*** BEV range negatively affected by driving faster than posting highway speeds, parking for 8 hours in snowing conditions at a ski resort, driving with 4-8 people & skiing gear up a mountain pass at freeway speeds & using the HVAC with full heat & AC to defrost windows. Prolonged storage in 22F or colder requires battery heater circuits to waste battery capacity at up to 7KW of power consumption, reducing range by up to 40% in some cases. Do not leave the BEV parked in sub-40 degree weather for more than 20 days without plugging it in to a L1 EVSE or L2 AC charger to keep the battery from being completely discharged. After 5 days without use in sub-40 degree weather, the EV will go into storage mode & may take as much as 5 minutes to turn fully on to be driven in a normal mode once the battery charged using a L1 L2 or L3 charger. Keeping the EV battery between 30-80% charged will greatly enhance the batteries useful lifetime, cycle life & calendar life, and reduce the risk of 100% charge damage overcharging which causes progress battery capacity loss of pack fading.
After the luxury Lucid Air EV with 550mi of range
Gravity offers a luxury electric SUV to compete against the Tesla Model Y & Rivian SUV
Premium Battery Electric SUV consume 350-600 watt hours per mile, much more than smaller BEV's
This means the average BEV SUV will use around 4000-7000kWh per year to go 10,500 miles
I highly recommend the Toyota Rav4 Prime as a Plug-in Hybrid alternative that's also reliable & fast!
Lucid Gravity looks superlative, dope, sic, it has steeze or style galore, and excellent brand recognition.
See Lucid Gravity revealed as three-row, family-friendly EV with a 440-plus-mile range - AutoblogLucid Gravity revealed as three-row, family-friendly EV with a 440-plus-mile range - Autoblog
Make no mistake, buying a new car not eco-friendly / car making be it an ICE or EV, resource intensive or causes harm to nature with pollution emissions, not just CO2 or carbon emissions.
EV's destroy tires 3X to 10X faster because of their higher mass & instant torque, which also makes them a blast to accelerate, really quiet on the inside & very energy efficient when compared to gasoline powered equivalent vehicles with engines that have lower than 40% thermal efficiency. Gasoline not the problem, it has 44 megajoules of energy per us gallon, its the stupid greedy lazy car manufacturers that keep selling low thermal efficiency unreliable car engines with plastic engine parts that fail early.
I am looking at GM, Fiat, Ford & others who do not have a sterling reputation for reliability like Toyota. I want my car to work every time I go to drive it, daily, for commuting, for years on end with basic maintenance. I want good 40+ MPG of fuel economy on regular fuel, not premium. After 100 years of engine design experience they know how to make engines to last 10,000 hours or more with regular oil changes. They can also make changing the engine oil easier with a cannister style oil filter & drain bolt valve. I am surprised that they don't have onboard oil thermal chemical reconditioning to enhance oil life in an oil cleaning system more advanced than just a filter & oil pump.
Is a Lucid Gravity reliable, how about the Lucid Air, who knows. Its a newer BEV maker without enough history to tell if these expensive premium EV's will hold up well. How much battery capacity loss will happen per cycle, per year, and how long will the battery pack last & how much will it cost to replace? There are lots of good questions that have not been answered yet because we don't know what we don't know until we have data & facts to know about, and that means Meta long term data analysis in the future. Only time will tell, more or less. What we can say is that luxury vehicles tend to depreciate the fastest, have higher insurance costs, have higher operating costs, have higher maintained & repair costs, and tend to have a snobbery association that I would not want to personally be seen with. I live near Seattle with lots of low skill drivers who have more money for a new fancy luxury EV than driving skills, who do braindead unsafe dangerous things in traffic that I see while driving the School Bus full of children. Shame on bad drivers for making other people less safe & shame of the state for giving these fools drivers licenses.
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