Range isn’t all that important if you can depend on regular charging. I am ok stopping every 3 hours but the EA charging has not proven to be reliable.
I’ve owned Tesla’s, and have zero interest in those, the Lucid is very Tesla like and I have no interest in those. The MBs look interesting and in three years when my taycan lease is over I might look at those. The only current EV worth considering is the Audi. Maybe the caddy will be good but...
I am not going to put my business on display but when leasing a 140k car you are not putting 140k on the table initially or for the life of the contract
The lucid is more like a tesla model S than a Taycan, I don't think that it will impact on the taycan. the competitor for the taycan is the audi etron which will impact on taycan rwd sales
this is nothing new, tesla has always had minimal communications with buyers regarding deliveries. they go radio silent until the car is about to be delivered. right or wrong this is how tesla does things.
there are many lower cost options with many more coming, the e-mini, the VW, the ionic are just a few that are currently available in the US, the EU has many more options, the Leaf has dropped out of the top 10 in sales over there.
my first EV was a leaf with 87 miles of range, their BMS was terrible and in a few years the battery degradation took almost 1/3 of the car's range. I think that they fixed the issue in addition until this year their fast charging was chademo only but I think that too has changed.
but the cars...
that is pure profit for the dealerships, usually you can buy such a policy right up until the original warranty expires. I would wait until then to see if you want to keep the car after having it a few years.
I'd be wary of a porsche dealer that hard sold such a policy, that is something common...