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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Daniel Plasko as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. Looking at the title of this episode you may be wondering how do I know Daniel likes to rock out? I noticed his rock & roll influenced t-shirt in a couple of the promo shots for this episode, so I asked him about it. Some of you know, especially if you are also a listener of my other podcast, The Joy of Cruising Podcast, that music is another passion of mine along with Lucid and cruising. So, Daniel’s t-shirt gave me an opening to get to know him just a little better. And Daniel will definitely discuss sound performance in the Lucid Air.  

Daniel says, “Hello Paul and fellow Lucid enthusiasts. My name is Daniel Plasko. I’m a Southern California resident based in San Diego County. I’m currently working as an athletic official as my primary job. In my free time I’m an avid ice hockey player and participate in recreational leagues in the local community. My other passions include playing the drums as well as collecting vintage percussion. Lastly, I’m also a herpetoculturist who focuses on turtle and tortoise husbandry—essentially keeping and reproducing turtles—within the framework of chelonian ecology and conservation. As a commuter and traveler throughout Southern California who was looking to own their first EV, I had one non-negotiable when car shopping; I wouldn’t purchase a vehicle with less than 300 miles of driving range. When I made the decision to purchase the Lucid Air, what I got was a vehicle that met my minimum requirement but also delivered so much more!

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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Rubin Ervin as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. All Lucid Airs are absolutely beautiful. I’m biased of course but I think it is the prettiest sedan out there. Other than colors, glass versus aluminum roof and wheels, there is little to distinguish one from another. Just a couple of weeks ago we had on the owner of a Lucid Air Sapphire. To most people eyes a Sapphire it looks very much like mine except for the pretty Sapphire Blue color. The Sapphire is $250,000 and mine is much less than half that. Nevertheless, the similarity between Lucid Air models didn’t stop Rubin from doing his best to make his Lucid especially eye-popping and not just on the exterior. He told me, “Shortly after its delivery, I customized the wheels, wrapped the exterior, and installed subwoofers. It is now very much a dream car to me.” I told Rubin, my wife doesn’t know it yet, but I am getting his rims for my car!

RUBIN ERVIN is the short guy with the big voice! He doubles as the Announcer and the Warm-up guy for the #1 game show in the country, Family Feud. Rubin started his career having the Slime of his life as a child actor for Nickelodeon Studios and later became a show host for their live shows. As his career progressed, he soon became the life of the party, MC’ing and DJ’ing shows for Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Nickelodeon Recreation, and many more. As the “Warm-Up Guy” for many shows such as The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Little Big Shots, 500 Questions, Password, Judge Steve Harvey, and many more, Rubin gets the crowd pumped and ready to have a fantastic time no matter what.

You can also hear Rubin’s voice as the announcer for many shows, including Family Feud, Showtime at the Apollo, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and America’s Got Talent.

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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Borski & Annie, Michael & Susanna Borohovski, as my guests on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. 

Susannie “Annie” Borohovski and her husband, Borski, are Lucid community veterans of over three years, but Annie just snagged the keys to her new favorite toy: a Gravity with a one-of-a-kind sparkly blue wrap that looks like it was "dipped in starlight". She's affectionately called it her “spaceship” and named it “Voyager.” The license plate, "S5 E13", is a fun little secret handshake for fellow nerds (bonus points if you get it!). While she's studying to be a licensed therapist by day, her other full-time job consists of being a serial kitten fosterer (seriously, we're talking hundreds!), a devoted dog whisperer to her impossibly cute Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Dobby, and a world-traveling adventurer with well over twenty passport stamps in just the past few years. Through all of those adventures, she's finally found her perfect center of "gravity"!

And now for the other half of this Lucid couple, Michael “Borski” Borohovski! As a Lucid community veteran and proud owner of a Lucid Air Dream Edition, he's the happy "ground control" to Annie's new "spaceship". At home, Borski is the ultimate tech wizard: he automates their entire house for fun and uses his 3D printer to solve everyday problems, from making custom board game organizers to designing the perfect Nespresso pod tray for Annie. This passion for elegant solutions isn't just a hobby, he's a seasoned software architect and MIT grad who founded the security company Tinfoil Security, leading it all the way to a successful acquisition by Synopsys in 2020. And when he's not architecting software or building companies, he's architecting signature cocktails as the resident mixologist or surprising friends with his past life as a seasoned singer. A never-ending source of curiosity, discovery, and a surprising amount of beatboxing for a software architect, being around Borski is always a breath of fresh "Air"!

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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Michael Mainetti as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. Michael, an attorney in New York about an hour and a half north of the city, took delivery of the first Lucid Air Sapphire in the Northeast in February of last year—number 34 of a limited run of 250. Without hesitation Michael notes the Sapphire is the best car he has ever owned (and he’s had a pretty impressive stable of cars to compare it to.)

I've always been into cars. Growing up, my father always had the big S class Mercedes, and then when AMG got absorbed by Mercedes it was always an S class AMG.  I think that was the beginning of my love of fast sedans, which also must have had an effect on my brother, because we have both owned several. I gravitated toward Audi and my brother toward BMW.  In 2016 I got my first RS7 and then got a new model in 2021, while my brother just got the new M5 after owning the two previous gen M5 competitions. 

I also had a 2006 300c SRT-8 which I bought new and slowly built over the years, culminating in a forged short block engine swap and twin turbo kit amongst other things, yielding just 750whp [wheel horsepower] and 780rwtq [rear wheel torque].  I sold her to make room in the garage for the Sapphire. I had never heard of Lucid until 2021 when my father mentioned them to me and told me he was going to order an Air Grand Touring, My only experience with electric cars at that point was Tesla. I had considered an S Plaid when it came out, but after seeing the build quality and feel of the car they were asking $140k after options for, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I did a cursory look into Lucid but honestly wrote it off as just another electric car startup.    

Clearly, something changed for Michael…

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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Michael Moy as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. What a story Michael has! He told me, “I retired several years ago after 30 years at various startup companies. I worked with and for Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning [the founders and original executives of Tesla] at three high tech startups. Here’s their story: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/02/06/how-tesla-was-founded-martin-eberhard-and-marc-tarpenning-tell-all.html in case this is news to you as it is to many people.

Needless to say—I was an early Tesla watcher but from afar. The idea had always been when Tesla opened a New York location—I’d try to get in. But by the time that happened Elon had fired all but one or two people I had worked with. I never did buy a Tesla though I put money down on a Model 3. The last person I knew at Tesla—ended up going to Atieva/Lucid—so I watched to see what she was doing. The Lucid Air was unveiled in 2017 at the NY auto show with a starting price of $60K. The all-glass roof and reclining executive rear seats won me over. This was the car for me. Needless to say, when the car came out at $169K in 2021—I had sticker shock for sure! I ended up ordering the Air Touring in June ‘22 and took delivery on Valentine’s Day 2023. So, 26 months and 40K miles later – I still love the car. It’s my first EV and I’ve set a very high bar for any car I buy in the future. I have been to almost all the Lucid studio and service centers from Tyson Corner to Natick and Boston Seaport. I’ve been to over a dozen lucid events and rallies. I drove from NJ to Tampa and back in 4 days. Absolutely no issues charging the car along 95. Stayed at two hotels with free chargers but otherwise all Electrify America stations. As an active member of the NJ Electric Vehicle Association I’ve attended over a dozen Drive Electric and First Responder events in NJ and PA.”

You may recall on Lucid Driver podcast Episode 6 Josh, where guest Josh discussed his Lucid Air Grand Touring appearing in the Netflix miniseries Black Rabbit, set in the New York night club scene starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Well Michael’s Air appeared as the double for Josh’s car. Josh’s car was used for the exterior shots and Michael’s car was used for the interior shots. Michael said, “I was nervous when I heard hammering and drilling when they set up the camera gear inside my car!”

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Hello, Lucid fans! I am delighted to welcome Brian Gilgeous as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver podcast. Brian is the creator of the YouTube channel EV OG. Although Brian and his family have long owned a string of EV’s, he just joined the Lucid family by acquiring a Fathom Blue Platinum Air Touring—the exact same car that I acquired at about the same time. So, I feel good about Brian form the jump!

Brian says, “I'm BrianG and I've been driving an EV since Valentine’s Day 2013 when we took delivery of "Chocolate Rain", our brown 2013 Tesla Model S 60 with rear facing seats. Since then, we've owned 10 EV's in 12+ years. At the end of May 2025, we took delivery of EV #10, "Dragonfly,”, 2025 Lucid Air Touring in Fathom Blue to replace “Storm,” our pre-owned 2018 Tesla Model S 100D. Just prior to that, we sold "Ironheart," a 2023 Volvo XC40 Recharge to Carvana for almost $10K more than we paid for it a year prior, to replace "Mystique," our Mariana [metallic blue] 2023 Fisker Ocean One. We also have "Valkyrie," our silver 2023 quad-motor Rivian R1T, “Dove” our 2016 Tesla Model X, “Red Riot,” our daughter’s Model 3, and our son’s 2025 Chevy Equinox EV.  

My intention with the EV OG YouTube channel is to SHARE our experiences as decade-long EV owners and enthusiasts, CONNECT with other EV owners, enthusiasts, or prospective owners, and continue LEARNings about EV's.”

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. I am delighted to welcome this week to Lucid Driver, Kevin Walwyn. I met Kevin on the excellent Lucidowners.com which I assume most of you are on, where he posts as DRWHO42 and first came to my attention in a thread about Long Island Lucid owners. While I spent most of my childhood in Brooklyn, I spent my formative years in Long Island and still visit my mom there. After a brief chat Kevin agreed to come on Lucid Driver and share his Lucid Air Touring ownership experience

Kevin was born and raised in Long Island, NY, and lives there with his wife and child. He works in Big Tech focusing on compliance. Lucid was his first ever EV purchase and pretty much was on the top of his list as he started to do his research for a vehicle purchase. They were coming off a couple of Acura’s—an MDX and TSX which they owned for several years and Kevin was getting frustrated with the amount of money he was paying at the pump. He wanted something different from Tesla and some of my top of mind evaluating factors were range and comfort. The Car and Driver ranking steered him to Lucid. 

From what he was told at delivery, his Cosmo Silver Lucid Air Touring delivered December ’22, was the first in NY. Kevin told me, “I generally my vehicle any chance I get for routine errands to some road trips. I have the Lucid Level 2 home charger and I charge at least once a week. My electric bill has gone up on avg $20-25 per month. I am semi-active on Lucid owners forum under the name DRWHO42 and have been to a few events locally—most recently the Gravity launch in NYC. I am active on Twitter and Bluesky under the same name. I try to give Lucid a signal boost in between my retweets of fun posts related to the entertainment industry.”

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. I am delighted to welcome this week’s guest on Lucid Driver Podcast.  Bassem, a passionate Lucid Air Touring owner I met on Lucidowners.com. Bassem can offer insights about the Lucid Air that come from a unique perspective versus that of most of us Lucid owners. He uses his Lucid Air as a limousine and spends the majority of his time in his Lucid Air as a professional Limo Driver. However, that’s not the only unique perspective that Bassem can speak from. 

Bassem says, “I am a firm believer in Lucid from several perspectives. I am always eager to find relevant content especially since you are a seasoned Podcaster, you know there is an audience that is eager to learn more beyond press releases from real people sharing their content. I do share your passions as I have arrived at a similar conclusion to you. My journey with EV's began in 2013 when I purchased a Tesla Model S. Naturally, it was a revolutionary new vehicle platform back then and I have enjoyed it. Since then, I have driven multiple EV’s, so my opinions have had time to mature and for me to understand the nature of driving, owning and taking the time to enjoy an EV. Being also a former Tesla employee working on Battery Systems, it did not take long for me to recognize once Lucid released their Vehicle Architecture alongside actual battery and motor components, that they really took the time to design functional pieces of art that propels the Air. 

Bassem says, “On the ride home, it would be safe to say, that from Motown to Al Green to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes make a regular appearance. The ride home is always challenging one, as you realize you've been running on an adrenaline high for the past 10 plus hours, along side all the different conversations and personalities encountered. So, it's a time to roll down the windows and engage Drive Assist!”

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I am delighted to welcome this week Minsoo Pak, Lucid Air Grand Touring Owner, with a lot to say about matters relevant to us Lucid fans. You see he is an EV enthusiast with his last several daily drivers being EVs or plug-in hybrid; specifically, Nissan Leaf SL, BMW i3 REx, BMW i8 PHEV and now a Lucid Air Grand Touring. Minsoo is a car guy in general and has owned what calls several “fun” cars too—BMW Z3 M Coupe, Z4 M Coupe, 1973 BMW 2002Tii, Nissan GT-R and his current Fun Car is a McLaren 570S Spider.

Minsoo’s title is Transformation and Innovation Consultant; now I am going to let him explain what that is. I was going to just read selected arts of his bio but let me just give you an overview. This guy is brilliant! To paraphrase his bio Minsoo 

• is a Serial Entrepreneur.

• has 25 years of Advertising, Design and interactive experience with a focus on Innovation 

• is An Innovative leader bringing provocative strategy, concepts and innovation through to business results, is well known in the industry for his talent in generating big ideas that focus on creativity, usability and measurability.

 • is EV/ eMobility enthusiast

• Certified Futurist (you know I want him to elaborate on that)

In short, Minsoo is Minsoo is Fascinated by the Future and Crazy about Cars.

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Hello, Lucid fans! This is Paul. I am delighted to welcome this week Paul Grondal, creator and host of YouTube’s Life After 70 as my guest on this week’s Lucid Driver Podcast. As suggested by its name, Life After 70 is about much more than just being a Lucid owner. In fact, Paul has done a lot of noteworthy things after 70. Like taking delivery of one of the worlds fastest sedans at 75. Or attaining his private airplane pilot’s license at 70. Or well into his seventies continuing to serve as CEO of the software company he founded 40 years prior.

Paul has been in the technology industry for over 40 years and founded a software company in 1984, which he continues to run today at age 77. He reserved his Lucid Air Pure in October 2021 and took delivery in April 2023. With a deep interest in EV technology, Paul developed an iOS app to calculate EV battery range, which he released in March 2024 along with a companion website, www.evrangecalculator.com, to share what he has learned with other EV owners. He also hosts the Life After 70 YouTube channel focused on his experiences owning an EV, covering topics like charging, range, efficiency, safety, comfort, performance, and more. Outside of tech and EVs, Paul discusses several matters of particular relevance to seniors seemingly with an underlying message that you are never too old. After all, he earned his pilot license at age 70.

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