I drove a Lucid Air Pure EV for a week and I was blown away — here's why

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Arguably one of the most thoughfully designed EVs on the market, the 2025 Lucid Air Pure puts to shame other electric cars with its class-leading efficiency and range.

I drove a Lucid Air Pure EV for a week and I was blown away — here's why : Read more

 

[Corey Carroz]

Arguably one of the most thoughfully designed EVs on the market, the 2025 Lucid Air Pure puts to shame other electric cars with its class-leading efficiency and range.

I drove a Lucid Air Pure EV for a week and I was blown away — here's why : Read more

Yeah I love mine. I went in to test drive to check out he Dolby Atmos integration in their Surreal Sound Pro offering and walked out with a car(or at least walked out, sold my wife on it and ordered that night). Really wanted the Turing but only could get the wife to sign off on the Pure. The things we have to put up with for love 🤣 Still more then happy with the Pure though. Great on a road trip from PHX to Vegas as well.

 

[Vanko]

I am just surprised WHY YOU GUYS FROM TOM'S GUIDE are so bad with the math!!!
394 miles with 84Kwh battery means 4.7 miles per Kwh which is very very close to promised 5.0 !!! How you calculated 4.3 for me is just a mystery...

 

[Carljo]

I test drove the Lucid Touring and there were some dealbreakers.

Most important- regardless of wheel size the ground clearance is abysmal. Be ready to scrape pebbles. This engineering decision was probably for aerodynamics/range. Unfortunately this only makes sense if you’re driving on a level raceway. I checked the demo under the front and sure enough, evidence of repeated scrapes.

Poor visibility if you like to see out windows. Back window too narrow top to bottom. Another bad engineering decision involving visibility, which was made up for with another strange fix- warping the window like a lens so as to flatten the look of the terrain behind you so you can see everything. Otherwise the top of the SUV following you would be cut off.

I’d say everything else about the car is fine. It looks beautiful from the outside and is maximized for legroom and cargo space as it was built as an EV vs modifying what they already had (ie Mercedes’s, BMW, Volvo etc). It’s more of a sports car in-between the luxury of a Mercedes and a Tesla. It’s noisier than the Tesla. The specs are amazing of course and beats all competition as far as that goes. Most important pluses are range and a battery built for the future. The unique 900 volts insures super fast charging once we have 900 volt chargers eventually (presently most are 500).

The more I test drive EV’s the more I appreciate my GLE350.