- What did you do to my car?
(laughter)
- [Ben] It's in the trunk.
(beeping)
(laughter)
(upbeat music)
- One of Jenny's primary complaints about the Model 3
is it's lack of a power liftgate, an automatic trunk.
For the price it seems like something
they could've thrown in.
Well, there's a company that is making a after market kit
where you can actually add this to your Model 3
and they sent me one to try out.
So I'm gonna head up to EV West,
the place where all my friends in the kind of,
hackerish Tesla community work and see if we can get this
done and deliver Jenny one of the features
she's been missing on the Model 3 since day one.
But first, like Lincoln Hawk in "Over the Top",
you gotta turn the hat around
and become a machine.
Let's go.
(upbeat music)
All right just wrapped-up.
Here's a quick little demo.
I have the Tesla app open.
I'm gonna hit the trunk button.
Confirm.
(car beeping)
(laughter)
And one more time if you wanna close it,
hit the trunk button.
(car trunk beeping)
I'm pretty stoked on this.
So you can also open it just from tapping
the button like normal.
And we installed up here another little button
you can push, just like Model S.
(car trunk beeping)
As well as inside of the car
because there is no way to close it from inside of the car.
Once you hit the open button from the screen
it's grayed out so you had to have another button,
so we put one in right here.
You can see that.
The funny thing about this button is it only closes.
So what we have to do is actually open it from here,
(car trunk beeping)
and then this button just acts as a close button.
(car trunk beeping)
Now one thing that's a little bit finicky
is the foot sensor, where you just wave your foot
underneath the bumper in order to unlock it.
Which is kind of cool if you have stuff in your hands.
It does, I just think, take the right rhythm
or the right movement.
You'll get used to that, I'm sure.
Right now it's still a little weird
but let's try it.
Nothing.
(car trunk beeping)
There it is.
So you can see there's a little bit of a delay
and you have to get the right spot.
I'm sure, like I said, after we've had it
for a little while, it'll just be normal
but we're all set-up now, time to head back and
see what Jenny thinks.
- What did you do to my car?
(laughter)
- [Ben] It's in the trunk.
(car trunk beeping)
(laughter)
- Did you put a button on my trunk?
(laughter)
- What is it?
- What's this called? A power liftgate?
- [Ben] Yeah.
- I complained about it so much. (laughing)
Really?
Okay, watch out.
Let's see.
(car trunk beeps)
(laughing)
Now she's perfect, right?
Well that's kind of fancy.
How do you get a power liftgate after market?
- [Ben] Okay now go in the front of the car.
Go in the driver's seat.
- You can do it on the thing, too?
- [Ben] Yeah.
- How do they do that?
(car door opens)
- [Ben] So, you have a button.
- Okay.
- [Ben] See it?
- Yeah.
(car trunk beeping)
(laughing)
- [Ben] Now that button only closes it.
So you have to open it from there
but go ahead and try it from there.
- Has it always been there, the open button?
- [Ben] Yeah but it just unlatched it before.
(car trunk beeping)
Here you can try it from here too.
- That's pretty cool though.
- [Ben] So hit the trunk button.
(car trunk beeping)
Go ahead and hit that one Jake.
(car trunk beeps)
- Lets go look at it.
(laughing)
- Oops.
It is closed already.
- [Ben] We're not done yet.
- Oh no?
- [Ben] No.
Go ahead and wave your foot underneath it.
- Stop it! (laughing)
- [Ben] You're, think you're too close.
- Oh. (car trunk beeping)
- [Ben] There it goes.
- Oh. (laughing)
Now if only it was a true hatch back
and it could fit a stroller.
- [Ben] I know.
All right now wave your foot under it again.
(car trunk beeping)
There it goes.
Now watch out when it's coming down
because it won't stop.
- So that's the only thing it doesn't have?
- [Ben] Yeah it doesn't,
now if you push you can stop it
but if you weren't expecting it, it would hurt.
It would crunch you.
- And if there was a child's fingers sitting there.
- [Ben] Oh yeah. - Yeah.
- [Ben] Crunch time.
Look at (laughing).
- [Ben] He did it!
(laughing)
- [Ben] Is that cool, Jack?
(car trunk beeping)
- Okay, so it was a hit.
It worked.
Jennie's stoked and I think this is the coolest upgrade
that I've seen so far for a Model 3,
I've done a lot of stuff
but this is definitely one of the biggest.
So thank you to Tesla Offer for sending it.
Really happy with it.
I think you guys did a great job designing it.
And obviously thank you to my friends
at EV West for helping me install it.
This is definitely above my pay grade on the D.I.Y space
and that's not really what they do.
They do these Tesla conversions,
so if you have an old car and you want to get
it converted to a electric car using Tesla parts
or whatever, they're the ones to go to.
So don't go asking them to do this install for you.
But the company that makes this,
they are looking at installers.
I believe they're scouting them out right now
in Southern California so I'll put some info
to whatever they send me for how to get this installed
if you're like me and it's a bit more
than you'd like to bite off.
Other than that, I hope you guys liked the video
and don't forget when you free the data,
you're mind will follow.
See you guys back on the next one.
Bye.
(car trunk beeping)
(upbeat music)
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