(hip-hop music)
- Today is a pretty special day in the world of Tesla.
- I'm sorry, I thought you-- - It is.
- [Woman] Were going to say it was your birthday. (laughs)
- No, no, no, it's not, no, no. (laughs)
That right there is a Ferris wheel, it's called the LINQ,
and in Las Vegas, it's something
that you can go cruise around on.
Well, Tesla has taken the Version 3 Superchargers
and put the very first
fully-functional Version 3 Supercharging station
directly under that LINQ Ferris wheel.
So we drove our Tesla Model X to Las Vegas
and we're gonna go and try this Version 3 Supercharger out.
Most Tesla owners don't yet have
a Version 3 Supercharging car that's enabled,
but there are benefits, even for your older car.
So we're gonna test that out.
I have 32 miles range right now, I'm basically on empty,
and I'm gonna navigate to this place.
There's an entry code to get into this place.
Looks like it's 5693#.
At least right now it is.
5693#, I think I need to remember that.
It's weird that you have to remember it.
Let's go take our Tesla there and check it out,
see how fast it charges,
and a little side note, what day is it today?
- It's your birthday. - It's my birthday.
(woman laughs) It's my birthday.
Happy birthday to me. (laughs) - Happy birthday.
(hip-hop music)
- We've got this navigation right here
telling me to turn left.
Do not enter, wrong way.
That doesn't look great. (digital pop)
Tesla navigation, we're gonna try going a different way.
Here we go.
Okay, it just rerouted us.
Okay, we'll make this.
It's a bit hard to read, for some reason,
but that says LINQ High Roller this way.
Apparently, it is under construction.
No semi-trucks to LINQ.
Confused by this navigation.
It's like hard left.
Does that mean we turn into there?
But it does look like
we were supposed to take a hard left right here.
Oh, this is it, we gotta turn in here.
Ugh, speed bumps.
Speed bumps everywhere.
Okay, now we have to turn right.
(digital pop)
- [Woman] What?
- Does Version 3 Supercharger exist?
(laughs) I entered it on here.
This is the second way that GPS has taken us
and we're lost, we're right in the heart
of Las Vegas right now, right in the Strip area.
This is so weird.
Now the navigation is taking me through this way,
and all I'm seeing is more construction.
(digital pop) What the heck?
You can't even get in there.
This is the third time the navigation has taken us somewhere
that doesn't exist.
Now we're under the building,
just driving. (hip-hop music)
So now I'm gonna say don't go to the Version 3 Supercharger.
There's two other Superchargers around town
that work just fine.
They're not the Version 3s,
but at least you don't get stuck
in this traffic on the Strip.
I swear I watched a video that this is functional,
and it shows that it's working on here,
and so I know it's a real thing,
it's confusing how hard it is to find it.
I'm following the Tesla navigation
and we've already had three times
that we've been rejected with construction.
(laughs) So yeah, this is honestly annoying.
(hip-hop music)
We're going through option number four.
It looks promising, it looks very promising.
Oh, hey, they let us on!
(chimes)
Here we go, there it is!
I see it!
That was funny, the construction worker's like,
"Over here, Tesla.
"That's where you need to (laughs) go.
"This is your home."
Wow, there's some cars here.
This is cool, all right.
What was the code again, five--
- Please press four-- - Oh jeez, I can't reach it.
Curb rash on these cars is not good.
(beeps) Got it.
We have all these Destination Chargers out here,
along with the actual Superchargers.
It's a pretty nice setup, it's just,
it's funny, it's in the middle of the Strip,
but it's off the beaten path,
considering all this construction's going on,
that it's a hassle right now.
(hip-hop music)
(car bell dinging)
It's go time, Version 3, how high are the speeds gonna get
on my car that is completely out?
It's 26 miles at this point.
And first thing you'll notice
is that the cable is a lot skinnier.
The rest of the Supercharger looks pretty much the same.
Yeah, it's much lighter. (light digital whirring)
Here we go.
(mechanism locking into place) All right, all right,
let's go check it out.
What's it gonna do to my car?
Let's see, hour and 50 minutes.
That doesn't sound Version 3 fast.
Come on, nine kilowatts, eight kilowatts, you can do better.
Go up, this is the number we want to look at.
Usually, the best I can get to is 150, 145.
Let's see what it does for this one.
62's not gonna do anything for me.
We're currently stuck at 63.
Does it need to warm up
because it's really fast supercharging?
I don't know.
(hip-hop music)
I just learned something.
Maybe you guys already knew this,
but apparently the Version 3 Superchargers
are just as fast as the Version 2 Superchargers
for the older cars.
So lesson, if you have a Model S or a Model X,
don't come all the way here to the Strip
and fight traffic and construction and all that stuff
just to charge at this one right here,
for the Supercharger.
Don't waste your time.
There's two of them that are just off of the freeway.
Go to those ones instead.
But all of you Version 3 Supercharging people,
get over here so that you can
not be charging and taking up our space
for us Version 2 people at the other ones.
That would be helpful.
- I really thought it was gonna be a lot faster
and so I was excited so we didn't have to be this long.
- Yeah. (imitates sad horn)
(man imitates sad horn) (woman laughs)
- Well, it's not like it's your birthday or anything.
- (laughs) Would you stop?
Everyone knows-- - It's my birthday!
- It's your birthday, he's been telling everyone
that we meet, anyone!
People, valet people,
hotel people-- - Yeah.
- "It's my birthday today." - It's my birthday
and I'm stuck in a Supercharger
for an hour-- - My gosh.
- Because I'm a nerd and I wanted
to see what this thing (woman laughs)
looks like, and now it's taking up two hours of our night,
because we had-- - Kick ass.
- To drive all around and find the thing.
This is what the Tesla Supercharger looks like.
We're not gonna charge here for an hour.
We're gonna go to our hotel-- - Oh, good.
- And give the car to the valet.
I would imagine they have a Destination Charger there.
They can just charge the thing.
You in a hurry, where are you--
- If there was a mall around here
or something to see-- - There's a train right there
you can hop on, and we can go anywhere on the Strip,
- I don't want to go on a train.
- No trains? - I don't want to go
on the Strip, we'll go to the hotel.
- Okay, all right. - Go get some dessert.
- Dessert, she knew that would get me
out of this place. (woman laughs)
I need birthday dessert
and I haven't had any yet, so milkshakes.
Going to get some milkshakes. - Done, yep.
- Guess what? - What?
- It's my birthday. (woman laughs)