 So I bought a Tesla Model 3 and I wanted to share some of my impressions of having the car Well for a week now and about 600 miles, so I'm gonna share some of my thoughts on it my first thoughts about the car is getting in thumb Angle strange, but not difficult definitely strange Now if you're not familiar with the Tesla Model 3 it is an all-electric vehicle That's right. No gas engine. No backup. No you drive it with electricity only. I Thought that was kind of a known fact, but based on taking my friends for test drives It's not a lot of people have asked that question Also, I'm sitting in a backseat because I wanted to try to gain some perspective on this panoramic Roof it has they have this really sweeping glass as my son put it when he sat in the back seat He's like he's like a spaceship And here's another perspective, so you can see all the way around so this is from the driver's side And all the way back here So first impressions when you get in the car is it feels really advanced it feels it's got a neat Perspective because I don't think I've been in a car that has an all-glass roof That's like this and oddly my scion which is my previous car had a glass roof But didn't have this much glass like it's only a partial glass roof With a sunroof, but this this is even in the back seat It's an impressive car because yeah, it goes all the way back Now this is a feature of both the model s and the model 3 and the other confusing thing that some people said Oh, you spent over a hundred thousand dollars in a car No, the tesla model 3 is the first vehicle they made that is Much less expensive. This is a larger production model car. Matter of fact the price on this car This is kind of meta you can go to the web browser to Open up of the web browser on this dash panel and buy a tesla from inside your tesla But this is the same specced car. I adjust it to be the same as mine So the purchase price is forty eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars And this is before this is not the incentive. So if you include potential savings It gets less. They have different calculated prices on here So you can figure out which one you want I I like the purchase price because those savings and incentives come back as rebates and they vary by state very by federal Programs that are available at the time. So throw it out there. This car is I paid for it once I added title tax All those little destination fees and everything. I think it came to 51 Thousand and change for this vehicle. So it's much less expensive than the previous tesla models Now a few other things about the specs of the car this car does go zero to 16 about four seconds, which is Really incredible and really interesting because there's no sound being all electric. There's just this you can barely hear it Wine of the motor when you accelerate that hard, but it is just sets you back in the seat It's very strange from someone up myself who's had and owned several larger performance cars Including some that had an excessive 700 horsepower Those 700 horses on a normal car make a lot of noise versus the tesla You accelerate amazingly fast immediately because the lack of a transmission. You just have electric motors driving wheels So there's not any Switching of gears that need to happen. It just goes and the power is immediate There's no delay like you would have in a gasoline powered engine or diesel But this car also still maintains despite all that speed a 320 mile range on a full charge That is really interesting. That is amazing that they have finally come along to where Electrical cars become practical. So electric cars is not really a new concept But they're a Different concept in terms of battery because that was always the challenge of these was the batteries never lasted Some of the earliest cars you can see at a local museum here are electric But no one had the range problem figured out battery technology had to really catch up and boy has it so This car has a lot of features i'm going to dive into in another video in terms of the way the charging system works and how you charge it But overall don't worry. Don't overthink it like I did It's fairly uncomplicated to charge it and a lot of people get what they call range anxiety Or that's their worry about electric vehicles that the range on it won't be enough for them Well, that's really not a problem because one I plug it in and just leave it plugged in at work So while i'm at work, it's charging. So whenever I go somewhere it's provided I don't exceed 320 miles in a single day I can charge it back when I get to work again generally if you hire a licensed electrician You're looking at $500 or less to install Easier if you are knowledgeable enough to do it yourself. I'm when you do the charging video you're going to see it's pretty simple So that being said you also have to consider things like a little bit different Like you don't have to think about stopping at a gas station because Even when I go to clients like the other day, there was a charger there. I charged my car when I went to a client It's becoming more frequent You don't think about it until you have an electric vehicle But there's different apps like plug share that will tell you where all the locations are many of them are free Because it's so inexpensive to charge these up Roughly in michigan based on our kilowatt hour rates You're talking 10 bucks roughly to fill up 300 miles on a car I can tell you that my scion got good gas mileage and could not touch that kind of price I mean it's to fill up 300 miles on a petrol vehicle is just a lot more expensive Now for those of you that asking well This has got to be a terrible car for road trips because you know What do you got a dragon extension quarter with you the tesla supercharger network is everywhere Um, there's other EV locations you can charge, but specifically the tesla ones are amazing And that's because they are super high wattage chargers and instead of taking hours to charge a car They charge it in like less than an hour for 300 miles So if you wanted a road trip from detroit where i'm located to california Awesome have at it You can plan your trip inside the car itself the navigation system will even stop and locate all the different chargers for you Which is really really cool. I mean that's that's any feature It'll help do the route planning for you and say hey These are the chargers you need to stop at to get to the destination you chose So you don't really have to worry about it. You don't have to think about it Just listen to the car. There's people who have complained like oh, I ran out of juice I'm like, did you listen to the car? Well, no, I thought it would go. I know my car, right? I don't understand People who do that, but listen to the car. It's very accurate on the mileage Now the self driving mode is a lot of things that people get confused about or ask about This car does not have full self driving. I did not purchase that option. It's a software upgrade like an unlock like a game upgrade Where you know, you get some extra dlc content and the uh, I don't know. I might buy it later. That's the nice thing about it. It's a software update So you give them $6,000. That's the price as of july 2019 and they unlock these full self driving mode Sessas do come with autopilot. I love the autopilot and i'm going to do a separate video on that but It works really well. Basically, it'll keep you in lane keep up with the car So when it slows down, well the car slows down with you when cars are going so traffic is much less Rage inducing or rage. Yeah, I what's the word i'm looking for? I don't go crazy driving in that stop and go traffic I was stuck in it yesterday Uh driving back from that client But the car will creep when the cars creep forward and stop when they stop It does that and of course when you get on the freeway The autopilot's amazing for the way it drives stays in lane and just kind of takes care of things for you Now the question and i'm going to be addressing this in a separate video about the autopilot, but real quick answer is Yeah, you can take over anytime grab the wheel. You don't have to hit buttons. You don't have to disengage it You win in the fight. So if you hit the gas to override its deceleration You can win if you hit the brake it disengages autopilot immediately and once again You win and you can override the car and if you do neither just grab the steering wheel and turn it Same thing you can turn a steering wheel and it disengages autopilot because it realizes you wanted to do something different So you're not not in control of the car. You are being assisted by the car, which is really nice Now my other impressions so far have been just Enjoying the interior of this car. So i'm going to give you that perspective not just that roof But from the cockpit standpoint, it's really really great like the whole layout to this one big screen Controlling everything. Ah, it may look a bit complicated to have a touch screen that controls all the car But it's really not uh, i'm going to Go over that a little bit real quick here to show you guys how it works, but it's it's really really simple So from this perspective here, it's a wheel street It's a park neutral drive kind of the same, but you know, no big deal. You just put your foot on the brake It's in drive. It's in reverse It's in park Just tap the little button on the end. Not a big deal. It's reminding me. I don't have a safety belt on And we'll go ahead and swipe these notices away Wincha wiper can be adjusted here or over here So pretty easy to get to backup cameras accessible all the time Charge range doesn't have a gas gauge tells you how far you have to go So you don't have to guess and go while i'm at 20 power. How far is that? It's always calculating that and it has an option to give you like your energy uses when it's regenting battery Which by the way, it regents the battery as you let off the gas So your brakes and things like that don't wear out Matter of fact, uh, brakes and maintenance on this car is pretty amazing You're talking about a car that can go Roughly 200 000 miles between brake changes and that's because you are using regen brakes So this car does weigh 4 000 pounds with the long range battery like I have Does still maintain to zero to 60 but all that Kinetic energy when you slow down can be turned back into electricity by using the motors in reverse essentially so when you're Letting off the gas it doesn't coast you have to kind of keep your pedal Down a little for the coast and then when you let off completely It says oh you want to go into regen mode without pressing the brakes the brakes on this are traditional when you use the traditional brakes Your rotors with ceramic pad standard like you find on most any automotive vehicle But they're not used very often and the overall maintenance on this. There's no oil changes. There's no filter changes There's very less very few things actually go wrong in it because it's such a simple design So that's made me really excited about the car And it gives you kind of that longevity of it these cars have been around for a little while The model 3's been around for just a couple years. It's our latest one But first people with like the model s Well over 200 000 miles on them and still go in strong They generally last this is of true of many electric cars not just the tesla This is just a feature when you have less moving parts. It's an engineering puzzle less moving parts if they're well designed There's less potential things to go wrong. The batteries is what everyone worries about. Oh, no that battery won't last long time Once again people with over 200 000 miles on our tesla are talking about losing As I understood this at about 150 000 miles the average has been about five percent loss of battery capacity So five percent less of 320 Mile range I'm going to say that's still pretty fair There's people said at about 200 000 they're looking at only six percent So really loses a little bit more at 200 000 and there are people with even more miles on it Now the car comes with an eight year 120 000 mile warranty to cover that So I'm not I don't have a worry but go no I'm going to not have a battery that lasts long enough Blah blah blah that's it's really not a concern I know that's like the first thing people think about because the early ones when they use lead acid batteries Yeah, there's a way different for those old style batteries versus the technology we have today. We've come a long long ways Um, this is not exactly even the same chemical composition that you see in a car Or that you see in a phone. That's not what's in this car. It's very different I'll link to a great video that kind of explains the battery technology Better that's really happy with now if we take a quick walk around the car Stick look under the hood and uh I don't think they call they just call it a front trunk, but it's a frunk as far as I'm concerned as far as my son is concerned as well so, uh You have storage in the front Then you can walk around to the back of the car And uh, no surprise here A wonderfully big trunk Actually quite big and the seats fold down so you have that as an option as well But as far as the perspective of the car the way it looks the stance of it I think it looks really nice. I'm really happy with it except for as soon as the minute I pull up here A bird pooped on it, but that's I washed it and then you know that happened But it's sleek the aerodynamics of it the drag coefficient all that stuff is, you know Really nice on the car now the sensors the driving the cameras. There are cameras all over this car. So we've got A camera here A camera here, I think we got three cameras four three or four cameras up here at the top Um backup camera, of course But that's that's the less exciting and I know there's a series of sensors up here And I am doing some playing with it. It doesn't just work to detect Like so I don't hit the curb and watch cars as they go It works really well to even see small obstacles I was playing around with setting things in front of the car And it will say hey that you know, I got to figure out exactly how many inches but something that's four inches tall Sitting on there even though that is you know easily would go under the car You can you can see it on the sensors and it says hey there's something in your way which Thought was kind of novel But the last thing I'm gonna do is take you for a drive in it and give you an idea of how that goes because boy That's where that's where the car is amazing It's fun to drive and it's a little bit scary, but it's great to let it drive you as well Now the driving is where this thing gets pretty neat. So It's similar to a traditional car. I'll put your foot on the brake. Put it in gear Put it and drive now There is no transmission. So this is the first thing that I always find really novel I'm driving forward and you'd never do this in a normal car. Well, some of the newer cars have a Stop from doing this because they're also electronic but you can just throw it in reverse anytime Well, not anytime it will stop you from doing this at any Really high speeds, but yeah, it definitely works fine for Oh, why is this person doing that? All right. Now, it does stop you from doing things stupid like throwing it in reverse at high speed It beeped at me says. Yeah, you can't do that, but The concept that there's no transmission is just novel to me because I am a person who You know always like cars. I've owned like I said several performance cars and this is so much different But so much nicer. It kind of works the way you think cars should work Now it's drawing all the cars around me. It realizes there's a big truck behind me And it has a hard time sometimes understanding them when they come up behind you when you're stopped But while you're driving you'll watch it draw all these cars So it's Able to see these people next to me. It's able to read the speed limit signs So realize I'm in an area that does 25 mile an hour and all these assistive technologies are really nice But even in residential areas It's uh, it doesn't see the road just yet now it does You can turn on the auto driving feature and it says, okay I'll go ahead and stop and start when these people Go and stop and you can adjust the speed Now one of the things about this is people always concerned when they see an accident Tesla like oh my gosh What is it in auto driving mode and you just watch this person get in front of me and slow down It will go ahead and slow down with me now auto driving mode Auto selected speed restricted to 30 mile an hour reads the stops Signs and decides how fast how many miles over the speed limit you can go which is restricted to five So i'm gonna take it out of auto driving mode And turn around into park over here But the car is nice because it's so easy to you know take control Or drive it and boy with the weight the balance of the car It feels like a real performance car. So I can drive this I can Easily swing around corners even though it weighs 4 000 pounds It does not handle like a 4 000 pound car would and that's because the system has A battery pack located very well balanced at the very bottom of the car and I mean bare bottom of it So you have this really even weight distribution because the majority of the weight is the battery So you're evenly distributed without High weight like above the wheel says in all of the weight is below the axle height Which from an automotive design perspective is kind of where you want the weight So you get this really nice centered not uneven and the battery itself is very evenly balanced So it's it just makes for a well handling car Now the freeway is where the autopilot is really exciting You get it on the freeway and it just goes man You set this in autopilot and I picked the car up in Cleveland and It drove me pretty much all the way back to Detroit probably 90% of the time I had it on autopilot I drove it somewhere on some of the curves because I wanted to feel it But it it actually takes the mundane boring parts of the freeway where you're just trying to get somewhere out of it That's a big advantage the autopilot has is certainly that the last thing I'll touch on is a lot of people Are worried about service going hey time you picked this all the way up in Cleveland Why didn't you buy it in Michigan? Well, Michigan has a stupid rule and that rule was made to protect consumers many many years ago that says Hey, we want to protect you consumers. So we only allow dealers to Sell these vehicles through third parties and tesla you're buying direct because you're buying direct Well, that's going to mean you can't sell in michigan But don't worry. There's a Toledo service center to actually have the car service and the tesla rangers will come out and Service the car if it needs to be now, this is going to be interesting because I'm passing a car right here And we got two cyclists not motorcycles cyclists And look it draws the cyclists. That's cool So it can tell the difference between a motorcycle a car a truck on the driving It's it's really impressive how how advanced this whole system is But my overall like I said, I've only had it for 600 miles, but I've talked to a lot of my friends who Uh, what got me to buy this car was I took a ride and my friends actually he let me drive it for about a half hour And I said wow, this is just a different next level car And that's what sold me on it. I'm really excited about it Some of my friends have had theirs for a number of years and kept telling me time You got to check this car out and you can go online and look there's a lot of people who Own these cars and like I said have 200,000 miles on them are still as excited about them as when they bought them They are just You know really singing the praises of tesla and this model at you know, 50,000 I know they advertise it as a 35,000 car You can get the bare bones for that But I highly recommend at least getting that long-range battery, which will push that price up So that is a that is something to consider on it that you're going to spend a little bit more than The 35,000 that they had on there, but I think this is a really great car I'm really happy with it. I don't have any buyers remorse, which I was Worried I would have because I don't like spending money on new cars or any large appreciating asset But one things you will find interesting that I did as well I was really hunting for a used one And I was impressed when you look at the original selling price of the car and what a used one sells for They really maintain their value better than a lot of other vehicles do so that was that was an Interesting insight that I'm like, okay. It doesn't appreciate as bad as I thought But that's it. Like I said, I'm gonna do more videos on very specific topics of it Leave comments below if there's something that you want to know about it If you want to take a test ride in and you're one of my local friends, you know how to get a hold of me These road tracks are terrible Which is also why I didn't go with the performance model or the low profile rims We if you can't tell we have Atrociously bad roads here In michigan, but I'll be doing some deep dives on very specific topics on it Including charging options for it and kind of do a whole debrief of everything I learned And a couple things I didn't find concise videos on But yeah, go do your research You'll find a lot of other people on youtube that are excited about these cars as well So it's not hard to go around on youtube and find a lot of information about these teslas There's a lot of forums go ahead Do your reading on them and decide if it might be the car for you And if you do decide you want one, I have an offer code that gets me and you some free charging miles At the teslas super chargers They used to have a really cool incentive program to help buy teslas They've I know if you've canceled all those plans the only plans they have now is I have a cool, you know offer code For that if you buy one it gets both of us some charging miles I actually use my friend's offer code so I got a thousand free super charger miles on this But yeah, it's a it's a great car That's my first impressions of it after owning it for 600 In some odd miles and a week of driving it. I still smile every time I get in the car and Trust me. Take a test ride on one and you'll smile too. Thanks