(surfboard cracking) (yelling)
- Welcome back to What's Inside?
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And I came all the way to Southern California.
We have one of 200 ever made Tesla surfboards.
That's right, you know they make cars.
But did you know that they made
a rare edition run of 200 surfboards?
I looked on YouTube and there's not one person
that's actually tried this thing out
to see if they can surf it.
So, there's two questions today.
Will the Tesla surfboard actually surf?
And then two, what's inside of this thing?
Does it have an electric motor?
Does it have batteries?
Probably not.
But, we're gonna break it in half and see if it does.
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Here is our professional surfer
aka Ben Sullins from Teslanomics,
the king of all things Tesla data.
- That's right.
- And surfing. - And surfing.
- Do you really know how to surf?
- Pretty much the king of surfing.
I mean Kelly Slater really looks up to me, I know.
- [Dan] Well. let's get this thing out of this hold.
- Okay. - Whatever this is.
(ethereal music)
- Oh yeah, there we go.
That is Tesla red on this side
and then they did carbon fiber on the other side,
kinda like the interior of your Tesla.
I mean all of this. - Logo.
- Yeah, a little Tesla logo on there.
- [Ben S.] It's a decal I think.
- There's no fins.
- We need fins.
- Did you bring fins?
- We brought fins.
- They don't come with fins,
you might of spent $1500 dollars,
three times more than what you need for a surfboard,
(laughs) but there's no fins.
Makes you feel cool though when you hold it.
Feel like you're a surfer.
- Girls automatically think you're way cooler.
(70's surfer music)
- [Dan] So this is Ben's friend, Ben.
And he is an expert with surfboards.
He even knows how to do that cool sign right there
that they do in Hawaii.
Why is it lighter?
Is that good or bad or what?
- [Ben S.] It's carbon fiber.
- It's an EPS foam board,
which is closed cell and lightweight.
And then the carbon fiber is stronger and lighter
than typical fiber glass construction.
I'm guessing there's probably only one layer
of fiber glass on this.
- [Dan] So do you think it'll break easier?
- Carbon fiber is pretty resilient.
It might have a little more flex to it.
But if we get high enough
and if we start jumping on it, it'll break.
- Let's do it.
- [Dan] Okay, alright.
- [Ben] Alright, first step
is to put some actual fins on this.
(stellar music)
- [Dan] Hey, we got some fins,
some blue fins on there, I like it.
My tesla Roadster's blue and white so.
Okay, what's this guy?
- [Ben] This is a leash loop.
- [Dan] Okay, this is Ben deciding to graffiti my board.
What's wrong with you?
(Ben laughing)
What are you doing?
- Safety first.
See over here it's like slippery.
And here it's like, it definitely--
- I didn't know he was going to be marking it up like this.
The artistic value is now officially gone.
- [Ben S.] I'm gonna do this to your car after this.
(Dan laughs)
- [Dan] A lot of surfers have gone on Reddit
and said how they don't like this surfboard
'cause it is not very practical.
It's one that's supposed to be on the wall,
not really out in the ocean.
So, we've got a camera right here.
- Good to go.
- [Dan] Alright Ben, do your thing.
Can it actually surf?
Here we go.
(slow cool vibe music with heavy bass)
He's on!
He's surfing the Tesla surfboard!
Wooo hooo-hoooo!
He did it.
Second try (laughs).
Ah ha ha, oh no!
(water swirling)
(peaceful mezmerizing electronic music)
Ahh.
Ben got a lot of tries out there.
I would have to say he did pretty good.
Better than I would've done.
These are not big waves.
Alright, man.
How'd it feel?
- Good.
Waves need to be bigger, but fun board for sure.
When the waves are small like this,
you need more surface area,
more volume to float you better on.
This one can handle much bigger waves.
Probably above my pay grade to be honest.
So, yeah, I would surf it for sure.
Probably wouldn't pay that much money for it,
but the shape and the board itself is pretty good, yeah.
(crashing waves) (seagull squawks)
- Tesla surfboard, it does surf.
That was question number one.
Number two is, what is inside of this surfboard?
Does it have batteries?
Probably doesn't.
But that would be a fun twist that Elon Musk did
knowing that What's Inside? is gonna take it apart.
But he probably didn't.
I'm gonna try to jump on top it
and see if it'll just break if I just put a lot of pressure
in the middle.
Will it break if I jump on top of it in between this?
What do you think?
- I think what's gonna happen first
is we'll probably see it buckle.
There'll be like the structural integrity will break,
but it won't fully snap in half.
- [Dan] Is this safe?
- Uh, don't try it at home.
- (laughs) Okay, there's the disclaimer.
Here we go.
This is our brilliant idea.
This was actually...
Let it be known this was Ben's idea to have me jump
on top of it inbetween of two Teslas.
- Leslie, I really hope this doesn't go bad.
- This is the Tesla surfboard $1,500.
We bought it for around $3000 off of Ebay.
Right now they are selling for around $10,000.
We probably shouldn't be doing this right now.
But we're doing it for you guys
to see what's inside of this thing.
The world needs to know.
First, I'm just pushing on it.
(bike horn)
It's pretty strong.
- [Ben S.] Dude, here.
- Whoa.
(Dan laughs)
Okay, 200, and what am I now, 205 pounds?
- Here we go, here we go.
(feet hitting on board)
(Dan laughs) Yes.
- That's okay.
Alright, I'm getting more comfortable.
They built this strong.
It is carbon fiber.
Probably one layer of thin carbon fiber on the outside,
but...
(laughing)
Yes!!
(board breaking)
- [Ben] Nice! (clapping)
- Look at that!
- Yes!
- Wow, I wasn't even trying to push it that hard that time.
- What?
- Okay, let's check this thing out.
- That was so...
Oh, you almost saved it.
- Check that out right there.
See how the red just kind of came in?
It is full of foam.
I don't see any batteries in there.
(Ben S. laughs)
Elon didn't have a little Easter egg for us.
You actually worked at a surfboard shop once, right?
- Yeah, yeah, I did.
- [Dan] Okay, so what are we looking at here?
Is this how every single surfboard looks on the inside?
Is it just this white foam?
- Yeah, so there's two different types of foam.
This is called EPS.
It's kind of, if you get in close you can see
there's like these tiny little balls.
So they're closed cell, very light.
The only difference between this and a normal surfboard,
is a lot of them will have a wooden stringer
right down the middle.
- [Dan] Stringer.
- A very thin piece of wood
that helps with the framing and everything.
- All the way from the tip to the tail.
But, with carbon fiber, there's a lot more strength
and it's kind of woven in all different directions
so you can get away with not having one of those.
- Right when I broke it, he's like, I heard them both say,
"There's no stringer."
And I'm like I have no idea what that means but.
- [Ben] You can see there's only one layer of carbon fiber.
- [Dan] What about this?
This isn't carbon fiber, is it?
- [Ben] I think this is fiberglass
and it's carbon fiber on the deck.
- Although it kinda looks like it's layered.
- [Ben] So there's actually fiberglass
under the carbon fiber. - Yeah.
- So you've got probably four ounce fiberglass
layered on top of lost proprietary carbon fiber
that they put on here.
- [Ben S.] Right, that's 100% carbon fiber
with the fiberglass on top.
- [Ben] Yeah.
- [Dan] Is this how most $1500 dollar surfboard look
on the inside?
(Bens laughing)
- Yeah, with the addition of that wood stringer
that's really the only thing that this is missing.
- [Ben S.] With the subtraction of about $800 dollars maybe.
- Yeah. (laughing)
That's really surprising.
It literally just popped.
I'm glad you didn't get hurt.
- So, yes, it surfs.
And now we know what's inside of it.
We didn't have Lincoln here.
We're in California.
He's in school today.
So, I know you guys are sad that Lincoln's not here.
I know Ben's not a full replacement of Lincoln,
but he surfs better than Lincoln.
So for this one it made sense.
Make sure you check out Ben Teslanomics channel.
All things Tesla.
Alright, Tesla.
(board hits ground)
I'm out.
(laughing)
They got the cops.
They're on to us. (Ben S. laughs)
Let's get out of here, Ben, let's go.