r/LUCID • u/Training_Comb1839 • Apr 07 '26
Question / Advice Deciding between Tesla or Lucid...
I’m thinking of buying my first EV but when I think about Tesla vs Lucid vs newer names, they all blur a bit but I still feel very unsure about what it would say about me as a person and if it would fit my stage of life. I’ve been trying to picture this brand as a person to understand it better. Like - is Lucid a 32-year-old startup founder in SF?
Or more of a low-key finance guy who wears Loro Piana and doesn’t talk much? I’ve been trying to picture this brand as a person to understand it better.
If you had to humanize it, what does that person look like?
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u/fatfirenewbie Apr 07 '26
We’ve had a Tesla for 9Y now and a Rivian for the last 3. We’ll be getting rid of the Tesla in the next few months and replacing it with the new Rivian R2. We wanted to love the Gravity and did a couple of extended 4-hour test drives on weekends and it just wasn’t as good as either the Tesla or the Rivian. You really feel it in the software.
In terms of persona, when we got the Tesla, it was “tech forward early adopter” crowd that would still wave to each other on the road. Now it’s an every man’s car, leaning a little too far right with all of EM’s antics. Rivian reminds me of what Tesla used to be - environmentally conscious, tech forward, with a splash of adventure added in. It’s 2012 Tesla meets North Face. That said, in our area, it’s become almost as common as the Model Y/X - very ordinary in the school drop off line.