Snowy Mountain Drive a RWD Model Y with the BYD Blade Battery! 

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What a great video , the first video with real condition in the snow. Thank you for that.

Did get our Y from Berlin some weeks ago. Owner of three Model S cars 2013, 2014 and 2015 all driven about 350.000 km each and still no major problems. Only changed the 12 volt batteries and brake pads. This Y is very impressive and we did move our free SuC to the Y, so happy.

AWD is especially useful in winters with snow, ice and hilly terrain. In a flat country where it rarely freezes during the day, a RWD is more than enough. In a “vision” Tesla in snow and rain I saw that the cameras are of little use. This is also the case in my IONIQ 5, where the radar also fails during snow due to frozen snow. in a BMW I4 the radar is heated. However, the parking sensors continue to work.

@RoamingNorway You probably know this, but remember that new studded winter tires should be driven under 80km/h the first 300 - 500km (the first 50km is 'critical'). And avoid hard acceleration/breaking. That is if you want to keep the 'studs' as much as possible for future use/seasons.

Hello William. I like your car configuration. Enjoy it! If the BYD Blade battery were available in the USA, I tell myself that I would buy this same configuration.

Just picked up Highland RWD few weeks ago at Drammen, was driving home just after that crazy snowfall in Oslo, had a lot of snow on roads, but I could drive close to speed limit in most stretches, up to 70 (no E6 etc..), and it handles pretty well. There was one right turn on the downhill where I had a bit of fishtail when I started to break during the bend, which I quickly corrected by releasing the break :) So far I'm still very careful and usually driving slower than usual, because I don't want to risk it and test when I could lose the grip on turns.. Especially on country roads. But as you said, heavy vehicle, low center of gravity, super smart ESP and TC, all contributes to a good handling in winter conditions even with studless tires.

The U.S. 2024 RWD has 2170 Panasonic batteries that are just limited to more range. It also has less speakers and no fog lights. However, the do have HW4. The other issue with the RWD it takes longer to precondition, but does charge faster after 50% state of charge. For the price in the US right now the RWD is super cheap after the federal tax credit of 7,500. Basically you can get a 2024 RWD for approximately $35,000. The LR & Performance models also have awesome deals.

I ordered one a few days ago, I really hope it'll be the BYD Blade battery. Thanks for this great insight!

Nice. I wish we could get that configuration in the USA. It seems that Tesla just doesn't want to put an LFP battery in the Model Y RWD... I assume because it would lose the $7500 tax credit. I have a M3 RWD that has the CATL LFP pack... I love it.

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48:30 this good to highlight, that stops are every 2:30 hours in NORWAY, whereas in the rest of Europe we've got much higher speed limits, so the stops will occur way more often. battery's great nevertheless, it would be perfect car if it would be mid-range LFP, or Model 3 LFP Blade

Awesome lfp charges and performs better than nca

My small suggestion for your editing, if you may. When you have long monologs, like in this video - the tunnel sequence, it would look much smoother if you detach the audio from the video track and cut it off just the audio, leaving the video track running smoothly above. Nobody would see or know that but you would eliminate the jerky chops. I think that would improve the overall watching experience. Just a small tip from my experience. Always fun to watch your videos, cheers! With today's interest rates deal for model Y in Norway, it's a steal :)

great videos! we got a rwd with byd battery last week. very happy so far

Feeling exited to get my Berlin Model Y rwd on March. Can’t wait to seeing it in Taiwan🇹🇼

Thank you, just another great video! As I said earlier - I love roadtrips 🙂Wish you the best!

Yes even the awd Tesla's are rwd unless alot of power is used or grip starta to loosen. There is one slight exception - model 3 LR awd. With acc. boist sends alot of power to the front wheels. Just on wet road you can get it to slip out of a corner - even power slide on all 4 for a short while.

That battery is insane! At this rate you're faster at your destination than with a LR hahah

good review, I love the winter test videos.

i know its been many months ago... do you remember on acceleration from a stop, did the car slide left and right until traction kicks in?

Love your videos! Content is great and good details on the vehicles you review. Keep it going !

Love the video ! The scenery looks amazing. A Norway road trip will be on my to do list, with a Model Y of course. I am in Australia and just got a BYD Seal with a 82Kw blade battery... Hohoho...what a amazing battery. Its a shame Model Y in Australia doesn't come with BYD battery : (

Would be Nice to see you drive to south Germany road trip ☺️ with the same car. I got one just like this on 2024 but I got the catl battery 😞 but I feel it’s as good as bud with efficiency and charge speed. Going to roadtrip from Skövde Sweden to nurnburg Germany on August 23.

New car day is always so exciting

Bonjour. je vis au Québec au Canada dans les montagnes et nous avons des températures similaires allant jusqu'à -30 avec beaucoup de neige et souvent 30cm de neige. C'est très utile comme information pour le modèle Y RWD. Conduite sécuritaire avec pneus hiver qui sont obligatoires au Québec. Merci pour avoir mis en ligne et happy trails

Why is this the best charging Tesla ? Didnt you mention towards the end that the NMC/NCA charges faster (which I would also expect).

Great battery. Btw, great music choice at 36:40 :)

Thanks for this very good review! I'm happy to see the Y RWD is also very efficient in cold conditions! We just ordered a Model Y RWD and I'm wondering which battery pack we will get. I hope BYD, after seeing this video 🙂

Please note that the new Model S and X are superior in charging speeds to this BYD blade battery. They hold speeds of over 250kw for a very long time and deliver far more kilowatts in the same time frame as this model. Yes, this battery is smaller and feels like its very fast (and it is compared to other LFP Teslas) and this charging is absolutely fantastic for LFP, but it's far from the best charging Tesla. And even an 800v Kia EV6 delivers nearly 30% more kilowatts than this EV in the same time frame. You can watch Bjorn's comparison to see this. This feels faster because of the smaller battery size and indeed is very impressive for such a small battery, but 800v and other chemistries are still significantly faster. For example, the new Taycan stays at over 300kws to 65% SoC. With that said, I love this charging curve.

..i am thinking weather to get long rage or rwd🤔 i drive mostly gardemoen area to oslo. this video will help me decide👌 ..more please😁

How do you feel about the build quality, especially panel gaps, in this Model Y? I have the feeling German build Model Y's have worse panel gaps than the Shanghai build Model Y's.

Nice video! I am wondering how Blade LFP battery behaves in cold temperatures + long downhills. From my experience with M3 2021 MIC LFP, battery usually "saturates" and regen braking decreases notably after recharging the battery for some seconds/km. Did you observe something similar while going down the mountain?

Unfortunately my Model Y came from Shanghai with CATL battery I couldn't choose it , anyway it's an amazing car and charging sessions are not bad at all .

I am considering the rwd-model as our second car. The talk about junipers arrival sometime maybe this year makes me somehow uncertain due to the upgrades that would be natural to come ref. The TM3. What are your thoughts about that? If I take delivery before the end of march there is also a pretty nice deal in regards of the interest. Will the TMY rwd be discontinued, “much” more expensive etc. just curious on your thoughts 👍

Very nice car and great video. May i ask you, which camera you use? It doesn't look like a standard gopro, but rather a much better camera?

great video. sadly, here in the US the MY RWD only comes with lithium batteries (which makes them qualify for the $7500 tax rebate).

Hello from Canada. Why is Tesla not just putting a bigger version on this batteries in the LR AWD model?

the RWD model has a "budget" sound system and speakers, since I love music in the car I would choose the Long range model, which has a premium sound system.

Did you use model 3 recommended settings for the model Y? If so I think its not correct. There is other recommended setup for the model Y and I think they are not the same. I did this 8 months ago so cannot remember 100% sure but I think the threble settings were not touched.

Great!

Does LFP blades battery not lose energy and regeneration in vold? Thanks

I can't find any other sources on the suggestion you've made that the production of Tesla Model Y RWD standard version could be CATL instead of BYD batteries. According to what i've read (mainly german forums, articles) is that ALL germand produced (XP7 in VIN) Model Y have the BYD since it's a complete different build. Can't imagine that they mix two different builds? How are you so sure, whats your source?

Hi, it seems the RWD with BYD battery has no holes underneath for the (widely sold and common) jack pads... What is your solution when needing to lift the car for change tyres?

The battery part of the manual is actually Catalan, not Spanish. Curious it randomly appeared in my language 😂

Hi, i enjoyed watching your video's. Can you tell me, does your tesla have Matrix Led technology? I ordered one recently, en was wondering if it has it. As far as I know I have the model with the Blade Byd battery, so that's good😊

When did you order yours? How quickly did it get delivered?

not bad test but most people don't use studded tires

Was you not tempted to go for Highland over Model Y?

My car has a NCM battery is this not as good as LFP?

Hi There Great videos Do you know that only left hand drive tesla come out of the German factory, So right hand drive come from China I think What do think of Chinese tesla, vs German made tesla? Cheers Paul from Ireland

You don't talk about the regen when it's cold outside. It's very important for me as I live in alps mountains with steep roads and not having regen would be a very bad point.

Merhaba, araç HW3 mü, HW+ mü?

Tesla using front motor to preheat a battery

How can he know there’s blade batteries in his car