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if electric cars are the future then luxury electric cars are the future of luxury right hey what's up guys I'm kitty HD here and I spent today with a completely unreleased future electric car called the lucid air and the team behind it to take the closest look at it yet and just to learn what the deal is with this car and the future of electric cars and I learned a lot now we're already familiar with Tesla and what they make and how that works you can check out my videos about them if you haven't already lucid err claims to be in a lot of ways kind of similar to that but with a few tricks of the police so the exterior is pretty familiar all the way from the miniature sized mock-ups all the way to the life-size one to one clay models they showed me it has its own unique look you could say it's not a hatchback so it looks a lot more like a big sedan than a crossover and they do their best to look a little more modern I think too extreme but it's a little sleeker the mirrors on the sides are a little smaller a little sleeker looking the low profile wheels kind of remind me of the BMW i8 how the door handles are completely embedded in the doors with push to unlock and there is extra lights around here and there even bar headlights and tail lights one of the most eye-catching features actually from the promo video those headlights groundbreaking technology we're actually not motorized in the prototype that we got to use which made me sad basically I can only cross my fingers that who knows maybe it'll actually make it to the final version but the exterior as clean as it is is definitely not the reason people are interested in the lucid err that would be the interior one of the biggest complaints with Tesla actually is the interior just doesn't feel luxury enough for some people I mean it was never a problem for me but the other people coming from you know BMWs and high-end Mercedes and Porsches were actually kind of disappointed with the interior of the Tesla and pointed at that as being one of the biggest flaws for the price lucid air is really attacking that luxury feel 100% they're going all out with material choices the layout of the displays the look and feel of everything - overall make the experience of sitting in the car especially in the backseat as dope as possible the first of all inside as the driver of front naturally you have a lot of control at your fingertips so as soon as you sit in the driver's seat you have three displays surrounding you a touchscreen all the way up to the left with a bunch of vehicle controls the heads-up display right behind the steering wheel with the most important information like your speed and the battery percentage or maybe possibly the most beautiful charging indicator status I've ever seen and then another touchscreen to the right of that with smart systems things like navigation and contacts etc it kind of makes sense that a high-tech vehicle from the future has this many pixels laid out in front of you but they seem smartly laid out and they have the features that are sort of complementing each other in the right spots in the car and on top of all of that there's another touchscreen a center console where you can display navigation info and third-party apps and all kinds of stuff like that but it's a little down and out of the way so you can hide it at any time with a push of a button that actually reveals more center storage so seems to be a pretty solid balance between physical controls and touchscreen controls for things that you do with the vehicle everyday from the front seat and then the second thing you'll notice as a driver or anyone in the parentheses is the windshield it is awesome it reminds me of what Tesla did with the Model X the glass stretches basically from the hood right up all the way over your head to behind you so it's just one big pane of glass so it's just light flooding in you can see everything it's kind of how the Lucid air got its name it creates a very open airy experience where you can see all around you and I guarantee that when this car is driving itself in a couple of years they'll be that much cooler just looking around it'll be a lot of fun to be a passenger but there are some differences between this and the Model X first off is that t column down the middle that you can see that holds an LED light strip is the ambient light and the rear-view mirror and the Sun shades and a second thing a switch for the electrochromic shading that will tint the ceiling from nearly transparent all the way to almost completely opaque now unfortunately this is also still in development and they couldn't show it to me working but it seems to me that that would be really cool and also really expensive if you ever got a crack in your windshield but either way it's awesome to be able to look up at any time and the weight is transparent you can see you know not just the clouds but even skyscrapers when you're going through the city or the stars and light since it's completely clear really cool stuff to be sitting in the front seat of the car and then you get to the backseat and that is where it gets real the backseat of the Lucid air is these jet like bucket seats with tons of legroom and Headroom with all that glass over your head still it just keeps sweeping back and the premium materials and the armrest and vents are all still there you even get your own little console in the middle with climate control and seat recline controls and on top of that this isn't just your average seat back recline this is like you're not gonna want to call Shotgun in this car you're going to want to sit in the back seat these back seats recline way back so so far back it kind of feels like a lie flat on an airplane when you're all the way back you're just kind of looking up at a clear pane of glass so you can sit back and basically just stare at the sky for a long car ride as a passenger that definitely feels like the future the biggest sacrifice for the seats this far back is definitely the trunk space for the size of the car and all its advantages maybe has one of the smaller trunks I've ever seen in a large sedan but lucid also does have a regular bench backseat version of this car that feels a little less luxury but gets a lot of the trunk space back so you know a little bit of a fair trade there that will probably sell a lot more in the US and there's also a sizable front trunk in this car that's a lot bigger actually than the one that's in the Tesla as well so there's a lot of cool stuff going on for the Lucid air as an idea and as a product the fact that this company lucid motors exists and is making a statement like trying to make a product like this is really interesting to me whether it actually comes out or not it sheds a lot of light on what it looks like people are going to want from a car in the future which doesn't just have to be a good driving car but also has to be a good ride-sharing car and a good self-driving car etc so it's silent huge spacious open airy high-tech and oh by the way happens to have a thousand horsepower and ridiculous performance because electric cars can do that nice so what do you think is this the future of luxury I know I'm not against it and I'm definitely rooting for companies like this to succeed to be able to provide competition and make what we already have gets better so let me know what you guys think of the air thanks for watching this one I'll talk to guys the next one peace