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- I reached out to my friend an hour and a half ago.
Within an hour I saw Elon Musk with my own eyeballs.
What is it like being a spy photo video guy?
Like you're really good at. - Thank you.
- Okay. This is an interesting video today.
Have you ever been on social media and seen the spy photos
of different electric cars before they're out?
Like for example, the Cybertruck.
There was a spy photo showing
that it had like LiDAR and cameras on the hood.
Also some changes to the Model Y
to the Model 3, to the Model S,
when the Plaid was getting tested.
I had an extra six hours today before my flight,
so I reached out to a really interesting person.
He has a YouTube channel called Kilowatts.
He's super active on social media
and he is the person that finds
the best spy photos and pictures of things.
He sends me a tweet showing that
Elon Musk and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom
are doing a joint press conference at 11:45.
In 25 minutes Elon Musk is going to be speaking
with the governor and making some big announcements
that I don't even know what it is.
And so, Brian was gonna pick me up
but then once he saw this tweet, he's like, change of plans.
Get in an Uber, go to Palo Alto, go to Tesla headquarters.
I doubt they're gonna let us in
but we can see if we can get some spy photos,
see some cars maybe the Roadster,
maybe the Cybertruck will be there.
I don't know.
We're just gonna roll up in an Uber
to this event that we're not invited to.
Let's go.
All right, a little update.
Yes, we are at Tesla headquarters right now
but I guess we went to the wrong place
so he's coming to get us right now.
Oh, here we go.
He saved the day.
That's very funny. - Dude we went
to the wrong place.
- Here. Let me get that.
- [Daniel] Where is this building were even at right now?
- You were at Tesla's original headquarters.
- Original. - Yeah.
This is actually a Stanford--
- [Daniel] Right across the street from Stanford.
- It's a Stanford owned building.
- [Daniel] Okay, interesting.
- And it sounds like they are updating some of that
so they're no longer gonna be here anymore.
- [Daniel] So this is not the top secret place.
We gotta go somewhere else.
- We gotta go somewhere else. - Let's roll.
- [Speaker] For decades now...
- [Daniel] It's happening right now, I'm outside.
Because you had to pick me up
we missed it a little bit.
- Missed the start. We missed the start.
- [Speaker] Big and big thanks.
- [Daniel] Okay.
- [Ryan] It's only a couple minutes away.
- The opportunity to transform the automobile industry.
The future happens here first.
We're America's coming attraction.
- Yeah.
In fact, you were one of the first people
to buy a Tesla Roadster back in...
- [Daniel] Was he?
- Appreciate you saying that. - We were just
talking about that. - Governor Newsom was one
of the first people to buy a Tesla Roadster.
That's new. - Yeah.
- I didn't know that.
And he did just say that
Tesla is a California company first.
That's true.
They did start here and there's a lot of innovation.
There's a lot of things you could do in Silicon Valley
from an engineering perspective
that you just don't get in Austin.
Sorry Austin.
I know you're great
but we're driving through Stanford, right now,
like this is Stanford School of Medicine right there.
- [Ryan] Lockheed Martin, right after that.
- Lockheed Martin.
There's been some people like senators that gave Elon Musk
a really, really hard time during COVID
about opening up this shop.
And so he's like, all right, we're going to Austin.
So the company headquarters is still in Austin.
It sounds like they're gonna keep some things here
which makes sense from engineering--
- Ford has an engineering office here too.
- [Daniel] Ford.
- So we're gonna park this up ahead here.
We're gonna walk over to this meeting.
- [Daniel] Should I just take my phone
so we don't look at a sketch?
- Oh yeah
(Daniel laughing)
- Yeah. EV charging right here.
- Yeah. - There we go.
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- All right, we just left.
They set the car, we locked it up.
We're parking around the corner.
We're going full cell phone mode.
I wish I had a black leather jacket right now but I don't.
We parked in a different parking lot,
and now we're heading where Elon is speaking right now.
- Tesla's new offices.
- Tesla's new offices
Look at that. He's getting Intel right now.
- All right.
- [Daniel] Right now from...
Elon's comms team right now is calling him.
- Oh no
- Were going to across here. - Okay.
Dang it.
The conference just ended right as we walked up
they were walking in.
- It does look like it's a closed event.
They've got a bunch of their recent vehicles lined up
Just showing them off.
And also some of their historic vehicles
are out in the distance.
- [Daniel] Yeah, I see the Roadster out there.
- Semis - There's the lights.
That's where Elon was just speaking right there,
and we just missed the whole thing.
These Teslas are probably all Elon's Teslas
and his security team that are just waiting there.
We did ask security if it was a closed event
and he did say that it's for employees only over there.
So that's one thing about doing this
and Ryan is a very public figure.
When I say we're getting spy photos and doing stuff
he only goes places that he's allowed to go.
He's not breaking laws.
He asks for permission.
I can't believe I went to the wrong facility
in our Uber and he had to come pick us up.
We were at the wrong one and the Uber app was broken
and it wouldn't let me change.
And so in the time that he came to us
and we came back here, Elon was already done speaking
so missed the whole dang thing.
I blew it. I'm sorry Ryan.
- Yup. That's it.
- [Daniel] My goodness.
My goodness.
- Moves fast. - I apologize for missing out
on your opportunity to get a good spy photo.
- It's all good.
I'm curious though like,
they've got all the other new products
except for the Cybertruck out.
I would've expected that we'd see a Cybertruck.
- [Daniel] That's true.
You would think.
You would really think. - Yeah.
- Okay. How about the Tesla Semi?
It's come on by.
(soft music)
This is the Tesla Semi out for some testing right now
coming out of the Palo Alto headquarters.
Look at that thing.
All right.
We see Elon. Elon sighting.
There he goes, Mr. Elon Musk.
Look at that guy.
Look at his security.
This is Elon right now showing,
you see an original Tesla.
You see the Mercedes-Benz, which is some of the technology
they used inside of a Tesla.
And then you've got the Toyota which has some technology
and then the Roadster.
And then they're just looking at it.
Who knows who these guys are?
You can definitely see who their security is.
They have an eye on us now.
They see us.
There he goes, back in.
They went and looked at that stuff
and then they're like yeah, let's get outta here.
This guy looks like he's kind of coming toward us.
The bald guy there.
Oh, there goes to Mr. Musk.
We did it.
We came to California and saw Elon Musk,
like what are the odds of that?
- [Ryan] Oh, there's baby X, Elon's son.
- Elon's son. There you go.
There's Elon's son with a security guard,
walking in right there.
I didn't even get on this asphalt right here.
I was a little worried to even do that.
I didn't do it. I'm not on private property
- Surprisingly, I'm not seeing any Cybertrucks.
- [Daniel] That is surprisingly.
- We also saw in the Tulsa Semi,
the head of the Semi program, Dan Priestley.
He was the one that was on stage with Elon
when they actually presented the Semi in Nevada
just about a month ago.
- [Daniel] And that guy's the one that drives it around.
That's kind of funny.
- Yeah, he's like the official guy that drives the trucks.
- [Daniel] You can't get somebody else to drive it.
Come on Dan Priestley. - Yeah.
- Look at that.
There's an F-150 lighting that just went by
and it has Michigan plates.
It's an engineering test vehicle that's riding by here.
There's a reporter right there trying to get on campus.
Nope, you can't.
Sorry.
Bye news.
I reached out to my friend an hour and a half ago.
"Hey, can you show me some Tesla stuff?
Like maybe things that people don't see that often."
Within an hour I saw Elon Musk with my own eyeballs.
You have a specific set of skills?
- Yeah. I guess I do.
Jason Bourne.
- [Daniel] Oh no, it's the dude with the deep voice
where his daughter is like kidnapped.
- That's Jason Bourne, is it not.
- No, no, no, no, no. - What movie?
- No, not the other... It sounds the same.
- Whose in "Taken"? - Is it "Taken"?
- Liam Neeson. - Liam Neeson.
- Yes. - Yes. That's you.
You're Liam Neon.
- Thank you.
I'm fine if they see me
because I'm just someone from the public
on public property trying to see what I can see.
- That makes sense.
We're just driving around looking for a Cybertruck.
Where's the Cybertruck?
It's gotta be here.
Check out that McLaren.
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It is awesome. The door's just open.
It's at a smog check place.
Wow. Gotta check that out.
Check that exhaust.
It is not electric.
It's probably really slow.
Oh, look at that door though, that's sweet
- [Ryan] Right there its a Rivian van.
- A Rivian van. - Yeah.
- [Daniel] It looks like a canoe.
A canoe company. - A little bit. Yeah.
But yeah, they're testing something,
there's something on the top of that.
I don't know what that is, but they're testing something.
There, Project Highland.
There's an example right there.
Well, they're testing something with that car right there.
- [Daniel] Should we follow this guy or no?
- Nah.
- Its got some LiDAR up top, some cameras.
- A massive amount of cars that are heading around the world
or around the United States, at least for delivery.
The Cybertruck is still that elusive thing
that we wanna see.
The one other place that we have to go is Fremont.
- Maybe just maybe we'll see a Cybertruck there.
(upbeat music)
- We're here now at the Fremont factory
which has the test track right there.
I've been on that test track with the walls of the road
that like go on an angle, kind of like Daytona Beach,
like you're in a NASCAR event.
I drove in the Plaid. Yeah, it was the Plaid.
It was the Plaid launch right there
and it was one of the coolest things ever.
So why does Tesla have like a race track?
It's not so they can race against each other.
It is for them to test out their cars.
You've seen the Cybertruck out there and the Semi right?
- I have, yep. - Yeah.
- Test 'em all out there just at high speeds.
- I haven't seen a Cybertruck today.
Maybe we'll get lucky on the way out,
but I've actually seen them test
other manufacturer's vehicles before.
They'll grab like a Mustang Mach-E
and drive that around the track.
Go fast. Test it out.
Because people will say, oh the Mercedes-Benz,
the interior is so much quieter than a Tesla.
The zero to 60 is fantastic.
The regenerative braking is really good.
Well instead of like racing it on a standard road
they can take it on their racetrack
and do all kinds of testing behind closed doors.
But get all of that data and see,
okay, are our cars really, really good?
Do we need to change some things or not?
And then they change the Cybertruck on there.
Man, that'd be so cool to see someday.
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We found the Cybertruck.
My heart is going a million miles an hour.
We found it.
We're gonna go find it right now.
Like actually see it.
Let's just go.
Get driving. Get driving.
We found it.
Cybertruck looks rad.
Yeah, I gotta be honest, like it looks super, super rad.
Ryan, you're really good at this.
- Thank you.
- In one day we've seen Elon Musk
and the Cybertruck and all kinds of stuff.
We've see...
I just don't understand how you do this.
It's the Cybertruck,
and it has a rear tail light that is not working, sad.
Hopefully the car works well, but yeah.
We're in front of Tesla.
They've got some kind of event going on here today,
and there's a Cybertruck.
Mission accomplished. Look at that thing.
- That's one of the first that anyone's ever seen.
- Wow. - Good day for a spy day.
- I think it actually looks really cool.
I feel like they're gonna drive it up on top of that.
Cybertruck off-roading.
First time off-roading, check that bad boy out.
Cybertruck just drove up on top of that bush there.
I don't know. You've never seen a Cybertruck off-road.
There are a ton of people filming
with their phones over there
so I'm sure there's gonna be footage of that.
That's not from way over here across the street but...
They had to bring up that little wooden ramp
over for the cyber truck to be able to drive up there.
Like that's kind of wimpy.
I'm a little disappointed in that.
I always go back and forth.
When I haven't seen the Cybertruck for a long time
I say I don't really like the Cybertruck
like I wouldn't buy it.
But every time I see it in person I'm like,
I kind of want that.
It actually looks cool in person.
So it's a really polarizing car.
But overall I really like it. I think it's a great truck.
This was such a random day.
I see what the day in the life of a spy is of a Tesla spy.
He's not doing anything illegal.
He's just out here observing things
and tweeting them or sharing them in videos.
Used to work at Tesla. Now makes content on social media.
So that's the one thing I didn't show.
This is the leather spy jacket. I'm unzipping it.
Kilowatts. There it is.
That's how you can find Ryan and all the different stuff.
So definitely follow you on Twitter,
on TikTok and then on YouTube.
Yeah.
- He told us about a video that he is doing right now
that I can't tell you about.
I'm sworn to secrecy but it is crazy.
It's been like a week and a half
that he's been working on it.
Today was like taking a break
because it's a lot of work but-
- It's a lot of driving.
- It's kind of insane.
It's a really, really good video idea
that I don't think a lot of people would have the stamina
to go do this electric car related video
but it's gonna be really good.
By the time we put this out, his video may be out.
I'll put a link in the description if it's there.
Thanks Ryan. That was fun.
Spy video. - Thanks for coming out.
- Elon, thanks for letting us film you today.
That was really nice of you
for coming outside for like two seconds to,
I know it was for us.
I know it wasn't to show those cars.
It was really for us and I appreciate that.
You're my guy Elon, thank you.
It's been four days since we actually took those spy videos
and I put two of them on Twitter to see if Twitter
would actually like the videos that we have.
One of them was of the cyber truck off-roading
if you wanna call it.
That definitely went viral.
The second one that we did was the shot from up above
of the Cybertruck going around
with the black cover on the top of it.
That one went viral
and Elon Musk even responded to it and said,
"it even looks like CGI in person."
That video has well over a million views.
And Elon Musk himself liked the tweet
and also responded to the tweet.
People love the Tesla spy stuff.
I don't encourage you guys to all go
and try to be spies now.
Ryan is the best at it
and he also does it very safely and respectfully.
So if you are gonna do something like this, be respectful.
It was amazing to see
that people loved watching these videos on Twitter
and they love the Tesla stuff.
So I hope you guys enjoyed this video 'cause I loved it.
How many Turo cars do you have?
- I have 13 cars in Turo.
12 of which are Tesla's and one Rivian
- Killing it.
Where there is Elon there is...
I don't know, there's no saying.
That is surprisingly.