What's going on YouTube?
so the time has finally come to review our
Tesla Model 3
For those of you who don't follow our channel, we purchased this Model 3 standard range about a month ago
and while this may be a little bit of a longer video because of how advanced this car is and that we might get a
little overexcited
This will mostly just be a classic full review
So with that all said let's go ahead and sample the car of the future
So like always we'll go ahead and get started with the exterior styling which as you can see
Doesn't really look much like most other vehicles
Period or especially in this class now. Normally I would say something about how large the grille is or something like that
There is no grille
There is no need obviously for an electric vehicle and the fake grille that Tesla used to put on like the Model S
They no longer do that. So you basically just have kind of a blank plastic and then it kind of
Aerodynamically goes up on to the hood now as far as your headlights
These are fully led across all the models
Even the standard range as you can see and it has a very nice and premium looking arrangement
Now down here at your wheels. This is the standard 18-inch alloy wheel
Now notice I said alloy even though this itself is a hubcap
You can't actually pull this off and when you pull this off there is a nice-looking dark gray
Alloy wheel underneath so it kind of gives owners of this model the ability to choose which one you want right now
We've just left it at the hubcaps because that will maximize your range
Now for those of you who want something say a little bit larger
You do have the option to get a 19 inch alloy wheel for
$1,500
Now coming on up here to your mirrors it is very nice that Tesla gives you the fully loaded mirror even on the
$35,000 model. So that means you've got the power folding as you can see you also have heating and auto dimming abilities
Alright and checking out the rear design of the model 3 you are going to have a very wide
Looking rear and as far as the differences between the standard model and the performance
You aren't really going to find too many
The performance will throw in a carbon-fiber spoiler if you are interested in that
But pretty much everything's going to be the same back here for all of the model threes
So you have these signature full LED taillights, even your reverse light as well as your brake light is fully LED
So that really makes a premium look and of course you are not going to any exhaust pipes
This is a model three after all and you probably didn't even notice but integrated on this left taillight right here
Is your charge port so you just push the bottom?
Corner here and it will pop right open and allow you to charge your Model 3
Now here at your safety systems is where you're going to find the big difference for the standard range Model 3 that we went for
Now you are going to sacrifice the autopilot system with the standard range model, but honestly
That's really not as much as you would think so our Model 3 comes standard with forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking
Active lane keeping assist blind spot monitoring and also a unique feature called obstacle aware acceleration
But anyway guys that sums up all of the really cool exterior features of this model 3
So now let's go ahead and hop inside and see what's really cool in there!
So like just about everything to do with this model 3 getting inside of it is different than your normal cars
So what you see me holding up in front of the camera. Here is the Tesla key
It's basically as you see just a NFC credit card looking thing here. You can keep it in your wallet or whatnot
Um, you also have the option to set up your phone as key. So it works through the Bluetooth
You can just walk up to the vehicle and it'll let you straight it
now since I've got this already out, I'll go ahead and demonstrate this for the sake of demonstrating it but like I said
this is kind of more of a backup, but she'll just kind of set it right there underneath of the
Camera, and as you can see will unlock the mirrors will fold out and then to get inside the vehicle here
You're gonna press on the fat part and it will pop out this
Now of course taking a look inside the model 3 it is
Absolutely, nothing like your average car interior as you probably heard. It's very minimalistic
On the model 3 there are two different color options
It's just black or $1,000 option will get you white leatherette
It's kind of a vegan leatherette so you don't ever have real leather
and
then the other thing to point out is just
That you have the wood trim
If you go for the black option, or you have kind of a white plastic trim if you go for the white option
Now looking over here at your door trim, it is very nicely appointed
All the models are going to have leather that goes all through here and it is nicely stitched
On the black models, you do have Alcantara that runs through here as well and the top part is soft touch
if some of the only buttons you have in the entire vehicle or your for window switches right here all for a fully automatic and
Then you have this button here which electrically releases the door handle
They coming down to our seats here
He's our 12 way power adjusting with four-way lumbar support and then like I already said this is a leatherette
It feels pretty realistic. It's not the most realistic I've ever felt but it also is extremely soft and comfortable
Now one of the things you're probably
particularly interested in knowing about is the material quality and the craftsmanship with this cabin because you've probably heard a lot about
You know how Tesla's has some issues in this area
But I want to say that this particular example is basically flawless
You have a really nice material so across your upper dash you're like most luxury vehicles
You have a soft touch plastic dropping down to the middle. It goes across the entire ways
You have this really nice wood it is real and it is the open for style. So it actually looks and feels very nice
Going down lower
We have a leatherette material that goes all through here nicely padded and then all the center area. This is covered in piano black
So when you put that down you have this one flat piano black surface
As far as panel gaps or anything. Basically there are none. So this is definitely a very very high-quality cabin
Now one really fascinating thing that you may have heard is that you actually don't start this car
There's no start button anywhere inside the vehicle
Basically when you get in it kind of goes into an accessory mode
And then it doesn't turn on as far as driving ability until you put it in Drive
Now obviously I've got no gauges to talk about
Because you basically just have this left side of the screen this serves as your gauges
so like you can see you've got your status for your drive park neutral reverse and
Your headlights as well as your battery status you can change that from percent or miles
We have all of our controls here for different things to open up
This is where your window wiper controls are at the road. They are rain sensing across all the models
Now coming back to your steering wheel
Of course
Do you have electric power assisted steering and you have a nice leather wrap steering wheel like everything in the cabin
It is super simple. So all you've got here is just two
Rollers and that serves for basically all the main functions of the car
This one here is primarily for your audio so you can turn up and down and skip your tracks
however, when you're adjusting things such as
For example your steering wheel and then as you can see now that transforms into how I power adjust the steering wheel
So it is power tilt and telescoping
Both in and out. So it's definitely very nice, especially since this is the $35,000 model
So these are a lot of features that are pretty unexpected for
$35,000 in the luxury class
And then of you have your controls here for
the shifter so
For Drive, you just press down we bump up full reverse. So this is exactly the same as Mercedes. For example
And as you see you do have actor trajectory a really big and really really vivid backup camera
However, one thing I am surprised about is it's not 360 degrees on any Tesla
Model 3, which is a little bit interesting since there's a ton of cameras all around the vehicle
When you're in Reverse, you will notice that both of the mirrors tilt down. You can set that of course to your preference and
Then for Park you're just going to press the end of that stalk
This stock does also serve as the activation
For your cruise control you either have regular cruise control or you have the adaptive cruise control that comes in the autopilot
Package, you just bump it down when you're in drive
Alright, so let's go ahead and talk about storage
This is one area where basically the model 3 leaves traditional rivals in the dust
So we'll start out with our center console here as you can see you got a nice little bin here
It has felt lines you can take it out and it goes down quite a bit deeper
It goes back a little bit. You do have illumination inside and a 12-volt outlet
Now that's not too unusual but when you move up front here this is where things start to really show off
How not having a drive tunnel really impact storage so we open this up
You have a nice little area to stick your phone open this up
and then you can pull this up further and as you can see, we now have an
Absolutely
Massive center console here and you do also have two USB ports
All right, so now basically we are up here at this display
Obviously as you can tell the vast majority of every feature in this car is going to be located in this display
So I'm just gonna kind of go through some of the stuff as best. I can to cover you know, where the important features are
So one thing I can start with here is our climate controls
It is dual zone automatic climate control
so you can adjust your temperature like so
You also have three-stage seat heating
For both the driver and the passenger that's standard even on this standard range model
And you just pull push that button right there and that will pop up your controls
So you have your fan speeds right there and you have your zones right along the side, of course
You can put it on automatic, but the really really cool thing is how you adjust
The events there is no car in the world that just events this this way
So as you can see, it just runs across there. So there's no way you can physically control it
So what you do is you take your finger and you just swipe up
And down and then you can pinch in and out to control the flow and that goes for both the driver and the passenger
Okay, so now as you can see right in front of you a big central feature of this is a huge navigation system
This is standard equipment
however, starting I believe it the first of the year you're going to have to start paying for premium connectivity if you want to have
these satellite maps
But as far as
Just having the satellite maps for now or if you want to pay that subscription as you can see it is absolutely beautiful
This is definitely the best quality map display in any vehicle
outside of Audi
Okay. So what we'll do now is take a little bit of look around our car displays as you can see this is kind of
some basic stuff
Most things are done automatically so you don't really have to get in here and control things
You know stop charging
This will tell you allow you to set a limit tesla recommends that you charge to 90% instead of a hundred percent
But you can't set it to 100% if you have a trip or something
Big that you need to get every amount of range out of it
Super charging it will just tell you the price of your latest super charge right there
And then you can set the current of your charge right there and schedule when you want it to charge
Now obviously this is not available while you're driving so don't try and get any ideas and try anything
but you can use a browser since this is basically a computer so
You know one of the cool things that we have done
while we were super charging is simply go on to our YouTube channel and
watch a video that we made so it's you know, just
Really cool and very fun type of deal to do that
We also have entertainment so you've got different things available to you. You got all these games that you can play
Really neat stuff. I'm including one of my favorite one
Which is this one here where you're actually driving little Tesla's and you control everything
Actually with the areal steering wheel and the real brake pedal
Well, yeah, that's really crazy and definitely much appreciated that they're doing things to keep you occupied
While you are super charging
And then last but not least we kind of have a toy box here this has got some of the little fun
Silly things in the model three that you can do
You know like make your seat make fart noises and things like that
All right, so I'm pretty much out of breath here with this display, I mean there's just so much stuff here
So I'm gonna go ahead and move past that there's not much else to talk about with the interior
Basically, you do have a auto-dimming interior mirror. The outside mirrors are also auto-dimming
Up top here. We have some LED lights. You also have your hazards Richer right there and
then you have really one of the coolest features of the cabinets basically that the entire roof besides for this little
Area right there in the middle is all glass. So it goes straight from the back windshield all into a panoramic moonroof
So this is definitely a really really nice feature for the class. It is standard equipment even at
$35,000 but do be aware that none of this opens up
All right, so that is all for this incredibly
Futuristic and really cool cabin. So go up now we'll go ahead and hand it off to Mason who will check out the back areas
All right, so hopping back here to the rear seats of the Tesla Model 3 you're gonna find a very unique rear seat
This is unlike anything in the class
Which is pretty much to be expected since this colored car is completely crazy
But heading back to you know, its actual feature set
Tesla does actually equipped this as a very nice rear seat
Which I was very surprised by especially with this standard range model
Because here in the center you do have rear vents that are standard across all
Of the models as well as dual charging USB ports, which is a nice touch
Now another thing to mention is that the long range and performance model do come standard with heated rear seats
And that is for all three seats back here. It's not just for these two seats
It's also for this metal one and as far as the legroom is concerned
I do want to discuss this it comes in at thirty five point two inches of rear legroom and
Thirty-seven point seven inches of her Headroom which actually does place that as the at the higher end of the class and that's a head
Of the BMW 3-series in Mercedes C-class
on par with the Audi a4
so behind drew seating position I have about I would say five to six inches of rear legroom and my feet definitely don't have any
Issues sliding up under the seat and another little unique feature
that this model 3 has is that this middle seat if you scoot over you actually don't have
The center console doesn't go straight down. So you have room for this middle seat for your feet and
Walking up to the model threes trunk all you have to do to open
It is locate the little button under the lid. It does open right up and
Once inside you are going to find 15 cubic feet of space
Which is worth noting that's ahead of most of the rivals
It is still a little bit behind the BMW 3-series
But it's ahead of most in this class now in addition to that
You can also fold the seat 60/40 split if you need that and up underneath of the floor here
Tesla actually has given you a
Absolutely, massive amount of space especially for a sedan of this size and it's definitely a great place to put your charger
we have an umbrella a lot of stuff can fit up under there and it doesn't stop there because we actually
Do also have space up at the front
Alright, and of course you don't we have an engine in the model three
So this space is actually available for cargo and in order to open it. You just locate the little button on the app
Where you can use you can't open it through the inside. So we'll just go ahead and open it now
and
Looking inside of here
We don't have an exact measurement
But it's definitely enough for a couple weekend bags or anything like that
And keep in mind that is in addition to what's already back there in the trunk, which is larger than most of the class
So another thing that doesn't change for the standard range model is that you do still have the twelve way power
Adjusting passenger seat with four-way lumbar support. That's a really nice feature for a thirty five thousand dollar car
And as far as the glove box is concerned. This is a little interesting. You don't have a handle here
So you actually have to go to the screen
And then open it through the screen or you can also use the voice commands
And once inside I will say that this is pretty small
You're not going to be able to fit a ton of stuff in here
But it is really really nicely felt lined and also dampened
Well guys, I'm sure you've seen by now
Just how untraditional this model three is when it comes to pretty much everything and that definitely continues and it's driving at dynamics
So now let's go ahead and take it out in the road and show you all those cool stuff under there
Kids I can't say it doesn't come out
And I'm really excited to take it out on the road. So now let's go ahead and take it out and see what it's like!
And that right there that is one thing that does not get old as time passes
Just having that
instantaneous power and that instantaneous torque
It just makes this feel so
fast
It is absolutely of everybody else in the dust
You see them and then you're gone oh
my gosh
And this is the weirdest thing about it like this is not this is the powerful one. This isn't the performance version
This is the regular regular model, but the the instantaneous torque
Makes this feel a lot faster than it even is
Tesla claims 5.3 seconds zero to 60 for the standard range. And this was the standard range plus model
But you know, we have experience driving things that are more powerful than this and have faster zero 60s, but
The instantaneous torque makes this feel more
Like let's say more like Audi s4 competitor than an Audi a4 competitor
Yeah, that is very much true
Over the course that we've owned it. I've have had quite a few people in here
and when I accelerate they all giggle like
It is insane like a normal car does not do that for anybody but when they get in this and you take that first
Acceleration, they're just like holy crap and it really still has that feel for me
Even though we've driven this car well over a thousand miles at this point
And a few things worth considering here is that you know, this is not the only model three available you do have different options
So this like images standard range rear-wheel drive
5.3 seconds 0 to 60, but if you want something faster as well as if you want all-wheel drive
You're gonna have to go for the long range or the performance model. The long range has three hundred and twenty two miles of range
and that has a four point four second zero to sixty so that is a very
very fast zero to sixty as well and then you have the performance with three hundred and ten miles of range and that has an
absolutely insane
3.2 second zero to sixty which is honestly and that's before Tesla sends out updates
They say they send out updates. They just did one recently
It was a a paid update, but you could pay to make your car I think
0.2 seconds faster zero to sixty or something, which is
Mind-boggling that that's where we're at. Now that we can just get a remote software update. I
Usually we spent a substantial amount of the video going over cylinders and speeds and all types of things
Really you don't have those things they're talking about you have a new set of information
So kind of circling back to the range of this standard model as well as the standard range plus
What you're looking at is 250 miles of range for the standard range plus and then when you get the standard range
they software limits it down 30 miles to
220 as your maximum range, so that's probably your most important number that 0 to 60 number and the range number
That's what you'll care about when it comes to an electric car versus like I said, you know
You don't have any cylinders. There is no transmission. It's just a direct drive drag drag drive
So that you know, not a continuously variable or anything like that
It is
And of course I would assume most of you have not ever owned an electric vehicle
And if you're watching this video, it's probably going to be your first Tesla. And since this is kind of a new thing
And one of the first things that you're going to notice coming from a regular car is that there is no engine noise
there is absolutely no noise really at all when you accelerate is just like
Nothing, you hear a tiny I will say you hear there's a small. Yeah little
Whining sound when you really like push it all the way down. You hear like
Like kind of I don't know but and then but other than that, there's really no noise
And then the region does have a tiny little noise as well, but pretty much nothing. Right and there's no additional sound effects
that's worth noting because a lot of
Driven a few other electric cars and they add kind of a sound effect like the e-tron sounds a little bit like spaceship
That's just a speaker sound effect
But there's none of that going on here
Now another thing I do want to discuss is the right quality
Honestly so with this model 3
I didn't really know exactly what to expect because a lot in this class can go either to sporty or too soft
but I have I'm happy to report that the model 3 seems to have a pretty good balance between
those you know to me it feels like
Ok 4 for maximum efficiency, like most electric cars
The tires are inflated in other testimony they are
The nice Tesla community to wave at each other
Anyways getting back to what I was saying was
The tires are inflated to a very high PSI so that's obviously detrimental to the right but the suspension
Gets soft enough that it kind of makes up for it
So now they're out on a nice twisty road here
We've got time to talk about the steering and kind of the ride and handling mixture
This is another area I'm definitely very impressed with
You know, like Mason was saying a lot of things you kind of don't really know how it's gonna be
Until you get behind the wheel. I was a little concerned that
Being in a electric car might be more focused on efficiency and that I was good of a focus on dynamics
But that was an unfounded concern
Because definitely when you get behind the wheel, this is really a great driving
overall package
the biggest thing that I love about it is
the low center of gravity and the
50/50 weight distribution
Because of the large battery down way low
across the whole car it makes it feel like
So planted way more planted than anything else in the class that I've driven. It just feels like it's absolutely to the road
You really have no
Feeling of that it's rear-drive even though it is because it just feels so incredibly stable but as far as like
The competitive set once again, this is on the sporty-er end of things than some of the competition
The steering here is also extremely fast responding it responds just a little off-center. I mean really really fast
and I'm also just love how
Heavy that it is
It's actually quite heavy you think
You know at least like in the standard setting that it would maybe be a little lighter or whatever
No, it's actually quite heavy. Even for the class of vehicle. This is the only thing that was
Comparable to this that I've driven is the BMW 3-series
So you're looking at that type of steering a lot more so than like we're just a couple of days ago
We drove the Audi a4 much much lighter very light steering
Now this doesn't really have to do with anything specifically, but this little graphic right here
I do like it when you're out on a two-lane road like this because you can see if you're centered in your lane
you know, sometimes you kind of
Are guessing basically you might find here a little too far this way a little too close to the centreline something like that
But with this you actually can just kind of glance down there and check to see if you're riding
You know
to close one direction or to flow the other direction and that does also service your blind spot monitoring since it's not
Actually in the mirror
This is kind of where your blind spot isn't this display
And if you put on your turn signal while someone's like in your blind spot
I will notify you and warn you that's where we get the blind spot monitoring since it's not actually
And also try out the chill acceleration I've never actually used that
Because why would I want it slower. No Thank you
Thank you. I paid for this to go fast. So I'm going fast
Well, you know it's really cool that you have all these settings because I
Recognize people can buy this car for different reasons, you know
You can be someone who just really wants the maximal efficiency
And you know you you just want to go the maximum number of miles and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. This does feel slow
wait, is that oh my why Amanda going full throttle or anything, but you've got to
Yeah way more casual way more casual yeah
Alrighty guys, I'm finally behind the wheel
So I'm gonna play with it just a little bit longer and explain just a few different things that you might notice
I'm coming to a Tesla from you know, just a traditional car some of the biggest things that we noticed when we first switched over
That right there is going to be one of them
You do have a brake hold function. So I don't know if to explain this or not, but
We do have different settings. So it is dependent on the different person. So I have set mine to be unhold
So as soon as I come to a stop it
Automatically engages the brake hold and so I never have to put my foot on the brake or anything like that
Which is actually a quite nice feature to have
And then you release and have some fun
um, but
You know another one of the biggest features
With that I do want to really talk about is the region breaking
This is really a really weird thing that you know, you'll drive like a complete idiot
For the first couple of you know, and probably at least a day or two before you realize how to do it
I have the standard region on which means that when I let off of the gas here it basically
It's almost like applying the brakes and it basically allows for one pedal driving
And so, you know, if this red light up here turns red, you know, I'm just able to just let off the gas
Instead of using the brake I prefer and a little on the lower end
So you can change standard to low
That just reduces the effect. It's still there. But to me, it feels roughly equivalent to just like
engine and transmission braking and
Most gas powered cars have some of that effect where it doesn't it doesn't exactly coast
It kind of does pull back too and it's similar to that
Also if you choose to have the car in creep mode
where it moves forward
The brake hole won't automatically engage, but if you press down really firmly on the brake pedal
then it will engage so that's something that
They don't really explain that very well. It seems like you have to choose between them. You don't
All right, and as with any full review we do need to discuss the pricing here at the end
so as you probably heard throughout the review this particular model is the very basic standard range model, which starts at
$35,000. That is Tesla's big call, you know back in the day. They said they're gonna make a $35,000 Tesla
Well, this is it. And so this is the very base standard range model
Now the cheapest one you can build on the website is a standard range plus and that's gonna start at 39 thousand nine hundred dollars
Then you have the long range that's going to be forty eight thousand nine ninety
And then finally at the top end model
Which is the performance that's fifty six thousand nine hundred. Ninety. Now something worth considering is
that now after
December of 2019 you do not have any federal tax credit to go for the model three
We actually looked it up and got a twenty twenty model three with the tax credit because we took delivery of it
Very close to the end of the year. So we kind of got the best of both worlds
So we do actually have an eighteen hundred and seventy five dollar tax credit on this model
But keep in mind that you are not going to get that on any Tesla model right now
Now there are a few different options that you can go for we went with completely the most basic thing even the most basic paint
so we just have the $35,000 starting price with a
Destination charge of twelve hundred dollars and that's gonna be in all of the models
So I this total as equipped as thirty six thousand two hundred dollars
Which I definitely have to say for that thirty six thousand two hundred dollar price
you're really not sacrificing much of anything over like a fully loaded like
$60,000 performance
I mean you can definitely feel that in this cab and it really feels very upscale compared to the rivals
Exactly value in here is frankly insane
thirty-five thousand dollars doesn't even get you a base model of most of the German competition and they come notoriously stripped out with
Nearly nothing where this is basically a fully loaded cabin more or less which is the handful of small things removed
Well guys, I hope you enjoyed watching this in-depth look at our personal
2020 Tesla Model 3 standard range
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