The Un glamorous World of Electric Vehicle Maintenance

As we take a closer look at the Lucid air's underbelly, we find ourselves in a world of wires, circuits, and components that are often overlooked until something goes wrong. The fuse box, for instance, is a crucial component that protects the vehicle from electrical surges. Covered by a trapdoor, it's easily accessible for maintenance purposes. But what catches our attention is the fireman's loop - a cleverly designed feature that allows us to disconnect all low and high-voltage systems in case of an emergency.

One fascinating fact about the Lucid air's electrical system is that the fuse box can be replaced on many newer electric vehicles, including this one. However, once it's cut, the entire wiring harness needs to be replaced, highlighting the complexity of modern EVs. Moving on to the fluids, we find breake fluid and a few other fills that are essential for the vehicle's operation.

While these components might seem mundane, they're crucial to the overall performance and safety of the Lucid air. Next, we have the suspension system - the part of the vehicle where things get interesting. As David, the lead of the chassis and vehicle dynamics team, points out, "This is the fun stuff." The Lucid air uses coil suspension instead of air suspension, which was a deliberate design choice.

David explains that many people believe air suspension is the best thing since sliced bread, but it's not necessarily true. While air suspension offers benefits like adjustable ride height and potential changes in ride frequency, it also comes with its own set of drawbacks - friction, hysteresis, and energy inefficiency. In contrast, coil springs have almost no friction, resulting in a superior secondary ride quality that's essential for comfort and handling.

Another advantage of coil suspension is energy efficiency. Air spring cars often require compressors and valve blocks to operate, which consume more energy than breaking down the airspring system itself. This means that electric vehicles like the Lucid air can maintain their range without sacrificing performance or comfort.

The Lucid air's impressive credentials were further solidified when it won the production class at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last week. Driven by Ben Collins, one of the world's top racing drivers, the car proved its mettle on the famous hill climb course. But what really caught our attention was the three Drive modes available: Smooth, Swift, and Sprint.

The Lucid air's drive modes prioritize comfort, offering a smooth ride that's perfect for long-distance cruising. However, when switched to Sprint mode, everything firms up - including the suspension, steering, and brakes - allowing for more precise control and handling. This was a deliberate design choice, aimed at creating a car that can effortlessly transition from comfort to performance.

The Lucid air's development team took inspiration from various benchmarks in the luxury segment, including Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 5 Series Competition, Porsche Panamera, and even the legendary E39 M5. As David puts it, "This is what we were going for - a car that's both luxurious and fun to drive."

With its impressive range (over 500 miles), exceptional handling, and luxurious features, the Lucid air is set to shake up the electric vehicle market. Competition is never far behind, however, and the team at Lucid Motor Company will undoubtedly be watching the competition closely as they strive for excellence in every aspect of their product.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe just a Flatout uh burning dumpster fire of stupidity I would say was the beginning of the company just tamper with it this I want to see Who whoo whoo whoo whoa what are you doing to our car I I'm checking to see what's under the hood Lucid it's the new electric car company and I know you're thinking oh yeah another electric car company now how did it start well Peter rollinson a former chief engineer of the mods under Elon Musk Tesla CEO left Tesla after 3 years feeling frustrated and limited in his work there so to put it like most corporations do there were creative differences and he left to go start Lucid now I want to make something clear we cannot be bought Lucid flew us out to California wind and dine us with spectacular dinners and wonderful breakfast and swanky hotels with live succulents and a poll that tells you whether or not you're asleep someone has to water these plants manually in this economy they gave us Flagship 1,50 horsepower L yacht that travels up to 520 Mi on a single charge all with the comfort of escorting five grown people very very comfortably and even after all that nice stuff they did to us I still stand by the fact that it looks like a dodge charger Hellcat xong p7 and a Lincoln had a Manaj Tua and then this vehicle was the byproduct but all kidding aside it does look better than its parents now before all the Tesla owners say yeah nothing's better than a Tesla can we give this thing a chance please I just want to tell everyone how awesome this car is and the best way I can do it is making a website with Squarespace it's easy to claim a domain or URL like www. Lucid is actually focused on making more efficient Motors other than buying social media companies.com or www. it does look like a classy Dodge Charger or an ultr glaz crawler Dunkin donuts.com so then you can create a custom site that matches your style enthusiasm check out these page templates because they'll make your web page look better than the faces of people that mistake your car for a glaze pastry head to www.squarespace.com Rich bills to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using the code in the description box below shout out to Squarespace for making platforms for people's passions no matter what now let's see what's inside this fancy building oh snap asaurus look at this wow you just you don't even walk into the building it and you get name tags I want photo yeah sir please don't photographic CS steering wheel on the left side of the steering wheel is all your a so that's your um Cru control dream Drive Etc on the right hand is your volume control and track Advance quite he speed crumbs at me right there you like about steephen what's up the you can't see the windshield wipers I do like that very clean in the front It's s of s you can barely see it yeah yeah did you did you notice notice that the uh back of the dash is kind of like a Dyson air blade it really is where did they get that design all people stroke the manufacturer that's getting them orange juice and cant yeah you had a fine breakfast this morning we we ate good let's let's show them let's show we show the people I guess this is fair they trying to butter us up it's not going to work I butter my biscuit yeah totally what what we got here lemon poppy seed waffles applewood bacon scrambled eggs salsa Spanish Teresa burritos that's your that's your fifth pastry good thing I don't have body image issues Stephen thank you it's a good thing isn't it I care about your health though hi I'm rich rebuild and I have diabetes it's about your health Ste are we getting the second tour the what the second tour the inside of the car it does they just gave us the key so I don't think that's the taste I said I going to do that I a second I don't think so it looks like no this is good you know why see I I got to admit something like we are so real here I'm going to tell you how it is reminds me another company yeah yeah and we we test drove that car a year ago and it was a disaster but it reminds me feel like a disaster no no no this no that company didn't give us cant this is a no they did not this is a much better car but the styling cues remind me of another one M you hate to say it hate to say you hate to say it I'm just going to flash the other one right here camera I'm a right now ready oh you have for this you haven't already pulled up Lincoln MKT notice notice his outfit was was to match the car I like that did you do this on purpose like you can't even you're going to look at this yeah you're going to cause problems this what happens when you oh oh God this is what happens when you're almost 60 are you really 59 how do you do it I couldn't get my foot in the door no but how's your skincare routine how do you Do It Go my skare rou let me talk to my sponsor Andrew question so so is Ben the only one doing the launches cuz he's like qualified no no no no no you can we he can um he can sit in the car with you and and just tell you what to do okay um or if you're not comfortable doing launch control I feel pated I feel like we're we're being belittle no no you will be you will be able to get in your own car and I'll try do that to you yeah well we'll have two cars he's a Brit he does that by default you know I'll let you I'll let you get in I'll just press smooth and I just I just want to tell people oh Ben that wouldn't let me drive he's kind of a big yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Ben Ben told me I couldn't drive you can hop in and do launch control you just want someone in the right seat with you are you going to wear your helmet or like then bring it do I need one when you're driving I mean it's recommended I mean it's in the room is it really yeah cuz there's a look in your eye I better get it put full power on and then don't wait too long before you release the brake pedal otherwise it will it will out it yeah it will because it will heat soak the battery a bit not heat soak but it it'll build heat and it will cancel itself right once you put your left foot away onto the rest leave it there okay because you're gonna go back to using your right foot for stopping to break okay that's basically it and there's no button pushing um it'll all be set simple enough yeah you just put it in D and go yeah okay ready when you are okay so left foot on brake left foot's on the brake all the way down that's right our rightful accelerator not yet oh sorry let's put her into D okay that would help yeah that's okay full power on and you're ready to go you just take the left foot away stick it onto the rest on the side forget about it basically and when we get to the flags you'll need to break heavily to get us to stop in in the distance that's there and move the brake off you got it you got it you got it uh break break turn right turn right a bit interior though let's get some massage Seward's right I have I have to make a confession Stephen please I um you you know I was stuffing my goddamn face with breakfast today is there another croissant in your my son he's the very triangular shape reminds me another company just not a bad thing not a bad thing just saying you don't mess with perfection no you really don't I got to give him props for for the concept car having the same steering wheel I like I like this dude it's it's attractive it's not squeaking or rattling that's a good sign like another car company that I know oh there's different theme said memes for a second memes is a meme button theme I like memes it's it feels weird like I feel like I have to push a lot hard it's it does stop right once again you you are used to a a tyan turbo right now with carbon Ceramics so your stopping power bias is you ready watch this real quick yeah feels pretty good how you feeling Stephen I feel blessed to know that we are probably only probably a couple hundred people have driven this car before seriously yeah and I just ate a croissant in the back seat this is nice man I you know what's you it's so weird to me Stephen it's the Plaid is faster yep better charging Network and and they've they they're getting a lot better about quality issues I still would rather have this yes why Stephen explain that to me you prefer unique cars The Plaid was disappointing when it was refreshed that they just did the model S it looks just like the poverty spec one it looked just like Brianna's car Brianna is literally 19 years old in a in a 10-year-old vehicle it looks like the like you put you put wider stance wheels on it yeah it's like it doesn't like this thing stands out it's a unique vehicle because you know that there aren't going to be that many around and and there's nothing wrong with being like everyone else there's nothing wrong with that it's just not for me behind the scenes footage of getting the shot is in the trunk see it's very spacious isn't it we work we work you think we just have fun all day I mean we do but still work this is all right now I'm in the trunk and this to give you some perspective that's a little loose oh wait I think because of the heat the adhesive must have unstuck see but this is behind the scenes R all right see you hello hello hello so we're uh Driving Miss Daisy on some some twisties this is this is I got to say Stephen how does it feel right on these twisty California road I can show people how it feels but whatever we're doing for Speed we are doing the speed limit rest assured yeah we're def nothing nothing to be concerned about dude it feel wow Stephen this car's got some power man it's got some power this is a very impressive feeling this is it's it's the it's it's it's next to a plaid it's probably the most powerful car I've been in 30 40 50 60 70 wo my word wo well this is worth holy holy what a beast what an absolute unit come on man oh this is this moving in my is this seat moving yeah it's massaging you I'm sitting on someone's hand this is very similar to what the ti can did for us yes when we were ripping around in that it really is I mean I I'll say right now it doesn't have the braking it has the power dude it has power the suspension is great has the suspension right it feels like it has suspension of a sports car I mean it is a sports car stepen I've been to many presentations before and this is a beautiful display and presentation of just how awesome these vehicles are which they are I have a question mhm on this trip which this it's only noon Y and we still have 8 hours of this left we woke up at like 9:00 a.m. y we had awesome breakfast yep great uh brief tutorial of the car what to expect for today for launch control and all that good stuff and we did launch controls uh there's about what maybe 10 of us here 12 of us here very very very very very select few will they try to sell us one of these cars that's the question you think so in my heart and soul you feel it it said sales presentation on the itinerary maybe sales presentation means this is how we Market to other people and not you you know what I mean yeah you think dude at the end of this if they say how do you want to pay or why don't you consider putting your deposit down I'm going to scream I'm going to scream Stephen it's just here's the Shakedown of it comes you know we're going to let you know the the the wealthier you are the less expensive it will seem yeah right I don't know why they invited us here yeah me yeah seriously the wrong demogra I I drive a i dve a Hummer H too again if you're a manufacturer and you want us to to give you the truth we we're going to do that we're going to there's going to be some making fun of of of the presentation we're going to pick apart your car the best that we can absolutely so they're going to say you could get this car only ,000 a month plus insurance it's going to be it's all actually that's that's not even true it's it'll be like $1 13 $1,400 a month with this car on for for the low one yeah for the lowow one that you can't even that you won't get for another year and a half right yeah hopefully hopefully yeah all things go well see what happens all right it's lovely yeah you didn't show you that yet yeah come on now put that away it's for your gloves seriously for your driving gloves you put that's that's sick all the fingerprints are on there hopefully they can come out with like a anti you know reflect anti-ar screen look like a to be in uh Swift to Sprint yeah let's make sure that you're in yeah let's say you're in Sprint and legal stuff to make yeah you want to film that later disa here you go there you go it's a crush course so we we just got back from lunch and uh it turns out they've now forced us to have a chaperone because of our our erratic driving so for for the rest of this uh day of driving it looks like we have a we're also in the non-performance version now everything very well I I do want to try it though I want to see how what the acceleration is like now a word from our sponsors the whole time at this Lucid thing I've been thinking about my package not like that silly packag is from my side business but I don't think about it much because of ship station they take out all the hard work they make it quick easy and convenient to ship out all the spare parts we don't need from our builds we use ship station because they actually automate time andt ensive shipping processes and things we don't really have the time for wait you're getting rid of the Swan yeah I don't like the swan never liked it cuz it stares at you do you want it all right they work with all the major carriers and they allow us exclusive discounts on USPS UPS FedEx isn't 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you go oh yeah dude hey all right can I drive like that uh it's going to turn off at some hey that's kind of sick actually that's very nice try this R hold on see oh wait there's a car coming let's see what happens here yeah all right okay yeah that's pretty that's quite nice pretty cool have icons on there too if you tap them it look at this look it's like a video game sure this is probably one of the best in tiers I've ever been in it's well thought out everything makes sense this this fly like the floating display is awesome this retractable screen is great even the sun visor the sun visors are lit not lit as in like what the kids say nowadays but but but lit they're illuminated you should say they're illuminated and we were trying to figure out how did they actually do that how are they able to get the light in there when there's no wire I thought there was a really thin wire then we realized if we pull this up yeah you get the you get the batteries battery well done it is it is it is phenomenal well f um I just I don't it reminds me of an S-Class in a lot of ways and I know that that may have been one of the target vehicles um for for potential buyers I like the S-Class I like this car but the only thing I would change about it is I would I think that the rear angle the rear quarter panel makes the car seem a little bit higher than it than it is and it makes it look a little bit less sporty that's all like I think for example I think the Tian is sporty looking it may not be the best looking car in the world but the angles the car has wide hips I like cars that have wide hips you name it the Z6 the whatever they all have wide hips look it even has a hood scoop why would an electric car need these why would it really it really is look at this it really is Stephen it's the same car see yeah a lot a lot of inspiration what do you see Lincoln MKT but I do like this design element here over on the uh on the C pillar it almost looks like the integration from the glass roof to the rear glass I like this little like helmet looking thing it's like a neat design thing um also I think this also comes in aluminium roof for for those on a budget as they say that's the pure version yeah such as myself so if I were to get one I would probably get the aluminum roof because I think it's a little cheaper you don't get as much horsepower though how much do you get you know those Wheels look that yeah this some influence there just got a turbine slant to them this some influence there but no in all this really is good looking carbo I think the side profile is definitely my favorite favorite faite the the side profile like the way you have the camera set up right here is definitely my favorite but I wish that you couldn't see this piece of glass right here you see the glass that you're seeing in the frame yep it almost makes like look like it's a little bit more box than it should be I wish it just kind of stop right here that's for space Richard you get what I'm saying yeah about space looking good when you get when you get inside you'll understand the soft clothes look this this is at least like 10 lb go ahead that's the way to luxury right there this is actually pretty cool man I wish this was uh I wish this was springloaded really nice get the mail you do that back and forth but inside here we have the uh the cell phone chargers only one of the spots is uh for charging a cell phone which only only the driver gets Char yeah only the driver gets that but no this actually isn't bad at all man I know a lot of people don't really believe in having physical buttons I have physical buttons mostly you know model 3 owners but honestly this quick access temperature button is actually perfect yeah you go up and downan fan faster boom boom up down down up down fan temp done yeah this is actually really easy instead of going through the I think let's try to find the HVAC menu here there you go fan actually it's not that bad nope never mind UI is very in intuitive no this is neat plenty of you will watch you know what Lucid puts out or Jason kamisa you know did a nice video we we don't really do we don't do nice videos we do like real videos like listen I'm a scrub getting into this car for the first time and this this is how I want to handle things so we're just going to push random buttons until we figure things out says themes I don't know what themes is themes there you go yeah so you have space a space themes Wonder Solitude you can up how much Serenity how much Serenity do you really want in life how much Zen is needed in your world how much Zen is needed yeah I want all the Zen there you go you can have it you get yours for the l l price you know like when you have your girlfriend and she's pregnant and you put your hand on her belly that's what it feels like unfortunately I don't have to know that he said fortunate or unfortunately design is definitely 10 out of 10 here this is yeah 10 out of interor wise 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 like this look at this this is like a jean no not not Jee denim I guess you could say right recycled alpaca I told how they recycle alpacas these aren't leather seats are they I can't do it can't do it you're not even vegan probably one of the coolest door handles I have ever seen absolutely come on intuition function and actually it's got redundancy where it's the electronic handle for the release and then there's the manual hatch for the Emergency if they a failure Point A+ Lucid A+ that opens USB uh C charging ports the I that said sausage at first I saw the S and the e that's a rear Sun Shade that's a sunsh you touch it ready extend rear sun shade look at that if we were to critically compare this to the the true obvious competitor of a Model S probably be PL honestly they don't want to admit that they they truly believe that the main competitor to this car is a Mercedes-Benz S-class which on paper would make sense it's in dimension wise it's about the same the interior volume feels the same but in reality unfortunately people are going to be comparing this car to a model to a top-of-the-line Model S clad over and over all all day every day the Tesla people are going to say Hey listen this is another electric car that we can hate because we love Tesla so much all the it all the controls for lights fog lights headlights are on the appropriate side that it would be in a normal car anyways you know like old square body you name it any car y most of the controls are right here for the light so you either pull to have the high beams on or you turn it left or right to increase the the brightness or dimness of the dash this is perfect at a glance ready you want your headlights on push this button you want your wipers on high low medium push this button this is a concave door and it makes it feel like the car is a lot wider than it really is this comes out at least 3 in from over here on most cars really wish they would show up better yeah yeah I know you'd have this flush you can't really see it you'd have this flush for the most part and it'd be like a very minor armrest you can actually fit your hand all the way in here it makes this car feels so spacious it's not even funny you could tell that the team that did this they had design in mind one thing I don't like about the car is that this is not a mechanical opening this pops via a micro switch so there's no levers in here that actually actuate the lever to pull in to open the door it's actually a micro switch when you tap it up it pops it out for you kind of don't like that I like having a physical door that I could pull does feel kind of playable yeah it kind of like if you like a little bit of playing that's kind of weird just tamper with it this I want to see W wo wo wo wo what are you doing to our car I I'm checking to see what's under the hood just kidding all thank you sir he's even helping us all right so what exactly are we looking at here so in here this is the the unglamorous inits we've got fuse box in here covered by this trapo this is air intake for the HVAC system fireman's Loop over here okay so we can use that to easily disconnect all the uh low and high voltage systems in the vehicle in case of an emergency and on this one I noticed that this is actually replaceable on a lot of the newer electric vehicles that's actually integrated in the wiring harness and once it's cut you have to replace the entire harness absolutely absolutely then in here we have breake fluid few of the fluid fills in there as well yeah but these are the these are the boring Parts can I tell you about the suspension so what do you specialize in at Le who are you exactly I'm uh my name is David I'm fortunate to lead the chassis and vehicle dyamics team so suspension steering brakes Wheels tires ride handling okay all the fun stuff I also noticed that uh the car uses coil suspension instead of air suspension was reason behind that was it just just sportiness Comfort I mean it's called the air right it's called the air always surprise people with coil springs right there's a few reasons a lot of people think that air suspension is the best thing in in bright quality it's not necessarily true the benefits of air suspension are primarily changing ride height and potentially changing ride frequency but with it it can bring quite a lot of friction hysteresis so your secondary ride quality that's kind of the finer texture stuff the Small Bump stuff can actually be quite degraded um because of the frictions in the system right with the coil spring you've got almost no friction historis at all so your secondary ride quality that's really important to us on the Lucid air is is really first class and the other thing is Energy Efficiency as well on an airspring car many people lower the car at freeway speeds to reduce the frontal area to reduce the the the drag force on the car because the Lucid area has such a low coefficient of drag in the first place we have a pretty small frontal area and the car is pretty low already right we don't need to and if we were having to expend energy on an air suspension system running a compressor a valve block all the other stuff compend more energy than to break yeah so more reliable every part of it more reliable great ride policy great handling very predictable this is the this is the car that won the production class of Goodwood last week MH um it cleans up real nice yeah yeah driven by Ben Collins last week two three is one of the supercars effectively uh it's definitely pretty impressive to watch it's the first time I've seen this on the hill and I've got to say it's pretty impressive the Lucid air so I wanted to show you the three Drive modes we have smooth Swift and Sprint smooth as the name suggests it prioritizes Comfort everything's smooth everything's relaxing so your suspension steering brakes and everything is just designed calibrated for easy effort as you move through Swift and then into Sprint we have to hit this disclaimer sure we really want to do this MH yes we do everything firms up you get you need to put in a bit more effort into your steering and brakes to allow for easier modulation you get more torque available to you the torque is thrown more more rearward mhm and our suspension control module throws more current at the dampers as well in terms of targets and what we were going for we we were given the brief the car should be extremely ly luxurious comfortable refined it should be a place people want to spend hours and cover hundreds of miles at the same time it needs to be able to hustle and handle and be fun when people want it to be so we looked at kind of the the typical benchmarks in the second for on the luxury side Mercedes S-Class has been kind of the standout winner for years so so that was clearly in our sites and then on the on the handling side we we started off looking at the Mercedes e63s AMG okay BMW 5 competition later the Cs when that came out though that's a little bit more sporty Porsche taan came out during development we've purchased most of those and have them on our Benchmark fleets and they've been really good to reference against but to be honest one of the cars that kind of kept coming up in conversation over and over again is the the E39 M5 really so it's doesn't someone on your team own any they own two I think it was kind of BU bias okay anyway before we start our fight I really like this car it has over 500 mil of range it handles great 0 to in under 3 seconds it's luxurious and I really really hope it does well and to those that hope it doesn't a casual reminder that competition is good for the consumer I will see you all next weekthe just a Flatout uh burning dumpster fire of stupidity I would say was the beginning of the company just tamper with it this I want to see Who whoo whoo whoo whoa what are you doing to our car I I'm checking to see what's under the hood Lucid it's the new electric car company and I know you're thinking oh yeah another electric car company now how did it start well Peter rollinson a former chief engineer of the mods under Elon Musk Tesla CEO left Tesla after 3 years feeling frustrated and limited in his work there so to put it like most corporations do there were creative differences and he left to go start Lucid now I want to make something clear we cannot be bought Lucid flew us out to California wind and dine us with spectacular dinners and wonderful breakfast and swanky hotels with live succulents and a poll that tells you whether or not you're asleep someone has to water these plants manually in this economy they gave us Flagship 1,50 horsepower L yacht that travels up to 520 Mi on a single charge all with the comfort of escorting five grown people very very comfortably and even after all that nice stuff they did to us I still stand by the fact that it looks like a dodge charger Hellcat xong p7 and a Lincoln had a Manaj Tua and then this vehicle was the byproduct but all kidding aside it does look better than its parents now before all the Tesla owners say yeah nothing's better than a Tesla can we give this thing a chance please I just want to tell everyone how awesome this car is and the best way I can do it is making a website with Squarespace it's easy to claim a domain or URL like www. Lucid is actually focused on making more efficient Motors other than buying social media companies.com or www. it does look like a classy Dodge Charger or an ultr glaz crawler Dunkin donuts.com so then you can create a custom site that matches your style enthusiasm check out these page templates because they'll make your web page look better than the faces of people that mistake your car for a glaze pastry head to www.squarespace.com Rich bills to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using the code in the description box below shout out to Squarespace for making platforms for people's passions no matter what now let's see what's inside this fancy building oh snap asaurus look at this wow you just you don't even walk into the building it and you get name tags I want photo yeah sir please don't photographic CS steering wheel on the left side of the steering wheel is all your a so that's your um Cru control dream Drive Etc on the right hand is your volume control and track Advance quite he speed crumbs at me right there you like about steephen what's up the you can't see the windshield wipers I do like that very clean in the front It's s of s you can barely see it yeah yeah did you did you notice notice that the uh back of the dash is kind of like a Dyson air blade it really is where did they get that design all people stroke the manufacturer that's getting them orange juice and cant yeah you had a fine breakfast this morning we we ate good let's let's show them let's show we show the people I guess this is fair they trying to butter us up it's not going to work I butter my biscuit yeah totally what what we got here lemon poppy seed waffles applewood bacon scrambled eggs salsa Spanish Teresa burritos that's your that's your fifth pastry good thing I don't have body image issues Stephen thank you it's a good thing isn't it I care about your health though hi I'm rich rebuild and I have diabetes it's about your health Ste are we getting the second tour the what the second tour the inside of the car it does they just gave us the key so I don't think that's the taste I said I going to do that I a second I don't think so it looks like no this is good you know why see I I got to admit something like we are so real here I'm going to tell you how it is reminds me another company yeah yeah and we we test drove that car a year ago and it was a disaster but it reminds me feel like a disaster no no no this no that company didn't give us cant this is a no they did not this is a much better car but the styling cues remind me of another one M you hate to say it hate to say you hate to say it I'm just going to flash the other one right here camera I'm a right now ready oh you have for this you haven't already pulled up Lincoln MKT notice notice his outfit was was to match the car I like that did you do this on purpose like you can't even you're going to look at this yeah you're going to cause problems this what happens when you oh oh God this is what happens when you're almost 60 are you really 59 how do you do it I couldn't get my foot in the door no but how's your skincare routine how do you Do It Go my skare rou let me talk to my sponsor Andrew question so so is Ben the only one doing the launches cuz he's like qualified no no no no no you can we he can um he can sit in the car with you and and just tell you what to do okay um or if you're not comfortable doing launch control I feel pated I feel like we're we're being belittle no no you will be you will be able to get in your own car and I'll try do that to you yeah well we'll have two cars he's a Brit he does that by default you know I'll let you I'll let you get in I'll just press smooth and I just I just want to tell people oh Ben that wouldn't let me drive he's kind of a big yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Ben Ben told me I couldn't drive you can hop in and do launch control you just want someone in the right seat with you are you going to wear your helmet or like then bring it do I need one when you're driving I mean it's recommended I mean it's in the room is it really yeah cuz there's a look in your eye I better get it put full power on and then don't wait too long before you release the brake pedal otherwise it will it will out it yeah it will because it will heat soak the battery a bit not heat soak but it it'll build heat and it will cancel itself right once you put your left foot away onto the rest leave it there okay because you're gonna go back to using your right foot for stopping to break okay that's basically it and there's no button pushing um it'll all be set simple enough yeah you just put it in D and go yeah okay ready when you are okay so left foot on brake left foot's on the brake all the way down that's right our rightful accelerator not yet oh sorry let's put her into D okay that would help yeah that's okay full power on and you're ready to go you just take the left foot away stick it onto the rest on the side forget about it basically and when we get to the flags you'll need to break heavily to get us to stop in in the distance that's there and move the brake off you got it you got it you got it uh break break turn right turn right a bit interior though let's get some massage Seward's right I have I have to make a confession Stephen please I um you you know I was stuffing my goddamn face with breakfast today is there another croissant in your my son he's the very triangular shape reminds me another company just not a bad thing not a bad thing just saying you don't mess with perfection no you really don't I got to give him props for for the concept car having the same steering wheel I like I like this dude it's it's attractive it's not squeaking or rattling that's a good sign like another car company that I know oh there's different theme said memes for a second memes is a meme button theme I like memes it's it feels weird like I feel like I have to push a lot hard it's it does stop right once again you you are used to a a tyan turbo right now with carbon Ceramics so your stopping power bias is you ready watch this real quick yeah feels pretty good how you feeling Stephen I feel blessed to know that we are probably only probably a couple hundred people have driven this car before seriously yeah and I just ate a croissant in the back seat this is nice man I you know what's you it's so weird to me Stephen it's the Plaid is faster yep better charging Network and and they've they they're getting a lot better about quality issues I still would rather have this yes why Stephen explain that to me you prefer unique cars The Plaid was disappointing when it was refreshed that they just did the model S it looks just like the poverty spec one it looked just like Brianna's car Brianna is literally 19 years old in a in a 10-year-old vehicle it looks like the like you put you put wider stance wheels on it yeah it's like it doesn't like this thing stands out it's a unique vehicle because you know that there aren't going to be that many around and and there's nothing wrong with being like everyone else there's nothing wrong with that it's just not for me behind the scenes footage of getting the shot is in the trunk see it's very spacious isn't it we work we work you think we just have fun all day I mean we do but still work this is all right now I'm in the trunk and this to give you some perspective that's a little loose oh wait I think because of the heat the adhesive must have unstuck see but this is behind the scenes R all right see you hello hello hello so we're uh Driving Miss Daisy on some some twisties this is this is I got to say Stephen how does it feel right on these twisty California road I can show people how it feels but whatever we're doing for Speed we are doing the speed limit rest assured yeah we're def nothing nothing to be concerned about dude it feel wow Stephen this car's got some power man it's got some power this is a very impressive feeling this is it's it's the it's it's it's next to a plaid it's probably the most powerful car I've been in 30 40 50 60 70 wo my word wo well this is worth holy holy what a beast what an absolute unit come on man oh this is this moving in my is this seat moving yeah it's massaging you I'm sitting on someone's hand this is very similar to what the ti can did for us yes when we were ripping around in that it really is I mean I I'll say right now it doesn't have the braking it has the power dude it has power the suspension is great has the suspension right it feels like it has suspension of a sports car I mean it is a sports car stepen I've been to many presentations before and this is a beautiful display and presentation of just how awesome these vehicles are which they are I have a question mhm on this trip which this it's only noon Y and we still have 8 hours of this left we woke up at like 9:00 a.m. y we had awesome breakfast yep great uh brief tutorial of the car what to expect for today for launch control and all that good stuff and we did launch controls uh there's about what maybe 10 of us here 12 of us here very very very very very select few will they try to sell us one of these cars that's the question you think so in my heart and soul you feel it it said sales presentation on the itinerary maybe sales presentation means this is how we Market to other people and not you you know what I mean yeah you think dude at the end of this if they say how do you want to pay or why don't you consider putting your deposit down I'm going to scream I'm going to scream Stephen it's just here's the Shakedown of it comes you know we're going to let you know the the the wealthier you are the less expensive it will seem yeah right I don't know why they invited us here yeah me yeah seriously the wrong demogra I I drive a i dve a Hummer H too again if you're a manufacturer and you want us to to give you the truth we we're going to do that we're going to there's going to be some making fun of of of the presentation we're going to pick apart your car the best that we can absolutely so they're going to say you could get this car only ,000 a month plus insurance it's going to be it's all actually that's that's not even true it's it'll be like $1 13 $1,400 a month with this car on for for the low one yeah for the lowow one that you can't even that you won't get for another year and a half right yeah hopefully hopefully yeah all things go well see what happens all right it's lovely yeah you didn't show you that yet yeah come on now put that away it's for your gloves seriously for your driving gloves you put that's that's sick all the fingerprints are on there hopefully they can come out with like a anti you know reflect anti-ar screen look like a to be in uh Swift to Sprint yeah let's make sure that you're in yeah let's say you're in Sprint and legal stuff to make yeah you want to film that later disa here you go there you go it's a crush course so we we just got back from lunch and uh it turns out they've now forced us to have a chaperone because of our our erratic driving so for for the rest of this uh day of driving it looks like we have a we're also in the non-performance version now everything very well I I do want to try it though I want to see how what the acceleration is like now a word from our sponsors the whole time at this Lucid thing I've been thinking about my package not like that silly packag is from my side business but I don't think about it much because of ship station they take out all the hard work they make it quick easy and convenient to ship out all the spare parts we don't need from our builds we use ship station because they actually automate time andt ensive shipping processes and things we don't really have the time for wait you're getting rid of the Swan yeah I don't like the swan never liked it cuz it stares at you do you want it all right they work with all the major carriers and they allow us exclusive discounts on USPS UPS FedEx isn't that great it's pretty good it's nice anyways they'll even work with our storefront on Amazon eBay and Etsy who's buying that nut you know my Etsy store huh just it's a guy it's a Florida thing oh it's goty to Florida want okay it actually say us a Bo load of time so we can make content for viewers like you I am like a 100,000 other sellers that use ship station for business and we're allowed exclusive discounts that Fortune 500 companies get that you wouldn't normally get as a regular person you need a burger box I need a burger box you're right go to shipstation.com Rich rebuilds for your free 60-day trial and I like to say make ship happen I made that up you didn't I did no it's not true prove it it's it's on their website you can't prove it these trees though this Viewpoint actually beautiful here by the way this this bird's eye view is everything yeah it is you know yeah but you haven't actually seen everything with it now put two fingers in that screen and just twister dude there you go oh yeah dude hey all right can I drive like that uh it's going to turn off at some hey that's kind of sick actually that's very nice try this R hold on see oh wait there's a car coming let's see what happens here yeah all right okay yeah that's pretty that's quite nice pretty cool have icons on there too if you tap them it look at this look it's like a video game sure this is probably one of the best in tiers I've ever been in it's well thought out everything makes sense this this fly like the floating display is awesome this retractable screen is great even the sun visor the sun visors are lit not lit as in like what the kids say nowadays but but but lit they're illuminated you should say they're illuminated and we were trying to figure out how did they actually do that how are they able to get the light in there when there's no wire I thought there was a really thin wire then we realized if we pull this up yeah you get the you get the batteries battery well done it is it is it is phenomenal well f um I just I don't it reminds me of an S-Class in a lot of ways and I know that that may have been one of the target vehicles um for for potential buyers I like the S-Class I like this car but the only thing I would change about it is I would I think that the rear angle the rear quarter panel makes the car seem a little bit higher than it than it is and it makes it look a little bit less sporty that's all like I think for example I think the Tian is sporty looking it may not be the best looking car in the world but the angles the car has wide hips I like cars that have wide hips you name it the Z6 the whatever they all have wide hips look it even has a hood scoop why would an electric car need these why would it really it really is look at this it really is Stephen it's the same car see yeah a lot a lot of inspiration what do you see Lincoln MKT but I do like this design element here over on the uh on the C pillar it almost looks like the integration from the glass roof to the rear glass I like this little like helmet looking thing it's like a neat design thing um also I think this also comes in aluminium roof for for those on a budget as they say that's the pure version yeah such as myself so if I were to get one I would probably get the aluminum roof because I think it's a little cheaper you don't get as much horsepower though how much do you get you know those Wheels look that yeah this some influence there just got a turbine slant to them this some influence there but no in all this really is good looking carbo I think the side profile is definitely my favorite favorite faite the the side profile like the way you have the camera set up right here is definitely my favorite but I wish that you couldn't see this piece of glass right here you see the glass that you're seeing in the frame yep it almost makes like look like it's a little bit more box than it should be I wish it just kind of stop right here that's for space Richard you get what I'm saying yeah about space looking good when you get when you get inside you'll understand the soft clothes look this this is at least like 10 lb go ahead that's the way to luxury right there this is actually pretty cool man I wish this was uh I wish this was springloaded really nice get the mail you do that back and forth but inside here we have the uh the cell phone chargers only one of the spots is uh for charging a cell phone which only only the driver gets Char yeah only the driver gets that but no this actually isn't bad at all man I know a lot of people don't really believe in having physical buttons I have physical buttons mostly you know model 3 owners but honestly this quick access temperature button is actually perfect yeah you go up and downan fan faster boom boom up down down up down fan temp done yeah this is actually really easy instead of going through the I think let's try to find the HVAC menu here there you go fan actually it's not that bad nope never mind UI is very in intuitive no this is neat plenty of you will watch you know what Lucid puts out or Jason kamisa you know did a nice video we we don't really do we don't do nice videos we do like real videos like listen I'm a scrub getting into this car for the first time and this this is how I want to handle things so we're just going to push random buttons until we figure things out says themes I don't know what themes is themes there you go yeah so you have space a space themes Wonder Solitude you can up how much Serenity how much Serenity do you really want in life how much Zen is needed in your world how much Zen is needed yeah I want all the Zen there you go you can have it you get yours for the l l price you know like when you have your girlfriend and she's pregnant and you put your hand on her belly that's what it feels like unfortunately I don't have to know that he said fortunate or unfortunately design is definitely 10 out of 10 here this is yeah 10 out of interor wise 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 like this look at this this is like a jean no not not Jee denim I guess you could say right recycled alpaca I told how they recycle alpacas these aren't leather seats are they I can't do it can't do it you're not even vegan probably one of the coolest door handles I have ever seen absolutely come on intuition function and actually it's got redundancy where it's the electronic handle for the release and then there's the manual hatch for the Emergency if they a failure Point A+ Lucid A+ that opens USB uh C charging ports the I that said sausage at first I saw the S and the e that's a rear Sun Shade that's a sunsh you touch it ready extend rear sun shade look at that if we were to critically compare this to the the true obvious competitor of a Model S probably be PL honestly they don't want to admit that they they truly believe that the main competitor to this car is a Mercedes-Benz S-class which on paper would make sense it's in dimension wise it's about the same the interior volume feels the same but in reality unfortunately people are going to be comparing this car to a model to a top-of-the-line Model S clad over and over all all day every day the Tesla people are going to say Hey listen this is another electric car that we can hate because we love Tesla so much all the it all the controls for lights fog lights headlights are on the appropriate side that it would be in a normal car anyways you know like old square body you name it any car y most of the controls are right here for the light so you either pull to have the high beams on or you turn it left or right to increase the the brightness or dimness of the dash this is perfect at a glance ready you want your headlights on push this button you want your wipers on high low medium push this button this is a concave door and it makes it feel like the car is a lot wider than it really is this comes out at least 3 in from over here on most cars really wish they would show up better yeah yeah I know you'd have this flush you can't really see it you'd have this flush for the most part and it'd be like a very minor armrest you can actually fit your hand all the way in here it makes this car feels so spacious it's not even funny you could tell that the team that did this they had design in mind one thing I don't like about the car is that this is not a mechanical opening this pops via a micro switch so there's no levers in here that actually actuate the lever to pull in to open the door it's actually a micro switch when you tap it up it pops it out for you kind of don't like that I like having a physical door that I could pull does feel kind of playable yeah it kind of like if you like a little bit of playing that's kind of weird just tamper with it this I want to see W wo wo wo wo what are you doing to our car I I'm checking to see what's under the hood just kidding all thank you sir he's even helping us all right so what exactly are we looking at here so in here this is the the unglamorous inits we've got fuse box in here covered by this trapo this is air intake for the HVAC system fireman's Loop over here okay so we can use that to easily disconnect all the uh low and high voltage systems in the vehicle in case of an emergency and on this one I noticed that this is actually replaceable on a lot of the newer electric vehicles that's actually integrated in the wiring harness and once it's cut you have to replace the entire harness absolutely absolutely then in here we have breake fluid few of the fluid fills in there as well yeah but these are the these are the boring Parts can I tell you about the suspension so what do you specialize in at Le who are you exactly I'm uh my name is David I'm fortunate to lead the chassis and vehicle dyamics team so suspension steering brakes Wheels tires ride handling okay all the fun stuff I also noticed that uh the car uses coil suspension instead of air suspension was reason behind that was it just just sportiness Comfort I mean it's called the air right it's called the air always surprise people with coil springs right there's a few reasons a lot of people think that air suspension is the best thing in in bright quality it's not necessarily true the benefits of air suspension are primarily changing ride height and potentially changing ride frequency but with it it can bring quite a lot of friction hysteresis so your secondary ride quality that's kind of the finer texture stuff the Small Bump stuff can actually be quite degraded um because of the frictions in the system right with the coil spring you've got almost no friction historis at all so your secondary ride quality that's really important to us on the Lucid air is is really first class and the other thing is Energy Efficiency as well on an airspring car many people lower the car at freeway speeds to reduce the frontal area to reduce the the the drag force on the car because the Lucid area has such a low coefficient of drag in the first place we have a pretty small frontal area and the car is pretty low already right we don't need to and if we were having to expend energy on an air suspension system running a compressor a valve block all the other stuff compend more energy than to break yeah so more reliable every part of it more reliable great ride policy great handling very predictable this is the this is the car that won the production class of Goodwood last week MH um it cleans up real nice yeah yeah driven by Ben Collins last week two three is one of the supercars effectively uh it's definitely pretty impressive to watch it's the first time I've seen this on the hill and I've got to say it's pretty impressive the Lucid air so I wanted to show you the three Drive modes we have smooth Swift and Sprint smooth as the name suggests it prioritizes Comfort everything's smooth everything's relaxing so your suspension steering brakes and everything is just designed calibrated for easy effort as you move through Swift and then into Sprint we have to hit this disclaimer sure we really want to do this MH yes we do everything firms up you get you need to put in a bit more effort into your steering and brakes to allow for easier modulation you get more torque available to you the torque is thrown more more rearward mhm and our suspension control module throws more current at the dampers as well in terms of targets and what we were going for we we were given the brief the car should be extremely ly luxurious comfortable refined it should be a place people want to spend hours and cover hundreds of miles at the same time it needs to be able to hustle and handle and be fun when people want it to be so we looked at kind of the the typical benchmarks in the second for on the luxury side Mercedes S-Class has been kind of the standout winner for years so so that was clearly in our sites and then on the on the handling side we we started off looking at the Mercedes e63s AMG okay BMW 5 competition later the Cs when that came out though that's a little bit more sporty Porsche taan came out during development we've purchased most of those and have them on our Benchmark fleets and they've been really good to reference against but to be honest one of the cars that kind of kept coming up in conversation over and over again is the the E39 M5 really so it's doesn't someone on your team own any they own two I think it was kind of BU bias okay anyway before we start our fight I really like this car it has over 500 mil of range it handles great 0 to in under 3 seconds it's luxurious and I really really hope it does well and to those that hope it doesn't a casual reminder that competition is good for the consumer I will see you all next week\n"