- There's no Ford lane.
There's no GM lane.
We're definitely driving an expired car.
I had no idea. It's not my vehicle.
Is the big alarm going?
Will we make it out of Mexico?
It's a real possibility that we don't.
A week ago,
there was some very interesting news with Tesla.
There is the Austin gigafactory in Austin, Texas.
Those of you that aren't familiar
with the geography of Texas,
it is right on the border of Mexico.
And while Tesla doesn't have a plant in Mexico,
there are at least 10 suppliers that supply parts
for the batteries and for the Tesla model Y's.
So every day, there are multiple trucks
that are driving across the border
from Mexico, into Texas,
and then drive up for two or three hours
to get to Austin,
to drop off the parts and supplies needed,
so that all the cars and the batteries can get made.
Well, the crazy news this last week
is that Tesla somehow worked out a deal
with the border patrol either for the US or the Mexico side,
so that there's a dedicated Tesla lane
just for the suppliers of the Tesla parts,
so that instead of taking 40 minutes to an hour
to get through the border patrol,
it should only take them, hopefully, like 10 minutes.
And then that saves time,
which then in turn saves money,
for Tesla, for right now and into the future
as they ramp up the production at Tesla, Austin.
In the pictures of all of the articles,
they all show this picture of all these names in Spanish,
and then it shows a Tesla sign.
While it looks really cool,
to me, it kind of looks photoshopped
and it doesn't even look like the real picture.
So of course, me being the weird YouTuber that I am,
I decided, I want to see this random lane
at the border of Mexico
to see if it actually exists.
Why not take an actual Tesla car,
and try to drive it through the Tesla lane.
You have a passport, right?
- Got it.
- All right. So Anwar Beck,
Tesla owners club Vice President.
What are you? Vice President?
One of the best Tesla people that I know.
All right. So what are your thoughts?
Do you think there's going to be a Tesla lane
that we're gonna find,
and will we be able to get in it?
- I sure hope so.
We dedicated a good amount of time for this.
- We drove to star base last night
and saw like the most incredible shots
of the rockets that are up there.
Unbelievable. Put it on your bucket list.
I definitely would put on your bucket list,
going to star base,
maybe not so much coming to the Mexican border
and driving into Mexico.
But who knows, maybe we'll be surprised.
Maybe it'll be some amazing experience.
This place in Laredo.
There's a border crossing that's like
the main border crossing.
That is not the one that Tesla has the exclusive deal with.
It is up in a place called Columbia,
which is about 20 miles
that takes about 40 minutes to get to with traffic.
There are so many semi trucks that have trailers on 'em,
and some that don't even have trailers
that are just like ready to go across the border
and pick up a trailer to come back over.
So we're already seeing a ton of shipping and logistics.
And what I read in the news articles about this crossing
is that,
yes, it's like six or seven suppliers
that are bringing things over,
but it's companies from Germany
and different places around the world
that bring the supplies to Mexico
and then they bring 'em
across the border here.
So it's not all just Mexican companies
that are the supplier companies.
But I'm already starting to feel some nerves right now,
for two reasons.
One, our car, this car does not have very much range in it.
It's more of like a drive around Austin kind of car.
It has 270 miles range, total.
There's not very many superchargers out here.
We would like to get back to San Antonio
after we do this.
It's gonna be really tight.
Like I'm feeling the range anxiety.
But more importantly than that,
reason number two,
I was reading just barely on the website
about driving a car into Mexico.
Something that I've never done before.
And one of the things that it says in there
very clearly on the, on the website
for customs and border control,
if your car has expired registration
there is the possibility that the Mexican government
can impound your car and take it and keep it.
Well, the registration is actually on the window
in these cars,
and I know it's backwards,
what I'm looking at.
If I'm reading this right,
it says February, 2022.
It's August, 2022 right now.
So, we're definitely driving an expired car.
I had no idea.
It's not my vehicle.
It's not Amwar Beck's vehicle.
It's one of our friend's.
And so, yeah, it's expired.
So I really don't want to get my friend's car
impounded in Mexico.
And I don't wanna be stuck in Mexico.
That's a little bit more concerning than
the range anxiety.
But put both of those together,
and I'm feeling nervous.
This video has become a little stressful.
So, will we make it out of Mexico?
It's a real possibility that we don't.
But, we will see how it goes.
We're coming up on the border crossing right now.
I've got cameras rolling.
I hope this is the one,
and I hope they have the thing,
and I hope we can get back in.
It's empty.
There's no cars here.
- Yeah.
- Leaving the USA, declare over 10 000.
Do you have over $10,000?
- Nope. Do we go to the left?
- I don't know.
I've never been here before.
There we go.
There's a Tesla.
Oh, that's not a Tesla.
- Autos. So do I go this way?
- All autos, whatever.
Yeah, go on that one.
All right.
So this is a moment of truth.
Will there actually be a border crossing for Teslas?
- We're not gonna say anything.
- $3 and 50 cents.
- Oh shoot.
- I got five bucks.
- Oh, great.
Hello.
Sorry.
(everyone laughs)
- (speaking foreign language)
Oh, you not working?
Sorry, Nico.
- No problem.
- It's okay.
(speaking in a foreign language)
- Thank you.
- Thank you
- Gracias. Don't know what that place was,
but you scared her, dude.
Was she asleep?
She was asleep.
- She was asleep on the job
and then she started speaking Spanish to you.
- Oh my God.
- I don't know what that $3 and 50 cents is
that we just paid.
- [Anwar] We are in Mexico.
- Okay. So I don't see,
back there I don't see the Tesla signs.
- Maybe it's up here.
- Maybe it's on this next one.
All right.
Well, don't drive too fast.
I mean, look at this.
We're driving across the border.
I'm pretty sure. - Is this the Rio Grande?
- This is something well, yeah,
there's a big river right there.
Keep going.
Look at that.
- [Anwar] Bienvenidos.
- [Host] Welcome to Mexico.
What are we doing?
- [Anwar] Oh my God.
- [Host] We're going into Mexico.
- [Anwar] Auto buses.
- [Host] Going in here I guess.
Oh man. There's not a person.
Okay. Oh, it's red.
- Take a picture.
- I don't know.
- There's a big alarm going.
What was that?
Okay. Driving in.
Okay.
Right here. Right here.
Right here.
All right.
Let's see what's up now.
They want to talk to us over here.
Park right here and see what this is.
- Hello. How are you?
- Do you need passport?
(speaks in a foreign language)
- I don't speak Spanish.
Sorry. - Sorry.
- Okay.
Get out your,
your vehicle.
(speaking in a foreign language)
(dog barks)
- [Official] The paper, the paper.
- You want to open the front?
- Si.
- [Anwar] So we just go down this way.
- [Official 2] Yes.
- [Host] Do you know the way?
- [Anwar] Yeah. We just need to go straight here.
- [Host] All right. Gracias.
- [Anwar] Where is the key?
Do you have my camera there?
- [Host] Oh this one.
Perfect.
Okay. So we were forced to
delete our footage
off of the GoPros that were on the roof and take them down.
And now we're driving.
Is that the girl right there?
Does it show Tesla?
There it is.
Oh my God.
It shows Tesla.
It is there.
We're going through Tesla.
We're going through the Tesla lane right now.
There it is.
I see it.
Tesla. Tesla.
Do you have money?
We're going through the Tesla lane.
Do you have US dollar?
- No.
How much?
(speaking in a foreign language)
- [Host] How much?
- [Anwar] Twenty?
- [Host] Okay.
- [Anwar] Gracias.
We want change, or go?
- No, we're good. We're good. Just go for it.
Just go for it.
We're in, we in, we went through the Tesla lane.
Yes. And we didn't get stopped.
Oh my gosh.
Dude, they stopped us, and quizzed us.
We had to call Matt Holme,
this is his car.
Oh my gosh.
- [Anwar] Luckily he speaks Spanish.
- He does.
Okay. So check it out.
I mean, here's, here's the border.
We're going back.
Okay. I don't know if we have another thing.
Oh my Gosh.
- [Anwar] But we still gotta go through.
- [Host] We still gotta go through US customs lane.
- [Anwar] Yeah.
- The car is expired and they're like
"your car's expired"
and they don't speak English.
- Yeah.
- There's not very good English going on over there,
so luckily we called Matt.
He's in Italy right now
at a soccer game,
and somehow convinced them.
- So there is a Tesla.
- I mean, Matt is the best realtor in Austin.
So I'm not surprised that he's like the best
talking in, these people into letting us through,
like they were searching our car.
They, they watched me delete the footage on two GoPros.
Yeah. Go that way.
It was like, four bucks, I think,
to pay for it, and I gave the guy a 50
'cause I didn't have any change.
And I'm like, he's like, "don't you want change"?
I'm like, just keep it, just keep it.
We're just going.
- [Anwar] Here we go.
We're going back into Texas.
What should we tell them,
we're just like tourists.
We went...
- Yeah. We're tourists.
- Hello?
Good, how are you?
- [Official] There's a big stop sign that's over there.
I don't know if y'all saw.
- [Anwar] Oh no no. Sorry.
- You gotta wait exactly where that truck was at.
- Oh, my bad.
- No problem, man.
- Sorry about that.
- Can you take off your shades real quick?
- Oh. Yeah.
- All right. Where are y'all coming from,
where y'all headed to?
- Just tourists.
We did a quick U-turn around.
- All we did is a U-turn.
Yeah.
- Okay. Well where are y'all from?
- Austin, and Utah.
- You just went to go check it out.
- Yeah, yeah yeah.
- Where, where exactly did y'all go to?
- We literally just did a U-turn right here.
We didn't even,
we just we wanted to be on Mexican soil and come back.
- There's a Tesla sign that says Tesla
where you can drive through the Tesla gate.
- Oh, that's right.
- And so I wanted to see if it actually worked
and it totally worked.
- What's that for?
What's that, Tesla for?
The Tesla, so Elon Musk made a deal
with the Mexican government.
- Yeah, I was hearing about that.
The supplies, yeah. The supplies go through quicker.
- So we just thought let's start.
- So we're like big fans of Tesla.
We wanted to see if there's actually a sign.
- Yeah.
And there is. Yeah.
- So you went through it.
- Yeah. Yeah. We just went through it.
He, I think he said it was $4
but all I had was a 50, so I gave him a 50 and,
and he is like, said something in Spanish, we were like,
just keep it.
And then we just left.
- You gave him a $50 bill?
- He is happy.
- Had a good tip.
- Any alcohol, meats, fruit?
- No, no.
There's nothing in here.
- All right, is, is where's the trunk, man?
- I don't know Teslas.
- Here. You want me to open it?
- Is it in the back?
- Yeah.
- Or is it-
- I just opened it.
There you go.
- All right.
- That's my company car.
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Oh. It's like that, right?
It's like a latch.
- Okay. Cool.
(indistinct)
- Thanks, we appreciate it.
- Thanks a lot.
Have a good one.
- Going through this thing, or to the left?
Okay.
- Thank you.
- Thanks man.
- We're back in America, baby.
We did it. They let us in.
Oh my gosh.
Were you nervous?
You are literally sweating right now.
- No, it was outside dude. Like-
- No, you're nervous.
You're nervous.
Okay. Here's a border patrol car.
So it's not over yet.
- Yeah, we're almost, almost out.
- That's a customs, that's a customs car.
- Yeah.
- Holy moly.
That's crazy.
- So you were right.
They did like,
they, they mentioned our registration being out.
Like they were like picking on us.
Like, that was crazy.
- Few things that we can confirm to you.
Yes. There is a Tesla lane.
I was legit nervous,
because the car's expired.
They're searching through it.
- It's not our car.
It's not our car, number one.
- There is a lane.
And whether it's for suppliers,
or just for Teslas,
it was impressive that we went through with the Tesla
and they let us through.
I would say on YouTube,
we are the first people to drive a Tesla
through the Tesla lane
at the Mexican border.
The second thing is,
don't go across the border in somebody else's car.
Not a good idea.
- With the expired registration.
- Get some documents.
The third thing, expired registration, which he just hit on.
That's also worrisome.
The fourth thing.
If you're gonna go into Mexico,
it is a good idea
to have somebody that speaks the language with you.
Common knowledge, right?
But we were forced by the authorities to delete the footage.
Wow. That was wild.
And now, range anxiety back.
We've gotta go 172 miles.
And it says we will be 5%
by the time we get there.
This has been stressful and,
and amazing at the same time.
We made it.
That is why he's at a soccer game.
We made it, we're out.
We're in America.
- [Anwar] We're in America.
- [Host] USA. USA.
- Did you go through?
- [Anwar] Yes.
- [Host] We actually got super lucky.
We made it up here to San Antonio.
We're lucky that the wind, do you hear it?
Do you hear that wind?
The wind pushed us,
so the car was more aerodynamic,
and I sat behind some big trucks for a while.
We made it here with 20 miles to spare.
If you're somebody that's thinking about doing this trip
and going down there,
obviously get a vehicle that is your vehicle.
Don't rent a car, because you can't drive it into Mexico.
Have a friend go with you that actually owns the vehicle.
Make sure the car is registered.
I think it's really cool
and I feel like there needs to be more of a story
from Tesla itself on how they got Mexico,
it wasn't the USA side.
It is definitely Mexico.
How did Tesla work with the country of Mexico
in order to get their name on an actual lane?
I mean, that's,
that's kind of some expensive real estate there.
When we were there, there was not a line.
There were no other cars that were there.
But I would imagine it gets really busy sometimes,
like 40 minutes, an hour.
And that, because people can go in the Tesla lane,
it's a lot quicker.
So, very interesting and innovative of Tesla
to look at the supply chain route
and actually take a step like that.
And I want to know more of the story.
So, I would say stay tuned.
You're going to see more in the media over time.
I would imagine some people are gonna go and do what we do
and try to go through the lane,
and maybe do it more properly than what we did it
and get some better videos and some shots of it.
As a YouTuber, I'm a little embarrassed, in a way,
that I got caught up in the moment
of getting worried about the eight military people around us
taking our passports,
and potentially impounding the car.
And in that time, I'm a little embarrassed
that I didn't do my job
at doing a better job at filming the whole process.
I was literally scared.
They made me delete footage on GoPros.
I was scared that it was not gonna work out so well for us
and I was gonna be stuck in Mexico,
or my friend's car was gonna be gone.
So I forgot about my duties as a YouTuber
and I didn't do a good job at filming a lot of stuff,
but there is visible proof.
I did film the thing,
even though it wasn't the greatest shot.
So, I did it.
But if I had to do it over again,
I would definitely do it over again.
Maybe I need to go back.
I might need to go back.
This one's a model three
and all the different doors have different handles
for each one of the Teslas,
except for the Y and the three.
- Do you guys like sell Teslas or have you ever?
- No. He,
- What's y'all's business?
- No, I do real estate.
- And I'm glad you kept showing him
the state farm insurance,
to show him.
- I was like, no this is it.
- Look, state farm insurance right here.
This is our car.
He's like, "do you have registration"?
We're like, we got, we have insurance,
which does even valid in Mexico.
Also, if you didn't know, Texas is very warm.
Look at this.
We're gonna get to the airport, by the way.
We're going straight to the airport at five 54.
My, I have a flight at six 44.
So yeah, I think we'll make it.
But it is super toasty and there's quite a bit of traffic.