Tesla Model Y driving REVIEW with high speed Autobahn test! AWD long range 2022

today it's time for an extensive autobahn test of the tesla model y how good is it on the german motorway how does it rate against the tesla model 3 how does it rate against the competitors like the vw id4 gtx we'll all find out here another field with thomas let's go in the front the typical sleek tesla design everything set on wind efficiency and yes they are indeed very efficient overall that leads to a high range soon more to that with 475 or 187 inches the tesla model y is a little bit longer wider and of course higher than the model 3 and main change is that the tesla model 3 is mainly based on the steel chassis this one here like the s and the x based on the aluminum chassis in all new one and also for the other rear and front parts they use this so called giga casting so that means less parts overall for the chassis that makes the riding better as for the chassis rigidity so definitely stiffer body and we'll see how that one plays out in the driving part very soon this will be very interesting 19 or 20 inch wheels for the long range model which we have here today all-wheel drive one electric motor on the front one in the rear performance model will also get 21 inch wheels these here are the 20 inch wheels however if you want the best comfort stick with the smallest wheels available blackett door handles and also black frames around this has been a change also for the model y now if you could get it before now the first time we can also get ones in germany these here are the shanghai build models so far and of course when the gigafactory close to berlin is finished then this will also be built in germany this will also be very exciting we'll keep you updated with that in the rear definitely a small tesla model x definitely but i think the shapes then work definitely better so it looks a little more elegant than the more bulky x in the rear here as for the acceleration figures here for the long range model or we drive five seconds to one kilometers an hour or 4.8 seconds to 60 miles an hour and for the performance model it's 3.7 seconds to one kilometers an hour or 3.5 seconds to 60 miles an hour however this one here i can tell you from the driving part is already really really quick and what's the top speed yeah we did find out today in the driving part look out forward to that turning indicators by the way in the front they are very visible in the rear they are smaller however not as small as with the model 3 so this is definitely an improvement with the model 3 we often saw horrible panel gaps the famous german spellmaster but here look at that here in that model y shanghai build that all looks really good and sophisticated so nothing to complain here at all this one also here with a very smooth transition so this is not topsy-turvy and here once again very well aligned and what else is important hepa filter is included heat pump is included 14 speakers for that sound system also included it makes it so easy to configure such a model y it's not the cheapest one from the entry price but then again the price also doesn't go up and so it they make it really easy for the customer to pick a vehicle then just pick the color interior the color and that's basically it or if you get a towing hook 1.6 tons or 3500 pounds of towing capacity 77 kilowatt hours for that battery here checked it in the papers and here is the charging port 270 kilowatt max at the tesla supercharger as a car key you get these key cards but you can also order a real key fob from the shop i would recommend you to do that otherwise use your smartphone then door handles fold like this and yeah they're not the most practical but they're also integrated and feel actually quite quite good so then door closing sound not the most sophisticated but actually quite good for a frameless door vehicle so it's okay and what's really interesting is this here in the front is you can see it right there dual insulation glass instead of the door soft touch here then we have this matte wood insert and so many of you guys said yes there's also the white interior available which then has this bright inside and i would just like to see the white interior with the bright wood and yeah so many people wish for that maybe elon listen to our community here then inside microfiber here as well soft here too this is then the emergency handle the manual one otherwise you open the door right here then from the inside and once again black or white interior all the red all animal free way to go tesla so no animal cruelty for this model when you buy it really awesome job to make it standard and the only option sting will also everything simplistic left side for volume right side you press it for the voice control for example and of course everything else in that screen seating position is not uncomfortable however the seats themselves they could be a little wider and longer especially for taller people so not really that suitable if you're just a little bit taller so they could work on that but the base ergonomics are actually quite okay and headroom here when we need to six see one minute a six or six with one it's actually way more than enough because they just have this fixed panoramic roof what i really like about this interior is that it's so simplistic and that really calms you down on the other hand either instruments or head-up display would be cool so otherwise you just see the speed here in the upper left corner and it's okay you do get along however it would still be good yes yeah so you want to have the sequel on bing bing bing it would be better to have either digital instruments or a help display as an option so come on elon on that here two inductive charging pads for your phones and also with a nice microfiber cover and a lot of space here in the middle console right there couples they are not adaptive though and here also underneath a lot of space so that's really good so you feel as it would be quite spacious and once again the build quality you mean was soft touchy in the front the great mag wood here build quality has been so topped up if you compared to earlier tesla models so the interior build quality is meanwhile definitely premium and definitely a lot to discover in that screen here first of all as for the energy consumption that's very interesting so this is more here with some you know city rural traffic driving slowly not much on the motorway and if motorway a little bit slower then we like 13 kilowatt hours or more than kilometers so that's some 22 kilowatt hours on 100 miles i just changed that in the display wow that's amazing and that would rather mean some like 600 kilometers or 350 miles of range however if you include more autobahn and so on it rather goes down towards 400 kilometers and 250 miles soon you'll also see you know in our driving part a graph where we have more autobahn share so it really depends on how and where you drive this car is capable of great efficiency but at some point of course when it goes speedy on the motorway it is reduced then temperature control is down here um and you know slide it like this and of course with the voice control set temperature to 20 degrees like this or i'm cold then it also increases so you have this different possibilities still you know i'm a fan of manual climate dials so but this is again about this whole rejection of everything the camera is really cool i just still can't get over it why it has a different different light temperature here for the side cams you know i really don't get that you know do you then here in display you can set different modes for example also screen clean mode then you can wipe it everything with a microfiber towel without you know call to exit yes exit in three two one let's go back to the screen display mode by the way also has a night mode like this so this is quite fancy because when you see later on in the driving part it depends on the time when it's switching and it switched right after our driving part this was very interesting so before it was kind of like too bright it's so good to have also this night mode it switches again automatically but maybe a little bit earlier would be cool so here of course then more with the um you know daytime driving mode so many things with this car right here what's always important that usually i have the acceleration set to chill because it's just my chilling right and the standard acceleration is really fast you will see that very soon oh yeah and then you know with the steering wheel and mirror control yeah that to do it here and then over the steering wheel not the most practical thing and of course also with the glovebox you know why just you know you don't have like a normal glove box control that would be definitely cooler rear bench first of all soft touch here at the rear of the doors that's great also microfiber inserts so this is really premium quality here for the interior then it's not the longest vehicle but definitely enough legroom here and there's no middle tunnel whatsoever so really using this ev platform headroom also enough left because you have this panoramic roof it looks really cool but yeah it does get hot in hot days but overall comfortable seating position here for the rear as for adjusting the rear part here you see you can put like this more upright but then you can also put a little bit more backwards so that's actually possible to have more like you know leaning back position here in the middle part you can also easily sit asymptomatic to use bc charger and yeah hardly ever we see that it's so well executed that there's no middle tunnel whatsoever really using this ed platform here in the middle part you can also fold out some cup holders they are also adaptive actually and actually a very wide middle console here so it's kind of relaxing and also for the rear passengers and also in this model right there panel gaps very well aligned on the interior and here for example for these hangers click click nice looking sound soft dampened so indeed more and more premium interior details today it's time to measure that trunk with my new dual ruler here so centimeters on one side inch on the other side and also in the black style now because yeah gmail offers it now tesla offers it on display apple also offers a dark mode so yeah for maybe better contrast so here the length is 1 meters and 10 or 43 inches that's very good then here in the width let's see so the width right here is 95 centimeters or yeah we can very well switch it around in there or 37 inches also well usable and the overall height right there because there's no cover anyway this then here at 28 inches or here 70 centimeters and you can very well fold the seats from here already so it's a very good function here electric control that's the way that's the way hashtag move equal or series quote then there we go yeah it's almost at this two meters mark so one meter is 90 here to my driving position or 76 inches so very well usable and there's hardly any you know big difference to the tesla model x for example here big space underneath you can put also your cabin trolley in there and also have it here like you know standing upright so this is very very convincing what we see here you can see the hatch opens really really wide with one meters 86 or six return i can stand underneath it and if i want to secure it in a position that it doesn't hit the roof of my basement garage same as we know from other vehicles you just press and hold the closing button for example you put it manual in this position and then press and hold and then it will next time just go up to this position so that's definitely also a good thing to have however it does not have this sensor like the model x has then child safety test was a little bit weird that direction but it did work and then let's listen to the closing sound when it really closes yeah it's a little bit loud you know but this one was actually quite good but you know sometimes ahead it was like you know like really slamming it through this time was better not sure why it's like sometimes differently let's try it again maybe it was just like a one time thing you know this one was quite okay not very sophisticated but still quite okay well of course there is a franc and a quite spacious one and you can for example store additional charging cables in here welcome to thomas's driving lounge today electric autobahn driving lounge and let's first start with the fuel economy well the energy economy of course for the evs so my long-term aggregate average now is like some 18 19 kilowatt hours and one kilometer so something like 29 30 kilowatt hours and 100 miles short term a little bit better you see here when i also have some topography changes in the city and so on and more city driving so that means actually when you have a lot of autobahn a lot of motorway share like 100 kilometers an hour 120 kilometers an hour 60 70 miles and so on you more get to this 400 kilometers of range or 250 miles of range when you have more city traffic share and more using these advantages of tvs topography changes stop and go and so on and really go like a super efficient run five kilometers or 300 miles of range that's possible theoretically but when you're more drive it like a german rather not then it's more like four kilometers or 250 miles and what do i mean by that it's to follow right now so let's check this out the acceleration and the display is quite bright i mean it looks brighter than it actually is so let's let me tune it down so on camera it looks even brighter than it actually is here now i'm in the standard driving mode and i'm standing here from 30 kilometers an hour long range all-wheel drive model there's nothing coming so empty at motorway this is what you deserve guys let's go [Music] 200 kilometers an hour 125 miles now and i mean this is going even faster here you see here let's see if we can get it to top speed that should be now oh 219 kilometers an hour it says now that's the top speed and wow i mean they change here kind of stable but then again when we have these waves it shakes up a little bit steering is really sporty so i have to be very precise and subtle with the steering wheel of course suspension is not set on a note where you have like super sporty control over the car it shakes up notably notably again when you are in these waves noise installation wise as for the wind noises that was actually quite good and by the way here i did not use the brakes at all that was just recuperation so you see here very strong recuperation from the vehicle and also you know look at that it totally exceeds the figures look at that look at that so it really it exceeds the figures here from recuperation and it also exceeds the figures as for acceleration for the consumption and negative consumption basically wow [Laughter] yeah sorry about that so that happens on a test here with thomas another good fool here in the tunnel you can see yeah no ambient lighting at all whatsoever a little bit at the feet or you know but you can't can hardly see that and the display is here really tuned down but still it's a little bit bright and yeah even you know especially on that camera you can see um it's actually a little bit too bright maybe at that stage there is this auto mode but i have set display alt brightness already to zero percent um yeah and even in the auto mode it decides to go go for this one very interesting so as for noise and so on i really have to say once again they worked on the noise installation of the vehicles in general and the tesla model y is so far the best tesla i really have to say in so many respects and here one kilometers now 60 miles an hour typical motorway speed it's very silent as for the noise from wind and tire roll and so on when does it get loud when you're driving over some bumps so anything that comes from suspension so when you're going in potholes like bam you you feel it and you hear it 20 inch wheels here i do recommend to go with the 19-inch wheels here with this model and also not to go for the performance model you've seen the performance here it's a great performance when you take just around five seconds for this acceleration a little bit less in the miles per hour 60 miles per hour figure that's more than enough you know and here the car is really sporty again precise steering wheel wow great acceleration out of the corner from the two electric motors front and the rear the car is so much fun you know so here lane change wow it feels like a go-kart although it's an suv the only thing you know really high speed then you know didn't feel that safe actually because it was shaking up too much but we can't expect it from the vehicle it's not meant to do that and it also it's not the task you know so this car does not have to be stable at 200 kilometers an hour or 125 miles an hour no one will ever drive that except me in germany so um yeah so 99 of the customers will not use that and yeah i mean not sure how long is even still allowed in germany for example you know still we do these tests here to really be able to compare the vehicles how they perform at you know certain limits and certain things and wow this car has really given me a lot of driving fun this i really love about it that's very cool and when you now compare the competitors like the vw id4 gtx or the scholar aniak adx or the audi q4 e-tron in the overdrive trim for example the font mastering gt fordmasting e gt so um they are all a lot of fun because you have the instant torque and this one here is not less fun whatsoever really good as i said great handling also then from the acceleration the only thing is really the suspension so if you have the 19 inch wheels it's maybe a little bit better because you have a little bit more damping from the tire but always when you're going over some you know some lines on the road you know some potholes and so on you hear it like boom and you also feel it the suspension how it reacts to you know uneven roads that's not good at all so this is kind of i mean so many things about this vehicle were really good big problem definitely no instruments no head-up display you can get along with this and the speed here but it's not ideal it's not it's not good you know header display or instruments at least one of this is definitely missing that's the one thing the other thing is definitely the suspension this is where this still separates itself from the german competitors the infotainment system with tesla is way better the suspension is way worse than with the germans one more acceleration guys let's go that gives you the kick but it was from 80 kilometers now and now we see wow that goes really in here 180 kilometers now it's still reasonably silent here as for the wind noise so again as for this respect really nicely done and it still handles now quite well this high speed corner so it also handles so much better than all the other teslas so this new aluminum chassis and with a giga case casting where you have like less pieces from the whole chassis especially on how the front and the rear parts are being attached and so on this has a big effect so way less flexing you feel especially if you compared to the model 3 the tesla model 3 feels you know like it is flexing all over the place from from the chassis the whole time and this one here definitely feels more elaborated i just wish they would have done more to the suspension i mean we've seen it with tesla over the years that they keep improving and improving and improving so this kind of gives me hope that they also do something about the suspension maybe even of an air suspension here like they do for the x and the s in the model y or some adaptive dampers or something um i don't know that would be something so like the vw id4 gtx which is one of the main competitors definitely offers adaptive suspension the ioniq 5 by the way does not offer adaptive suspension so this is something you know more towards the volkswagen group where the neck and also the q4 each one do offer this adaptive suspension um yeah the kia ev6 has also more sophisticated suspension i talked to the suspension manager recently from kia and they did something you know like they changed a lot in comparison to the 2d anon x5 i will tell more about that when we drive the kia ev6 definitely this will be very interesting but here definitely once again driving rise reveals the suspension is the weakness of this vehicle and as long as the road is even and good that's fine but you know a lot of you guys are from countries or from certain regions and even now when your country is kind of rich there are always somewhere bad roads you can complain about you know so um this is something um yeah they can definitely um improve even more but still however a lot of fun in the driving and it becomes even more apparent you know when you know when i took over this vehicle i drove there in a mercedes gle in the in the amg yes it's a segment higher definitely but it has an amg tuned suspension and 22 inch wheels so the air suspension there was tuned like super stiff and i switched to this one and thought like what is this kind of suspension you know like more like whoa so and this kind of revealed all the the difference you know um yeah so i mean it's very interesting that we can really find out more about that but everything else you know like steering performance which you can all still set you know if you wanted a little bit more feedback here or if you wanted a little bit um softer and so on you can adjust that acceleration wise once again really cool all the displays again so so so uh bright at least in the camera again it appears right on camera because you know the iris is adjusting to that yeah and fun wise and like here how slalom-wise it behaves this is so much better than the model 3 once again you know when i'm doing slalom in the model 3. it's fun it kind of feels goku that i like but it feels like plastic door cut i like you know like flexing gokart this one here feels like aluminum go-kart where you do the slalom do you know do your thing and it does not flex and that's really cool and this one here does not look like a performance vehicle from the outside at all it doesn't have an amg batch it doesn't have an m batch doesn't have an audi rs batch still when someone is behind you here and you're like this like you're gone you had like a motorcycle and everyone's like what was that what the hell like is this kind of like super sports car what is it no it's a tesla model why yeah that's definitely a fun thing by the way about this harsh acceleration when i'm here alone though i know like okay now the acceleration is coming i have steam in my own hand i'm used to these speeds i've driven so many different racetracks and so on and geforce and i you know did i talk about that i rather grew up riding motorcycles i drove motocross before i had a driver's license actually so when you're used to these g-forces it's okay but when you're a passenger and also you're not used to these g-forces driving alongside here in the electric vehicles can be quite harsh on your bodies you know and i feel when i'm being shuttled in electric vehicles i often tell the driver like oh can you drive a little bit slower or maybe accelerate less harsh and be gentle with the throttle when recuperation is happening because so many times it happened that as a passenger i got sick being driven in electric vehicles and that's the thing also that because the shuttle drivers need to get used to it has a lot to do definitely with the instant torque so you when you're driving people when you have you know a car full of people and definitely when you're driving like you're the driver and you know going to the to the club and in the evening or something and you don't want people to puke all over your vehicle be gentle with the throttle in both ways especially because this one here has one pedal driving feeling if you set it in that way you can set you can adjust the recuperation but usually i leave it on a harsh recuperation because positive thing safety thing here now oh reduce speed lift your foot over throttle reducing the speed and even in an emergent situation where you change to the brake pedal in this split of a second you already reduced a lot of your speed that's definitely very good so definitely in favor of the one pedal driving feeling of harsh recuperation in general however just when you can also control it when you're driving with people in the car um that means when you want to reduce your speed with the with that one throttle pedal be gentle you know slowly lift it that your passengers are not going like all the time and then like you know so that's that's really something um you you need to watch out so very important thing here with electric vehicles um oh yeah two stroke in front of us that's the old round yeah whoa that two-stroke almost went over the bars because it almost hit the pavement like yeah that would have been a very ugly dash camera uh recording here whoa whoa whoa yeah and that's isn't that something you know like that scooter here turns the throttle two-stroke all the fumes come outside you're in electric vehicle and in this moment you kind of think like yeah probably i'm doing the right thing yeah again no it's just the locally reduced emissions the energy has to come from somewhere but i think the most important aspect is the potential of the electric vehicles co2 wise they're already more sustainable than combustion engines that's meanwhile clear with all the different studies that have been done of course it also depends on the use case what is you know the most you know the most useful car for your use case but then of course you have you know less with the oil but more than like with lithium and other mineral mining and so on this huge problem definitely but there's a potential batteries to become more sustainable and then the cars are even more sustainable so i think the potential of electric vehicles that's what it's all about definitely not what it's like currently you know now in the tunnel yeah definitely missing some ambient lighting here so the thing is they have improved the build quality so much if you compare it to the earlier tesla that's great but there are still features missing where say like this is a premium car period like the suspension like ambient lighting like an instrument or higher display and so on uh like when the hatch is closing and so like bam you know so i want to be closing softly for example oh the whole s-class in front of us here i'm not sure if you've seen it so there are still things missing where like when i pay like 60k euros in germany for this vehicle i want some features to be more premium you know still it's a car that's a lot of fun now driving up out of the fruits peak wow the acceleration up the hill this is amazing now yeah now i'm using a little of the brake wow this is impressive this is really it's it's not the performance version it's not a sporty vehicle overall but low center of gravity due to the battery pack great acceleration feels so balanced here the road is all right this is amazing i mean usually with this kind of driving fun this kind of precision on the road this kind of sporty handling we have with sometimes like you know like like a porsche 911 gt3 or something like with super highly tuned sports cars and you can have it here in a let's say normal electric vehicle which isn't even one of the biggest and most expensive ones it's not cheap at all talked about that just but it's amazing how much driving fun it gives you and once again chassis wise no doubt this is the best tesla so far and i think not only chassis-wise also in so many other respects and if the german-built model y will be even better than the shanghai build model y which is this one here then maybe i have to think about buying tesla stocks again but you know when i feel a suspension i feel like ah but i don't buy tesla stocks and then when i feel like you know how well the car is handling here also having corner and how it's getting out of there and also how efficient it is and so on and i think yeah maybe it is a good idea if i said tesla stocks again um yeah that's the thing so you you feel that i'm i'm really enthusiastic about this vehicle and there are things where i really have to say no way you know like this is here the road is like do you hear that the road is so bad here and then you feel especially from the reacts like and now to the bottles and this is like really like whoa whoa whoa whoa and with like the vw id4 gtx with the dcc adaptive dampers which are an option of course this would be for example way better and even better than you know when you have like you know some of the german premium vehicles so that's this is no doubt the difference but other than that here for example easing the car around good rearview camera back again some wheel spin yeah this is great i mean still having so much fun and i talked all the way through this review and sometimes i just do more you know a little bit more editing or something because there's not more to say to a vehicle but here with this one with the model y there's so much to say about the speaker and that's also cool of course it is still polarizing in a way and there are things that are so great and things that are not that great definitely but that all you know that's definitely making a vehicle interesting and to me also thing is that i always have that with teslas you know when when i have it for a first day some things that are bugging you say like nah you know maybe i wouldn't buy a tesla but then you know the longer you drive it's like it's so easy to put an address and even if you don't use voice input or oh cool the supercharging network is still the best or like oh that was really efficient like what is this energy really so little energy being wasted and so on and then you see the progress of like oh it's even more silent than one year ago when i drove it and so on then it kind of makes you wait a minute maybe i should buy a tesla you know this is very interesting thing you know because with you know the majority of the other vehicles like especially when i drive like a german premium car um i say like oh yeah this is a very cool car i can really imagine like having that one you know when i drove the bmw z4 the first time i knew like this is so much fun i have to get this week you know so something like this you know but the tesla is really like this um more like you the longer you use it the more you see the advantages and then also um rather become a fan you know like this buying for the y not for the what and swipe away some of the disadvantages that still happen i can just stress again i mean we have great roads here today and hardly any traffic i picked this time of the day in the evening to have good light soft light and also empty roads and this is the most fun i ever had in a tesla by far and it's not the lowest tesla it's not the most powerful tesla once again it's the best tesla out there there is at this moment of course we have more tesla reviews for you like the model 3 versus the pulsar 2 for example than the tesla mod s review or what about the competitors of this one here id4 gtx this one of course you should tune into

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Keywords: review, test, drive, driven, autogefuehl, autogefuhl, acceleration, driving, Tesla, Tesla MOdel Y, tesla suv, Model Y, Tesla Model Y facelift, shanghai build, model y shanghai, model y LR, long range

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Length: 35min 11sec (2111 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/badcatdog]

He enjoyed driving it more than a 3, which is surprising. Loved the handling but thought the suspension was too harsh.

[u/tech01x]

I think Tesla should move to dual rate springs for more comfort while retaining their leading moose test results.

https://youtu.be/gczso5OoM88

Model Y matches the top successful entry speed of 83 km/h of the Model 3. That’s better than a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S (80 km/h) or the Taycan (78 km/h). Much better than the ID.4 (73 km/h) and Mach-E’s dismal result of 71 km/h.