What to do if your Tesla runs out of juice

we are at IKEA in Oslo and I heard purposely run Optimus Prime down to red now and the purpose of this video is to drive it down to zero and show you what happens and also to show you what you have to do to recover and well I mean we are trying to do this and in the most control way and as safe as possible so I have power here my friend yeah he will help me we're going to drive around the parking lot in at IKEA and it is closed now and there's no one here and yeah so I will drive optimist until it stops and then Pavel will told me to - we have some fast charges right here yeah so uh I guess we just have to what drive it even further yeah yeah that's right yeah all right so you see now we have a power limit 200 kilowatt and well that is just a warning that we are getting close to the end but you can still drive a bit but you know now we have to you have to really seriously consider stopping somewhere because if you keep going then you can get stranded somewhere you don't want to get stranded so um this is like like is that our last warning you know charge if you can yeah don't keep driving you know but of course if you have if you know that you might have enough to get to the supercharger then go ahead but if not done yeah don't take the risk okay one kilometer left most likely this will this battery will go past zero but as I told you earlier don't go below zero please don't go below zero because some cars can go below zero doesn't mean that your car car can go below zero now in the end what matters is the power limit the power limit will tell you how much you have left so if you are at let's say 10 kilometers left and you have 100 kilowatt power limit and you better find a place to pull over really quick all right we are officially at zero yes so I'm missing 19 more to glamorous yeah let's see how how much posterior you can go oh I'm getting sweating out oh oh oh okay Berle oh oh I just almost had a heart attack there I thought the car was gonna stop but well even though it will not stop yet it will stop yeah when the power limit is at the bottom but that was I thought it was the shutdown message but it's getting very close now so we are just driving in circles around the Archaea parking lot now yeah here we don't have any cars so it's fairly safe oh okay I'm gonna shut up you want to listen to the sounds it's about to shut off it's about to turn off now this is right before the end well the trouble is very sluggish there's almost no power output they're just the koi some kind of limp mode just saving the energy just trying to get you there there oh no trottle response yeah no trouble response now you're just free rolling pretty much and now you have to find a safe spot to pull over so you have about 30 seconds to find a spot don't try to do anything stupid now just find a safe spot and then like here for instance okay let me see do I have any reason no it's just dead yeah it's dead oh okay that's it oh okay let's try to recover now so I won't blow everything is low now oh okay so on the car stopped and now you have to know what to do so we have the rescue car here everything's the Rudolf wasn't it yeah yeah so we have to get the token so you should know when you have time you should check out where all the equipment is so here's the tow hook and also get out high-visibility jacket let's see you see I don't even know how yes right okay so if this was if you are stranded by the road put this on so people can see you all right and then this one goes in the front here which is really clumsy because you have to okay come closer it's behind here see this is pretty much worse condition we are to get to pop it open you have to know how to do it you should try to do it one I mean when you're not in an emergency it's a little bit cumbersome I have use a key and then you kind of like pop it open ah I cannot get hit open ah I scratched a little bit of the plastic but it's fine it's gonna be used to be replaced we don't see traces there hi Steve it's really cumbersome to pop this open yes finally it's open okay put that in the front and then this one you have to put it in okay and then links links the other way that is yeah and it is really important that you use screw it all the way in because if you don't do that then the tow hook might damage and then what you call it again then yeah yeah I don't remember I'm a little bit confused right now like most people would be so but it's really important to screw it all the way in yeah there yeah okay I'm done and then you should always bring one of these yeah it's just a toe what you call it toes towing rope you might need it for now or you might need it for removing some ice bar some blockers hook it on your side also okay so he is ready to told me this is the fastest way to do it because another solution is if we stood back of the phone I mean the second solution is to get a flatbed but that would take too long so this this one is the fastest all right and then we go to service in Greece no no I don't remember where it was but yet Tomoe Tomoe so we have to be in park which is now let's put the car in park okay yes we push the brakes Tomo Dom yes all right okay go we'll go come on yo - honk all right yes sir done he will gently was there to gently pull yeah I think yeah he's yeah that's why he he washed the backup camera because he wants to he wants to see the rope yeah it's gently pulling it so the car is in tow tow mode which is like neutral and they were just free roll so we're going to go to the to the channel station hmm or actually maybe yeah oh see oh see oh see he's gently pulling it now yeah so usually well it depends on your location but oh I have no power steering all the steering is really heavy oh this is also something you have to expect no power steering so you want to have the strong person in the car while doing this so I can use brakes to just keep keep the tow rope tighten [Music] but you see we there are some other more fast charges over there but maybe we should go for the type 2 instead because the Tata boys a little bit cumbersome to place and the type to cable is easier you have to take a big turn now line up align up for for the time to it's slightly slower than Chatham oh but that works for us well now just to get there's the type - yes that's good it's over the first one here yeah I think the cable is long enough yeah so what you want to do is the juicer so you can yeah all right then okay to do this click thingy which means yeah well you shouldn't mess around too long because the 12 volt battery is not being short right now and a 12 volt battery keeps everything running like you know liftgate doors charge port or whatever so don't mess around too long and then in the end you might run out of 12 volt and then you have more problems because then if you run out the 12 volt you have to open this one I'm going to show you here and then open this one and then you have the 12 volt and you can charge two 12 volt here but fortunately we're not gonna mess it on too long so we will just plug in and see if it charges all right you know I only have a short cable 4 meter cable and we barely fit it in here so now what we have to do is to start charging hopefully it will start charging so flug starting you know is it do I mean this is the the green or green so this is the only solution once you stop you have to charge it up there is no way you can revive the car you there's no point to call Tesla well you can call it a Saab they can try to help you with the flatbed but what you want to do is charge it up they cannot revive it for you once if it has died then it dies and now let me show you how it looks like in here oh okay so it is starting to charge so we have to let it charge up a bit before we attempt to go to wherever yeah yeah so at this point it is safe and by the way huh interesting it's not charging at the maximal speed if we switch here setting to their language and unit and the energy I also seen this at the supercharger you see it only charges that two kilowatt for some reason and that could be because the battery is so like deeply discharged so um it it will like gradually increase so just give it like five ten minutes and then it will go to normal jobs trotting speed all right this is well at the moment his name is Rudolph so there's a red nose and also some horns yes but all right you know so what I've shown you here is what happens when you run out but you should try to avoid running out if you see that you know earlier in the trip you will see if you make it or not man and if you see that you cut it close take a detour stop at a fast charger type tree whatever just juice up fall I say ten extra minutes then you might you know save time because once you stop like now it's cumbersome you know you waste half an hour or trying to recover and if in the disaster is is a fact then I would say try to get at all like we did here it's pretty fast to just hook it there and then get told of course you have to have the equipment there like the tow rope and everything but in most countries you know people have tow bars and they can help you and of course the forces will laugh at you but yeah if you wait for the tow truck I mean or or the flatbed it will take long it can take like 1 2 hours you know and they also usually charge you for money what depends if it's covered by tests or not but try to solve it yourself that's my my advice or even better than this charge in time will slow down in time yeah all right but I by the way are so what I've shown you here I draw a draw this Optimus Prime down this year but this will be the first and only time I go that low yeah from now on I will just stay higher than that so this was just to show you guys what happens when you run out yeah all right so I think that's it power thank you so much for your hammer and you also came out here in the middle of the night so yes thank you very much and I guess talk to you guys later yeah Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Channel: Bjørn Nyland

Views: 1,195,694

Rating: 4.6466131 out of 5

Keywords: Tesla, Model X, run, out of juice, towing, tow mode

Id: sswtRgTd7wg

Length: 16min 45sec (1005 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 28 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/stevep98]

Bjorn I have watched all your videos and love every one of them. Thank you for your great service to the tesla community.

I hope I never need to use this information in this video. Just curious about what you said here. Can you write it?

"Or you might need it for moving some ... ??"

[u/Kryond]

Driven a LEAF for over a year and never even thought about doing a practice run. Watching him struggle a little bit in the cold, dark, and snow on a planned exercise has prompted me to pull out the owner's manual.

[u/anonim1979]

Put regen on low, tow and recharge: https://youtu.be/dqUWZsLg0Yo

[u/wch_one]

Anyone know why the tow hook is left-hand threaded?

[u/Mister626]

Head to reddit?

[u/spqr-king]

Could they hypotetically make it so you could charge the dead car with the charged car?