I saw blog and social media posts using the following article to bash EVs as useless: What Happens When Your 446-Mile Lucid Air Runs Out of Range? We Didn’t Expect This (motortrend.com)

Did any of them read the article? From the comments, none of them read the article.

MotorTrend INTENTIONALLY ran it down to 0% to see what would happen. They intentionally ignored the EV’s warnings that battery capacity was nearing empty.

Basically, it is a stunt that social media / YouTubers do with their EVs – for no particular reason other than it seemed fun to them.

They then found difficulty immediately getting access to a charger.

The Lucid Air’s charging partner is Electrify America, perhaps the worst EV charging network – notorious for broken, non-working chargers – relying on the CCS standard, which almost all EV makers are abandoning by late 2024 to 2025 and switching to NACS instead.

The test was done in California, which has almost half of all EVs in the nation – many of which need access to CCS chargers – which again, are often broken.

This nonsense passes for “automotive journalism”.