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okay first thing bothers me a little bit

why is the car

already on the thing and you might not

know this about electric vehicles but

when i go to get in my tesla sometimes

and it's been sitting there for a day

it's slow to start like i get it maybe

they're doing it for the video or

whatever but i

i want the full experience okay i want

the whole

experience let's keep going

okay i don't want to get demonet here

with the music so we're going to lower

this

release candidate vehicles are the last

step they're kind of like the betas

the beta vehicles all right

okay lucid air to evaluate the vehicle

dynamic

leaving the building now heading out on

the road

first drive in this car super exciting

we're gonna head up

to skyline and test the car through the

mountains

we've got some really twisty sections

which will be the perfect

proving ground well so i mean

okay right here there's the radio for

him die i guess

go yo i got stranded uh and look

you know i i want to be really bullish

on this because obviously i have a lot

of i have a lot of

funds invested in lucid but i'm not

gonna be

a blind faith here i'm gonna be critical

okay so we got some plastic on the floor

here that's okay just to keep

dirty shoes off the car uh the console

looks very very neat i do like that this

is actually very tesla-esque up here

the side almost looks almost exactly

like a tesla remember

he did work on the tesla model s so this

is not a surprise

it's worth noting that that radio could

be there to communicate with the vehicle

potentially right behind

him or in front of him to film at least

some of the driving shots

okay let's keep going for the vehicle

dynamics

i'm really looking forward to this here

we head west across

san francisco bay impressed by the blend

of regen as it's coming in by the

traffic lights there

beginning to get nice we recently upped

the regen from 0.25 g

to 0.3 in sports setting which i put

they got really good audio on this guy

because there's a lot of glass in this

car

uh and they really perfected the audio

here they were able to remove that

street noise really well with

whatever lapel mic he's got here

personally i've never been able to

accomplish

that good of audio with a lapel mic in a

car

i can't get that kind of audio in a

studio

or with a mic that's in my face

like you know a mic that you would use

for a concert

that would work and i've done it before

on the channel but otherwise

i i wonder if this was like overdubbed

later because the audio just ended up

sucking i don't i don't know

maybe they got this to work maybe i'm

being too skeptical on that also peter

just said they got the regeneration from

0.2 to 0.25 now usually this is

a negative number because they're like g

forces that you get an acceleration

and then there are g forces that you get

in deceleration

which is kind of like when you take your

foot off the gas and the car

starts slowing down you kind of like

lurch forward a little bit sometimes

because the car is it's almost like it's

stepping on the brakes

because you know the regenerative

braking is strong on a tesla

uh well so a tesla model s and x i want

i believe their deceleration g

force uh and standard regenerative

braking

is somewhere around 0.19 so negative

0.19 because you're decelerating

just mentioned in sport mode they went

from 0.25

to 0.3 and now that's fine i mean that's

a nice improvement right i mean if we go

from

0.25 to 0.3 that's an increase of about

20 percent but what's also interesting

is

if we compare 0.25

or sorry rather 0.3 which is where the

lucid ceo

is saying they are in sport mode to the

tesla standard

of 0.19 that has about oh my gosh

58 more deceleration

g-force than the tesla which potentially

implies

and i think it does that they're trying

to capture way more energy

as fast as possible out of deceleration

because the the more

of a sudden g-force deceleration you

have the more you're

i like to always think of electricity as

cranking a motor

which is kind of what you're doing

cranking the motor and that creates

energy to recharge the battery but

anyway

the harder you crank that and the faster

you turn it

uh the more battery you regen now i'm

way oversimplifying i'm not a mechanical

or electrical engineer i'm

an idiot on youtube okay but that's

that's big maybe this is where they're

getting that 500 plus mile range from

it's just

every little area they can get more

range

we're doing that we're doing that we're

doing that we're doing that he said this

is on sport mode

uh which is important an important thing

that he said because you don't want to

feel like okay i'm getting a luxury car

and i'm gonna

you know every time i take my foot off

the gas we're gonna go oh right

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prefer quite a lot fantastic primary

ride quality

on this pitchy type of surface we dial

down a lot of the pitch sensitivity

and that that's come really good heading

in the 50s of miles an hour

and the car's hardly it's hardly even

it's at a trout not a counter

super isolated light quality

i wanted this vault-like experience from

an electric car that no one's really

perfected yet well this is the basis for

it

shattering performance compact and agile

this car dude this guy is so good

at selling it drives me nuts you listen

to him

and it's like he just he just melts you

i don't get it it's so good

as much as sports cars sedan

see okay that actually by the way was

one of the big complaints about the

tesla model s when it first came out was

that it felt like you felt every bump in

the road that

uh you know it was it was too not

luxurious enough and this is one of the

big

differentiations peter rollinson

continues to try to make between

his car the lucid and

the teslas terribly testing surfaces

here

great single wheel inputs great body

control

and you get this left right left right

jitter input

that can really create shake we've got

exceptional body stiffness

it's really nice really pleased with

that

one of the things he's touching on here

is also how

in these electric cars the motors can

respond

so quickly to changes in dynamics and

road conditions

that you actually have far superior

traction control in an electric vehicle

than you do in a gas-powered vehicle

because of the delay in a gas-powered

vehicle

and the fact that gas-powered vehicles

aren't controlling necessarily

individual wheels or independently i

should say

all right let's keep going just a little

bit of judder on the hill hole we need

to work on the software

just on that modulation of the torque

that's the point we can we can improve

on that

in my head i like how they're really

like painting like

you got it you got to say something bad

about the car because peop like it can't

be perfect i mean it's a test vehicle

right

we want to see how you're the guy who

gets behind and gets guys

guys fix this this could be better you

know like the steve jobs guy like guys

this is me do it again start over

out into driver's country we're going

past the iconic

box cafe here some of my earliest days

were the company when we were called

ativa

we're out meeting folk at bucks

interviewing some of the

early candidates who were about to join

our team

this music is so gonna demonetize us oh

well it's worth it

is that how you park please don't tell

me the self-driving parked it that way

oh wait

we haven't heard anything on our

self-driving yet you're pissing me off

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the suspension tuning team have done a

fantastic job with us

i'm noticing around the zero

up to two miles an hour the need to

finesse that whole feedback loop from

from accelerator to tilt command

still in heavy traffic impossible to

unleash the capability of the car here

but it's nice

and taut experiencing a whole range of

different surfaces

very pleased with the the whole ride

quality and the suppleness of the

suspension

that's great we've tested that

thoroughly i've tested that before

this is every bit as good as the

prototypes

the road is about to get more

interesting i'm getting great steering

feedback here as we head up through the

hills

the turning response is phenomenal the

body

the car actually looks pretty good

especially in this this scene here

they picked a very nice spot this is

very flattering with the shadow

but still getting some light reflections

here composure this is a complete

machine

nice little feedback at higher speed as

well i'm liking it alone

really getting into it i'm really nuts

about steering fields just coming nicely

paint the ceo as having very very very

fussy things or feelings about minor

things

and that will make people like him more

how could you not like him though

he's great it's unlike any other card

ever driven

it really is it's taking it to a whole

other level

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i almost wonder if that's not peter

actually driving it

like you know he was like a professional

driver and then peter was you know

okay

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yeah that's it what's the other minute

thank you

well it's pre-production now almost

there yeah

it's one of our it's just just come out

of the factory last week from arizona

so we think this is authentic and look

at the like

the kind of like rain uh on the side of

the window over here

which is not that that really matters

it's just i i thought this was the first

time this car was out on the road

apparently not

thank you so much i hope you like it

it's my baby

it's got a it's got a thousand

horsepower

500 mile range 500 mile range

i want to see that like if they can

deliver this

it's that like i i want to see this

drive i want to i want to get in this i

want to drive it 20 miles

and i want to see it go from 505 fully

charged

to 485 then i'll double down my

shares the first time

we've ever driven one without camouflage

on the road

seriously yeah first time ever yeah so

you've got the scoop of all scoops

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