- Clearly to Elon, size matters.
(meowing)
(whooshing)
Second angle is rolling.
Auto focus on this one.
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Did you know that Tesla is the only car in the world
that has a bio defense mode?
So basically, right now in a time when we have a pandemic,
say you're driving down the street,
and the virus was everywhere, maybe you're driving
through a place where there's people alongside of you
that all have Coronavirus.
They're all breathing or they're coughing,
and you're driving your car very slow.
Tesla has a filter built into it that is able
to protect the virus from coming inside of the car
and to keep everything safe.
It was used during the forest fires in California,
where there's fire and smoke everywhere.
There's multiple examples of people turning it on
in their car, and then measuring the air quality
and their car dropped went from like really bad air quality,
all the way down to pure air.
Pretty pure air.
So today we're going to explore how that's even possible.
We're going to get my Tesla Model X,
and we're going to take a part of it,
hopefully not break it.
- Wait, you're going to attempt to take apart our Model X.
- Yes.
Is that a bad idea?
This is an air filter right here
that's like an air filter on a standard car.
I think this one is to a Nissan.
So we can keep looking forward, okay.
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I reached out to Tesla--
- I hear bubble wrap.
- A couple of weeks ago, and I said I would like
a replacement bio defense filter for my Tesla Model X.
They charged me $250.
- But they don't see it.
- And they mailed me this bio defense filter
that I can put in my car.
It's a little bigger than the Nissan one.
- Oh my gosh!
- Look at this thing.
- That's massive, God!
- It is huge.
- I'd expect that to keep out like the coronavirus or fires.
- This is a hepatho.
Don't touch it too much.
We wanna keep it clean and pure still.
- Yeah.
- To put it in perspective of how big
the bio defense filter is for Tesla.
This is a World War two training bomb.
It's an actual bomb.
- They fill it up with (beep).
- Don't tell them, we're gonna do a video on that.
It really is from World War Two,
a training bomb that they did not explode
or use in a training exercise.
And then it got wrapped in Gucci.
It's the only one in the world that's like this.
You could get into a Tesla, hypothetically speaking,
if a big old bomb went off, and turn it on,
put your family in there, you could drive
through the fallout from the nuclear fallout, potentially.
- We haven't really been able to test that.
- I don't wanna get sued.
If you guys do it during a nuclear fallout,
and all of a sudden, you're like,
well, what's inside so that we can jog on, get into our car,
on our Tesla, it should work as the theory.
If you look closely, it's kind of hard to see inside
but there's the hole on the other side of the filter.
They have like some sort of charcoal that's on there.
This right here is pretty cool like these pads.
- Yeah.
- That's not part of the filtration.
Maybe that's just to keep the cabin noise quiet
as it sits in the car.
Elon did a test a few years ago
where they put a giant bubble around the Model X.
And then they tested the gear outside of the car
and inside of the car.
And inside of the car,
it definitely got down to clean levels.
But what was interesting is that it may be
outside of the car, inside of the bubble,
also cleaner, not like 100% clean but cleaner.
There's little cracks inside of cars,
where air can get in and out.
And so they just figured, let's just blast in as much air
as we can and pressurize the car.
And then if any air is going to be leaking,
it's gonna be leaking out of the car.
So it actually cleaned the air inside of the bubble because
of the leaks in the cracks and the doors or wherever it is.
- Elon is very smart.
- Elon is so smart.
The model three and the model Y,
they don't have this model.
- Really?
- Their filter is too small, it's tiny.
It's like this big, maybe a little bit bigger.
- I'm very scared
'cause you're gonna be taking apart our car.
- Yeah, me too, same.
Right now we're inside of our Tesla Model X.
You can tell by the giant windshield
that's in the front here, the model Y, Model S,
and the model three does not have that windshield.
If you look right there, there's the bio defense button.
Lincoln, why don't you give it a push
and let's see what happens?
- [Lincoln] Okay.
(blowing)
Listen to that.
Wow!
- [Dan] So it turns on the air,
and it starts blasting it at full.
- It's really cold air too.
- [Dan] It is cold because we have the AC on, I think.
'Cause we have it set to 70 degrees.
- Got it.
Yeah, look, it's on 10 you can't change it.
- So we've had this car for almost three years now.
And we have, how many miles on here Lincoln?
- Push the T at the top.
- [Lincoln] 50,747 miles.
- Yeah, almost 51,000 miles,
we have never changed the filter out,
the bio defense filter.
So if we sat in here for maybe 10, 15 minutes,
the air would be pretty darn pure inside of this car,
versus what's going on outside.
Pretty awesome.
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Okay, front trunk, let's get this Nissan filter out of here.
Got a few other things that we need to take out.
So the filter is actually underneath these parts.
So we need to take apart all of this
and then unscrew and pull out this.
This is not something that I'm comfortable with,
taking apart my car, I am not good at taking things apart
and putting them back together.
I think it can be done.
So we're gonna do this.
Okay.
Oh, I took something off.
Set them on the ground the same way that I'm taking it off.
And then part number two, that was easy.
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Part Number three.
(crumpling)
Part number four.
Now, we need to take apart this plastic
or rubber seal that goes on here.
Pretty easy to do.
There's this stuff on the ground.
I'm trying to put on the ground
the exact same way that I took it out.
And you can see these plastic coverings
cover some of this stuff right here, which apparently,
we don't wanna cut this guy, I will follow that.
Right here is the inside flunk, and you wanna take off
the two lights that are on there
before you take out this inner part.
I broke off a little piece.
(bring it) So I broke off a little bit of this one.
If you look on this one, you can see it's just a little,
has a little safety thing on it.
All you're supposed to do is push down
on that little part right there.
And instead, I pulled off that big old thing
and so this thing just comes off.
Not a big deal as it's just the light, it'll still work.
All right, there comes this.
We're looking at the front trunk
and there are a bunch of screws on here,
bolts, there's like a bunch of bolts
that I need to unscrew these.
Come on!
There's like maybe 10 or 12 of them.
Once I do that, I should be able to take this out,
This is the tool that's gonna help me
get these screws out of here, hopefully.
Now we take these off.
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Hey Lincoln.
- Hi.
You have lost the tools.
- I'm workin' here.
- Oh, you took out the soft thing.
That's progress.
- Okay.
I think we got all of them off.
Need to go inside.
Those are for the trunk lights.
All right.
There it is.
Oh my dear, that is nasty.
- Wow, that's dirty.
That's really dirty. - Okay.
- We found it though, you did it.
You took apart our Tesla.
- I took it apart.
Look at all of that.
It is so dirty inside of there.
So does it just come out?
Okay.
So this is the filter right here.
It just sits down in there.
- Wow, that came off so easy.
- And it just comes out.
All right, so take a look at the difference here.
This is obviously the clean one.
The new one, this is the one after 50,769 miles
or whatever the number was.
Yeah, these things are good to clear out.
If you actually want the bio defense mode to work properly,
I would imagine, you wanna change your filters
every once in a while. - Look at the difference here.
This is like completely gray, and that's just white.
- Beautiful, pure white.
It's kind of cool how you just take this,
and you just set it down in there.
- Wow, that looks so much better.
The inside of our car was so dusty, the whole thing.
- There we go.
I fixed something, kind of.
This is the only opening on this side
that goes into the cabin air.
And then right here is where it goes in.
It's where there's a screw on that.
- [Lincoln] Yeah.
- Get it in there so it's nice and snug and tight.
And then down here on the bottom part,
you can see there's a groove that's made
just for this filter, just set right in there.
Once you have it in, there's no screws that are needed.
You just basically just have to put things back in.
Can I put something back together?
That is the question.
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All right, step one, get this big plastic thing in.
That's the biggest step.
I'm gonna put away my tools that I've used
once in five years.
This goes right there.
Right, big black spaghetti.
This is one of my greatest accomplishments.
This is what happens when you're stuck at home
and you don't wanna drive two hours to Las Vegas.
This will just snap right in.
(banging)
(clapping) (laughs)
I might have done something right.
- Okay.
This is the test.
You ready?
- [Dan] I'm ready.
(blowing)
- Good so far.
- [Dan] It's working.
It's good.
- I think you did it. - [Dan] I think I did it.
Are you proud of me?
- Yeah.
- [Dan] What would Zach say right now if he was here.
- I don't know.
- Dan, I am so impressed by your handiwork.
You staying at home during the quarantine
is the best thing to ever happen to you
'cause now you know how to fix things
by yourself and not rely on others.
- I hope you guys learned something today.
I learned that I can fix something,
but I also learned that the bio defense mode is pretty cool.
And you could probably use it more than I used it.
I used it like three times over the last 50,000 miles.
The filter is there, it can be replaced,
use it if the air quality is poor outside,
if there's an immersion in the wintertime,
if there's smoke outside, tons of pollen you get allergies,
turn on the bio defense mode and clean out your car.
And at least while you're driving,
especially on some of the long drives that you have,
you'll have some cleaner air inside of your car
that should help you breathe better.
So thank you Tesla for that randomness,
and thanks for watching.
See ya.
- See you around.
(hooting)
(shouting)
- Corona parade.
- [Dan] Corona parade.
Some sort of Coronavirus Parade.
This is what happens during the corona virus.
(hooting)
Lincoln, I think the world is a little upside down
on that map.
What is going on here? - Yeah, I don't know.
It looks cool though, look at that.
Looks cool upside down.
- [Dan] The world does look cool upside down.
I mean the world kind of is upside down right now
considering all the quarantines and stuff.
- Why is there so many rocks in Chile
but non like over here?
- [Dan] That's a good question.
Put that out there to the internet,
why are there so many rocks in Chile or Chile?
We need to know.
Lincoln needs to know the answer to this.
Why?
(blowing)
Bring it.