Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the Tesla Model 3 now what
you may not realize is I'm just as much of a car guy as I am into technology and
I thought this was the best of both worlds combined into one so I've been
driving it for a couple days and I wanted to give you the good and the bad
after driving it for those couple of days and just give you my first
impressions now the first positive thing is the
design it kind of grows on you and while I still think the Model S is a little
bit better looking the model 3 is quite good especially the front 3/4 of it the
back is a little bit what I'm not so crazy about
now the next positive thing is the handling let me go ahead and show you
what that's like and then we'll talk about autopilot max so let me move along
here and this is a particularly curvy road and it has pretty good elevation
where I live too so this car handles incredibly well because all the weight
is really down low and it is a heavy car but let's go ahead and we're doing 30
miles per hour it's 45 through here and the handling is really great as is how
quiet it is it's pretty quiet you pretty much only hear the road noise from the
tires and the wind going over the mirrors but you'll see here let me
accelerate I'll slow down and show you the acceleration because that's what's
probably the most impressive thing there's torque from zero rpm so if I
stop here and then just punch it
it will pin you in the seat like a muscle car and it's incredibly quick and
very fun anyone I've given a ride to and this his thought that's incredible and
you'll see we're doing 25 if I punch it again that torque is just there all of
the time and that's what makes this car so more modern feeling in fact it's what
I would say is the equivalent of one an iPhone came out and how different that
was than the previous versions of smartphones or flip phones it's that big
of a jump but it's still in its infancy
now the next positive thing is autopilot autopilot is not a hundred percent there
there's been quite a few videos about that but on a curvy road like this it's
pretty impressive so let me turn it on you turn it on by pushing down this
stock twice and I can set the speed with this little dial here we'll set it for
31 miles per hour this is really curvy this is a 25 mile per hour curve and
you'll see how it handles it now you do have to touch the steering wheel every
15 seconds or so it's not quite fully autonomous yet and it does make mistakes
so I have to monitor it but it really eases driving especially in traffic
that's where that really shines so you'll see it's pretty curvy up front
here
now this is a pretty odd sensation of driving and you'll see it says apply
light force it'll turn blue apply a light force and it works now
going up this Hill is where it's might be a little bit scary because it may not
see the lines and you'll see it went out of the line slightly and I had to grab
the wheel and that's where it's not perfect because when you come up over
that hill it's not seeing those lines but watches I Drive through this how it
corners
so this is a fun car to drive and a fast car and you have to be careful because
it's so quick now the next thing is build quality build quality is way
better than I've heard others say in fact I checked it out and the lines on
the car are straight it's quiet and it takes a lot to actually make a car this
quiet all of the time the electric motors being as quieted as they are you
really can hear everything going on in the car so it's more quiet in that
little rattling you might hear is actually the camera mount it's not the
car itself so it's really impressive when you're driving this along how quiet
it actually is so that part's nice the interior is also built pretty well the
sparseness of it makes it feel like you're not getting as much for your
money but it's super clean that the steering wheel feels really good it's a
nice thickness and all the materials including the touch screen feel very
high-quality the seats look like they're built really
well they seem like the last the test of time but we'll see over the next few
years but overall I think it's pretty well built
compared to other cars I've tried as well including Mercedes and BMW and
things like that now the next positive thing is I can
drive this across country regardless of what some people may think you actually
can drive this anywhere you'd like so you just go to navigate on the
touchscreen maybe we want to go to Austin Texas we'll wait for it to load
all of those red dots are the superchargers so there's a lot of
superchargers across the country now it may take you longer to get there than if
you were in a gas powered car but we'll wait for it to load it uses LTE so it
has that and then and you'll see here's all the superchargers now it this case
will have to charge for 50 minutes 1 hour 1 hour 50 minutes so each time we
have to stop 50 minutes to one hour now some trips I've plotted you only have to
stop for an hour once and then you can drive and the next stop will be about 20
minutes so it just depends where you're going but in this case that's what you
have to stop every time to go to and that will get you there of course you'll
be able to get out get maybe something to eat take a break but it is a little
bit longer than you would have in a Giller car but you definitely can go
anywhere you want and that's a major positive for Tesla in particular because
there's no one else you can do that with now the next positive is this
touchscreen interface it takes a little bit to get used to but if you're used to
an iPhone or an iPad this is phenomenal it's super responsive it's really fast
and if you want to search for navigation or whatever it's using Google Maps and
then it connects to your phone with bluetooth and that's not the best way in
my opinion I'd rather have a wired connection for better sound quality but
I love this touchscreen interface especially the fans if you want to
adjust the fans in and out you can shoot the air through the steering wheel at
your face we'll keep that off for now and it's just really nice and then let
me turn this back off you'll see how responsive it is if I want to turn the
wipers on I can turn them on like that or turn them to auto we can swipe here
see our tire pressure the whole interface is really good it does take a
little bit of getting used to this is the rear camera we have electricity that
we've used the charge and everything else and this will do about 310 miles it
is the long range and that's without climate control on or on very high and
at a normal cruising speed on the highway but everything as far as the
touch controls the heated seats everything else is really simple and
straightforward and it works really well you even have a web browser here you can
see there's what my web page and it's pretty good so I'm pretty happy with
this and it's a great clean interface also you control everything with these
two knobs you want to turn up the radio you turn it up for the left knob you
want to adjust speed and distance and cruise control you use the right now and
everything feels pretty high-quality now the next positive is there's almost no
maintenance when it comes to an electric car there's really not a whole lot to do
you change brakes and tires so whenever your tires wear out you change those
whenever the brakes wear out which is usually a hundred thousand miles or more
just like a hybrid my hybrid that I've had before lasted a hundred thousand
miles on one pair of brake pads beyond that
up to a hundred and eighty thousand miles in some fleet vehicles that are
using Tesla's so that's really really impressive and very minimal cost of
course the car costs a lot more upfront and then you also have environmental
benefits however you view that I didn't try to look at one of these because of
environmental reasons I just see that as a side benefit now of course there are
other things as far as creating the car that may not be as good for the
environment but you don't have the smog or anything like that so it's just nice
and quiet and that's something I like a lot about this vehicle now let's move on
to the negatives the first one I can think of is price this is a very
expensive car it's supposed to be the inexpensive model and it's just not
there yet configured like this one is a dual motor
long range this is the cheapest when it comes to paint and tires so with auto
pilot you're about fifty five thousand dollars to fifty seven thousand dollars
or so depending on how you configure it up to 70 thousand dollars for the
performance model and that's not an inexpensive vehicle now if this was
forty to forty five thousand dollars I would say this is really what it should
be and what it feels like when I'm driving it it feels more like a forty to
fifty thousand dollar car as opposed to a fifty to seventy thousand dollar car
and that may or may not be important to you depending on how much money you
actually have so that's something to consider of course the next negative or
bad thing about this car is quality now for some this isn't a concern because
the newer cars seem to be pretty high quality but some of the older ones there
were panel gap issues and misalignments and things and tesla has gone out of
their way pretty much to fix that for the majority of people however for a lot
of people for a car this expensive that's a big concern so the next thing
that's negative for me is the software now I love the software interface of
this I think it's great and it's the best in any car I've ever used however
it was a little bit scary for me when I was driving it yesterday
I was driving on the highway in a little bit of rain it wasn't too bad and the
software that controls the windshield wipers is terrible
it works okay sometimes when it's in Auto and then other times it doesn't
work at all it's really strange how it works but I was driving an autopilot at
70 miles per hour on the highway which is the speed limit and all of the sudden
it gave me five different errors regenerative braking shutoff which one
thing that was pretty interesting is this is a heavy car and now that you're
not relying on regenerative braking it becomes very heavy and you can feel that
with the brake pedal so I don't know what the performance model is like but
the dual motor this thing felt like it wouldn't stop very well because it's so
heavy so that's something to note but also there were four more errors on top
of that with auto pilot and emergency braking and all these different systems
cruise control wouldn't work and so I got to a supercharger which is where I
was headed after the supercharger and rebooted the
computer and you do that by holding the two buttons on the steering wheel down
the computer reboots and then most of the systems were working fine but since
that happened I decided to call Tesla since I was waiting for the supercharger
just to see what was going on and they didn't see a problem but they did see
the errors and the reboot they had me power down the car rebooted again and it
fixed the problem so it's kind of like a laptop or an iPhone or one of those
things and it gets a little bit scary if that happens now it didn't affect
drivability on the highway I could drive it like any other car but all of those
systems went away all of the sudden so it's just something to keep in mind and
they look at that data and they actually told me they look at that data and they
get all of that data they store it for two weeks and take any bug reports and
then get rid of it and try and improve the cars so they're trying to make them
autonomous but we're a little ways from that especially if your car has any of
those errors happen they didn't find any problems with the sensors or anything
and said if it happened again call them and maybe bring it in so this car is
really new it's less than a month old and has a little over a thousand miles
on it so it's just something to know now the final negative I have has to do with
the superchargers now I said this was a positive before and my reasoning has to
do with the amount of time it takes to charge
20 to 30 minutes to me is fine but an hour to an hour and 10 minutes is not
especially if you have little kids with you along the way so it may be okay for
some people your average stop is anywhere from 10 to
20 minutes sometimes 30 minutes a lot of people think they're stopping for ten
minutes and it ends up taking 20 minutes or longer so 20 to 30 minutes would be
okay and now BMW says they have a technology that will charge three times
faster than Tesla the problem is they don't have a supercharger network across
the United States so I really wish they'd all partner figure that out and
just put them all over the place and you'd solve that problem and if it
really is three times faster well that solves the problem right there so
hopefully we see all of these advances coming up in the future you will see a
lot more electric cars and overall I think this is a great piece of
technology now the real question is would I buy one I'm not sure yet in fact
I like the model asks better as far as its looks but the technology is better
in this car so it's kind of up in the air and they're still really expensive
so it's still up in the air for me personally but I'd love to hear what you
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