Recent content by Berserker

That sounds overly pessimistic. I haven't seen any data backing that up. Reputable car magazines report that batteries in the older Teslas have maintained 90% of their capacity after a decade. I have seen some people buying old Nissan Leafs with toasted batteries, but Leafs have no systems...

>Rivians are pretty solid off road and great EVs. Yeah, I've heard some pretty good things about them. But I play way out in the middle of nowhere in West Texas. I plan gasoline stops out there. I'm not taking an EV down to Big Bend. And the stuff I do is rock crawling. I'm not sold on...

Update: 6 weeks and 1,508 miles into ownership of my '25 Lucid Air Pure RWD. I'm becoming a believer. Not necessarily in Lucid, but in EVs in general. I'm not totally there yet, but I am closing in. Home Charging FTW The Big Thing was that I finally got my home charger. I had to charge on...

Spotted: San Antonio, Thursday 05/08/25. A little after 5:00 PM on 1604 a little north of I-10, outside the Air Force Base. White/Rift 4BW. You on here, brother? I was on my way back to Houston in my Lucid Air Pure. Also had a false alarm outside the base on my way in to San Antonio. An...

I first went to Bayway SW around around March of 2022 to inquire about a 4BW. They told me they sold them for $25k over sticker. I walked. The following month I ordered one for MSRP from Sewell-Houston.

As a newbie driver in the early 1980s, I once locked myself out of my car. Since then I have always kept a car key on my key ring as a spare. I grabbed another key to actually drive with. I've occasionally left a key in my ignition over the ensuing decades, but always had the spare on my...

That behavior has kept me from locking myself out of my car for many decades. That said, what I am doing now is keeping the credit card sized alternate "key" in my wallet as a backup, and only grabbing the fob when driving the car. I also found that there is a middle-ground of door automation...

Negatives Lots of the tech feels gimmicky. It has like 3 times the screen real estate that the Blackwing has, and shows 1/3 the info. Then again, in an EV I don't need to show oil temp, oil pressure, coolant temp, and trans temp. The keyless entry sucks. It's either too much automation...

To get all the discounts I had to take a vehicle that was already built and assigned to Houston. My preference was the 19" wheels in the Stealth (dark) coloring, but they were not available. I had to choose between shiny 19s and dark 20s. The dark 20s look way, way better- especially with...

Picked it up today! 2025 Lucid Air Pure Single-motor, RWD. 430 hp, 406 lb-ft. Rated for 372 miles of range on these optional 20" wheels. It would be 420 miles on the stock 19" wheels. Car and Driver got 0-60 in 4.3 seconds and the 1/4 mile in 12.6 seconds. 4500-ish lbs.

I want to thank everyone who contributed to answering my questions and giving feedback. After much consideration, I decided getting a 3rd vehicle at this point in my life was absolutely dumb. Especially one from basically a startup that delivered only 10k cars in its 3rd year of production...

Toyota didn't admit it had a problem until the engine had been in production for 2 years; years that were full of problems for owners. Some owners experienced an engine failure, then had their engine replaced, and then had their replacement engine fail. The forums were full of these stories...

They will absolutely hard sell you on dealer add-ons at closing. Window replacement insurance, all kinds of stuff. Just stay firm with saying "No". Do not waver. Don't get upset. Just power through it.

Yeah, the standard for these 14-50 outlets is 50A breakers for the 40A continuous load. In one video I saw online, a woman's professionally-installed 14-50 was a non-EV-rated outlet on a 60A breaker. The wiring was also of a type that was not recommended, but the terminology they used was...

Yeah, a high quality outlet is needed. And besides that, the installation itself needs to be top notch. People have had problems from the outlet not being up to the task, being put on the wrong breakers (60A vs 50A), and the wrong gauge wiring being used. Basically, practices that were...