- Tonight is the night where they're launching
the Tesla model S Plaid edition.
We're About to go into the fastest car
in production history.
- Everybody ready?
- Yes.
- Oh!
- Ohh!
- Oh!
- We've got to show that the electric car is the best car.
Hands down.
- Welcome to Fremont, California.
Tonight is the night of the Tesla Model S plaid launch.
And I would imagine
there's going to be some other surprises
that come out of tonight.
- All right man, You gotta tell us what's inside.
- Apparently, the only one out here in front of where
Elon should be speaking.
I don't know why I do this at all the events
but I always get right here in the front.
What!
- Thanks for coming to this hole in the ground.
- Oh my gosh.
The Teslas are racing over there and it is so fast.
(upbeat music)
They have a redone racing track right here
where they have the Plaid lights all set up.
They're going to let everybody get inside
of these cars and take test drives around.
It's going to be a fun night.
So I'm going to bring you along for the ride,
show you what's new and give you my thoughts
as a Model S owner and a Tesla owner.
Now we just wait for Elon Musk to get here.
(upbeat music)
It's almost 9 o'clock, we were supposed to start
30 minutes ago.
I am positioned right here in the front.
We've got the loudest speakers ever right here.
But I think there should be coming any moment now,
and the live stream will start on the internet.
I think we have pretty good seats.
I see Elon's water right in front of us.
Things are about to start.
We're about to see what's going on.
And then I have to get a ride.
I do have my badge.
I am in group O
which I think is, like, the early rides.
So I will get a ride
in the race car and hopefully I can film it.
He's here saving.
I think it's starting now.
The live stream is starting.
There's Franz, he is the designer of Teslas.
(cheering)
Yeah!
- Ah baby.
- Almost nine years ago, on June 22nd, 2012,
we had our first Model S delivery event.
And tonight we're going to show you the next best version
of Model S.
And I brought this along.
- I love it
- Because we might be breaking a few records.
- Hey!
- let's get Elon out here, and have him show you
how we made the best car in the world.
- Whoo!
- The new Model S.
This is an ambitious goal to create a whole new kind of car.
- That might be the drone shot.
I think they're showing the actual drone shot
of the Elon coming around right now.
There's a drone up in the sky.
I just saw it.
(upbeat music)
Yeah!
(cheering)
- Whoo!
- Yeah, I love the jacket.
- Thanks for coming and thanks for tuning it.
We've gone Plaid speed.
There is something that's quite important to the future
of sustainable energy, which is that we've got to show
that an electric car is the best car, hands down.
That no production car has ever done zero to 60
in under two seconds.
And this is really something you have to feel to believe.
- So Elon walks off the stage
and he comes over here and I looked over
and I see my buddy Eli over here to asking a question.
Did you find out when the Roadster's coming?
- So we didn't get an answer on Roadster coming.
- We'll find out if you're going to space.
- I didn't ask him that.
- Oh.
- But I did ask him if I could include him in
Starman's origin story that we're producing right now
in the stuntman comics,
and he said, yeah, sure.
Is it okay if I include you in the
Starman comic origin stories?
- Sure.
(cheering)
- Elon just got off the stage.
He did a great job.
It was interesting.
There were no surprises.
There was nothing that was like, one more thing.
It really, this really is the Model S Plaid delivery event.
I currently have a long range Tesla Model S,
it's the 2020 model,.
It's a fantastic car.
But I will be honest, after watching
some of the things with the exterior and the interior
of the changes that they did with this Plaid version,
it makes me think maybe I need that.
The air cooled seats, fantastic.
The screen system in there, the computer chips,
the way that they work is really, really good.
I love the air vents and the way that they function.
I love that you can sit
in the backseat and you can actually be comfortable
and have five adults in there
and be comfortable.
I'm always the person that likes to have better range
over better performance.
If the Model S long range has the seats,
has all of the different features,
other than maybe the carbon engine
and this super fast side of it,
I could see myself getting a long range Model S.
(upbeat music)
Okay. Right now we are in line.
We're going to be doing the test drive.
This is it.
I'm about to go into the fastest car in production history.
(upbeat music)
What's your limit of number of rides before you get sick?
- I do this all day.
- This is all new, the heads up display.
All the Model 3, Model Y people that hate the display,
look at that.
It looks sick.
- Everyone ready?
- Okay, hold on tight.
Here we go on the race track.
We're not going to go fast, but it feels fast.
Oh, we're on the baked wall right now.
Oh, baby.
Look at this thing.
- Now we're going to go into cheetah mode
the front settles down and then holds itself down.
So you get continuous front friction.
Everybody ready?
- Yes.
Oh look at that light.
- Oh!
Whoa! It keeps going.
It keeps going.
Oh my gosh. It doesn't let off like most Teslas.
- It does not.
- Wow.
- I literally felt like something was pushing against
the back of my chair.
(laughter)
- So, during acceleration, you get about 1.3
to 1.4 G, so you're effectively getting
pushed back harder than you're sitting down.
- I know I said that want long range Tesla
but maybe I need Plaid Mode.
Thank you for the ride. You did awesome.
- You're welcome.
- So how was it?
- So good.
So good.
Thank you.
- Thank you for coming.
- I guess I know what Plaid Mode is now.
With a Tesla usually you get that initial launch
and it's like, whoa.
And then it just kind of lets off.
It's still picking up and going faster and faster,
but not at the same rate as what this does.
It keeps going.
that initial boom that you get when you,
that throws you in the back of your seat,
you continue to get it more and more and more
as he continues to go forward.
(upbeat music)
The main purpose of this event
was to start the deliveries,
to get the first 25 out.
Elon said they're going to start doing
a hundred a week pretty soon.
And then it's going to be a thousand a week coming,
I don't know when, in a few months
This is one of the last ones
that is leaving the spot tonight.
One person was here from Connecticut
and they flew in to check out their car,
to look at it but then they're just going to fly home
and they're going to ship the car to them.
But I do know that the people that live here,
around here,
and they're literally just taking their car
and driving home right now.
I think this is my seventh Tesla event
that I've been to,
if you count the boring tunnel
and you count the rocket launch that I went to,
there was an award trip
and I'll never forget going to the semi-truck unveiling
and having them roll out the Roadster.
It was like this super futuristic car.
That was in 2017?
We're in 2021 now.
The Roadster is still no closer to coming,
and I think it's interesting that
the Tesla Model S is the same body that it's been
since 2011, 2012, when they launched the car.
I would love to see in the next year or two,
them to change the exterior.
Now it's a really big moment right now.
We're about to go on the ride, in the fast car.
- Absolutely not.
- Are you really not doing it?
- I don't want to do it.
I'm a truck guy.
- I'm going to have to get a Plaid Model S
and I bring it to his house.
Would you do it then?
- I would do it then. I would do it then.
You would probably let me drive it.
- Oh, you want to drive?
- If I'm in the driver's seat, then I would enjoy it more.
- Let me know down below
if you want to see a video where Zach drives
the Tesla Model S Plaid.
We will go to an undisclosed location
that's safe and let Zach go.
Cambree, is that okay if we do that?
Okay. Look at that two thumbs up.
- That car is so much faster than the
ludicrous Model S.
And it's not the zero to 60.
It's the, like, zero to 120.
- It keeps going.
So one of the things that I commented on
when I was in there,
I said, it just keeps going,
it just keeps going.
And this is one of the main components of that.
This is, like, the carbon fiber
that's around the motor part.
There's three of these inside of the car.
And so Elon showed this curve
and when it got to 200 miles an hour
it just kept going and going and going.
And I guess this carbon fiber is the thing
that makes it happen.
This is some innovation
that the Tesla engineers came up with.
No other car in the world has this.
That's some of the genius behind this.
I love this car.
They're always innovating.
It looks the same as the cars from 2012
but the inside is a lot different.
Leaving the Tesla event,
super fun, no huge surprises.
But I will say that car is fast.
It's fun.
I feel like it's, in some ways,
the response to the Porsche Taycan
because when that came out, everybody was blown away
with how fast that car was on the track and in real life.
So this is a good answer to it,
and honestly, it's a good refresh even on the inside.
Parting gift.
- Parting gift.
- Ohhh.
- You get a hat and then you get a poster of your choice.
- Okay. This is awesome.
Okay, so I'll take a hat.
Thank you.
I got a poster of a car.
It looks really cool.
I don't know how I'm going to get this in my suitcase.
Stay tuned for an actual real-world test
where I drive inside of a Model S Plaid.
I do have access to one in about a week
and I think I'm going to take it on a ride and test it out,
but initial impressions are thank you, Tesla
for letting me come and be a part of this.
Elon Musk is kind of a mad genius.
He does such a good job with the company,
with coming up with the innovative product ideas,
and I'm grateful to be able to come
to like seven of these things over the years.
So let me know your thoughts.
Do you like the Model S Plaid?
I hope I conveyed how fast it was with my video.
He really have to get inside of it to really believe it.
If you've been in a P 100 D,
you really have never been inside of a Plaid Mode.
Plaid is faster.
All right.
Thanks for watching. See ya.
(dramatic music)
- Okay, does everybody here want way points?
- Yeah!
- All right, fine, we'll do way points.
The Roadster, yeah, the Roadster will
certainly be next level.
I guess we'll have to break a few rules,
and throw in some rocket thruster.
We've gone Plaid speed.