Tesla Model X Launch | Full Unveiling Event by Elon Musk

ladies and gentlemen please welcome Elon Musk that's a good all right all right all right well welcome everyone to the Model X launch so thank you all for coming and the tesla team has worked incredibly hard that then i think an amazing job and I'm really looking forward to showing you the car oh it's thought of just by reminding people like what the you know the mission of Tesla is to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport and as I think you guys know it's incredibly important that we move to a sustainable world sooner rather than later the sooner we do it the better the better it is and and it's important to to show that that any any type of car can go electric we showed that you could make a compelling sports car with the Roadster and that could go electric and we show that you could do it with a sedan and now we're going to show that you can do it with an SUV so we're going to start off with the what's actually most important for it for a car which is safety so the if you if you're driving you're carrying your friends and family around there's really nothing is more important than safety so first and foremost the car is going to go to keep you and and the ones you love safe and and protection or any circumstance you can imagine so so the they have the Model X I'm going to talk a lot of more about the details of the car but i'ma start off with safety so that with the Model X we've created the safest SUV ever it's the first SUV that's five stars in every category and I thought I'd just to explain what is five stars mean because five star is not technically a statistical number it's sort of a you know a rough reference point it's and what it actually means is it describes the probability of a serious injury in a high-speed accident so you start off with sort of 2 star 3 star 4 star 5 star and they go down in in 5 percent increments so if a 4 star would be a 15 percent probability of injury in a high-speed accident 5 star would be 10 percent hypothetically if there was a sixth star it would be at 5 percent and we've been able to get with the Model X or an expected rating of about 6 and a half percent so and so let me explain how we how we get to such a low probability of injury and it goes to the design of the car and the fundamental architecture so starting off with the frontal eye if sort of what happens in a frontal crash this is where most highway most injuries and deaths occurs in a frontal frontal crash and normally with with a gasoline car you've got a large steel engine block in front and so in a high speed impact that engine block compresses it into the passenger compartment and obviously causes damage to the people that are sitting there with the Model X there is no such it's no such thing so we have a small electric motor that's down low by the battery pack and the net effect is that you've got a much larger distance for the crumple zone so it it's really taking impact energy is about force over distance and if you go to longer distance you can actually distribute that force over that longer distance and have a better deceleration and not impact the cabin so in the case of the frontal frontal zone you've got it's not something it's the equivalent of like if you were to jump out of a toll building into a pool it's demonstrated jumping into a pool or a pool with a rock in it so the you don't want the pool with the rock in it so then going on to a side a side impact the the Model S and the Model X are about half of the next-best in the SV class so the X is a so the side pole intrusion is only 215 millimeters in the in the Model X and that's compared to the next best of SUV which is about double that number and let's see what that looks like in pictures so this is what it looks like with a sight this is the actual side Pole test for the Model X compared to the next best SUV in the world this is the difference between life and death this is a really big difference so and then now let's look at the role of numbers so the Model X because it has a low center of mass with the battery pack in the flow pan has half the role of a propensity of any SUV or minivan so the probability of a rollover injury is substantially reduced and you can see this in the architecture we start with the pack and that that pack for what it provides a stiffening member for the whole car prevented provides a very strong foundation for the whole car lowering the center of mass and serving as a load transfer medium to the rest of the vehicle so whereas a gasoline car really just has thin corrugated sheet metal at the base and can't transfer the load in a side impact so we'll just show you the rest of the car building up you see the motors and the chassis it gives you a sense for the core architecture of the car now of course the best protection is not to get into an accident at all so the Model X comes standard with active safety which includes automatic emergency braking and add side collision of a cycle agent avoidance so the car will actually use the camera and the radar to automatically brake before there's an accident and it will use the ultrasonic sensors around the side of the car to steer you away from a side collision and these are active all the time and it's just a standard feature in the car now the third thing which is sort of topical is is the air safety now we designed the car well before recent events seven so it just happens just happens to a you know there's recent events have illustrated the importance of a bear safety and we have with the Model X the first the first true HEPA filter in a car so and why why it is important to have a particular filter why is important to have a gas filter in the car it's because the this translates to a real real change in life expectancy so these these are the most conservative numbers we could find on the internet like be most conservative they go way worse than this this is basically the least bad thing that would happen if you lived in these cities so and now let's take a look at the functions themselves you can't to show you just how much of a difference this is that the top the top one is our primary ethyl to the the one on the left in the bottom is our secondary air filter the one on the right is a normal car air filter I think we've got some of those here so this is this is what a normal car filter looks like it's really really quite small this is the this is the primary air filter of the Model X and this is the second this is the secondary at full term our secondary air filter is bigger than the primary air filter of a typical car so the and on is not only is it ten times larger area but the the quality that filter is greater so that translates to as several hundred fold improvements in the filtration capability it is three hundred times better at filtering bacteria five times better at allergens seven hundred times better at pseudo smog and eight hundred times better at filtering viruses and and this is on a bad day so this is the minimum passing grade winners just operating it's at its worst so and yeah so that in addition to to the the particle filters we have three layers of active carbon so we've got one universal adsorbent layer that's the initial layer then we've got another activated carbon layer that's meant for acid gases and another one for alkaline gases the the net effect of the air filtration system is that you have air cleanliness levels which comparable to a hospital operating room in the car and and in fact when the car is operating when the car is operating edits at maximum capability so if you sort of press Mac's Mac capability in the car we can't even detect any viruses or bacteria or spores so it's like zero come through so if there's ever if there's ever sort of a apocalyptic scenario of some kind hypothetically you just press the bio weapon defense mode button this is a real button so what yeah we're trying to be a leader in apocalyptic defense scenarios now so let's move on to the car itself like what's cool and fun about the car doors and windows okay so that you obviously familiar with the Falcon wing door what we also have is an auto presenting front door so what it'll do is it'll triangulate my position and detect that I am moving towards the front door it will open the front door without me touching anything I will sit down and it will close the door like an invisible chauffeur and there are a few other features that are hard to the hard to demo in this exact scenario but it's something that we work very hard on is a windshield that's a panoramic windshield so it comes up and over and feels like a helicopter cockpit when you're driving so it gives you unbelievable visibility and it's really it's transformative in the driving experience so you really when you do the test test drives later tonight you'll see what I mean it's really really makes the difference and then in addition to that we also have a it's a small feature but an important one is the ability to blind holster your phone so this this is like one of those things where you it's small but it's important instead of having to fiddle with a bunch of wires to plug in your phone you can basically take it out of your pocket and blind holster it it'll automatically fit and there are adapters for every variant of popular phone so let's open these doors so that the reason we created these doors was originally we're trying to solve a problem which is how do you access the third row if you have child seats in the second row and I encountered this problem when it when I first got to a gas an SUV and I had twins and once you put them in the second row you couldn't access the third row so we wanted to have an opening that was big enough so that you could do that so you can have real utility of the third row while even if you have kids he's on in the second row so you basically just press the button this used to go forward and I can step directly in it's also important that if you have say a child seat here that instead of having to cantilever your kid out in front to sort of put them basically into a small hole you you can actually just stand right here you can actually step into the car if you want you can just put your child down in the child seat it makes a huge difference in terms of a back strain and comfort so those those are two functional reasons and and it also looks cool so yeah so that's a that's the Bell point doors and now obviously a question with the doors is so how do they fit in tight spaces well we'll show you let's bring out the cars so so the scenario we're going to show you here is if you've ever been in a parking lot and someone parked real close so that it's I don't if you can see well here but there's only about a few inches separating the side Murs on each side of the car so we're going to open the Falcon wing doors where there's barely enough room to squeeze between the two cars so the reason it's able to do that is because unlike a traditional Gullwing door which is only actuator on a single hinge the demonics Falcon wing doors are actuated on two hinges so it's able to move up and over instead of simply moving out in a broad arc and moreover if you're compared to say a minivan door let's open the minivan door here you can see that it when the minivan door opens I can't even get through that space so let's close the minivan door now the Falcon wing door is open so I go I'll go was to create some an aperture that was more functional than a minivan door and I think I think the team is as exceeded so I think it's this semester aperture out there and just illustrates what it's like in a garage so you saw what it's like if if it's tight from a science standpoint or what if you have a low garage that's one of the most common questions I get about the Model X the car actually automatically senses what the roof height is so there are ultrasonic sensors in the in the roof of the car that calculate the roof height and automatically compute a new opening arc depending upon what the high the ceiling is and what the side obstacles are we actually developed a new ultrasonic sensor that's able to do sonar through metal so in order to avoid having a puck which is ordinarily needed for ultrasonic sensors we thought the aesthetics the puck would not be good to be in because it would have to be in the center of the door so we actually developed an object like sensor that could literally see through metal all right so let's maybe talk a bit more about the second row seats so normally second row seats in a car don't get a lot of love so let's let's see show you what connect universities typically look like in a car so that's sort of what that what second row seats no me look like but when we're typically when you open something and it's so silhouetted as it does with the velcroing door it tends to create a halo around the seat so we put a lot of effort into creating a beautiful seat and it not only is the seats I think I probably the best-looking second seat that's a superlative in ever but it's actually provides more functionality because you you have a flat floor and you can stow if some things so if you've got a backpack or a laptop or a handbag you can still you can stow that under the seat instead of having it at your feet so it actually provides utility as well as aesthetics all right and speaking of utility let's see what the market what the Model X can really carry so my likes is capable of towing 5,000 pounds so five five thousand pounds while carrying seven people and quite a lot of luggage and of course let's not forget about the front yes we need the stroller there you better put them in I was gonna carry them out alright alright all right so there you have it one likes carrying 77 people a 5,000 pound trailer and I lost count of how many bags and a stroller all right so something we developed with for the Model X is like let's say you want to carry skis bikes and you want to do that quickly and easily we made an accessories hitch that can be put on by a kid in approximately 10 seconds thank you like that was more like five seconds so the accessories hitch can carry up to four bikes or up to six sets of skis and you can close the trunk and have full functionality of the rest of the car skis and snowboards indeed and then the final element of course is performance so the even the standard version of the Model X has quite high performance so it's going to standard version ninety days got 257 mile range or wheel drive of course and it gets to 60 miles around 4.8 seconds and then the p90d ludicrous mode I mean this goes so fast is wrong to zero to 60 and this is an SUV I don't know too soon to 60 and 3.2 seconds alright alright so with that let me let's hand over the post-production cars all right all right so let's see if in six hey Kara what's up man amazing hey congratulations such an awesome job hey nice license plates all right all right it's a fen five guys coming soon all right see he's okay hopefully the call gusik here soon all right thanks all right then bin for sander for Sergei oh he'll soon then three all right good save face and thank you all right and then - all right yeah man all right and then let's see then the final one is my car which is going to be up in a moment and I will leave up I'll leave that my power onstage when it arrives so that you can all you can come and take a close look at it and pull around and that kind of thing and and that's that really I hope you have a great night I enjoy the test drives and like thank you and I think that the tesla team who works super hard to make this night work all right thanks have a good night

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Length: 30min 27sec (1827 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 01 2015