It was a typical Saturday for Kevin Cordova, an EV enthusiast who owns both a Tesla and a Lucid Air. He’d woken up, eaten breakfast, and lazed around the house to unwind. Finally, when it came time to run some errands, he opted to take his Lucid. Except… It wasn’t there.

His instincts told him to check the security cameras, and lo and behold, he saw the thief “door-checking” the Lucid. Because he accidentally left the keys in the car, the thief was able to start it and quietly drive away. Thanks to the trove of technology that comes with a Lucid, he was able to track it through an app.

“Within just a couple of minutes of realizing it had been stolen, I remembered that my car is trackable in the Lucid app. It showed it was parked in front of someone’s house about three miles from my house,” he wrote in a Lucid Motors Facebook group. “Well, I jumped in our minivan and skirted over there.”

On his way to the thief’s house, he called the police. The dispatcher said they might send an officer but couldn’t give a timeline—still, he wasn’t about to trust the thief’s intention with the Lucid.

“My thought was that the car could be gone by then, and even though I would still be able to track it, I’m not sure I would get it back in one piece, or at all. I was just sitting there,” he continued.

Cordova pulled the reverse Uno card on the Lucid thief

Without a second thought, he hung up the phone and, with the spare key in hand, approached the thief’s home. First, though, he was wise enough to try and secure some evidence.

“I knocked on a neighbor’s door explaining what had happened, and asked if I could park my van in front of her house for a bit while I went and stole my car back. She asked if I wanted her to record it, and I said, ‘Sure!’ It was quiet outside with no activity, it was the moment to act,” he explained.

Lucid EVs are able to sense someone approaching, and after it detects the key, it unlocks itself. Cordova noticed that the car locked itself again, and he assumed the thief was trying to lock him out from inside the house. Cordova tapped the keys again and climbed into the driver’s seat.

He says he’s parking the EV in the garage from now on

Cordova gathered security footage of the theft, tracking data, the thief’s address, and video from a neighbor—then filed a police report.

“I gave them ALL the info I had,” he continued. “If these idiots are caught, they face grand larceny charges. It’s crazy that they didn’t think for a minute that this type of car couldn’t be tracked easily,” he wrote.

The only “damage” was a low battery, but it told him the thieves had spent plenty of time driving his Lucid. So, it’s in the garage, and he’ll never leave the keys in it again.