No More Charging Stops? We Take a Road Trip in an Ultralong-Range EV

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The great American road trip has long been powered by gasoline. Gas stations are everywhere, making it easy to fill-up when your gas tank nears empty. But what if you’re trying to travel long-distance in an electric car and can’t find a charger? WSJ’s Danny Lewis speaks to WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims about his recent road trip in an ultralong-range Lucid Motors EV. The car aims to eliminate range anxiety by traveling an Environmental Protection Agency-estimated range of more than 500 miles without needing to recharge. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Further reading: Ultralong-Range Electric Cars Are Arriving. Say Goodbye to Charging Stops Why America Isn’t Ready for the EV Takeover The Key to Widespread Adoption of EVs: Less Range Big Automakers Plan Thousands of EV Chargers in $1 Billion U.S. Push Ford Venture Gets Record $9.2 Billion Government Loan for EV Batteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Back in May, on Memorial Day weekend, I headed over to Chelsea on Manhattan's west side.
0:35.2	Okay, passing under the high line now to meet up with my colleague. Wall Street Journal tech
0:40.0	columnist Christopher Mips. Christopher was there to pick up a car to test drive,
0:50.4	a lucid air-grand touring. It's an electric vehicle that has all the hallmarks of
0:56.0	a luxury car. How's it feel? Like the best tuned Mercedes you've ever been in,
1:04.0	and I have only driven 20 feet so far. Displays and touch screens, wood and leather
1:09.2	paneled interiors, and cameras that give the driver a live 360 degree view of everything going
1:15.9	on around the car. Imagine wanting to drive on this, it would completely ruin you.
1:20.4	And it has some serious pickup. Lucid says in its fastest mode,
1:24.7	the air-grand touring can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in under three seconds.
1:29.4	I'm so tempted to open it up, but it would be really a mistake.
1:36.4	But what Christopher and I were really interested in wasn't how fast it could go, but how far.
1:43.9	According to company estimates reported to the Environmental Protection Agency,
1:48.1	Lucid's air-grand touring can travel up to 516 miles on a single charge.
1:53.7	That's upwards of 100 miles farther than the estimates for Tesla's top-of-the-line Model S.
1:59.4	Christopher says Lucid's car can do that because it was designed to use every
2:03.5	volt of electricity as efficiently as possible. Every part of the powertrain is engineered to within
2:11.9	a millimeter of its life, and that's not even an exaggeration. The head of engineering
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