Buying the Cheapest Model S 100D then Blasting Across the Country (Very Cold!) 

For non-EV-owners: videos like this are just fun tests and have no relation to normal use. People often think charging an EV is the worst thing about them, but it's actually one of the best. I've owned a Model 3 for a year-and-a-half and have only ever used the 240v outlet in my garage. For the vast majority of people, stopping at a charger to charge would only happen a couple of times a year around holiday road trips. It's so rare that it's actually kind of a fun part of the road trip. I've used a Supercharger with a different Tesla, and it's a chance to rest your eyes, get lunch or a snack, check in with loved ones, or play a video game on the console.

im literally sitting here for about 3 hrs now just watching like most of your videos from your trips! no idea why i keep watching but it's entertaining thanks for helping me pass time on my sunday afternoon in Italy!!

Epic drive and strangely entertaining just watching you hop from charging station to charging station. Thanks for the excellent video!

I recently got my first Tesla (2020 Model 3) and I am loving these road trip videos...glad I found this channel! Keep them coming. I have learned a lot watching these and look forward to my first real road trip!

Damn man what a deal. For a while I thought my first Tesla was gonna come from a dealer because of huge mistakes like this!

I'm in love with these road trip videos-- as a road-trip-aholic myself, I love learning the nuances of supercharging on cross-country trips! I'll be doing the same soon!

Glad you made it, with the deal of the year. Thanks for the video.

Congrats on the deal. I can see how that trip timing can be stressful. Great video.

Range mode significantly limits battery heating, which reduces your supercharging speeds on road trips. Best is to turn range mode off when you are road tripping. Range mode is good for a lot of short trips around town (like holiday shopping or running errands throughout the day) because it prevents energy from being wasted on battery heating. With range mode off, you should see 120+ kW on that 100D up to about 50% state of charge.

Clicked on a random OOS motoring video and finally get to see you visit my hometown supercharger in Waterloo, super neat!

Glad I found your channel. Bought a 2021 model 3 and live in North Dakota. Was worried about the winter. Glad they work great.

I need to start vlogging my trips like this.

Absolutely awesome 😎 efficiency for such a heavy EV, and during cold ❄️🥶 weather conditions at that! Also, very impressive low battery 🔋 degradation for a 50,000 mile EV! Thanks for sharing, Kyle!

Shoutout from a Future Tesla Owner Native Rockford,IL Resident. hope your enjoyed your stop!

Nice sound when you exited there Kyle!!

Great video. Tesla’s Nav should have a ‘fast frequent charge’ option to recommend charging stops for long trips like you use; charge fast more often when car is at 10-15% and only for as long as the charger is working near full power till car 60+% full. Glad you got your flight.

Not me watching these videos to cure my range anxiety knowing damn well I shouldn’t even be scared driving around my hometown when my battery drops from 80 to 79😫

Just picked up a really nice P90DL on the Tesla site for dirt cheap too. Only draw back is the color wasnt my favorite but its growing on me. (Titanium Metallic) Only paid a few thousand more than you. Waiting on delivery now. Yall got a great deal, beautiful car!

I just bought my Porsche 996 a month ago from that same dealership. They get a lot of good trades and they want that floor space for their Jeep sales. Justin over there was awesome. I was even able to talk to the previous owner of my vehicle which sealed the deal. Plus the 6 grand I saved helped. Good luck with the Tesla!

Great video, thanks. Range is everything.

14:58 The Rolling Meadows Meijer is where we used to have the biggest friday night car shows over summer's in northern IL. Man I miss those days. 2007-2010.

28:36 the supercharger in angola is where I go to college. Trine university is just down the road. I had no idea there was a charger there until last year. (I've been there for 3)

Thanks for sharing. I have been to all of those chargers. BTW, Mauston rhymes with Boston.

Amazing, saw your breathe!

Good review/trip vlog

Hay I live in Northern Ohio you just went right through there

Hey, @Out of Spec Motoring, I’m in Cary, NC! Thanks for the video. I’m thinking about getting a Model S.

Best i found in the UK is £55,000 ($73,000) for nearly the same spec, what a steal you got! great video :)

A better route planner online makes trip planning a lot easier

Crazy, I saw your car charging in Utica. Great cold vid.

So cool seeing downtown Cleveland which is 15 minutes from me

Great video, great car, great price 👍

Great vid, maybe good tip is go for higher # chargers first, like 4A... etc

Very entertaining, great job.

23:30 hello from Grimsby. Nice video!

I test drove that exact car! Surprised at how good of a deal it was

LOL Kyle, great to have you visit the Chicago area. Yeah, we drive fucking nutso fast here, don't matter the conditions, or even if cops are there LOL. One thing I've noticed in my 10 years ish of driving in Chicago is that some drivers follow the go-fast-in-the-zoom-lane and other completely ignore it. Kinda makes for better driving but also kinda ups the shit show factor as well. Still better than Florida drivers. And also, that nighttime low of 27F is actually quite cold for December I'd say (not sure what it's like for you over in Colorado, but given we are several thousand feet lower in altitude, I'd assume we're a wee bit warmer). Our winters are FAR warmer and have way higher relative humidity index (due to warm and moist gulf air masses) than Minneapolis' ones, though, when the polar vortex strikes we are no stranger to a little negative temps here and there. Definitely not normal though. Even in the dead of winter daily high temps usually hit around 25-30F, it's the wind chill that'll kill ya and rip your body heat away in seconds. Its that dastardly year round constant humidity. Something also to consider is that our climate is even more mild than it would be because the Great Lakes moderate our weather year round. Warmer winters and Cooler Summers (relatively that is). I'd say our summers are still stupid hot (I would NOT recommend visiting here in the summer tbh), and our winter still gets fairly cold regardless. Our climate is weird, but I love it.

It looks like not going through Canada cost you about four hours. There's virtually no lines at the border in the morning hours, so it probably would have worked out fine even if they did have questions about the car. Good that you still made your flight though.

Man I heard you say Mishawaka and I was like HELL YEAH thats me!

cool you stopped at the maumee location 20min from where i live!!!

Awesome video.

Hey that Fury motors. I bought my first car there!

Damn that’s a cold kind road trip!

21:22 Regarding your heater; One of the unique features in our Kia Niro which we love is a "Driver Only Mode" for the heater/air conditioner which is MUCH more effecient than trying to heat the entire cabin. Another unique twist with the Niro is a 120 Volt outlet in the rear. You might have just noticed a white vehicle with Christmas Lights on it's roof. That was a Niro.

The NYS Thru way costs more than charging. The S and X have free charging but even the model 3 costs is less that thruway. The weather can also get you . I used to live in Syracuse and worked all over the state. The lake effect in Syracuse is big . I'm glad to made it with no problems and in a great Tesla.

I have visited most of those Superchargers, so found this interesting. My model X gives much the same charging profile, rarely speeds up until 20% and starts ramping down over 50%

I’m about to buy one with in the next month I’ll be learning a lot from u thanks

Alligator alley in FL also has fast af drivers going in packs

The Waterloo NY charger is my favorite on the thruway. That casino has a nice coffee bar with great brownies and those poofy chairs. The Utica one is the shittiest. And it can be a nightmare to get out of if you take the wrong road leaving.

I'm from AK and can confirm there are no toll booths up there :) Would love to see you drive up there, that's definitely been a dream of mine for awhile, hope Elon get superchargers up there soon!

Climbs to 145kw.... Lucky if my Leaf sees 40kw haha

You passed right by my town in Mishawaka!

Wow your maps were out of date. From Erie you should have been on I86E, there is a 150+ Supercharger newly commissioned in Painted Post, NY. No Buffalo BS. No Thruway traffic.

So weird I used to live in Rockford but wasn't randomly expecting to recognize the mall behind the charging stalls!

Thanks, great video. Hope we get Tesla in South Africa soon.

Really cool video and you got a great deal on that car and it's beautiful.. Interesting to see the reality of road tripping in a electric car. Definitely more of a pain in the ass, Not sure I would want to be stopping so often and dealing with the charging situation. I'm more of a fill my gas tank in 3 minutes drive 400 miles Non-Stop. And repeat. My record is 1200 miles in 17 hrs. 2008 Prius 314000 miles. But that model S is sure as hell nicer to drive I bet.. Congrats on the new car.... Definitely really nice.

I need the instrumentals playing while you were driving

Kyle, do you find the touchscreen on the S to be "laggy" compared to the 3? Ive watched all your videos and notice when you are trip planning on the 3 it seems very smooth and during this video it appeared to lag a tiny bit

This is awesome

Hope you get to test a Taycan 4S, hopefully a much better charge curve at same temperatures.

IM IN MINNEAPOLIS/SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA! And have a 60D

I have a model 3 and I’d hate to take it on a long road trip, way too much time lost at charge stops, forget the costs, my time is far more important than a few dollars for fuel. My ev great for local stuff but that’s it for me. Great video by the way, shows how inconvenient these ev’s are for long journeys

that's interesting, my model 3Performance 2020 (no heatpump) here in switzerland have average at 120kmh (75mph) with winter temperatures between 0 and -10°c (15-25°F) my average consumption is 220Wh/km (355Wh/mi) with 19"inch winter wheel set - Summer at same speeds 310Wh/km of course in 20 inch

Do you prefer the model 3 and the large off center display or do you like the S version that has the huge center display plus the display behind the wheel?

I like the last 5 second sign off... "I'll catch you... toggle autopilot... next time" Honestly, if you had this edited and only published it in 2 weeks I prob. wouldn't have subscribed:) good video

The "cannibal" verbiage was hilarious...Like someone else mentioned your knowledge of these Tesla's made this pretty epic. You worked that infotainment system like watching CNN's John King at the magic wall during a presidential election.

I saw that you said you wanted to reset in order to clear out the old trips and free up memory so MCU could be a little less laggy. Just FYI you can manually delete trips one by one by swiping them to the right .. it's not ideal but if you are just sitting at a supercharger for 20+ minutes you can clear everything out without the need to reset. I do it to all the loaners I get as a way for me to help out the car because I know no one else is doing that for loaners

hi are you charging to about 50% then driving 100 miles then back to 50%? what sort of cost is it normally to drive each 100 miles?

How do you drive 1) without rear view camera on screen 2) with your cup in the UPPER cup holder instead of lower? (I always knock them over in upper cup holder)

By the way , how is the grandfather of Alysa doing with the model 3 that he bought in Florida ?? ... I really hope he is doing well , he looked so amazed with his new car. Anyway, thanks for the great video, you have all this energy when riding a Tesla !

Can you add up how much time total it took to do all the charging and put it in the description for your future videos?

I own a 2018 MS75D, still excited about it one year later!

50K Miles and a fractional range drop - in sub-zero temperatures. That battery maintenance system is fantastic when you compare it to the Nissan Leaf or Renault ZOE where that is sorely lacking and as a result, loses 30% of its' range after similar distances covered.

Why is the charging power so different from supercharger cabinet to cabinet in the same location and sometimes it charges really good up to 45 % is the chargeamerica/chargecanada more constant ?

41:41 Interesting, albeit disappointing results. One variable at a time, I love experiments. LOL, cheers.

Great video but says to me to keep the diesel and do the trip in one hit (or maybe two) although I do get the fun behind planning with a EV which would be fine if you were on holiday, but when time is tight, no thanks I couldn’t stand the stress and frustration. Anyway I have just subscribed as content interesting, well presented and fun. Thank you

On all those prior saved destinations in the gps you can swipe right on them individually to delete them. It won't delete all with one click but if you are sitting at a charger you can delete them one by one to clear it out. Also I went from my model S to my LR AWD 3, the MCU is alot faster on the 3 and the charging was a ton faster on my new 3 than my 85d I had. Crazy how much of a difference it is between processors.

How much time in total did you accumulate charging?

had a similar experience. Was looking for a 90D.. found one that was mis-listed as a 85D and was priced accordingly. Didn't get as good deal as you did, but probably one of the lowest priced 90Ds I'd ever seen

Heya, at @33 mins. you may slide addresses out to the right. Just hold and slide the address to delete it. It'll speed up the computer, not a lot, negligible but still good to have them out.

What a great find. Those are some nice parking spots at 12:35. I wish Tesla would paint all of them like that - harder to plead ignorance for ICE vehicles. Tesla says "you won't make it to the next SC yet" - Kyle "hold my beer, I'm going to leave now". Haha, Thanks for mentioning to update Plugshare to show Superchargers that are not working properly. Maybe you will find out it has FSD and hence eventually the new computer with this new S. That will help the display lag. I wish Tesla would let you pick fastest charging/trip or shortest number of charging stops.

How much time did you need for all of your stops?

Madison, WI Represent!!

Nice!!

I wanted to see you drop it off :(

That perfect cutover at 44:40

Dream car.. One day...

Hey i live in Mishawaka and always see that super charger!

1:30 - That is so deeply satisfying to see an elevator (in this case, either a ThyssenKrupp or Otis) count the 13th floor! Also, I would be worried that, on top of the car not being able to finish charging, the bitter cold would also take some of the range.

I wonder what the charging performance would be with CCS retrofit?

Wow. I’m from New Hampshire (Dartmouth area).

I keep waiting to hear what year is this car ?

24:57 why do you have the front fog lights on....??

These days a 10 year old model S prices pretty similar to a 2 or 3 year old model 3 so my question is, which one do you pick? S or 3?

Hey, Erie PA gets a mention.

It seems the charging stations dictate your path vs you. It would be interesting to see how it goes IF you dictated the trip instead of the charging stations.

The infotainment center is so laggy

I like tesla and electric cars for everyday driving like getting to work and stuff but for road trips it's just so slow compared to patrol/diesel car

You and Bjorn Nyland should do a competition because he drives down to 5% and charges for up to an hour at each stop. I drive an Ioniq and favour the shorter and more often charging approach that you use.

ayyye rockford on the map