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Lucid Motors has just shared details of its new vehicle service program called Lucid Care, along with anticipated details surrounding the warranty for new vehicles like the Air sedan. The luxury EV automaker plans to handle most maintenance through a fleet of mobile repair vans that come to you, wherever you are.

Lucid Motors has become a mainstay on the Electrek feed as it inches closer to finally delivering its flagship EV, the Air. Lucid Air’s first trim, Dream Edition, was originally scheduled to arrive this spring but has since been pushed to sometime in the second half of 2021. This delay announcement came just days after Lucid announced a merger with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp IV ($CCIV).

Since then, Lucid has remained relatively quiet on the news front, dropping tiny crumbs of new details surrounding the Air but no new timelines of when customers might see deliveries (despite our best efforts).

Up until this point, we hadn’t even known what the limited warranty would be on the Lucid Air. With today’s announcement, reservation holders now have a better idea of what sort of warranty coverage new Lucid vehicles will receive, as well as how maintenance will work.

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A Lucid service center / Source: Lucid Motors

Lucid Care will provide 24/7, 365 support

In an announcement from the EV automaker today, its new service program is called Lucid Care, offering convenience and support to drivers, wherever and however they need assistance.

That means that annual and routine maintenance can be performed anywhere, whether it’s your driveway, the parking lot at work, or the park during your child’s tee ball game.

Lucid will have a fleet of mobile vans operated by employees that are certified technicians. They can come to you when convenient, and you don’t necessarily have to be there either.

If you are hanging out watching, however, Lucid has stated that every mobile service van will come equipped with a coffee machine to serve you a hot cup of joe. For the money you’re paying for that new Air Dream Edition, they better have Fiji water, too!

If you’re the type that still pays your bills with checks in the mail each month, and you prefer to bring your car into the shop, you can still do that too. Lucid has a growing number of service centers around major cities in the US and Canada, as well as certified repair centers. Bet those facilities have a coffee machine, too.

Other Lucid Care perks

Here are some additional perks that come with Lucid’s new vehicle warranty:

  • Roadside assistance with live support available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
  • In the event that your EV is in a more serious accident, Lucid can transport your vehicle to a service center for you and can also help you get where you need to go thereafter
  • Lucid is promising over-the-air OTA updates, as well as remote diagnostics to diagnose and repair your Lucid vehicle without having to send a mobile repair van (sorry, no coffee option here)

Lucid Motor’s new vehicle warranty

In addition to announcing the perks associated with the Lucid Care service program, the company has shared details of its New Vehicle Limited Warranty. Here’s what you future owners can expect:

  • Basic Vehicle: 4 years/50,000 miles
  • Powertrain: 8 years/100,000 miles
  • High-voltage battery: 8 years/100,000 miles to 70% capacity
  • Corrosion protection: 10 years/unlimited mileage
  • Body and paint defects: 4 years/unlimited mileage
  • Supplemental Restraint System: 5 years/60,000 miles

So that’s what Lucid owners can expect when their first EV is delivered… whenever that may be.


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Matty Healy reacts to Taylor Swift’s ‘diss track’

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Matty Healy has reacted to new tracks by supposed ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift that are rumoured to be about him.

The 1975 frontman is never named in any tracks featuring on Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, but fans have assumed several references are about him.

Many have interpreted the lyrics of the first song on the album, Fortnight, to be about him, where she sings: “And I love you, it’s ruining my life, I touched you for only a fortnight.”

It’s widely assumed he’s also the subject of the track Guilty As Sin, where she sings about having “fatal fantasies” about someone from her past while in a relationship.

Fans are also suggesting the song The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived appears to allude to Healy “ghosting” her.

“You tried to buy some pills, from a friend of mine, they just ghosted you, now you know what it feels like,” she sings.

In a video circulating online, Healy was approached by a reported photographer in Los Angeles and asked how he rates his “Taylor diss track” and how he thought it compared to the other songs on the 31-track double album.

Healy, looking confused, responded: “My diss track?”

The photographer reiterated: “Yeah, Taylor’s new song?”

“Oh!” Healy laughed, adding: “I haven’t really listened to that much of it, but I’m sure it’s good.”

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Last May, Healy made a surprise appearance during the Nashville performance of Swift’s Eras tour to play with her support act, indie singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers.

Swift also sung two The 1975 songs at their London gig in February 2023.

By June last year, reports surfaced that the pair were “no longer romantically involved”, with a source telling US outlet People the relationship was “always casual”.

“She had fun with him, but it was always casual,” the source said.

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Drake ordered to delete diss track featuring AI-generated voice of Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur’s estate has threatened to sue Drake and ordered him to delete a track featuring an AI-generated copy of the late rapper’s voice.

Drake released the song Taylor Made Freestyle – a diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar – on his Instagram page on Friday, which features verses created by AI software mimicking both Shakur and Snoop Dogg.

In a cease-and-desist letter seen by Sky News’ US partner NBC News, Howard King, an attorney who represents Shakur’s estate, requested that Drake remove the track from all platforms where it is publicly available.

The letter sent on Wednesday states the Canadian rapper has until midday on Thursday to confirm he will remove it or the estate will “pursue all of its legal remedies” against him.

“Not only is the record a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights, it is also a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time,” Mr King wrote.

“The estate would never have given its approval for this use.”

The letter also outlines the estate’s “dismay” regarding the topic of the track, saying Lamar is “a good friend to the estate who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately” and that this “compounds the insult”.

In the track, the AI-generated voice of Shakur urges Lamar to respond to Drake’s previous diss track about him released several days prior, saying lines like: “Kendrick, we need ya, the West Coast saviour / You seem a little nervous about all the publicity / You asked for the smoke, now it seem you too busy for the smoke.”

Tupac was killed in 1996. Pic: Walik Goshorn/MediaPunch/IPx/AP
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Tupac was killed in 1996. Pic: Walik Goshorn/MediaPunch/IPx/AP

The letter claims the track and its popularity have created the “false impression that the estate and Tupac promote or endorse the lyrics for the sound-alike”.

Shakur’s estate is also seeking damages including all profits from the record, which has so far only been posted on Drake’s Instagram page, as well as additional damages for substantial economic and reputational harm caused.

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The letter claimed Drake’s non-consensual use of Shakur’s likeness violates Shakur’s right to publicity, an intellectual property right protecting against the misappropriation of somebody’s name or image.

Sky News has contacted representatives of Drake for comment.

The AI-generated voice of prominent rapper Snoop Dogg was also used on the track.

Snoop Dogg posted a video on his Instagram story shortly after the diss track was posted, where he said: “They did what? When? How… What’s going on… I’m going back to bed.”

The use of AI in the music industry has been the subject of heavy debate since last year, when Drake’s own voice was cloned alongside The Weeknd by the artist known as Ghostwriter.

The track was taken down from all platforms shorty after it was released in April.

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Baby Reindeer: Writer Richard Gadd tells fans to stop speculating about characters

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Richard Gadd has urged fans of his hit show Baby Reindeer to stop speculating about who the characters in his show are based on in real life.

The Netflix series is based on the real-life story of its writer Gadd, who also plays the lead character, and his warped relationship with a female stalker.

Fans have been speculating online about the identity of the stalker played by Jessica Gunning in real life (spoiler warning), as well as who another character, seen sexually assaulting Gadd in the series, is based on.

The character, played by Tom Goodman-Hill, is a TV writer who repeatedly sexually assaults Gadd’s character and supplies him with drugs.

Gadd addressed his fans on his Instagram story on Tuesday, saying: “People I love, have worked with, and admire… are unfairly getting caught up in speculation.

“Please don’t speculate on who any of the real-life people could be. That’s not the point of our show. Lots of love, Richard.”

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The show is based on the hit Edinburgh Fringe one-man stage play Gadd performed in 2019.

Gadd, who plays Donny Dunn, a character based on himself, said he didn’t expect the show to “blow up” in the way it has since its release on 11 April.

“I’m super proud of it. I really believed in this show, but the fact it’s gone so stratospheric so quickly, for such a cult, quite niche story… it’s kind of amazing. It’s clearly struck a chord,” he said on This Morning.

The writer, actor and comedian is also an ambassador for We Are Survivors, a charity which supports male survivors of sexual abuse.

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