Why Lucid's CEO Thinks 180-Mile EVs Are 'The Future'
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Cold weather performance has to improve a bit too. That 300km can easily become 200 or less in a Canadian prairie winter, which isn't enough to be competitive with ICE vehicles, and given the state of charging infrastructure.
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Don't forget that this article mentions that cars with shorter range will be more useful by 2030. There are still a few years to improve charging tech and infrastructure.
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Right, but having to stop to charge midway through a 2-300 km trip isn't that practical for most around here. That length of drive isn't uncommon and stopping would be a turnoff for people used to doing the whole trip with an ICE vehicle.
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50% of heat loss in winter? Do you live in the middle of Siberia?
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I had a few lucid dreams and they were cool but this seems like another attempt to take a cool word from us and change the meaning to sell a fucking product
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Close enough, I live in the mountains where it regularly gets down into the negative teens Fahrenheit in winter.
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Yeah, OK, then your point stands. In Germany the coldest winter nights we get are about -10 degrees Celsius, and at that temperature I get less than 20% range loss, but that's partly due to the lower speeds you naturally drive on slippery winter roads. In your conditions 50% range loss might actually be realistic since heat pumps drastically lose efficiency that far below freezing
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If we had lots of money and two EV’s I would still have one be short range.
I'm seeing a future where the EVs in our driveway play a much more important part of our home electricity storage. Depending on the scenario, two EVs with large-ish batteries may be more advantageous. I'll admit the stars would have to align for this, but its a possible future.
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Great. Mandate WFH and build public transit then. Until that's done, we need cars.
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If 180 miles were sufficient, ICE cars would have settled into a rough 180-mile range average.
They settled into 425.
