Lucid Bought Back This Air. It Was A Software Nightmare

Lucid bought back this Air Touring after 11 months of recurring software glitches.

The car had issues with doors, cameras, audio, climate control, CarPlay, and drive settings.

Other owners have reported similar bugs, but Fenske’s Air seems like an especially bad case.

The Lucid Air has been on sale for around five years, which is long enough to expect a manufacturer to have figured out the software side of the car. Yet this Air Touring shows that even a technically brilliant EV can be undermined when basic functions, like doors, cameras, audio, climate control, CarPlay, and drive settings still don’t behave predictably.

Multiple recurring issues led Lucid to offer to buy back the Air leased by Jason Fenske from the Engineering Explained YouTube channel. Fenske had the car for 11 months, and while he says there were many things he loved about it, his time with it was a constant stream of weird software-related issues.