Lucid Air
Charging curve · consumption · motorway range
The Lucid Air has 112 kWh of usable battery and peaks at 300 kW on a DC charger. In this app's model it uses about 144 Wh/km at a steady 100 km/h and 207 Wh/km at 130, so 44% more energy per kilometre buys you 30 km/h more speed. Weigh that against a 27-minute 10-80% charging stop and you have the whole question of how fast to drive.
- Usable battery
- 112 kWh
- Peak DC power
- 300 kW
- 10-80% charge
- 27 min
- Average kW 10-80%
- 173 kW
- Mass, loaded
- 2360 kg
- Top speed
- 270 km/h
DC charging curve
Charging power against state of charge, on a charger fast enough not to be the limit. Peak power is 300 kW, but it has halved by about 60% state of charge. That is why a short stop low down the curve usually beats a long one near the top.
How long a stop takes
| Charge from | Time | Energy added | Average power |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10% to 80% | 27 min | 78.4 kWh | 173 kW |
| 20% to 80% | 25 min | 67.2 kWh | 162 kW |
| 10% to 60% | 15 min | 56.0 kWh | 226 kW |
| 20% to 70% | 18 min | 56.0 kWh | 189 kW |
| 80% to 100% | 36 min | 22.4 kWh | 37 kW |
The curve, point by point
| State of charge | Power |
|---|---|
| 0% | 130 kW |
| 5% | 250 kW |
| 10% | 300 kW |
| 20% | 290 kW |
| 30% | 260 kW |
| 40% | 225 kW |
| 50% | 185 kW |
| 60% | 148 kW |
| 70% | 112 kW |
| 80% | 78 kW |
| 90% | 42 kW |
| 100% | 16 kW |
Consumption and range by cruise speed
Steady motorway cruising on flat road in mild weather, from the fitted model Wh/km = 52 + 0.0092 · v². The “usable range” column is the honest one for trip planning: it is 100% down to 10%, because nobody arrives on empty.
| Cruise speed | Consumption | Range (full pack) | Usable range (100 to 10%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90 km/h | 127 Wh/km | 885 km | 797 km |
| 100 km/h | 144 Wh/km | 778 km | 700 km |
| 110 km/h | 163 Wh/km | 686 km | 617 km |
| 120 km/h | 184 Wh/km | 607 km | 546 km |
| 130 km/h | 207 Wh/km | 540 km | 486 km |
| 140 km/h | 232 Wh/km | 482 km | 434 km |
| 150 km/h | 259 Wh/km | 432 km | 389 km |
| 160 km/h | 288 Wh/km | 390 km | 351 km |
What the model does not include
- Elevation. The trip planner does account for climbs and descents; the range figures on this page are flat-road, so an alpine route will come out worse than the table.
- Temperature. These are mild-weather numbers. Cold raises consumption and cuts the charging curve. The planner models both. The numbers on this page do not.
- Wind, rain, roof boxes, payload and tyre choice, all of which move real consumption more than most people expect.
- Charger-side limits. The charging times above assume the site can deliver whatever the car asks for. A 150 kW cabinet shared with the car next to you will not.
Where these numbers come from
Approximated from published EPA figures and fast-charge tests. American cars are rated on the EPA cycle rather than WLTP, and the consumption fit here is a motorway fit, so it will not reproduce an EPA range figure — that is the point, since EPA combined understates a 120 km/h cruise badly. A 900 V pack and the most efficient car here: the combination that pushes the optimum cruise speed to the top of the sweep.
What speed should you actually drive?
It depends on your route, on where the fast chargers happen to be and how the legal limits fall. Plan the real trip and the simulator will sweep every cruise speed against this car's curves and tell you which one arrives first.
Plan a trip in the Air