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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Peter Frank as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast.
Peter told me, “I'm not sure there is a standard Lucid owner, but if there is, I'm probably not that guy. I'm 49. My last car was a 2005 Toyota Corolla with 200k on the odometer, and I'm an Anglican priest. I live in Northern Virginia with my family where I lead a mid-sized church. I ended up getting a Lucid after deciding that my next car would be electric. My assumption was that it would probably be a Tesla, or possibly a Kia. But before it was time to make a decision a few things happened. First, I started reading about this obscure company I had never heard of called Lucid and watching some videos online about their technology which really impressed me. Second, a good friend of mine with a Kia had to Lemon-law his vehicle after a nightmarish ownership experience. Finally, it became clear that Elon Musk was going to try to fire half of my neighbors here in Northern Virginia, making getting a Tesla in January of 2025 more of a political statement than I was ready to make with my car.
The Air is my first electric car, but I've owned a lot of different vehicles over the years. I have a bit of a weak spot for uncommon cars built by smart people. My parents and then my wife and I owned Saabs for a while. Saabs probably are what gave me an openness to the "work smarter, not harder" form of auto design. I just loved our 9-5 with its compact turbo-charged engine and great interior packaging (kind of like a Lucid in that way). I do of course hope Lucid has a brighter future than Saab did in the end—but I'm happy to throw General Motors under the bus for killing them.
Getting an electric car was in a way a reaction to the polarization of opinion about electric vehicles over the last few years. It seemed to me like people's politics were causing them to have strong, but uninformed opinions about the technology. That seems like the wrong way to go about things. So, instead of having my opinions shaped by which side I thought I was on, I decided it was time to, you know, actually try one out for myself and see. A year in, I'm convinced electric cars are the future and they ought to be the present. I've driven my Air to where I grew up in rural northern Minnesota with zero issues. I love how quiet, smooth and efficient it is. I love charging it in my garage instead of having to go to a gas station.
One last thing, I've loved going fast and the technology that makes it possible since I was 14 and got my first snowmobile. Lucid scratches that itch 35 years later.”
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