I Bought A Tesla Model 3 - Celebrating 2 Million Subscribers!

Hello everyone and welcome. I'm sure you're all dying to know. Jason, what's under the towel? What's your new car? And we're going to get into the reveal in just a second. But first I want to say thank you 2 million subscribers. There is nothing powerful enough that I can say. I love my job. I love learning. I love teaching. And it's because of all of you that I get to have what I consider to be the best job in the world. Thank you all so much. I am incredibly grateful for every single one of you, except for you, Jared. Now, as I've mentioned in a previous video, I've been in the market for an electric car. I think they're super cool. And I've actually been debating for the past several months, which electric car I was thinking about buying. I'm super happy to say that autotempest.com has teamed up with me for this series on my new electric car. It's my favorite website to look for used cars. I spend way too much time on it. And what's cool about it is that they take all of the major used car sites and they put all the search results in one spot. I will include a link in the video description and I'd highly recommend checking it out. If you're in the market for a used car, or if you're in the market for a new car, they also have a tool to help you get competing quotes from multiple dealerships, which is perfect because I bought a new car. However, there's one company that doesn't sell through traditional dealerships. Are you guys ready for the reveal? Yes. I've bought a brand new Tesla model three. Yes. One of the only cars you can't find new on auto tempest. Wait, well, there goes that sponsorship. So as far as the spec, this is the mid range Tesla model three. It is rear wheel drive Tesla claims on a full charge. It will get 260 miles of range and has a zero to 60 time of 5.6 seconds. Now there are two ways of looking at the model three mid range. The pessimist will say that it is the lowest range model three. And that is also the slowest model three currently sold. And both of those are true. However, the optimist would say that this is the lightest weight model three currently on sale. And it is the only model three that has rear wheel drive currently on sale. And to me, I think rear wheel drive is super cool and I think losing weight is super cool, which is why I never eat as much as I love the practical aspects of all wheel drive. I think rear wheel drive is more fun and combined with the lower weight. I'm super excited about the driving dynamics of this car. So let's start with a tour of the exterior of the vehicle. Then we'll hop inside, check out the interior, and then we will go for a drive. Now Tesla calls this color here multi coat red. It's a very clever name that they came up with because the color is in fact red. Now the model three comes in five different paint colors. Personally, I think red and blue both look awesome because I went with the slowest model three. I thought I might help myself out a little bit, get some red paint, speed things up. Everyone knows red paints the fastest. Also, now that I have a red car, I also have a blue Crosstrek and a yellow S 2000. So I have all three primary colors and my perfect garage is complete. Let's talk about the wheels for a moment. The car comes standard with 18 inch wheels. Now these are the 19 inch upgraded wheels. I chose them not because of the way they look, but rather the tires that you can fit on them. I'm probably one of few people that chooses wheels purely just because of what tires are available for that wheel size. So that's what I did. It comes standard with all season tires. You guys know how much I obsess over tires. I will certainly be changing these out. And you know, this is actually one of the reasons why I was deterred from buying the BMW i3. The i3s are an awesome deal used. I really think they're awesome vehicles. The disappointment for me is that there's really only two tires available. There's like an all season and a winter tire available for it. And that's because it has a very unique wheel size. And because of that unique wheel size, none of the tire companies make tires for it. And because I love tires so much, I decided to not go with the BMW i3 even though used, they are a crazy good deal. Now, one of the things I really like about the exterior is that the roof is entirely glass. So it's actually three sections. There's the front windshield, a center section, and then the rear window. And I guess that's kind of cool, you know, because if you were to get a crack or a scratch on one of these pieces of glass, you don't have to replace the entire roof. You can just replace that individual panel. But also I just think it looks cool, you know, from the interior, it's got a heavy tint to it. So you can't really see through it much from the outside, but from the interior, especially if you're sitting in the back seat and looking out of it, it does look quite cool up front. There is a frunk and frunks are undeniably awesome. Even my friends who don't know what a car is are like, well, wait a minute. There's a trunk, but it's up front. That's awesome. It is awesome. And in fact, you can open it up using a smartphone. So here we go. I'm just going to hit the trunk button there, pop that open and voila. And now you're thinking, wait a minute, Jason, that space is kind of worthless. What could you possibly fit in there? Well, hold on, check this out. And you could fit two of these, the big ones. You also do have a nice, large rear trunk. So checking out the trunk here, we have the charging kit and usually these charging kits annoy me because they're flopping around as you're driving and you need to have it in the car with you. If you want to charge well, Tesla actually thought about it. So there's a nice textured surface here on the bottom of it. And as you can see, it won't slide around on this surface. Additionally, there's a huge storage area underneath that you can drop that down in. It won't slide around down there and you still got your full trunk space. Fantastic. Now, as far as charging, check this out. So there's a button on the charger right here. I push that next to the charging port, it opens up and then just slide that right in. And we start charging. There's additional controls on your phone as well. So you can flash the lights if you would like you can, Oh man, that was loud. You can start it. You can open the front trunk, you can open the rear trunk and then you can, of course you can set some valet modes. If somebody else is going to drive it, you can also have it preheat in the morning so that it's warm when you get in it. The car has 5.5 inches of ground clearance. It weighs somewhere around 3,700 pounds. I haven't actually seen what Tesla quotes the weight is for the mid range, but it is going to be lighter than the long range. It has fewer battery cells and now the long range only comes with all wheel drive. So it won't have the motor up front like the long range does as well. It's also one of the most aerodynamic vehicles sold today. So you can see the very smooth body shape. It's got the flush door handles, a drag coefficient of just 0.23. All right, let's check out the interior. Now, as far as getting in and out of the vehicle, there's no longer an actual key like you have with traditional cars. There's not an ignition to start up. So your key is now actually this card or you can use your phone. So you can leave the card in your wallet, use that as the key or you can use your phone to unlock it inside that kind of thing. So as far as the interior, there used to be two different options. There was a $5,000 upgrade, which you could do for the premium interior. Now all of the cars come with a premium interior and they do have a hike in price for the base price of the vehicle. Now that premium interior means 12 way adjustable heated front seats. And I love these seats. Usually seats are a bit too firm for me because I don't weigh all that much, but these are really well cushioned and you kind of sink into them and it's a super comfortable seat. It also comes with their upgraded sound system and the sound system is actually fantastic. It does an awesome job with low frequencies. The base is really good, good mid frequencies. It is lacking a little bit in my opinion on the higher frequencies. I think, you know, some of the higher end like Mark Levinson systems in Lexus vehicles actually do a nicer job with the high end frequencies. But overall it is a fantastic sound system. One thing that is a little bit weird about the sound system though, is that the base seems a lot heavier in the front seats than if you're sitting in the back. So there's a big difference in what the base sounds like depending on where you're sitting in the vehicle. As I mentioned earlier, you've got the glass roof. I think it looks super cool, especially, you know, sitting in those back seats. You also have auto dimming, heated and power side mirrors. Now for adjusting the mirrors and for adjusting the steering wheel, there's really no buttons or controls in here. There's a few, you've got these two stocks right here and then you've got a few buttons on the steering wheel. Everything else is controlled through this touch screen. And so you can actually adjust where the steering wheel height is and you know, whether you want that in or out using these buttons here on the steering wheel and you use those same buttons to adjust your mirror by selecting that on this touchscreen. Now you may be disappointed to learn that pretty much all of your functionality, all of your controls are done through this 15 inch touchscreen. But the good news is, is that it's actually a really good touchscreen. So, you know, it's got a lot of the same functionality like a phone does. It works a lot like a smartphone, unlike a lot of the, you know, the modern infotainment systems in cars now where the touchscreens are not responsive at all. This does a really nice job. A good way of demonstrating that is showing the heated seats. So you actually have heated seats in both the front and the rear seats. So all five. And if I push three of these buttons at once, they all activate. If I just push those two on the sides, those go in. Let's see if I can turn each of these off and then hit all of them at the same time. And as you can see, it activates all of them. So it's a really good touchscreen. It's capable of recognizing multiple touches on the screen there. You just demonstrated five touches and it worked with all five. So it is a nice touchscreen. Now there's all kinds of stuff going on with this display and I'm not going to get into all of it, but a few highlights. One of the things that I think is pretty cool, the climate control system here, you can see this large vent across the front of the vehicle and you can actually direct the air just using your finger here and show choosing where you want that air to flow, which I think is really cool. And it changes the directions of those fans there. So it's got those two air blades, which it uses to change where the air actually goes. And you can do that for the driver and passenger side in very different ways. I think that's pretty neat. I also like the charging screen and the way they have this set up. So you can set a limit for the charging of the battery. So Tesla recommends keeping it below 90% if you're just driving around town. And then if you need to, you can set that limit up to a hundred percent and you can charge it if you're going to go on a long trip, make sure it's full, you know, the next day after you get in your vehicle. But to keep the battery health long, they recommend keeping it, you know, around 90%. I'm just leaving it here on 80%. And one of the cool things about this, you know, even at 80%, it's got 206 miles remaining or about 330 kilometers. So plenty of charge, even just leaving it at 80%. All right, enough about the interior and this screen. Let's go for a drive. Now looking around, I certainly can't think of any reason why I would have wanted to opt for all wheel drive. Nature's certainly not trying to give me any sort of sign here, are they? So anyways, what's this thing like to drive? Well, you know, it's an electric car, so it's super boring. There's no sound, nothing about it's good, except when you put your foot down, it seriously pulls. I mean, this isn't like, you know, the P100D, this isn't crazy acceleration, but it is quite good, you know, for where this car is at. And being rear wheel drive and, you know, putting your foot down on these icy roads, nice, Jason, cool, is yeah, this thing is quick. It is quite fun. You know, again, not going to blow your mind. It's not supercar stuff, but it is quite good and very responsive acceleration. So when you put your foot down, you get that torque and there you can see the rear end sorting out a little bit of ice back there. But figuring it out with the traction control, quite cool. One of the things that does feel different about this versus, for example, the Leaf or for example, driving a Tesla with ludicrous mode. So there's two acceleration modes here. There's chill and there's standard. And I've got it in standard here, which is a lot more responsive. You put your foot down, you get that torque pretty immediately. What there seems to be though, and this is how I felt when I was driving the Tesla P100D with the ludicrous mode is that this standard mode, this standard driving mode has a bit more of a delay and it's not a long delay in acceleration, but there's a slight delay between when you put your foot down and when you get that full torque. And then if you put it in chill mode, you know, it's kind of a relaxed and it doesn't have quite the same amount of acceleration and it eases into it. But it doesn't have that snappiness that you have like in ludicrous mode. And even honestly, I think the Leaf's response, the Nissan Leaf that I had longterm was a bit quicker. But this certainly has more acceleration. So once it's hit that peak torque, it's there and it's not a long delay. I'm kind of making it sound like there's a long duration. I mean, it's certainly very quick and it's faster than an internal combustion engine, but it feels like there's kind of a little bit of a tuned in delay in getting that peak torque. Either way, the throttle response is absolutely fantastic and the control of the throttle is great. I mean, varying your foot and just varying how much torque you get exactly when you want it. That is super, super cool. The brakes, you get a good amount of regen and there's also two modes for regen. So you can do standard or low. You can also have creep on so that, you know, at a stoplight or whatever, you'll just kind of creep forward. It feels kind of like driving a vehicle with a torque converter. I leave that off and just let it hold itself at stoplights. But it is cool that you have, you know, all these options to play around with. I've got the steering in standard mode. The steering itself is I'd say somewhat, I mean, there's no, there's no effort required. It's fairly numb. But that said, it's very responsive. And so, you know, you turn in, you get that immediate turn in. And part of that might be that it's freezing outside. And so the tires are kind of hard and they adjust very quickly to that, rather than kind of this gooey feel that you might have with like a winter tire. Regardless of the steering, very responsive. So that's good. Just, you don't get a whole lot of feeling through the steering wheel and there's not a lot of effort required. You can increase the effort. You've got sport mode where you could decrease it and put it in comfort mode. As far as visibility, it is fantastic. Large windshield up front, nice windows to the left and right looking, checking your blind spot, good big window back there. And then looking out the rear, I mean, of course the whole roof here is pretty much glass. So looking back, you've got plenty of visibility out there. I love that. So many cars today are sacrificing visibility in the name of style. And, you know, personally I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of style, hence the hoodie and and have better visibility. So I like that this car has fantastic visibility all the way around. You can see what's going on. And that is quite nice. Now, as far as the ride comfort, this really isn't the best road to be testing that out on. It's pretty flat, but overall I've been quite pleased with it. Nice cushion suspension feels quite good. This road does have a lot of tight corners. And so you can kind of get a feel for the body roll. There doesn't seem to be a ton of it. And that of course is helped by having that heavy battery as low as possible, you know, at the bottom, keeping the center of gravity low of the vehicle. The noise is another weird thing. I mean, this thing is super quiet on the inside. And when you're just driving around town, especially kind of below like 35 miles an hour, it is really quiet in this thing. And one of the things that's kind of weird is as you come up to a stoplight, you know, you've got the regen braking. So you've got motors that are slowing you down. If you just let off the gas pedal coming up to that stoplight. And then when you start to get on the brake pedal to just come to that final stop, you know, those last five miles per hour, you can actually hear the brake pad press up against the brake disc. I mean, there's no sounds coming from this thing. And so when you do have a sound like that brake disc, you actually hear it. And so usually that's going to be muffled up by an engine. You're not going to hear it because you're going to have an engine idling. And that's going to be louder than that brake contact of, you can actually hear the contact on the brake pads meeting against that brake disc, which is just kind of crazy at those low speeds at these speeds right here. You don't really hear it if you get on the brake pedal, but at a very low speed, when you're just creeping along and there's no other noises, you can hear that brake pad. And that's a bit strange. Now, one of the things that's quite different is not having any information displayed directly in front of you. So you're used to looking through your steering wheel, seeing all the information, your different clusters, and there's nothing here. You've got your speed on the top left of the screen here. But aside from that, you know, you really don't have much driving information and that's a bit weird. And when you're sitting in the car stationary and you're not actually driving, it definitely feels weird at first. And you're like, what? I don't have any information to look at. But once you are driving, actually, I've been surprised that I kind of feel less concerned about it. And you know, you're just focusing on driving. You've got your speed. You've got the one important thing. It is a little weird that you have to look to the right. You know, perhaps it would have been cool if they included a heads up display and you could have that information directly in front of you. But I have been surprised that, you know, not having anything here doesn't feel all that strange. It kind of feels natural. There's a kind of a beauty to the simplicity of everything here where you just look out the front windshield, you're driving, you're doing your thing. You've got the speed if you need to look at it. But there's really no information that you're being given. I think for car guys, it's kind of a little disappointing because you want to see those gauges flying and all that kind of stuff. But that said, it seems very natural. And I'm surprised by that. I didn't expect it to actually feel all that natural. Another thing that I like is you can actually feel that this car is rear wheel drive. So going through these tight little corners here and then getting on the gas as you come out of it, you can feel a little shakiness there to the back end where it's trying to figure out traction and have it all controlled. So there is a little bit of a playful nature that it maintains being rear wheel drive. And yes, the traction control will kind of assist and send torque where it's needed and make sure you're not getting sideways. But it's cool that you can feel that it's actually rear wheel drive. And it sorts out that traction and it gives you that little playful nature of rear wheel drive cars. So I do think that's fun. And you know, I'm glad honestly that it has that feel as a rear wheel drive car that you can tell as you put your foot down, especially when it's cold out here, you know, like this conditions aren't ideal and it's got that playful nature, which makes it fun. Now, when I drove the P 100 D some people were like, dude, you didn't even talk about autopilot. And guess what? I didn't even buy autopilot. It turns out I love driving. Uh, no, that's not, that's not necessarily all the reason why. here's my thoughts on autopilot, you know, until regulations are at the level where it's actually legal to do and cars are at the level where it's safe to do and everyone's doing it and that's the norm. Cool. I think that's great. Perhaps I will, you know, enter into it then, and you know, pay for the fee to get the upgraded software. The car comes with all the hardware for autopilot. You pay a $5,000 fee to kind of activate it. Um, and to me, you know, at this time, it's just not that worth it. I can change lanes on a highway just fine. I don't mind. It comes with regular cruise control, so I don't mind that. I enjoy driving, especially around the city. You know, I don't mind doing all the driving myself. If it comes to the time where, you know, I can get in my garage, say go here and I don't have to do a thing. Um, and that is the norm. Then sure. I'm all about it. And you know, if regulations allow for it, then I think that's kind of cool. Um, and perhaps I might opt in then. Uh, but until then I enjoy driving. I don't mind doing it myself and it's got regular cruise control. So, you know, as far as highway driving, not too big of a deal. Uh, to me personally, you know, perhaps if you live in an area that just has a ton of traffic and you don't want to sit there and deal with, you know, stop and go, stop and go. You can let the car do it for you. I do think that is cool. So don't get me wrong. I think it actually is a pretty neat feature. Uh, just personally, I'm not all that interested in it. Overall, I am stoked, excited to be driving this thing around, make some content with it. And again, a huge thank you to autotempest.com. Please check out the link in the video description. It's an awesome site that compiles all the main used car sites in one spot. And a pro tip, if you're looking at buying an electric car, a tip of mine would be to look in states that actually have really high incentives. So for example, Colorado has a $5,000 state incentive to buy an electric car. So if you're buying a car from someone in a state like Colorado or other states that have these incentives, then you can probably get that price down a little bit more than states that don't have these incentives. Buying out of Colorado, you can get up to $12,500 off an electric car. So people are likely going to be willing to part with their electric cars for far cheaper. And you can even save some money, even considering that you need to ship it to your house. So that would be my recommendation. Check for a state that's close to you that you could have it shipped from that also has these heavy incentives. So you can find a good deal on a used car. Also, if there's any specific content you would like to see on this model three, I would love to hear about it. Let me know in the comments and thank you all so much. I cannot believe it. 2 million subscribers. That is just awesome. Thank you. Have a great day. Thanks for watching.