Remember Lucid Motors? This new car-making force in North America is nicknamed "Tesla Avengers".
This name comes from a number of senior executives within Lucid Motors, including co-founders, who have successively "abandoned the dark and cast the light" from Tesla in the early years because they did not agree with Musk's concept.
For example, Xie Jiapeng, former Tesla board member and head of battery research and development (currently founder of Lucid Motors), martin Eberhard, former founder and former CEO of Tesla (currently technical consultant of Lucid Motors), peter Rawlinson, former chief engineer of Model S (current CEO of Lucid Motors) and a number of others.
The inner top half of the people are lucid Motors, who are members of the original Tesla Musk team, and now they are starting a new car, to say that there is no other meaning for Tesla, do you believe? So this team is also called Tesla's "Avengers".
But what is the certainty that the new forces of the flowing water, the iron Tesla, and the "Avengers" Lucid Motors will kill Tesla?
After the establishment of Lucid Motors, there were ups and downs, but in July last year, Lucid Motors was listed on the NASDAQ through SPAC, when Lucid Motors' first mass-produced new car, LucidAir, was also released, advertising high-end smart electric luxury, with an official guidance price of $77,400 (about 496,000 yuan), but it has not yet been officially delivered.
Fast forward to 2022, a few years after Tesla has successively used products to spell out "sexy", Lucid Motors' first new car LucidAir finally has the first delivery, but what about this car?
Not to mention the dazzling product parameters, recently foreign users have mentioned a new car netizens exposed a little embarrassing thing.
LucidAir, a luxury pure electric sedan with a high price, took more than fifty seconds from unlocking and sitting in the car to the central control screen fully displaying the car machine.
More than fifty seconds close to a cigarette kung fu, the owner of the car just sit in the car is really a bit embarrassing, so that netizens ridiculed, LucidAir car start time comparable to WinXP boot.
Nowadays, the product experience of intelligent electric vehicles pursues only fast and unbroken, fast acceleration, fast charging, fast iteration of OTA functions, and human-computer interaction needs to be on call to reflect the characteristics of intelligence.
The starting time of more than fifty seconds is really not like the normal performance of a smart electric vehicle in 2022. Regarding the starting time of the car machine instrument, the traditional fuel vehicle that also uses the mechanical meter in the early morning has almost no car machine system, and naturally there is no delay in the start of the car machine.
Check the relevant information, now the mainstream car manufacturers whether it is intelligent pure electric, or fuel vehicles, the car system start time is usually within 30 seconds, most of the requirements within 10 seconds, more than 30 seconds has been an abnormal state.
There is also a problem of cold start of the car, usually after we park the lock car, the car machine system will enter a dormant state similar to the mobile phone lock screen, if the parking time is not long, the next start as long as a short time, such as 10 seconds within the car machine can start.
However, when the parking time is too long, the car machine system will enter a deep sleep state similar to the mobile phone shutdown, the next time you get on the car, the car machine system starts to belong to the category of cold start, but the time to start usually does not exceed 30 seconds.
The LucidAir's time of more than fifty seconds of the car machine ready, probably belongs to the abnormal state of the BUG, that is, the car will certainly not be so long in the normal situation.
At present, it is not possible to find out what kind of chip is used in the LucidAir car-machine system, but from the test video previously exposed by other domestic media, the cockpit SoC chip in terms of hardware is not the only criterion for determining whether the car-machine system is processed, and the start time and interaction fluency of the car-machine are also closely related to the software design level such as the underlying operating system.
But all in all, whether it is a BUG or a normal boot, LucidAir's car machine system is not a good fact, at least in 2022, a smart pure electric vehicle priced at more than 70,000 US dollars to maintain this level is not reasonable.
Playing iron also needs to be hard, and it seems that more effort is needed to kill Tesla's Lucid Motors.
Finally, let's briefly talk about other information about the LucidAir car.
There are four versions of LucidAir, the top version is priced at more than 150,000 US dollars, the comprehensive output power reaches 1111hp against the sky, the secondary top version has a maximum endurance level of 520 miles (EPA conditions), and the other four versions of the model 0-100km/h acceleration time is 2.5 seconds.
As a medium and large luxury intelligent pure electric, LucidAir body three-dimensional 4975.3 * 2198 * 1410 mm, wheelbase 2960 mm, wind resistance coefficient of 0.21cd, using 900V electrical architecture, is currently the fastest EV charging system, capable of filling 300 miles of power in about 20 minutes.
In terms of intelligent driving, the LucidAir driver assistance system uses the Mobileye Eye Q4 chip, which is equipped with a total of 32 sensors, including a Lidar of Sagitar Juchuang, which can achieve L3 level automatic driving in the future.
In October last year, Lucid Air has delivered the first batch of 520 top-mounted versions to car owners, with a guided price of $169,000, or about 1.082 million yuan...
At present, Lucid Motors has its own factory in Arizona, North America, with an annual production capacity of 34,000 units in the first phase, mainly for the delivery of LucidAir this year, and according to the Lucid Motors product plan, a pure electric SUV will be launched in 2023.