2025 Lucid Air Pure Falls Short Of EPA Range In 70 MPH Range Test

A Lucid Air Pure with 19-inch wheels was pushed at a continuing 70 mph to see its freeway vary.
It achieved 365.6 miles earlier than its battery meter went to 0% and it began reducing energy.

Lucid goals to create the world’s best electrical autos that maximize your mileage per kilowatt hour. The Air Pure, the bottom model of its sedan, is essentially the most frugal automobile Lucid at the moment produces. Regardless of lowering its battery capability for 2025, it managed to realize an additional mile of EPA vary.

That’s because of fixed incremental enhancements in effectivity. Lucid has managed to get the Air Pure to journey 5 miles for each kilowatt-hour used (with out factoring in charging and different losses). That’s higher than some other car of its dimension, and it beats most smaller EVs, too. Lucid gave the 2025 Air Pure a smaller 84 kWh battery pack (down from 88 kWh in 2024), however its EPA vary went up from 419 to 420 miles thanks partly to the addition of a normal warmth pump for all mannequin variants, together with the Pure.

Even when the Air Pure can’t fairly match the 5 miles per kWh determine in real-world driving circumstances, it comes shut. Tom Moloughney put the brand new Air Pure by means of the 70 mph freeway vary check for his channel State of Cost, and it posted some outstanding numbers.

He was in a position to drive the automobile for 365.6 miles always at 70 mph, utilizing 83 kWh of energy within the course of. This interprets into a median effectivity of 4.4 miles per kWh. Tom pulled off the freeway after precisely 360 miles with the automobile exhibiting 1% left in its battery, and he continued to drive it for one more 5 miles earlier than lastly plugging it in at 0%—the previous couple of miles weren’t performed at 70 mph as a result of it was not pushed on the freeway and it decreased energy.

Reaching over 360 miles continues to be a reasonably good efficiency for the Air Pure. It’s not typically that an EV matches its EPA vary whereas driving at a continuing 70 mph when the EPA vary consequence is definitely for blended driving circumstances, together with slower city driving, nevertheless it does occur often.

The Pure stands out as the best model of the Air, nevertheless it doesn’t have the longest vary. That distinction goes to the Air Grand Touring, whose bigger 118 kWh battery offers it an EPA vary score of 516 miles. When Kyle Conner put it by means of the 70 mph vary check and drove it till it died, it stopped after 523.7 miles, exceeding its EPA declare, though we don’t suggest driving your EV till it stops as a result of that may doubtlessly be harmful.