BSEE degree from WSU. Publisher of investment letter Fidelity Monitor & Insight. Long-time engineering interest in electric vehicles / charging infrastructure.
@SawyerMerritt@Starlink Problem is, Delta bought a refinery in 2012, so they can do whatever they want and still remain a viable player in the industry.
I own a Grand Touring Gravity that is rated for 450-mile range. Lucid has done a really nice job on the hardware; the range is real, the charging on Tesla’s V3 and V4 Superchargers is seamless. Between the tight turning radius, strong acceleration, fast Supercharging and steering wheel design it feels somewhat Cyberbeast inspired. Until you try to use the software - which is slow, confusing and glitchy. I bought this car thinking my wife would like it, but she has decided to just get another Toyota hybrid rather than wait around for a year’s worth of software updates.
I bought a 450-mile Lucid Gravity for my wife. She does not like regen and the Lucid allows it to be turned completely off (they allow have a creep feature but due to a software bug the car reverts to hold so you can’t use it very long). The range is impressive, even with the regen off. I’m finding the software is difficult to use when it comes to configuring things (such as driver profiles). Also, I could not get the car to charge from my Tesla destination charger in the garage, so I replaced the charger with a 14-50 outlet, and now I’m using Lucid’s mobile NACS charger to charge both the Gravity and Tesla vehicles, which works fine.
@ray4tesla I drive mine to Vegas last weekend and had no trouble at all, even when parked in open street level lots. If anything, other drivers are more courteous than usual on the road.
The key to getting great efficiency with the Cybertruck is setting a custom ride height at the lowest setting and keeping the bed cover closed. Wheel covers might help too but they are less important. Like the Roadster, which also has a high drag coefficient, driving 75+ mph uses a lot more energy than driving 60.
There are a lot of orange Pintos running around with KA BOOM license plates (and variations). If Tesla refurbishes the Vegas Cybertruck, they should acquire one of those plates.