Lucid Driver – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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Welcome Lucid fans; owners like me; aspiring owners; intrigued drivers of other EV brands. For that matter intrigued drivers of internal combustion gas powered vehicles. Future drivers who have deemed Lucid their dream car.

Beginning Monday 5/5 my new podcast, Lucid Driver premieres. Lucid Driver is a weekly audio Lucid enthusiast podcast featuring guests most weeks: mainly other Lucid owners, and occasionally EV and automotive experts speaking on topics relevant to Lucid owners/aspiring drivers. 

I am not a gear-head, so don’t expect that from me. Although, I suspect you will get your fill of that from guests I have from time-to-time. Don’t miss my first episode available at midnight eastern time on Monday May 5, and God-willing every Monday thereafter. It is a solo episode titled, “My First Car Had A Frunk, 50 Years Later, My Last Car Had a Frunk”

If you think you have a story that Lucid enthusiasts would want to hear, contact me. You can text me your contact via the podcast or email the show at luciddriverpodcast@gmail.com

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Welcome Lucid fans. I am so appreciative that you chose to join me on my premiere episode of the Lucid Driver podcast, titled “My First Car Had A Frunk, 50 Years Later, My Last Car Had a Frunk.” Now there is a bit of a riddle inherent in that title which is 100% factual. Of course, you know about my last car if you listened to my teaser episode Lucid Driver, A Podcast for Owners/Aspiring Drivers of Lucid Vehicles or have seen some of my social media posts. It is a 2025 Fathom Blue Lucid Air Touring, platinum with a glass roof and 19 inch wheels. But a car with a frunk 50 years ago? ‘What’s he talking about.’ The riddle will be easy for the OG gearheads. I’ll come back to it (don’t ask AI either!)

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. I am delighted to welcome Blaine Mathieu. I am honored a tech CEO who happens to be the owner of one of the world’s beautiful vehicles agreed to be my guest on only the second episode of Lucid Driver. 

From Blaine’s Blog: https://lucidair.info/

“Let's get something straight: I am not a professional car reviewer. (If you are looking for that, check out Dan Neil at the WSJ - he's amazing.) I am not even an amateur car reviewer - I have never published a word about cars in my life. What I am is the CEO of a Silicon Valley startup that loves vehicles. My wife is the Head of Product at a different company. Together we have owned every manner of car over the last 20 years including a Nissan 370Z convertible, a 1958 Triumph TR3A (pictured here on the website), a huge Buick Enclave, a plug-in Toyota Prius Prime, a bright green Range Rover Evoque 2-door SUV, and a bunch of things in between. The 2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring is our first fully-electric car, and I thought it would be fun to share our real-world experiences and impressions over the next few years. Enjoy!

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. I am delighted to welcome Bobby Marcus, creator of Bobby on the Air YouTube, and lucidupdates.com, a site probably every Lucid owner has visited if they know about it. As mentioned, in the process of researching my Lucid Touring purchase, I suspect that I have watched virtually every Lucid video on YouTube—many of them multiple times! I found that the videos on the channel Bobby on the Air were all very relatable, informative, and most were relevant to my personal situation. A few were more technical—at least to me a newbie—but now as an owner, I am going back to rewatch videos where I found the host to be relatable but without owning the car certain topics were not all that pertinent to me. So, I’ll be rewatching every one of Bobby’s videos.

Bobby Marcus has been a car lover since he was a kid.  He now has a 2022 Lucid Air Grand Touring with about 37,000 miles on it.  As a fairly early adopter of the Lucid, he established a website to track the OTA software updates called lucidupdates.com.  He's a moderator on the Lucid Owner's forum and has produced a few videos about the car that can be seen on his YouTube channel, Bobby on the Air.  He is a fan of electric vehicle technology and is impressed by the engineering triumph that is the Lucid Air. He wishes for a convertible roadster version and hopes that one is secretly in the works.

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. I am delighted to welcome J as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. I am so glad I caught up with Julian. You see in the process of researching my Lucid purchase, I suspect that I have watched virtually every Lucid video on YouTube—many of them multiple times! Such was the case with Julian’s content on his channel Julian’s EV Journey. There was something about Julian and his content that spoke to me. Maybe because we share a passion for similar genres of music, although Julian is a professional Composer, Synthesist, and Sound Designer for Film, Television, Video Games and other visual media and well,  I…am not. There was even an episode where Julian’s wife sat in the Lucid with him and their interaction about the car felt familiar.

So, when I decided that I would launch—pun intended—this podcast featuring Lucid owners, I knew I would reach out to Julian, and I am so glad he agreed to come on the show. Julian hasn’t updated his Lucid channel in a while, but I would urge prospective purchasers to check it out—it was instrumental for me.

From Julian’s EV Journey:

This channel is used by Julian Montgomery to follow my EV journey. I reserved my first EV which is a Lucid Air Touring in April 2022 and took delivery in March 2023. Since I’ve started diving into the world of EVs I’ve become quite the EV enthusiast. So, as I explore EVs and ultimately drive an EV I will post content aimed at helping others like me learn about EVs specifically focusing on my EV, the Lucid Air Touring.

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. Now for a Lucid story that is somewhat unique. I am delighted to welcome Josh as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. Josh’s Lucid Grand Touring first appeared in Black Rabbit, a Netflix miniseries set in the New York night club scene starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Most recently, Josh’s Lucid, appeared in the Netflix remake of the Alan Alda classic The Four Seasons, this one starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell.

Josh grew up around cars. His parents had a Model A Ford when he was young, so they went to a lot of antique car events. His first car was a Ford Model T Woody Wagon at 15 that he restored to a prize winning classic over the next five years. He drove that car from Texas to Georgia along with the A-model and then bought a 54 Chevy and trailer in Georgia and trailered the Model T up to New York to complete his move. Since that time, Josh has owned or restored multiple classics including a BMW 2002 Tii, BMW 3.0 CSI, Volvo P 1800es glass back wagon, BMW 600 Isetta (which he still has) BMW Z8 (also still has), Fiat Topolino (which he still has but in pieces) as well as a run of electric cars. Josh has two Tesla Model S performances, then his movie star Lucid Grand Touring, and are you ready for this—he has a Lucid Gravity on order.

Josh’s Grand Touring is not the first big-screen star he has owned: His Tesla Model S was used in used in Showtimes’ Billions; his BMW Z8 was used for the Sex and the City series, his BMW 600 Isetta was in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. 

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First road trip since picking up my Lucid Air Touring; Charlotte, North Carolina to Orange, New Jersey for Mother's Day to see my mom, daughters, and granddaughter‼️Follow Lucid Driver Podcast on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Let me share your Lucid story.

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. I am delighted to welcome this week Paul Grondal, creator and host of YouTube’s Life After 70 as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver Podcast. As suggested by its name, Life After 70 is about much more than just being a Lucid owner. In fact, Paul has done a lot of noteworthy things after 70. Like taking delivery of one of the worlds fastest sedans at 75. Or attaining his private airplane pilot’s license at 70. Or well into his seventies continuing to serve as CEO of the software company he founded 40 years prior.

Paul has been in the technology industry for over 40 years and founded a software company in 1984, which he continues to run today at age 77. He reserved his Lucid Air Pure in October 2021 and took delivery in April 2023. With a deep interest in EV technology, Paul developed an iOS app to calculate EV battery range, which he released in March 2024 along with a companion website, www.evrangecalculator.com, to share what he has learned with other EV owners. He also hosts the Life After 70 YouTube channel focused on his experiences owning an EV, covering topics like charging, range, efficiency, safety, comfort, performance, and more. Outside of tech and EVs, Paul discusses several matters of particular relevance to seniors seemingly with an underlying message that you are never too old. After all, he earned his pilot license at age 70.

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I am delighted to welcome this week Minsoo Pak, Lucid Air Grand Touring Owner, with a lot to say about matters relevant to us Lucid fans. You see he is an EV enthusiast with his last several daily drivers being EVs or plug-in hybrid; specifically, Nissan Leaf SL, BMW i3 REx, BMW i8 PHEV and now a Lucid Air Grand Touring. Minsoo is a car guy in general and has owned what calls several “fun” cars too—BMW Z3 M Coupe, Z4 M Coupe, 1973 BMW 2002Tii, Nissan GT-R and his current Fun Car is a McLaren 570S Spider.

Minsoo’s title is Transformation and Innovation Consultant; now I am going to let him explain what that is. I was going to just read selected arts of his bio but let me just give you an overview. This guy is brilliant! To paraphrase his bio Minsoo 

• is a Serial Entrepreneur.

• has 25 years of Advertising, Design and interactive experience with a focus on Innovation 

• is An Innovative leader bringing provocative strategy, concepts and innovation through to business results, is well known in the industry for his talent in generating big ideas that focus on creativity, usability and measurability.

 • is EV/ eMobility enthusiast

• Certified Futurist (you know I want him to elaborate on that)

In short, Minsoo is Minsoo is Fascinated by the Future and Crazy about Cars.

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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Michael Moy as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. What a story Michael has! He told me, “I retired several years ago after 30 years at various startup companies. I worked with and for Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning [the founders and original executives of Tesla] at three high tech startups. Here’s their story: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/02/06/how-tesla-was-founded-martin-eberhard-and-marc-tarpenning-tell-all.html in case this is news to you as it is to many people.

Needless to say—I was an early Tesla watcher but from afar. The idea had always been when Tesla opened a New York location—I’d try to get in. But by the time that happened Elon had fired all but one or two people I had worked with. I never did buy a Tesla though I put money down on a Model 3. The last person I knew at Tesla—ended up going to Atieva/Lucid—so I watched to see what she was doing. The Lucid Air was unveiled in 2017 at the NY auto show with a starting price of $60K. The all-glass roof and reclining executive rear seats won me over. This was the car for me. Needless to say, when the car came out at $169K in 2021—I had sticker shock for sure! I ended up ordering the Air Touring in June ‘22 and took delivery on Valentine’s Day 2023. So, 26 months and 40K miles later – I still love the car. It’s my first EV and I’ve set a very high bar for any car I buy in the future. I have been to almost all the Lucid studio and service centers from Tyson Corner to Natick and Boston Seaport. I’ve been to over a dozen lucid events and rallies. I drove from NJ to Tampa and back in 4 days. Absolutely no issues charging the car along 95. Stayed at two hotels with free chargers but otherwise all Electrify America stations. As an active member of the NJ Electric Vehicle Association I’ve attended over a dozen Drive Electric and First Responder events in NJ and PA.”

You may recall on Lucid Driver podcast Episode 6 Josh, where guest Josh discussed his Lucid Air Grand Touring appearing in the Netflix miniseries Black Rabbit, set in the New York night club scene starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Well Michael’s Air appeared as the double for Josh’s car. Josh’s car was used for the exterior shots and Michael’s car was used for the interior shots. Michael said, “I was nervous when I heard hammering and drilling when they set up the camera gear inside my car!”

Are you a Lucid owner with a compelling story to share, contact me at LucidDriverPodcast@gmail.com

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