- This is the Long Range Plus Model S.
It is a completely different car.
Kind of scratched right there.
Welcome back to, What's Inside Family.
Today's an exciting day.
I am going to buy a Tesla Model S Long Range Plus.
It is the longest range Tesla
that Tesla makes 403 miles range.
Which if you've seen any of our videos
in the past about road trips,
we live in a small town that in order to get to Las Vegas
or in order to get to Salt Lake City,
it has become quite the headache
to have an electric vehicle.
I bought a Honda Accord about a year ago
in order to have a car that we can go on road trips.
When I sold my Model X,
I was anticipating Battery Day
coming out within a few months
and announcing the future of Tesla battery technology
well ended up taking almost a year
until they did Battery Day
and while the tech is incredible with Battery Day,
it's still a year or two down the road
and so for me,
I would like to have an electric car right now
that I can take on road trips.
I'm hoping that this is it.
So I just flew to Baltimore, Maryland
to pick up a new Tesla,
black on black Model S that was in inventory.
So it was already available on the lot.
So I don't have to wait four to eight weeks.
I can just pick this thing up.
The only tricky thing is I need to drive at home,
but for now in today's video,
I'm gonna show you what it's like in 2020 to buy a Tesla.
So yeah, let's take an Uber to Tesla
and buy my new car.
Right now I'm in my Uber
heading to the Tesla service center,
filled out all the paperwork over the last couple of days,
I put in my insurance information.
I wire transferred all of the money over, it was super easy.
And then I got this email from Tesla
telling me he was going to be
a touchless express delivery experience.
And then within 12 to 24 hours,
the car will show up fully active inside of my Tesla app.
It sounds too good to be true like,
it sounds a little easy
Like anybody could just pull up
and take a Tesla.
I don't know, like
is somebody going to look at my driver's license
and see that I'm the person
I'm just gonna get this car
potentially in minutes, let's see how this actually works.
So we pulled up to this place
and there are so many Teslas here.
Like, I don't remember the last time
I've seen this many Teslas at a service center, at a store.
And so,
it's really hard to know like, which car is mine though.
Like I know the color should be black,
but it said it'd be the, in the NTB line.
I don't know what that is.
Like, there's one right up here.
Pull up to this one right here.
That's not really clean,
but that is the exact kind of car that I'm getting.
It looks like it's it.
There are keys like inside of there.
But if I push on the lock, it doesn't open.
So it's not clean, this window is cracked open right here.
So I'm not sure if that's it.
Okay, so I went inside
and they said it shouldn't be unlocked
it should be ready for you
and so they went to push some button on the computer
to unlock it.
So let's see if it works.
Okay, still doesn't work.
A little update for you.
It's been about 20 minutes
that I've been here
and they found the car.
'Cause it's not that one.
Thank goodness.
It's inside the service center
and they're just finishing up a few things to it.
They're cleaning it out a little bit.
They did fully charge it.
It's been sitting for a few hours.
So I guess it's at 390 miles range,
I think is what they said.
We needed that 400 life for sure.
I would love to get to 400 when it's a brand new car.
Touchless did not quite go as planned.
It is not touchless.
We're just gonna wait a few minutes
and then we'll get this car
and it will be clean.
Oh look, they have a little paper I didn't see that,
congratulations, Daniel Markham, Tesla.
Thank you for supporting the mission to accelerate the
world's transition to sustainable energy.
That's very nice.
It smells like a brand new car, the mask is coming off.
I'm in my own dang car now.
One thing I don't want to do is film on Tesla property.
So we're gonna get outta here.
Oh, let's look at the range, here we are.
There's the beginning range for me, 389 miles range.
The autopilot does not work yet
because that says calibration in process.
It's gonna take a while until we can get that.
Let's see how many miles we've got on this guy.
Tesla Model S Long Range Plus,
and six miles on it.
I will say as much as I love my Honda Accord.
I do love my Honda Accord, especially on road trips.
This feels like a premium car.
This is nice.
But honestly, one of the reasons why
I wanted to get rid of the Honda is that
there's just so many road trips that we do
and while it is inconvenient, I really, I saw some things.
I saw some accidents on the freeway
and I thought, you know,
I wanna be in the car
that's one of the safest cars on the road.
This is the safest car on the road.
The Tesla Model S.
I just drove this car from Baltimore, Maryland
to Philadelphia and I have 269 miles range
right now on the car.
That's as much range as my Model X gets right now,
like the same amount of range
and I just drove that whole stretch.
I passed three, maybe four superchargers on the way up.
This is the longest range electric car
that you can get right now.
I live in a small town.
I bought a Honda Accord,
a gas car about a year ago and traded my Model X for it
because the range just wasn't sufficient.
I think 500, maybe 600 is the sweet spot.
I knew that Battery Day was coming.
I didn't think it would take
almost a year for it to come out.
Battery Day was amazing,
but the things from the Battery Day,
the new battery technology,
isn't gonna come out for like another year or two.
And so I bought another Tesla.
This is my second Tesla Model S but I will tell you,
after owning a 2015 Model S
and now owning the 2020,
and I've only had one day with it.
It is a completely different car.
This car rides crazy smooth.
They upgraded the shocks over the last year,
and they were able to do some things to the motor
to make this car super efficient,
but also I've never had this small
of wheels and rims on here before.
And it actually makes the ride go smoother over bumps
and different things
and I think my wife is gonna actually really enjoy this car.
And I'm gonna have this for like a year or two
until I can get 500 miles.
The Roadster should have it.
The Cybertruck should have it.
Even the Model S Plaid mode
that they announced should have over 500 miles.
So, I know it's coming,
but for now I really want autopilot while I drive.
The delivery process of getting this car was
supposed to be touchless
and it ended up being an hour of me at the dealership,
which is still pretty sure,
but it definitely wasn't the five minutes in
and out touchless experience that I was kind of hoping for
and that would Tesla markets
and promotes this these days, the car is in good shape.
There's only one thing on it that they marked down
that they're like, yeah, we probably need to fix that.
I'll mark it down
and then you can come back
and get it fixed.
Right here on the back on the bumper
I don't know if you can see it,
but it's like kind of scratched right there
and then it's just like all messed up.
So yeah, that's not super great
and they can fix that.
Also am going to get a clear coat wrap on this
at some point to protect it.
So yes, I still do have my Honda Accord back home.
I'm going to test this out on some road trips
and see if I can replace my Honda Accord.
The jury is still out.
I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to replace it or not
for my road trip car.
I really hope so because I love my Honda.
But now, after being in this for a day,
I really, really like this Tesla ,super comfortable.
This is the Long Range Plus Model S,
so it's cheaper than the Performance Model S with everything
out the door is $83,000 for this,
with taxes and everything.
I did not get the full automated autopilot.
That's an extra $8,000.
So that would push me up to $91,000.
I just wanna be able to get on the freeway,
get in the lane and put it on self-drive
and just let it drive down the lane
and that's what it does without paying the $8,000.
I've also never had to pay for like music on here
and the streaming service.
So you get one year free, I got the sign up for it.
So I'm one year free with free radio
and streaming service
and then after that, it turns into 9.99 a month.
I've never had that on any of my Teslas.
The other thing is I've never,
ever paid for supercharging before,
and this car you have to pay for supercharging.
So that kinda stinks.
I gotta pay for it,
but we'll see how much that actually costs.
I have the eighth most Tesla referrals
in the entire United States
I think it's like 350
and I think with every referral
you get 1000 free miles of supercharging.
So at that rate, I should have plenty of miles,
like 350,000 miles, but I don't know,
maybe they don't apply it
because they were out before I got this car.
I'm not quite sure how it works,
but obviously I like Teslas, but Mercedes has said
they're coming out with an electric car
with 500 miles range.
I don't care what brand it is.
I would replace this with that,
but more importantly,
I like to know that my family is safe inside of their car.
We'll see what happens with the future of electric cars,
but for now back to the car
that looks just like a 2012 Tesla Model S
but in the inside
and that's where it really counts.
It's much different and much upgraded.
So, anyway I'm curious to know what your thoughts are.
This is what we chose to do,
and stay tuned for a trip where I attempt
to break the world record
and drive this car from New York City to LA
in the shortest amount of time,
45 hours is the timeframe that video is coming.
I'm gonna start filming it tomorrow.
It'll probably be out on here very soon.
All right, hanks for watching see ya.
It's the next morning,
my hair doesn't have any hair gel,
so I'm driving to Great Clips to get some hair gel.
Am I about to drive by
the famous bridge where everybody crashes?
It's a channel where they have surveillance footage
just on that bridge, London, my daughter,
she will not watch it, Lincoln loves it,
Clair loves it.
London's like, "Oh, I feel so bad."
Most of you, aren't gonna know
what the heck I'm talking about.