18 Jul 2024 | Lucid Breaks EV Efficiency Record, Kia & Hyundai Seen Testing Native NACS Ports and Rivian Launches Trade-In Tool
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to EVE News Daily. Coming up today, Lucid breaks the EV efficiency record here in Hyundai, |
| 0:05.3 | seen testing their native Nax ports and Rivian launching a new trade-in tool. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you what the world's leading scientists are warning Toyota about with their hydrogen greenwashing. |
| 0:17.8 | Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you're listening around the world. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to EV News Daily, your trusted source of EV information for Thursday, |
| 0:24.2 | 18th of July. I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every Evie story so you don't have to. |
| 0:29.5 | Well, Patreon supporters get these shows ad-free, one of the benefits of signing up to be a supporter. |
| 0:35.1 | Check it out at the link in the show notes. Well, Lucid Motors, led by the CEO and |
| 0:39.9 | CTO Peter Rawlinson, has always prioritised efficiency and the latest iteration of the Air Pure |
| 0:45.7 | Model, the 2025 model year, has an impressive five miles per kilowatt hour of energy consumption. |
| 0:53.6 | That is a significant improvement on the previous 4.1 miles per kilowatt hour of energy consumption. That is a significant improvement on the previous |
| 0:56.7 | 4.1 miles per kilowatt hour, making it the most efficient production EV to date. Well, the Air Pure |
| 1:03.4 | is also Lucid's most affordable model, and it achieves 430 miles of range with a smaller battery |
| 1:10.6 | than the outgoing model. So it's 430 miles of EPA |
| 1:14.4 | range on an 84 kilowatt hour battery. And what's my pole star too? I've got the original one, |
| 1:21.7 | the really inefficient pole star, a 78 kilowatt hour or something. And I'm lucky if mine reads more |
| 1:25.9 | than 200 miles on the dash, I think that's a good day for me. I mean, it's summertime at the minute, so I'm lucky if mine reads more than 200 miles on the dash, |
| 1:27.6 | I think that's a good day for me. I mean, it's summertime at the minute, so I'm seeing a bit more miles. |
| 1:32.4 | Man, can you imagine owning a lucid air pure with a very reasonable size battery and well over 400 miles of real world range? |
| 1:40.3 | The efficiency is partly due to the integration of the heat pump system, initially introduced |
| 1:44.8 | in the high-performance Air Sapphire model, along with other refinements. According to Lucid, |
| 1:49.7 | this makes the air pure the most efficient and most sustainable vehicle ever made. Another |
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