole video and love the road trip content. BUT, how many people that can afford a lucid is camping in it lol. It would be cool to see a sub 50k car on a camp test. You all have inspired me to do ev road trips, about 9k miles now. Please don't ever stop roadtrips!

[TassieEV]

For the night drive Jordan can just do a time-lapse for your drive and some royalty free music over the top as Taylor Swift isn't royalty free unfortunately probably not for another 300yrs+ or so anyway. Good to see you again on another road trip video. :)

[drobekus]

Starbucks with DC charger will be like heaven for Kyle 😂😂😂

[chevrofreak]

Jordan has the best music taste for these videos.

[davemiller]

You watched a guy ice a handicapped charging spot. That guy deserves jail time.

[aaronhodgman]

I stopped at this exact Starbucks earlier this year on a trip up 97, I remember it being weird to get into as well. Didn't charge there ('15 Volt), but was pleasantly surprised to see charging available.

[bellshooter]

I cannot believe that the Lucid won't do lane centreing without mapping. My 5 year old cheap chinese suv (MG) does this on any highway, and most straight roads. As for efficiency, that is great at 85mph, you cannot escape the speed squared law regarding energy used! It's physics...

[UniversityTours]

Can't wait to buy the Gravity when the shares goes up to 30$

[YeOldeTraveller]

I figure an ideal road trip is 3-4 hours, stop to eat, run 3-4 hours, stop to eat, run a couple more hours to a hotel with L2 charging. The range of the Lucid means you get to pick where you stop more than the car gets to pick. A good road trip allows a stop between food stops for fluid pressure management.

As for stop and go traffic, my Mach-E handles that well. It will auto-resume unless the stop is longer than 5 minutes. (And it will tell you about it when the time runs out.)

[Jeddin]

1:00 on a 3 hour trip the difference in arrival time between going 75 mph to 80 mph is only 15 minutes. 4 hours of travel versus 3 hours and 45 minutes if however, that 80 mph uses a lot more consumption to the point that you now need to add a charging stop you’ve lost any time savings and you’re most likely better off doing the entire drive at 75 mph.

[ElectricBrian]

You asked about interesting things you saw on a road trip. On the road between Nashville and Bowling Green, if you get off the highway and take a side road you get a really twisty road through farms, and you can see a huge literal fork in the road, a gigantic knife, and a gigantic spoon roadside attraction along the way.

[UltramaticOrange]

25:53 Portland _can_ be amazing if you stay out of downtown (short version: the pandemic ruined a good thing), but there's still tons of great food, drink, and things to do especially if you don't mind exploring the suburbs.

[pushkarrathod]

13:17 18:22 to 18:30 Did you break your windshield ( I can see a curved broken line on top ) ??

[ouch]

I’m lucky to live in the PNW. While the scenery isn’t quite as good as the Rockies, the drive through the Cascades (like Snoqualmie pass) is still really beautiful, and it’s super interesting to go from the forests west of the cascades to the high desert east of the cascades. We also have the benefit of having a relatively short drive from the Cascade mountain range to the coastal mountain range and then to the Pacific Ocean. You can go from the Pacific Ocean, to dense forest to mountains to high desert in about 5-6 hours of driving.

If you guys ever do the drive from Denver to Seattle again (or opposite direction), you should do a slight diversion to visit Leavenworth. It’s a Bavarian-themed town up in the cascades and a cool place to stop for a day or at least a few hours. There is an EA charging station and a few others in the area as well, if that matters to you.

The northern parts of central and eastern Oregon have some really large scale dairy farms, maybe that’s what you were smelling. Along I84 tends to smell like a cow’s backside quite often.

Wildfires are the new normal in the PNW unfortunately due to climate change. We get basically *no* rain throughout the entire summer, which is not normal for us. So, it rains almost continuously for most of the winter and a lot of fall and spring, so lots of vegetation grows, then we get no rain all summer and all that vegetation turns into flash powder. We used to get small fires during the summer and maybe 1 major fire every year of 2. Now we get several major fires every year, and wildfire smoke blankets the area most of the summer.

My partner has a 2018 Model S 75D. It’s a nice car, the efficiency of the Lucid absolutely destroys the Model S, even the new ones. The hatchback on the Model S makes it substantially more functional than any typical sedan. It’s really a bummer that Tesla didn’t put a hatchback on the Model 3 and Lucid didn’t do it on the Air.

I regularly camp in my EV9. It’s too big of a car for daily driving but it’s nice for camping. An ID Buzz would probably be better for car camping, but the EV9 is better for most other things imo.

Putting nicer restaurants and other places that people stay longer at high power chargers encourages people to camp at chargers. Honestly, if getting people in and out of charging stalls as quickly as possible is the goal for high power fast charging, you want people sitting in their car the entire time. They’ll be less likely to stay there longer if there just sitting watching the car charge. They will be more likely to stay a long time if they have something to go and do.

The Lucid seems like a car where, on a trip that requires charging stops, you might be able to get there faster by driving slower. It seems to suffer from high speed AC losses, basically the motor is spinning so fast at those road speeds that it starts working against itself. All AC motors have that issue to some extent, and automakers will select their final drive gearing to operate the motor in its efficiency range most of the time. They probably picked the most efficient motor speed to align with whatever the EPA tests at highway speeds, and it drops out of its efficiency range after 70mph. My old Ioniq5 used to do the same.

[BillyONeal]

“Why is Lucid not class leading charging?” — The class leaders (Taycan, EGMP) here use “pouch” cells, Lucid uses cylindrical. Tesla claimed to achieve pouch-like performance with Cylindrical 4680 cells, but sadly that has not been observed in anything they’ve actually shipped with those cells.