- Oh, I'm getting nervous. Absolutely no shoulder on
either side of the freeway. How many miles range does this
car have after seven years? We're gonna figure it out. That's not good. (upbeat electronic music) This is our 2017 Tesla Model X. It has 105,000 miles on it. So when we bought this, it had 295 miles that it
said was the max range. I remember, one time, we
did get that above 300 once or twice. One of the questions that people have when it comes to electric
cars, especially Teslas, is how much range do you lose over time just by owning and driving the car? We've done all the driving in it. Yes, we took some road trips early on, but mostly, over the
last three or four years, this is my wife's car, and she drives it solely to
drive the kids around town. This is the wall outlet that I
have here in our rental home. And if you look inside of here, we have "240 miles" and
"Charging Complete." "Charging repeatedly
beyond daily driving needs will shorten battery life. Would you like to lower
the charging limit?" So definitely not recommended
to charge your car to all the way full all the time unless you're doing a road trip. But today is a road trip. Charge complete. Now, you can see right here, it does look like there's
a little bit extra in the battery pack. So I don't know if it's just,
like, protecting the car by not charging it completely full because the battery pack's old, but 240 miles is the
estimated range in here. Now, my experience with this car is that we never get what's promised. We get way less. And part of it might have to
do with these big rims on here. These are the ones that
came with it originally. I think they're 22 inches, but then we also got two
sets of free rims from Tesla for doing referrals back in the day. That was one of the rewards that they had for the early Tesla adopters like me. So let's unplug this car right now. Boom. Unplugged. Goodbye, little charger cable. As I'm filming this,
it's almost Christmas, and somebody really cool... Thank you, Renee from Sacramento, for buying this 22-ounce
signed water bottle. It's tight to Christmas
as of filming this video, but I think we're gonna
be able to make it. So that's my plan. I'm gonna stop by the post office, ship this last-second water bottle, and then we're gonna
drive 70 miles an hour, no faster, on the highway. I'm gonna drive toward Las Vegas. Now, if you look outside, other than that tractor
over there, there's no wind. It is a nice day. (cow mooing) I heard a cow. It's 55 degrees, so the battery is not going
to have too much strain on it. (window squeaking) Yeah, my window whistles
every time, sounds like a cat. So I think this is gonna
be a very fair test of what this battery can do. All right, now this is the tricky part. The speed limit's 75 miles an hour, but most people go like 80. Definitely 80, and a lot of
people go 85 miles an hour. So going 70 is going to be very slow. We're gonna have a lot
of people passing us, but I gotta stick to this. I wanna make sure that
it's a fair range test. I also can't do things like drive behind this guy right here. If I'm driving behind a semi-truck, I'm gonna get more range just
because there's less wind. On the highway we go. Nice road trip day. Thanks for joining me. (relaxed electronic music) I'm also gonna throw this in here. The first three people,
the first three people that actually guess exactly
how many miles we drove until we stopped this
thing, don't skip forward, I will send you a water bottle. So we'll connect with you. Just leave a comment
down below, first three. This is one of the most
beautiful drives in America, I am telling you. It is just canyons that
they blasted out the rock, and you just cruise right down through it. Sometimes, when it's raining, all you see are thousands of waterfalls that are falling off of the rocks. It's just gorgeous. I actually
really love this drive. And I'm really impressed
that Tesla does a good job with Autopilot to be able to
navigate through this canyon. A lot of people that have
not experienced Autopilot, like, extensively on the highways, I don't feel like have
a good, clear picture. They just read different
scary headlines in the media. But in reality, the self-driving
or the assisted driving, whatever you wanna call
it, is actually phenomenal. If I'm being 100% honest, this is brutal, going 70 miles an hour. My Tesla Model S maxes out on
Autopilot at 85 miles an hour. So typically, I'm at 80 or 85. There we go. We have gone 100 miles. And the car says we have
120 miles range left. So we have spent or burnt
120 miles worth of energy to go 100 miles. So not bad, honestly. Probably better than I thought. Now we're just about to come over the hill where you can see Las Vegas. Wow, it is smoggy in Vegas. That is supposed to be
Las Vegas right there. I can see the Stratosphere, but it is just covered in pollution. Ew, gross. All right, so here's the plan. I have driven 111 miles, and I've just arrived
near the NASCAR racetrack. I'm going to drive around the
freeways of Las Vegas, Nevada, for the next hour or so,
however long it takes, hour and a half, to burn
off this 107 miles range. We gotta get to zero. If I have to push this
into the Supercharger, we're doing that. I am just going to get to zero to find out what the actual charge is. All right, this is a good sign. "You are almost too far
away from chargers." Right now, I have 23 miles left. We've gone 183 miles. I really don't wanna have
to get towed like this car because I ran out of energy, so let's try not to run out of energy. You're gonna go to the LINQ charger. It's 13 miles away, and
we'll have less than 1%. We'll have 1% left when we get there. Vegas, baby! There we go. We got Vegas. We are on the highway. We are in traffic. Speed
limit's only 35 miles an hour. We have five miles range left. "Charging needed to get to destination." We got to get off the freeway right now. I've got five miles range left. I think I can still make it. Typically, when you hit zero, you have like another 10 miles range left. But with the older vehicles,
maybe it's not as reliable. Like, maybe you don't
have that 10 miles left, or maybe it'll stop earlier than that. It's definitely something
I don't recommend, to run your car to zero. It's not good for the batteries. In an older car, this is
probably gonna hurt my range moving forward in the future too. So I'm doing this for you guys. I'm doing this for me to know
what the actual range is, as a scientific test. It's not gonna break your
car to do this. It shouldn't. So it's not like it's that bad of a thing from that perspective. We are stuck in some traffic on I-15. Talk about range anxiety. You have 4 miles left,
and you have 3.7 miles to get to your charger, in an old Tesla. Let's see what happens here. Do I dare get back on the freeway? I don't know if it's smart
to get back on the freeway. This is a range test though. We're getting back on the freeway. This is so dumb. If this car stalls out
on the freeway, on I-15, with all this traffic, oh
my gosh, I'd be so dumb. And it'd be all my fault. We're getting on the freeway, and it says I have two miles left. Let's see, two miles left. We have one mile left. Oh my gosh, this is not
smart driving right here. Okay, Flamingo Road, that's
where we need to exit, right there, Flamingo. We are 0.3 of a mile away from that. Look at that. There's no
more red mark on the line. It just says, the battery
says it's empty right there. It says zero, or it
says, doesn't say zero, but there's no more red mark there that there was just a second ago. All right, we're getting off the freeway. This is progress. This is good. Here we go, crossing
the boulevard right now. (driver whistles) I love this place. Vegas is such a great city. I know I was stressing about the freeway, but we're still at one, according
to the thing right here. (intense orchestral music) Let's turn off. Gotta get it to zero though. That is the goal. Okay, we're gonna make this light, gonna go a little fast for it. Hold my camera so it doesn't fly off. Yep. Okay, we are closer. There's the Sphere! There's the LINQ. We're still at one. Shoot. We're so close, guys. We're so close, but it's at one. We have to get it to zero. (laughs) Look at that, one. Let's get it to zero. We're just gonna have
to drive around here. We're just gonna drive
up and down this road until it gets to zero. I let those people go by
right there, and we hit zero. We're at zero. There's a Supercharger right there. Zero achieved. Let's go plug this car in. It is 61 degrees here in Las Vegas, it was 55 degrees when we
started, so ideal temperatures so that we didn't have
to use a bunch of energy on heating or cooling the car. There's a couple things
that have surprised me here. So when we first got this
car, it was 295 miles range. We went a total of 202.8 miles. So we have effectively, in seven years, lost 32% of the range
inside of this battery pack. That is not great. I'll let you draw your own
conclusions on that side of it. In my opinion, not ideal, not great. In seven years, it's not
like you lose a ton of range off of your gas vehicle. But also, what's interesting is that we only used 72.3
kilowatt-hours of energy. But what's weird is this
is a 100D, so a dual motor. The 100 stands for 100
kilowatt-hours of energy with the battery pack, and yet we only used 72.3 for this drive. We can drive 32% less miles,
but we're also using 28% less of the original batteries
that are in there. So that kind of adds up, right? All right, we're plugged
in, running into here. (laughs) Look at that, zero miles left. I have done it, and now I'm at one. So overall, with this car, we have about 200 miles usable range. That's going 70 miles an
hour, not driving faster, not driving into wind, and not driving into extreme temperatures, in a car that's seven years
old and has over 100,000 miles. So some would probably say,
"You're doing pretty good. I mean, you only lost 30% of your range after 100,000 miles and seven
years of using this vehicle." That could be pretty good. And to others, they might
be like, "Forget that. If I'm gonna have a car for a long time, I want to be able to get a gas car so that I don't lose a bunch of range." The other thing to consider
is, as I was looking this up, all the warranties that we have left on this car are gone in 2025. So the drivetrain and
whatever other limited things that the warranties cover with this car, it's gonna be gone pretty soon. Yeah, we've loved this
car. It's been great. I would love to get my wife a new vehicle. I've tried to get other
vehicles in the past, some of the Mercedes EQS, but I just couldn't get
past the dealership model, and it wasn't the right car at that time. Would I upgrade Leslie to another Model X? Absolutely, I would.
I would love to do it. But Leslie loves this car, even
with its more limited range, even with the not-as-good suspension, even with little things,
like it charges slower. There's a lot of stuff with this car that she still is okay with, and she wants to keep
this car for a while, so I'm not gonna complain. It's been a fantastic car. I love it. It was over $100,000 when we bought it. Probably worth like
25,000 now, is my guess, if we were to sell it or trade it in. And for that price,
Leslie's like, "I'm good." 200 miles range, keep this car for 25,000. I don't need to go pay
another 70 or 80 grand just to get another vehicle that's kinda the same as this one. So lemme know your thoughts. I wanna hear from you guys. What do you think? Are
you surprised by this? Is it good? Is it bad? Now I need to charge, go get some lunch, and then drive all the way
back home for a few hours. It was kind of a long day. And yes, those of you that follow us, we will show you our rental home. It's not super exciting, but it is the place that
we are living for now. And we need to share more plans about what we're doing moving forward. Like, are we building a house? Are we just gonna live
in this rental forever? We'll let you know. I apologize for all the dust down here. I should probably have cleaned that. (Tesla chimes) Ooh, I'll wipe it away. What am I doing? Roll down the window. (window squeaking)
