I Finally Got a Tesla and Here's What I Really Think of It

rev up your engines all right here we go scotty with the tesla 2020 model 3. want to know about them well here's the car it's been driven for a little while and i'm going to tell you all the truths about them no doubting it's a beautiful car and she's customized that you put her own wheels on which i agree with her i like the look of these wheels better and she also blacked out the tesla to go with the black i think that's a really good modification check the inside here look you just push on the door handles hoping it comes it may seem odd to some people because there's no instrument panel there it's all over here it's kind of odd because it looks like you're driving down the road and there's nothing there like you're on a shelf or something but all the information of course is here that does practically everything your maps what's happening with the electric motor and the battery your infotainment system everything's in there and it's got a beautiful black interior i gotta say it's nice and the tinted sunroofs on it there's a lot of leg room in this thing now of course it's an electric car so people always worry well how far you can go well lady owns this she's gone 235 miles and then recharge it that's the furthest trip she went and how much does it cost to recharge well most people like this she says usually costs about six bucks now on the other hand you gotta realize the price of the car now this was like a forty four thousand dollar car but she had negative equity so she's got more closer to sixty thousand in the car now but that's because of the equity not because of the car she could have gotten a car for about 44 45 000 so the six dollar fill ups you still have to equate it to the price of the car now if you never test the supercharging center when it's empty it's taking her about 45 minutes to fully charge it up but if you have a 240 volt charger at your house take about eight hours to fully charge and if you plug it into 120 volts you're going to be waiting a couple days so you want to get a 240 charger if you buy one of these now this is a classic rear wheel drive version the electric motors are in the back now being rear-wheel drive has a few disadvantages with the power that this thing has she recently spun out in the rain had a curb it didn't do any body damage just bent stuff underneath she would have spent more money and got an all-wheel drive one it probably wouldn't have spun out she was definitely going too fast for the rainy weather but if it would have been all-wheel drive i doubt that she would have lost control of the car now since she bought this one the price has actually gone down to 37. for this model if you would have bought the four wheel drive one today the four wheel drive version would have been 47 000 so you're paying like 9 000 extra for the all-wheel drive but take my advice if you drive like a maniac and these are very fast cars get the all-wheel drive version pretty quiet car but listen it does make a little sound because by law they have to make noise they don't want you sneaking up on people outsiders have to hear something all right really the only thing you hear now is the tires you hear the tires on the ground they're always going to make noise because there is some friction you can't get rid of the tire noises are going to have a little bit of sound slow down you can feel the regender braking look at this i took my foot off the gas and it stopped before the stop sign these things are very easy to stop and they're regenerating a bunch of electricity no worried about california stop look this thing stops itself i don't have my foot on the brake oh you are the tire's going down the road it's a new experience it still freaks me out when i look straight ahead it looks like i'm looking at somebody's kitchen counter you got to look over there for the information but it is weird it's like you're not driving a car and there's no gear shift over here there's an electronic one here though it doesn't take long to figure this stuff out it's only common sense it's got the usual park reverse neutral drive take it off for a little country drive quiet and it does handle like a dream it's all electronic and they figure the computer stuff out so there's no oversteer understeer it's really a well-handling vehicle and as we all know and if you don't you're gonna know now electric motors have 100 torque and power as soon as you step on the gas so we'll step on the brake first and then we'll step on the gas so here we are nice and quiet let's step on the gas and does it take off yes it takes off now maybe not as fast as a 1250 horsepower super that i drove a few months ago on the same road but hey it's got a lot of oomph to it and you have no lost control look no hands tracks perfectly straight great for country drives because if you notice up above there's all kinds of telephone poles they do have electricity here in tennessee now we're getting a little the twisties this thing handles like a dream it really has a good suspension system there's no arguing that it's not raining or snowing or ice if you live in snowy ice conditions i'd say fork out extra for the all-wheel drive for you numbers freaks it's 285 horsepower but 307 pound-feet of torque just don't understand that's electric power not gasoline you get a gasoline car you got to rev the engine up the horsepower is until higher rpms but this is an electric motor running off a big old electric battery as soon as you step on it you get full power all the time and full torque so it's completely different there's nothing to rev up you just step and go there's no rub meshing there's no shifting gears and of course there's no normal maintenance you have gasoline engine oil filters spark plugs forget that you don't have a transmission you got to change the fluid in it's got electric drive motors you don't have to worry about any of that stuff and here's the frunk no motor of course and it's not that huge there's all kinds of electronics in here but kind of like an old volkswagen beetle with a space in the front now there's one thing you have to realize about tesla's the man does not share his information with anyone i've been a mechanic for 53 years i go to my all data information system that has most cars in the world doesn't have teslas they will not share repair information with anyone you're at the beck and call of the dealership when it comes to repairs now of course it's new electric cars they get a lot of software updates and stuff like that but they're kind of playing by a different ball game because you take a normal car it's got an obd port by law it has to because it's a gasoline engine and that has a lot to do with the pollution that the car puts out it puts out too much pollution your track engine light comes on being an electric car it doesn't put out pollution directly so they don't have to go buy any of those laws so they don't have to give any of that repair information out by law because they're electric cars now i gotta say they're beautiful quiet cars the prices are coming down this particular one was like 45 000 and it's a 2020 and the new models they're saying now it's 37 000 they're realizing they're overpriced because the market is going to change the electric cars radically there's a chinese company that out makes electric cars and they're selling them in china for less than 5 000 so the price is certainly going to be coming down on these more expensive ones now is the infrastructure of the united states ready for millions of electric cars probably not you have to consider that as of 2021 tesla sold a little bit less than 500 000 cars worldwide so we're not talking about a massive amount of electric cars out there yeah if you're comfortable with the car then you put a 220 volt charger on your house that'll fully charge it in about eight hours and if you're near a tesla supercharging station can take 45 minutes to charge it up and if you're traveling around of course the fancy computer screen is going to show you how much you should have left and like right here it says 66 and you run low it'll show you the nearest charging station that's around in most cases it's not like you're stuck in the middle of the desert with no water there's lots of places that can have cars charged up but in one of these teslas do not run out until you're almost completely out of power and then you go to somebody's house and you're going to plug it into 110 volt charger because it will probably take days to get a full charge by then that's going a little bit too far now you never know what the future's going to bring there's already places in canada and europe i've seen where guys have a pickup truck to rescue people and they have a big battery pack or a generator on it and they can supercharge it so that in 10-15 minutes you can get another 40 miles of range and you can drive to a place with a supercharger on it if electric cars get popular enough there's going to be lots of services like those around but i always joke with people back in houston imagine if there were a million and a half electric cars in houston the freeways would be just covered with people on the side of the road with cars that had no electricity left and of course you can't jump start them you jump start them they'd go and as soon as you disconnected the cables they'd stop running so it'll probably be a long time before electric cars become generic thing that everybody drives these are unique vehicles for people that if they understand what they're getting for what they pay and they're happy with that they're excellent vehicles now me i'm a cheapskate i'll keep riding around my 300 celica although i have to admit and i'm asking again if anybody out there is coming out with an electric motor conversion kit for the cell cup send me one bring it over i'd love to convert it over it would make an interesting thing to do or being my wife's three thousand dollar lexus that's my idea of luxury a beautiful car for three thousand dollars but on the other hand like i said the prices of these has actually come down at the base model 3 is now down to like 37 000 now she modified it with these cool looking wheels which are an inch bigger and she noticed she has a little bit less acceleration and of course being heavier there's more mass it'll use a little bit more electricity but if it only costs you six bucks to fill the thing up with electricity who cares if you spend another dollar there you have it the actual truth about a tesla model three so you can make a wise choice yourself so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 12 2021