(speaking in Spanish)
- Bye, momma.
And so it begins.
Bye Electra.
She's mad because she knows I'm going to
see some other Teslas right now.
(upbeat music)
Just landed in SFO.
Headed to meet up with some friends at Lyft,
former Facebook colleagues, and, after that,
go have our Tesla YouTuber dinner.
Alright, here at Lyft HQ.
It's doing face detection.
- [Man] Alright, now go push on it.
- [Ben] On him?
- [Man] Yeah, push on it hard.
- [Ben] What? (laughs)
- [Man] That's the Wonka room. (laughs)
- So okay, here. I don't know, can you see us?
(speaking in Spanish)
How bad is my Spanish?
- It's fine, it's good.
(speaking in Spanish)
- Okay, let's go.
So we just got to the factory, sort of,
and we're trying to find the entrance.
I'm not sure if we're going to Burning Man or a Tesla event.
It definitely feels a bit Burning Manesque right now.
Imma zoom in on Marquez.
I got you.
Here we are, this is the three.
What's up?
I'm here with Andrew, who's a random person.
- Random nobody, who's been to the prototype unveiling, too.
So now it's gonna be my second time in a Model 3.
- Do you think you're gonna see some
big advancements here or what?
- I don't think so.
I think they were right.
When we rode in it last time, they said this is very
representative of what you're gonna see
in the production model,
and they were telling the truth.
That's what we've seen.
- Awesome.
- They've changed the nose a little bit.
They changed the trunk, but the
inside is, I think it's the same.
- I think the internal specs are what
we're gonna see difference, 'cause they didn't
really reveal too many of them.
- Right, right.
- There we go.
30 Model 3s.
- I will say, the Model 3 looks way better in person than
I was expecting, especially from like the sort of rear view.
It really does like a sort of like more shrunk down Model S.
- I feel like one of the interesting things
is I wanna see the difference between the S and the 3
and see how many people actually decide not to buy
the S because the 3 is good enough.
♫ I'm a puppet on a string
♫ Tracy Island
♫ Time-traveling diamond
♫ Cutter shaped heartaches
♫ Come to find you
♫ Four in some velvet morning
♫ Years too late
♫ She's a silver lining
♫ Lone ranger riding
♫ Through an open space
♫ In my mind when she's not right there beside me
- We aim for something that was a very simple,
clean design because I think
in the future, well really the future being now,
that the cars will be increasingly autonomous.
So you won't really need to look
at an instrument panel all that often.
So let's take a look at the safety video.
On the one hand you've got a car that is
one of the safest cars in the world, a Volvo S60.
(audience cheering)
The Volvo is arguably the second safest car in the world.
But I think it is obvious which car
you would prefer to be in in an accident.
There are two main variants.
There's the standard and long range.
The standard is gonna be $35,000 for a 220 mile range.
It's gonna be a fast car, so the acceleration will still
be well under six seconds, 130 mile an hour top speed.
And you can also get the long range one,
which have a range of 310 miles.
(audience cheering)
So let's hand over some cars.
- We're down here just after the event.
I'm pretty pumped about Elon's.
220 miles doesn't seem like a lot,
but then 310 seems like a pretty good deal.
My original estimate of 50,000 for a decent car
still seems to hold pretty true,
but I do think a lot of people will go for the base model,
so we'll find out more hopefully soon.
So Jesse, what do you think?
- Wow, I mean, that was exciting.
That was my first Elon experience where
there's nothing between me and Elon.
- Were you a fan girl?
- It was a lot.
A lot of fangirling.
- I felt like when they put up the details...
- It was a little lackluster.
- Well a lot of us were like holy shit.
And then he was like oh yeah, yeah.
And you can get two versions.
He was kind of like whatever. - So the two versions is
I mean, that is the takeaway I think from this whole event.
- And now it's time to check in for our test drive.
(upbeat music)
So that's a wrap, folks.
Model 3 event is in the books.
Still a lot more details to come,
but so far pretty amazing stuff.
Let me know what you think in the comments down below
and I will see you at the next one.
Peace.