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 a 118 kilowatt
hour battery that's massive but it gets 800 kilometers of range that's more than
everything the ix the eqs the tai can even the model s and they did not do it
by being slow this one right here apparently has 819 horsepower we're
going to be the first ones in the world to properly test yeah we're at
stratified automotive once again and we're going to put this thing on a
frickin dino hopefully before we put it on the dyno we need to make sure we can
put it on the dyno so we're lifting it up finding some good points to attach
toe 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 tow arms that look like it might be a provision to
have rear wheel steer in the future pretty cool all good perfect we've got it all
strapped down and almost ready to go it is going to 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 because 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 probably look about the same let's do it
the car is 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 called my not only electric cars but any modern four-wheel
drive car
okay now we're getting somewhere not bad not
bad that run right there apparently had 566 horsepower nowhere near the 820
but we're going to try it again that was just kind of still easy
693 actually run number two 693 not bad it seems like
it is kind of tapering off as we get going faster that was we're going well
like better part of 100 miles per hour when it did that yeah we're up right up
to 100 miles per hour you can see that actually it's it's leveling off in terms
of power even before 100 miles an hour so i guess
we just have to give her the beans sooner and hopefully we'll see it
all right we did it and if we look at what we got our final result is
693 horsepower now you might be thinking oh loose and bloody remember that no
it's actually pretty fine now i don't
entirely understand what the difference
is it has to do with the type of dyno this is the load calibration so normally
in like a gasoline car you would take it up to speed put it in neutral let it
slow down you can put that into your calculations we can't do that here can't
turn off regeneration 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
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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 lttstore.com that's just released love
it moving around to the side we do have the
21 inch aero wheels which means our range is somewhere around like
794 kilometers i believe if you have the
19s 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 that 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 tie can 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 that far with
this is 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 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 them up fit another
one down there as well
coming around to the rear seats uh 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 alcantara 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 and 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 backrest width 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 them 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
and it just feels fantastic if you're sort of sore after a long day or 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 options
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 brakes 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 whine on these motors is quite a bit especially right
around 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 0 to
60 of 3.2 seconds sprint mode sprint
activation yep launch mode activated
holy freak this thing is fast 3.2 second
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 is 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
plaid and he says this does not accelerate like that and i do believe
him that's what like fifty percent less time zero to sixty but that said like
oh you cannot complain about that holy
frick this this sort 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 paws in the center next song we
have alexa here which just sucks um we'll talk about that later and then on
the left you have your cruise control stuff i refuse to call it dream drive
because 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 hook 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 er
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 ah thai cam is really
good too it's on the same level as the thai cam which is pretty much the
biggest compliment you can give anyone ever
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 because 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 maps 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 it's
just actually terrible genuine
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 have had to
get rid of in order to put alexa on here just does not work so like uh let's see
okay this button is doing nothing oh oh she's back hello alexa can you play
beyonce for me on title playing music from provider title is not supported
great i'm warm
okay she's going to decrease the temperature by 5 or turn on the driver's
seat vent yes
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 and apple carplay
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 NVIDIA 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
no i'm just taking the corner normally sucks speed limit alert sucks you're
going down the highway speed limit's 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 a piece of 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
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 centering in this so uh 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 and this is broken but you're not i'm 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 like look at this clip well
this is just peachy i was unloading the stuff from the stratified shoot and uh
she's just doing nothing nothing at all so like press this not a thing brandon's
camera equipment's in there uh yep not opening
i can come in here the Windows are open i can
open it like that completely dead nothing at all
this was working 35 seconds ago
you know nothing foot on the brake
yeah 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 setup 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 uh 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 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 right here is kind of nice though i like to give you a physical volume knob and uh 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
doley atmos 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 will
go down a bit 82 still is fine
72 we have maybe a 2 db drop 62 we're down 5
decibels so we're down below the f3 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 powertrain 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 less 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 unexcusable for 240 000 so hit like get
subscribed huge thanks for watching and uh 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