Our author Andy Reid is driving a Lucid Air for his time in Arizona for public sale week, you possibly can observe the third a part of his journey right here.

It’s day 4 driving the Lucid Air at Arizona Public sale week and the day began with driving over to the RM Sotheby’s public sale for the ultimate few hours of the pre-auction preview.

After a couple of hours of spending time with pals and taking a look at a couple of vehicles, it was time for my bidding to start.

I ended up bidding on three vehicles, and ultimately left with none of them. This was okay as whereas the consumer I used to be bidding for favored a couple of, he didn’t fall in love with any of them. So, ultimately I used to be not sad with the outcome. The vehicles we bid on had been the 1953 Chrysler Particular coupe by Ghia, the 1969 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, and the 1971 Iso Grifo.

Of the three, the one which bought for essentially the most was the 1969 ZR1 Corvette Convertible with a closing worth of $3,140,000. This can be a staggering quantity for a C3 Corvette street automobile and is an absolute world report for any road-going Corvette.

I spent your entire day on the public sale and afterwards needed to take the Lucid to get a cost as a consequence of setting it at dash mode too ceaselessly.

I went to the closest Electrify America charging station and waited to cost the automobile. I did this as a result of all Lucid vehicles have a deal for no price charging at Electrify America, they usually even have quick charging which the Lucid helps.

After I received to the charging station, I bumped into the crew from Lucid coming from Barrett-Jackson the place they’d a check drive occasion. I met Invoice who assisted me with the way it all labored and defined a couple of issues about car charging.

The very first thing is that the Electrify America charging stations aren’t properly laid out to maximise the charging of vehicles. Somebody there wants to take a look at a contemporary fuel station and mannequin these after these.

Second, one thing that had puzzled me once I first charged the Lucid Air a couple of days earlier than was the charging price. I do know that the Air can help 150amp charging, however once I used the fast charger, it assorted in output. I believed initially I used to be doing one thing unsuitable, nevertheless it seems that the chargers can range quite a bit of their output, even throughout the cost. It was good to know this as I had anticipated it taking a lot much less time than it truly did to cost the automobile. Beneath optimum circumstances with an ideal circulation of present it expenses fairly quick, however my automobile, which was at 21%, ended up taking round 45 min to cost to 80%.

The crew from the Lucid check drive occasion requested me how I favored the automobile, and I informed them intimately all the things I favored in regards to the automobile, the efficiency, consolation, and total really feel. I additionally informed them that I truthfully really feel that the Lucid Air is the best high quality American automobile constructed right now, no matter price. The match and end, supplies, and really feel of high quality truthfully places each different American automobile producer to disgrace. It equals, and someday surpasses, even the most effective European producers. The large three all must get a Lucid Air to make use of as a measuring stick for what glorious construct high quality is.

After charging the automobile, I ended up having a dinner at a Circle Ok on the best way residence. Public sale week is usually that glamorous. The Circle Ok did have a cool machine that scans your objects with a digital camera and then you definitely merely faucet your card. It was not in a position to determine what my sizzling canines had been, however the drink labored. After the gourmand meal I headed again to the resort to be prepared for public sale day at Bonhams the following morning.

The day ended after the cost with 180 miles pushed, no points, and 392 miles left on the battery at 80% cost. You’ll have to wait till the ultimate check day for the efficiency components of the story, however it’s well worth the wait.