Watercraft are inspected when crossing the continental divide, particularly in states like Montana, to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS) like zebra and quagga mussels, which can easily hitchhike on boat hulls and in bilge water, potentially damaging ecosystems in new bodies of water if not properly cleaned and inspected; this is considered a key preventative measure to protect native aquatic life across different watersheds.
It's an annoyance, but a necessary one. I will say I got delayed at a WY checkpoint because they didn't have a record of the existence the major reservoir I had my kayak in last, and they refused to simply Google it. Not exactly the brightest bulbs working at these stops. But those zebra muscles are no joke.
I think Lucid air is kool. It delivers a range of 500 to 516 miles of range. One thing. The Lucid air cost all but 100K. My car is paid off at 41K and delivers 570 miles of range. If Lucid air ever comes down to about 50K damn right I would buy it, immediately!!! Till then I'll keep my Jaguar XJL and simply leave more than well enough alone....
For folk wondering why it needs new tires so soon; when it was picked up in LA from Lucid at the start of the loan it went straight to a vehicle proving grounds facility where Kyle demonstrated how well it drifted. For a long time. Much smoke was had. Most of those tires was either left on the skidpad or released into the atmosphere above the skidpad... So very, very much not representative of typical tire wear.
Loving the drone footage, out of spec needs more of this in your videos, for those outside of the usa like myself we get to see a whole lot more of the difference in terrain across the USA .👍
Washington resident here and when I heard your route at the beginning of the video I cringed for you in anticipation of the I-90 west bound traffic just west of Ellensburg. This is every Sunday here in WA…
Also, loved the view of the Vantage bridge crossing the Columbia river. I grew up near there and it has been a long time since I've seen that area. Reminds me of my childhood
Man, the amount of construction and traffic jams at that bridge the past year have been frustrating. Pretty much traffic jams from ellensburg east unless you get on the road super early.
Love these road trip videos. It is the reason i first watched Kyle. Excellent music selection. That car is very quiet inside..Seems silent in there at 80mph+
In 5-10 years, when every EV out there has Lucid-like range, you'll probably be able to find some used Lucids for quite cheap. Until then, there's UA-cam.
Its kind of funny how when you guys actually do road trips a 10% challenge scenario never happens but when you do 10% challenges you always describe it as a real life road trip scenario.
That traffic is normal from Ellensburg to Snoqualmie pass. I was charging in Ellensburg and Yakima on the way to Walla Walla that same weekend. I did come back 410, though, so I avoided that I90 mess.
10:47 I got my Air GT in the early Spring of '22, one of the first. One of the most exciting parts of this car has been waking up to see that i have an OTA update waiting. Many have been "To improve update communication" or "Bug fixes", but more often than not it has been "Surprise, you now have CarPlay". OK, not those exact words, but Lucid has steadily added real and meaningful updates that improve and enhance usability. I still can't make the seats fart but I can now change lanes by signaling, run the AC for my dog or for camping, and have phone-as-a key be reliable. You asked about owner service experiences. I've had two in two and a half years. There was a recall to replace a contactor in the battery pack. Lucid called me to arrange picking up the car around my schedule and drop off a loaner. I had them adjust a hood latch that sometimes didn't fully latch on the first try. They did that and checked some other minor items. They worked with my schedule to bring the car back. Just recently I had a piece of trim on the front that was loose and a mobile tech came out and made the repair. In both cases Lucid was very professional and easy to work with. They left the car in perfect shape.
What a great road trip. So much beautiful scenery out there. ❤ I love road trips too, they're my favorite. I keep looking for places to go just so i can road trip. Lol
LOVED THE VIDEO! I just did the White Pass Route 12 just three weeks ago. It was gorgeous. Chinook Pass also. If you ever come to Tacoma in the summer again, I recommend thinking one of those two passes. Highway 18 has been under construction since 1990.
34:42 - should have got the $5 meal deal, added some fries and a drink to that McChicken, and kept them for later (road tripping for me means always taking my insulated lunchbox).
Also, you may be able to get the windshield replaced at a Auto Glass Now location... if you got that in your location... they do Lucid Windshields just call and ask if they do that... see how that process would be is a factor of rather I get the vehicle or not... but if I get the aluminum roof version of the vehicle I should be able to get that changed out faster than the open glass version... LOL
great video. I think a car camping channel is due soon. I thought Jordan was born with a hat on as I think this is the first time ever seeing him without one....
Fantastic road trip Please make a video that tells us where Lucid needs to improve like the Navigation problems and the screen viewing while charging. This video will help the community delivering those improvements to Lucid Devs. Safe travels Jordan
I take those roads between kalispell/missoula/spokane/seattle all the time for work. Beautiful scenery but you better be a competent winter weather driver when the snows come!
When i roadtrip to WA DC and PA.. i researched the charging stations along the way. Specifically the type of chargers they have and reviews that were written. Helped a lot with route planning.
@58:30 In case this is still a mystery, the "My Route" section is displaying estimated SoC arrival using the currently selected route, and the section highlighted in red is indicating insufficient range for the alternate route in the darker blue color. When the routes overlap at the end the system does not do a good job at clarifying this. It would probably be better to only show the red section/0% warning if you actually select the alternate route. Hopefully Lucid will fix this!
Awesome video! Seems you could use some more Kempowers over there! Those chargers say if it's the car or charger that is limiting, when x% is reached, draws you a charging curve which you can take with you via QR code and most importantly they work!
Jordan, great roadtrip video! Watercraft inspections are very common out west in WA, OR, ID, and MT to prevent invasive species from being introduced, the biggest concern at the moment is zebra mussels.
Best Western has been leaning into EV charging at least around Texas and surrounding states, not my favorite hotels but I’ve had good luck with their chargers and free juice for a not overpriced hotel is usually worth the slightly less high end hotel.
I’m so glad you are showing how far the EV infrastructure has come in Wyoming. I live in northwest Wyoming with a Mach-e and I can go everywhere. Cheers!
My Air GT, was the reason 2.4.10 for the GT came out. While updating to 2.4.4 my entire car updated except the the main chip, and then it bricked. When the jump the battery failed, myself and my Tech had to break into the car, which I do not recommend. Holy Cow what that a nightmare. Once in, we were on the phone with the OTA team, and flat out could not get the car to download the update. Locally we showed the car connected to the WiFi, but the OTA team didn't. They hauled the car down to Houston, and while in transit, the car started to download the update. No one knew why. My Tech and the OTA team were stunned, and frankly the only difference was that the car was in transport mode. They weighed the decision on confirming the update because the failure also caused both AGM batteries to fail, but in the end they chose to do the update since it was at their facility. It updated the main Chip, and the car fired up without issue. But they did identify a communications failure with the main chip, which lead to 2.4.10 being release. They also replaced both of my AGM's, but sadly the car suffered damage during transport, and I'm having to deal with that now. :(
Going to be test driving the Air next week. One feature I like is being able to input your destination from the phone and then transfer it directly to my Tesla. Is this possible with the Lucid app? I really enjoy your real world traveling experience with this car. I assume the Air doesn't yet have the Tesla NACS plug yet.
I've lived with an EV in Seattle for three years now, and I can attest that Ellensburg has always been a charging bottleneck. Nice to see that the Lucid has enough range to be able to skip it, as not many EVs out there do.
I would get the aluminum roof version should be a cheaper process to get that changed out cracked windshields... actually should be a stronger version of the glass v canopy version, better sound system response, quieter on the interior, and no heat soaking while driving means less use of the AC unit.... verse the glass canopy version the aluminum one should be way better option... LOL
I hope Lucid and Rivian succeed. But both are a long way away from selling 100,000 vehicles annually let alone having hit vehicle with over 100K sales in USA. Hopefully they both can get their new vehicles out soon (R2S , Gravity)
35:48 You got it right the first time. Helena, like hell-in-a (hand basket). Haven't watched the rest yet, but hope you skip Butte, because there's nothing but disappointment in Butte. They used to have old rigs throughout the city from its mining days and those were a little interesting, but they took down the last one forever ago.
Awesome car Jordan and nice to see you back in a motoring video as this is one of my two subscribed channels after Dave's channel from the OOS family. So who pays for the rock chip, new windshield, assume it's OOS as it's a press car signed over to you until return time?? Waiting for Peter to launch these outside of the US/Canada for the rest of the world to experience them. Suspect Bjorn's 1000km challenge this car will beat his favourite brand of EV.
Sadly EA doesn't seem to really care especially considering they where basically forced into existence as a punishment to Volkswagen for the diesel gate scandal I don't think they'll survive long term I think charge point and some of the other charges Providers will end up putting them out of business at this rate
You know you still have to clean your windshield, right? That’s one thing charging stations don’t have. The other two are Corn Nuts and crappers. Those pressure sprayers at coin-op washes destroy paint.
He pulled you over to look at your EV. It's happened to me a couple of times when I was just going the speed of the traffic flow, and I always just got a warning.
@@joeyyung911 Speeding. Like Jordan in this video. I was going the speed of the traffic around me. I'm sure I was picked out because I was driving an EV. Happened twice. Does that explain it?
Watercraft are inspected when crossing the continental divide, particularly in states like Montana, to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS) like zebra and quagga mussels, which can easily hitchhike on boat hulls and in bilge water, potentially damaging ecosystems in new bodies of water if not properly cleaned and inspected; this is considered a key preventative measure to protect native aquatic life across different watersheds.
That explains my question when I saw a similar sign outside Las Vegas.
It's an annoyance, but a necessary one. I will say I got delayed at a WY checkpoint because they didn't have a record of the existence the major reservoir I had my kayak in last, and they refused to simply Google it. Not exactly the brightest bulbs working at these stops. But those zebra muscles are no joke.
Lucid air is just perfect. Range, comfort, space, looks. I am in love.
Looks? It’s a Camry.
@@SilkySmooveness I gather that you haven't seen one in person.
Several, probably five total.
I think Lucid air is kool. It delivers a range of 500 to 516 miles of range. One thing. The Lucid air cost all but 100K. My car is paid off at 41K and delivers 570 miles of range. If Lucid air ever comes down to about 50K damn right I would buy it, immediately!!! Till then I'll keep my Jaguar XJL and simply leave more than well enough alone....
For folk wondering why it needs new tires so soon; when it was picked up in LA from Lucid at the start of the loan it went straight to a vehicle proving grounds facility where Kyle demonstrated how well it drifted. For a long time. Much smoke was had. Most of those tires was either left on the skidpad or released into the atmosphere above the skidpad... So very, very much not representative of typical tire wear.
Typical of him (sigh). Glad I missed that.
@@billcarter5149you must be fun at parties
Your road trips are always so entertaining and insightful-great job, Jordan!
Jordan's abilities in video editing and his camera presence is so good. OOS has such a great team whose opinions I respect more than any other source.
Loving the drone footage, out of spec needs more of this in your videos, for those outside of the usa like myself we get to see a whole lot more of the difference in terrain across the USA .👍
Drone shots and music selection , perfect B-roll, Love it.
Washington resident here and when I heard your route at the beginning of the video I cringed for you in anticipation of the I-90 west bound traffic just west of Ellensburg. This is every Sunday here in WA…
That was great! Nice work Jordan! Loved all the added detail and drone shots. So cool!
Also, loved the view of the Vantage bridge crossing the Columbia river. I grew up near there and it has been a long time since I've seen that area. Reminds me of my childhood
Man, the amount of construction and traffic jams at that bridge the past year have been frustrating. Pretty much traffic jams from ellensburg east unless you get on the road super early.
Love these road trip videos. It is the reason i first watched Kyle. Excellent music selection. That car is very quiet inside..Seems silent in there at 80mph+
I wish I could afford a Lucid, but until then, I’ll live vicariously through your content! 😂 great video!
IONIQ6 is your solution! 😁😁😁😁
In 5-10 years, when every EV out there has Lucid-like range, you'll probably be able to find some used Lucids for quite cheap. Until then, there's UA-cam.
Nice shot over Vantage. Moving away from WA next year, there are definitely places I'll miss. WA born and raised.
Very well done video, thanks for the drone shots, they made the video so much better.
Its kind of funny how when you guys actually do road trips a 10% challenge scenario never happens but when you do 10% challenges you always describe it as a real life road trip scenario.
That traffic is normal from Ellensburg to Snoqualmie pass. I was charging in Ellensburg and Yakima on the way to Walla Walla that same weekend. I did come back 410, though, so I avoided that I90 mess.
10:47 I got my Air GT in the early Spring of '22, one of the first. One of the most exciting parts of this car has been waking up to see that i have an OTA update waiting. Many have been "To improve update communication" or "Bug fixes", but more often than not it has been "Surprise, you now have CarPlay". OK, not those exact words, but Lucid has steadily added real and meaningful updates that improve and enhance usability. I still can't make the seats fart but I can now change lanes by signaling, run the AC for my dog or for camping, and have phone-as-a key be reliable.
You asked about owner service experiences. I've had two in two and a half years. There was a recall to replace a contactor in the battery pack. Lucid called me to arrange picking up the car around my schedule and drop off a loaner. I had them adjust a hood latch that sometimes didn't fully latch on the first try. They did that and checked some other minor items. They worked with my schedule to bring the car back. Just recently I had a piece of trim on the front that was loose and a mobile tech came out and made the repair. In both cases Lucid was very professional and easy to work with. They left the car in perfect shape.
I love EVs and camping so I'm hoping to combine 'em like this someday. Fun to watch, thanks!
What a great road trip. So much beautiful scenery out there. ❤
I love road trips too, they're my favorite. I keep looking for places to go just so i can road trip. Lol
Fantastic road trip video Jordan!
Quality information
Sure wish FRANCIE was w/him
LOVED THE VIDEO! I just did the White Pass Route 12 just three weeks ago. It was gorgeous. Chinook Pass also. If you ever come to Tacoma in the summer again, I recommend thinking one of those two passes. Highway 18 has been under construction since 1990.
"Anyways" 😆, that was calmly entertaining 👍
I've driven this route (ICE) many times. Love to see it electric wise. Thanks for sharing the road trip Jordan. And even your pain 😂
Love these kind of road trips videos, well paced and edited
Great editing. Enjoyed it.
34:42 - should have got the $5 meal deal, added some fries and a drink to that McChicken, and kept them for later (road tripping for me means always taking my insulated lunchbox).
Nice work, Jordan.
Im so hooked on these videos! Makes me want to road trip in my 2024 i4 just to see how it does!
lucid is here to stay
GTA wasted sound on the intro was fun ! (At least funnier than being stopped by the po-po) hahaha
Also, you may be able to get the windshield replaced at a Auto Glass Now location... if you got that in your location... they do Lucid Windshields just call and ask if they do that... see how that process would be is a factor of rather I get the vehicle or not... but if I get the aluminum roof version of the vehicle I should be able to get that changed out faster than the open glass version... LOL
great video. I think a car camping channel is due soon. I thought Jordan was born with a hat on as I think this is the first time ever seeing him without one....
It's neat to see one of these that I did a pretty good chunk of the same route like 1 week earlier! (In my Ioniq 5 though. Drooling at the Lucid)
Oh man it was you. I was driving home from Seattle and I passed you on I5 near Tacoma. Great video!
A little pro tip: Truck stops have showers that cost about $10-20.
So you can clean up, maybe grab a meal while charging.
Fantastic road trip
Please make a video that tells us where Lucid needs to improve like the Navigation problems and the screen viewing while charging.
This video will help the community delivering those improvements to Lucid Devs.
Safe travels Jordan
I take those roads between kalispell/missoula/spokane/seattle all the time for work. Beautiful scenery but you better be a competent winter weather driver when the snows come!
No offense to anyone, but you are soo very much better than Kyle in demonstrating road trips. 😭
Strongly Disagree
I like them both😂
I might have seen you cruise through Spokane. I live in Spokane and saw a silver Lucid a little bit ago which are extremely rare in this area. Cool!
When i roadtrip to WA DC and PA.. i researched the charging stations along the way. Specifically the type of chargers they have and reviews that were written. Helped a lot with route planning.
That’s a sexy unit! Love that colour
@58:30 In case this is still a mystery, the "My Route" section is displaying estimated SoC arrival using the currently selected route, and the section highlighted in red is indicating insufficient range for the alternate route in the darker blue color. When the routes overlap at the end the system does not do a good job at clarifying this. It would probably be better to only show the red section/0% warning if you actually select the alternate route. Hopefully Lucid will fix this!
Thanks Jordan! This was fun.
Awesome video! Seems you could use some more Kempowers over there! Those chargers say if it's the car or charger that is limiting, when x% is reached, draws you a charging curve which you can take with you via QR code and most importantly they work!
26:45 Wait but it shows the distance to that electrify america charger to the right?
Somebody’s still rocking a Pontiac Trans Sport at 20:17
You’re in my state in this video. That’s so cool.. I’m in Yakima county (Selah Wa) 👍 about 2 hours from Seattle
Loved the video
Jordan, i'm so envious, watching this with excitement
Thanks Jordan!
Jordan, great roadtrip video! Watercraft inspections are very common out west in WA, OR, ID, and MT to prevent invasive species from being introduced, the biggest concern at the moment is zebra mussels.
ID4 managed in the high 2s mi/kWh doing similar speeds. I'd say this car is an absolute road tripping champ.
Best Western has been leaning into EV charging at least around Texas and surrounding states, not my favorite hotels but I’ve had good luck with their chargers and free juice for a not overpriced hotel is usually worth the slightly less high end hotel.
Enjoyed!
I’m so glad you are showing how far the EV infrastructure has come in Wyoming. I live in northwest Wyoming with a Mach-e and I can go everywhere. Cheers!
My Air GT, was the reason 2.4.10 for the GT came out. While updating to 2.4.4 my entire car updated except the the main chip, and then it bricked. When the jump the battery failed, myself and my Tech had to break into the car, which I do not recommend. Holy Cow what that a nightmare. Once in, we were on the phone with the OTA team, and flat out could not get the car to download the update. Locally we showed the car connected to the WiFi, but the OTA team didn't. They hauled the car down to Houston, and while in transit, the car started to download the update. No one knew why. My Tech and the OTA team were stunned, and frankly the only difference was that the car was in transport mode. They weighed the decision on confirming the update because the failure also caused both AGM batteries to fail, but in the end they chose to do the update since it was at their facility. It updated the main Chip, and the car fired up without issue. But they did identify a communications failure with the main chip, which lead to 2.4.10 being release. They also replaced both of my AGM's, but sadly the car suffered damage during transport, and I'm having to deal with that now. :(
Going to be test driving the Air next week. One feature I like is being able to input your destination from the phone and then transfer it directly to my Tesla. Is this possible with the Lucid app? I really enjoy your real world traveling experience with this car. I assume the Air doesn't yet have the Tesla NACS plug yet.
There's a 12kW station in downtown Missoula next to Adventure Cycling Association! It's expensive but great location.
He’ll ya that’s me waiting for coffee shops to open !
This car should have been a lift back, or better yet, there should be a wagon available.
Yeah the market is tiny but so is the Air sales volume.
What drone are you using these days?
I've lived with an EV in Seattle for three years now, and I can attest that Ellensburg has always been a charging bottleneck. Nice to see that the Lucid has enough range to be able to skip it, as not many EVs out there do.
at the front it looks so so much like the original very cool Celica gt4 rally car.......
Feels like this was left hanging for a part 2.....
Love the drone shots, such a beautiful drive.
47:05. Missoula is pronounced Mi zoo la. Butte is beautiful. Hope you can see it in the daytime sometime.
Our two “major” malls here in Colorado Springs are the same way - the majority of the retail spaces are empty. 😕
Hello from Golden Colorado 👋🏻
Keep the seatbelt plugged in when you want things to creep working while you're charging, sleeping, etc. works on my id.4.
55:40 its a clipper creek, its always gonna charge.
I would get the aluminum roof version should be a cheaper process to get that changed out cracked windshields... actually should be a stronger version of the glass v canopy version, better sound system response, quieter on the interior, and no heat soaking while driving means less use of the AC unit.... verse the glass canopy version the aluminum one should be way better option... LOL
Love to hear from owners about reliability
We must have passed each other because I was just coming back from Glacier in a Rivian on this same route.
Is the windshield cracked?
Do all out of spec cars have cracked windshields?
Would have loved to see butt, Montana. But it was already dark
I hope Lucid and Rivian succeed. But both are a long way away from selling 100,000 vehicles annually let alone having hit vehicle with over 100K sales in USA. Hopefully they both can get their new vehicles out soon (R2S , Gravity)
I have the same problem in my EQS with videos having no audio if plugged into CarPlay when recording. No idea why.
35:48 You got it right the first time. Helena, like hell-in-a (hand basket). Haven't watched the rest yet, but hope you skip Butte, because there's nothing but disappointment in Butte. They used to have old rigs throughout the city from its mining days and those were a little interesting, but they took down the last one forever ago.
When is the return trip coming?
Wow, another Ford (Lincoln) on 🔥 who would have guessed.
Great video. Can you go to Spokane?
Awesome car Jordan and nice to see you back in a motoring video as this is one of my two subscribed channels after Dave's channel from the OOS family. So who pays for the rock chip, new windshield, assume it's OOS as it's a press car signed over to you until return time?? Waiting for Peter to launch these outside of the US/Canada for the rest of the world to experience them. Suspect Bjorn's 1000km challenge this car will beat his favourite brand of EV.
scenery is stunning, i eat scenery :), nice luxury car, good toons
Ea needs service reps actually driving around the country to make sure each EA station is working properly..
Sadly EA doesn't seem to really care especially considering they where basically forced into existence as a punishment to Volkswagen for the diesel gate scandal I don't think they'll survive long term I think charge point and some of the other charges Providers will end up putting them out of business at this rate
You should have come to Coeur dalane downtown!
Great teaser for the big race!
26:26 - literally shows the no of miles before next stop under the manage tab
Since its electrify america,its Always Be Confused ,if its charging yet
You know you still have to clean your windshield, right? That’s one thing charging stations don’t have.
The other two are Corn Nuts and crappers.
Those pressure sprayers at coin-op washes destroy paint.
looks like you were going to run out of power in Sprague Washington. I know there are Tesla Superchargers and maybe EA stations in Ritzville.
Sure do like th way Jordan road trips-js
Maybe I missed it, but why did you go to Tacoma when your destination was Seattle? You went out of your way for that stop.
Get a Bray windshield PPF / Skin you won’t have to worry about glass cracks ever again.
He pulled you over to look at your EV. It's happened to me a couple of times when I was just going the speed of the traffic flow, and I always just got a warning.
A warning? For what?
@@joeyyung911 Speeding. Like Jordan in this video. I was going the speed of the traffic around me. I'm sure I was picked out because I was driving an EV. Happened twice. Does that explain it?
I lived in Casper for 16 years
The theme of this video seems to be lucid has a lot to fix 😂
They are fixing it.
IONNA should just go ahead and buy EA, rip out all those crappy chargers they use, and replace them all with Alpitronic and/or Kempower chargers.
The all watercraft check is to check for invasive water species. Here in BC and Alberta we have increased inforcement for several invasive species.
I was the first person to charge at that EA in Billings the day it went online; those are nice chargers.
Using nanoxidil is good for growing your hair.
Invasive species inspection. Zebra muscles on water craft is my guess.