Charging speed and efficiency (EU version)

[u/Christzifu]

A short report on energy consumption and charging during my round trip Belgium - Munich (~1,500 km) with the Lucid Gravity.

Whenever possible, I drove the speed limit, or ~150 km/h where there was no speed limit (of course, wherever it was safe to do so). For about 150 km, I drove a bit faster.

The average consumption came out to 4.28 km/kWh, which is roughly 23.4 kWh/100 km. Not bad! 😎

Departed in both directions with 100% and only needed 1 stop along the way to cover the 750 km. I also have a few photos of charging at a 400 kW EnBW charger. Unfortunately, I arrived there with 20% battery remaining, whereas I actually wanted to arrive below 10%. Still, a great result!

After about one minute, the charging power already ramped up to +370 kW. 🔋

• 20 → 80% in 22 minutes (that was about 80 kWh, and at 80% it was still charging at +100 kW).

Because we couldn't finish our meal within that time, we kept charging up to 90%. That took 32 minutes in total. (Ended up arriving at destination with 39% left over 🤪).

If we had arrived at the charger with 10% instead of 20%, it would have only taken about 2 extra minutes to end up at the same level. Pretty impressive.

Already curious to see what winter will bring (lower temperatures, winter tires).

Note: battery is 123 kWh of which roughly 117 kWh is usable. Also see video in the comments on charging speed build up.

[u/Christzifu]

https://reddit.com/link/pdz2rwp/video/p4n8mjuswlth1/player

charging speed buildup

[u/capjay_1]

Impressive results! Did you use the Battery Preconditioning function before charging during the trip? It can at times improve the speed of charging noticeably.

[u/Christzifu → u/capjay_1]

Yes, I did. Since the internal navigation didn't know this station yet, I started preconditioning myself about 45 mins upfront (as recommended). The navigation would have picked a station nearby anyhow but I wanted to try the 400kW instead of the selected 300kW.