I want to thank the awesome folks at Anker and the Power Core 2 portable
battery for making this epic video possible keeping all our gear charged up
so this is a Tesla Model X it's actually my car I've been driving it for the
better part of a year we've held off on her floor review because the car was
delivered to me initially it was missing a ton of features that ultimately came over
the air so it has the autopilot 2.0 hardware but at delivery none of it was
active in fact the car could do less and older cars that are quipped with
Hardware 1.0 when I mentioned autopilot 2 hardware it's essentially it's 12
ultrasonic sensors all around the car and eight cameras gonna make this thing
eventually according to Elon Musk and supposedly by
the end of the year be fully level five autonomous so this version that I have
is a 75D the 75 means it's got a 75 kilowatt hour battery in the D
is dual motor so essentially it's all-wheel drive it's got an advertised
range of about 237 miles but I've never once gotten close to that when I do
almost a full hundred cent charge generally shows about 220 miles and
that's not actual range it's gonna depend on your driving so you got to
really use the car to see how many miles you can actually get Tesla doesn't recommend
you charge the card up to a hundred percent the recommend about 80 percent
so sort of cycles through the cells it's gonna be a 0-60 time of about four and a
half seconds I've actually clocked it that's what I got so it's not a slow
car for being something this big you could option it up Tesla let's sort of
change your battery pack size and get a 100 D give you a faster 0-60 and up your
range just under 300 and if you want the fastest Model X available you can get a
P100D so bringing it down to about four seconds or under four seconds and
keep that almost 300 mile range of course things start to get super
expensive from there so driving an EV is different for some people it's
obviously no gas and other questions that I get is what is it gonna cost to
actually fill up or charge the car so I charge my in off hours here in Southern
California so it's about ten to eleven cents per kilowatt so from zero to a
full 75 kilowatt hour charge it's gonna cost me about $8.25
so to go 200 ish miles it's about eight dollars for me so way less what you get
with gas charging up the model X is pretty easy I installed the 240 outlet at home
and I just use the standard charge that came with the car
it'll charge generally about 20-ish miles an hour you can get bigger faster
charges but for me that was totally fine it's like a cell phone I plug in at
night and I wake up in the morning and it's got a full charge I never have to
deal with gas station or issue at all but if you need faster charging you
need sort of more regular charging Tesla's got super chargers all over
the US in fact they're expanding I think they're gonna go like 2x which is what
they have right now it can charge your car up to 80% in about 30 minutes
and it is insanely fast it's not quite as fast as gas yet but it works and
the stations are almost everywhere and actually inside the car will tell you if
there's a stall available the big story with the Model X is the doors the Falco Wing doors
people love them or hate them I'm kind of in the middle
I certainly liked them when I got the car sort of the big appeal of a car like
this in practical use they work very well in certain situations and others
they are definitely an inconvenience they used to be really slow when the car
first shipped it would take almost four seconds the doors open up but as
software updates have come doors are opened up a way faster and I will say
even in tight spots I have never once hit another car the car have been are really
good about detecting overhead beams never hit overhead beams either putting kids
in out of the car it's been really nice to have those I don't have to sort of twist of
my back to get kids in and sort of walk up to the car and you can just put the
kids straight in so the Falcon wing doors have held up really well I haven't
had any issues with them but my passenger door it's a little bit of a
creak in it you can you can hear what it sounds like doesn't affect the
performance at all or detecting anything it just sort of is a bit of an annoyance
so aside from the Falcon doors another highlight feature of the Model X is its
kind of helicopter type of windshield and when you sit in the car it's unlike any
other experience you can look up and you can sort of see straight up it's different
that a panoramic group you don't have that sort of cross beam it's just sort of
glass all the way up and it sounds awesome on paper they put some sort of
tint on it to drive and block out the sun and they claim it blocks 97% of UV rays
and the heat but it gets really hot so Tesla does some things really well
they're innovators and technology but some stuff is just kind of baffling to
me why they would do it the visors on the model
X are weird it's like a strange magnetic dance you got to pull it and snap it and
then pull it down again to get the visor to come out and if you want to block the
Sun so you got his freakin glass over you
it's strange to do and it's so little profile doesn't do much so you can
configure the car with different seating arrangement so you can get a five seater
a six seater or seven seater I opted for the six seater I like that
alley in the middle it's gonna give you two captain chairs in the
second row and then two seats in the third row you get a ton of storage back
there that sort of a hidden compartment in the back sort of store stuff kind of
like a minivan kind of looks like a minivan anyway you've got the front
trunk two stories for sorting some kind of extra stuff that you might need it so
I opted for the white interior and when I first did our video on the Model X I
got a lot of like what's wrong with you you got kids why would you go white so
according to Elon Musk the vegan material that goes into this
is the most durable of all the Tesla materials that includes their leathers
and synthetics so I was a bit dubious to have white in my car especially as someone who wears
jeans every day so going on now a year I've had ketchup spill on those seats
I've had coffee spill on those seats and I've had other gross stuff that kids
tend to eat on those seats and I can say the seats look almost brand new so if
you're nervous about getting the white actually seems to be really good even
more durable and some of the leather options at Tesla offers so I option in
my car with the air suspension that means you can sort of raise it up or
down you can sort of do it manually it'll remember locations so if you'd
like to raise it up when you go to work it'll do that automatically you get
there it's a really cool feature that the car has the main reason that got it
thought is gonna make the ride seem a little smooth I can sort of adjust
itself as it goes over bumps it turns out the suspension on this thing is
tuned like a sports car you feel every single bump in the road it doesn't
matter if you've got air suspension or not I was kind of disappointed the
suspension of Tesla put in here it's a way harsher ride that would have wanted
from the big family hauling SUV if I had a Model S maybe I'd expect it if I had
even a model 3 or a roadster you kind of want that hard suspension you
want to feel the bumps in the road but in a car like this that was not a welcome
surprise the biggest reason that I got the Model X was autopilot I loved what
it could do and I loved the promise of what it was ultimately going to be able
to do but as it stands right now it's like level 2-ish autonomy it means
it can do some stuff they got to stay aware and stay diligent but when it's
doing its thing in the right conditions it is awesome so you give the cruise
control stock a little DoubleTap towards you it's gonna activate autopilot and it
works you can essentially take your hands off the wheel while paying
attention and the car is going to navigate itself it's meant to be used on
freeways it's still technically in beta but it works in all conditions
it works on turns it works in the rain it works anywhere you want to use
it on a freeway damn is it cool if you want to change lanes you put the signal
up and it'll change lanes for you on its own it'll make sure things are clear and
it'll go it won't keep going if you keep the signal on that you got to turn off
and turn it back on again and it'll keep speed other features are coming like
being able to pass on its own and that kind of stuff but as it stands right now
it works really well with a few super dangerous caveats if it can't track the
lanes it'll try and track a car in front of it you'll see the car kind of turn
blue on the dash if lane markings aren't so bright it'll kind of ping-pong around
it also works on city streets it's not technically meant for that but you can
turn it on if you go through a big intersection if there isn't a car in
front you that it can track I mean this thing can almost veer off into another
Lane so you got to stay diligent and you got to stay awake when using autopilot
but in the right conditions it is absolutely awesome it can make a long
drive or stop and go traffic really kind of usable so I mentioned the cars
equipped with autopilot 2.0 and as this filming doesn't really do anything that
the original auto pilot didn't but it does do a ton of stuff so first the car's
got a summon feature which means from your key fob or the mobile app you can
make the car go forward or back without anybody in it which is insane and
ultimately the car is going to use the autopilot 2.0 software to drive itself
so you could park it in a spot you can summon it the car to come to you it'll
pull out the spot it'll turn and drive and go right to where you are
doesn't work as of yet right now it's forward and reversed but
it is really cool I'd also can for a particular Park itself or parallel park
itself with varying degrees of accuracy so I love the Model X for me it's
perfect but the car itself is far from perfect I like what it represents I like
it's sort of electric propulsion I like that I'm kind of paying to pave the way for
cars like the model three I'm okay with all of that I wish Tesla would have done
some other stuff I wish there was more storage in the car I wish the visors
weren't freaking weird I wish autopilot wasn't kind of
squirrely at times but overall in a whole package the cars been incredible
Tesla delivered on their promise the Falcon Wing doors are awesome they're
usable they're not necessary but I'm glad that they're here if anything
they're kind of a conversation starter I'm really happy with the Model X it was
a three year lease for me and I'll be sad to give it away in two more years
perhaps my next car will be a model 3 a model Y or event another one of these guys
but I think Tesla hit a home run with this car I know it's not growing any beauty
awards but for a functional family hauler or a car that has a lot of
storage capacity it's really good in fact it's probably my favorite car
that I've never had so much to my surprise the ultra white seats held up the Falcon
wing doors have been usable with no issues the car is still plenty fast enough and
I love it it's not a perfect car but it's a perfect car for me this video has
been a year in the making we wanted to show the Model X when it got to its full
capacity or at least on par with what autopilot 1.0 could do it's only gonna
get better from here we should have full autonomy coming in the next two years
hopefully if you subscribe to Elon's promises more features should be coming
over the next few years this car will drive itself this car park itself
this car will become even more usable than day one and I love that as a geek
as a car enthusiast as a tech guy and as a dad this car has been the most perfect
package that could imagine so like pretty much all EVs except for hydrogen the
Tesla uses lithium-ion cells to give it its juice it's sort of the same lithium-ion
cells that something like an external battery pack would use and I
want to take a quick second to thank our friends at Anker for sponsoring this
video and making something of this epic proportion
happen I've got their power core 2 here it's a 10,000 mAh power battery same
lithium-ion technology that's in the car is in the battery pack like this so if
you want something that's gonna last you wanna be able make sure your gadgets can
be charged much like you want your car to be charged so if want to learn more
about Anker or the battery pack we will link to them down below so you guys
think I hope you enjoy it's a new kind of video for us I really want to make it
as epic as possible until next time I'm Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo hope you
guys enjoyed the review none of our incredible aerial shots or car tracking
shots could be possible without the incredibly awesome and talented people
at drone gear if you wanna check out their channel link here they also did a BTS
video behind-the-scenes of our shoot day with them we'll link to that down below