EV Road Trip Race! Lucid Air vs Tesla Model S vs Porsche Taycan - Race To Vegas Return

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Crazy how much station knowledge you need just to drive the Lucid

So if you have CCS, you do your homework, research all the chargers, read the forums, and push it to the limit, then it's a coin flip between losing to the Tesla by a few hours, and losing to the Tesla by a few minutes.

CCS charging is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Truly one of the most fun adventures I’ve done, huge shoutout to both Kyle and Ryan for optimizing every last bit of juice these cars had making this a epic race! What a freakin blast this was!

Kyle: AHHH FULL SEND; Colton: AHHH DONT WANT TO SHARE POWER; Ryan: It’s like an angry frog hahah; I f***ing loved this video.

I CANNOT believe I just spent THREE AND ONE HALF hours of my life watching this! I kept thinking I’d fast forward to the end. But as you all exclaimed over and over and over and over again and again, it was “freakin’ epic!” Bravo!!!

I really hope they do this race again once all of the EVs can all use the Tesla charging network.

2:30:53 this is the moment Kyle fumbled in his own end zone. You can see how gutted he is that he miscalculated which charger is at Frisco. This really shows how passionate Kyle is about what he does. Bravo Kyle. It is really hard to optimize charging like you do.

Probably the first time I watched a YouTube video that was 3 and a half hours long without skipping forward.

Now a race to Vegas in reverse would be interesting……… backing up all the way would give the reversing cams a work out!

I’d like to test the route planner and make a rule that you have to do what it recommends. That’s the way normal people will use them. Most people don’t have the specific expertise your team does.

This is a fantastically fun video. Can't believe I just watched it all at 2* speed which made it seem even more frantic 🤣

For me, one of the best aspects to this video was the cooperative competition instead of cut-throat competition. This made it far more enjoyable.

1350 Miles in 24 hours in a 2018 Model 3 AWD LR. We got the call, my mom was in hospice, only a few days to live. After a couple of bad overnight drives, we have always stayed at hotel. We decided this trip warranted an over night drive. The Model 3 and the supercharger network performed flawlessly. The two things that stood out was autopilot and how comfortable the seats where for the passenger to sleep. We averaged 57 MPH. It was mostly in the Northeast and the Midwest, where the speed limits are 65-70 versus 75-80 for the race. The faster speeds might change the average speed.

Ganapathy is the real winner.

I think you are doing a fantastic job of teaching EV owners that you can reach places with less than 5% rather than the human tendency to start panicking at 20%, However, in the real world, almost nobody has your deep knowledge of volts, amps and watts in relation to charging speed, miles/kw, kw/mile etc etc. Not every journey is a Cannonball run and not every driver has the colossal breadth of your knowledge of which chargers work how etc.

The whole intro speech is about being worried about charging

The fact that you all made this video with such passion and posted it is proof that EVs are not ready for prime time and gasoline powered cars are still king now and for at least the next decade.