Road Trip with LFP Model 3 

Definitely a road trip back video would be good. Very interesting 👍🏻

I used to make the trip from SF to Portland several times a year. 5 hours into the 9 hour trip, I was completely dead and hurting even in my Infiniti. Now that I have a Tesla, I take the 12-hour trip from my current home to Houston, TX, and I'm not even tired.It's truly a new way to drive.

Took my Model 3 rwd (LFP) from?Houston, TX to Orlando, FL and back with no issues. Loved it.

Such a great testament to what the roadtrip experience is like! Thanks

As a reminder, you can pay by month for FSD beta and not spend the lump sum of 15 grand. So you could have bought it for this month and used it for your trip.

Love the road trip video. I’d love to see more

Very informative Drew. Appreciate all the EV content you share. The drive you did is one I plan on tackling this summer, hopefully with my Tesla. I used to be a road trip fiend, only stopping just for gas refills, but ever since having kids, its not that big of a deal to take somewhat often stops and getting a nice quick charge at the same time will be super convenient. Makes me really consider the base Model Y instead of the long range.

I personally really like these road trip videos. Maybe expand in detail the routes taken on the trip, even if it’s just partial for privacy reasons.

I’m enjoying your content , thanks ! I did that drive two years ago from the Bay Area to Bend taking the 97 HWY, so beautiful!

Crazy! Lived in Klamath for 20+ years. In Medford now! Hope you enjoyed your time in Oregon! Love your content!

Love that you demonstrated how painless it is to use a Model 3 with LFP for roadtrip. It is reassuring that it will work well for most applications. Thanks for sharing this!!

Welcome to Klamath Falls! FYI it is a native reservation supposed to be I’m an Native American.we live right beside Klamath In Chiloquin and that’s pretty cool you guys stopped at that charger 🔌💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽👊🏽👊🏽👍🏽👍🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️😁 PS did you like all the mountains? Have you checked out crater lake?👍🏽👍🏽🇺🇸❤️

Enjoyed this video. Thanks. Still in the fence on Model 3 and this video has helped me.

Loved this video! Super fun to see your Tesla out and about, given how hyped I was for you to get it last summer!

Welcome to the PNW! I regularly do Portland, OR to Walla Walla, WA and recognized a couple of charging stops you made. Cannot beat to hydro power prices Washington offers. I pay $.08/kWh at home. Safe travels!

Great video. We absolutely LOVE our LFP Model 3.

Great video Drew!! It was awesome to see your wife as well. I appreciated the technical perspective you observed when charging up your Tesla. I don't know if you have time for this, but are there Tesla dealerships around? Or other EV dealerships in your parent's hometown? I live in Portland and its great to actually see the Tesla charging stations in other parts of Oregon. As I often only see Electrify America. I'm on the fence of owning a Tesla, I reserved an Aptera and let go of my car in 2015 to be a more responsible citizen. I don't need 2 cars and the Aptera is more of what I want out of vehicle. I do realize I may not receive it for another 2 years. So I'm saving money to pay for the car all at once. Living in the city offers more easier transportation choices. I live close to public transportation and bike routes and it saves me so much money. But there are times where I wish I still had a vehicle instead of renting a car when needed. Seeing the Tesla in real world use is important and helps me understand and manage expectations. I hear the usual gripes and unsupported problems with EVs or Tesla. I appreciate your discussion about miles/kw hours and your decision making process of not completely relying on Telsas automated suggestions on when to charge up again. I would very much like a video for the road trip back. I wish you and your family well!

Looking forward to more road trips videos. This was great!

Hey Drew with the issue that you are having at the last super charger, are you able to report the issue in the Tesla app or on the touch screen so a Tesla repair technician can come look at it?

I had a noise on the rear passenger side. I took it to tesla and they replace the door seal and the motor that raises and lowers the window.

I’ve Supercharged in much much colder Wi weather. Your preconditioning is screwed up. It starts maybe 20-30 miles before the charger. But then I’m able to get pretty close to normal speeds. Even in 0 degree F weather

I enjoyed this. I like Out of spec and other EV centric channels too, but this was a nice peak into what traveling like this might be like. I'd be interested to see the comparison of the trip back

thats normal drew I drove from Connecticut to Florida and precondition would do that constantly and I have long range 2170 cells my average charge time was 20 minutes. drove 1400 miles NO issues best network out there

That was fun! Great video! :D

I've noticed more battery degradation while fast charging. I'm at 264 miles max charge and have 7,500 miles on my odometer, but did a lot of fast charging my first two months. Are you still at 266 miles when you start charging?

What are you talking about about the 5% over the speed with autopilot? I set mine to 80-85mph on a 70 mph hwy and never have an issue

My local electric utility is starting a new pilot program for BEVs: $0.03/kWh when used between 10:00pm and 5:00 am. Nice. Now I can do all of my daily driving for $1. Toss in some rooftop solar and I don't know of a way to get better (cleaner and cheaper) electricity than from the sun and darn close to $0 (when solar is factored in).

Thanks for this video! Presently, I'm contemplating on getting the Tesla Model 3 RWD or the Model Y LR. Ideally, I want the Model Y because I live in Toronto, Canada, and the winter here can be brutal, sometimes. However, the price difference between the two said vehicles, in Canada, is $15K CAD, and I just can't justify paying $15 K more, so I'm leaning towards the Model 3 RWD. From your videos, it seems like the Model 3 RWD is a decent drive and can facilitate all my needs. I would love to hear your perspective on choosing it over the Model Y

I’d be super interested in a road trip back video. With how much uphill you did on the way there I’m curious what the efficiency would look like on the way back.

Great video and yes a video back too!

What is your max range showing?

Good insight 👏

We just had a LFP battery “meltdown” going through Arizona 116 degree heat. 40-50% of charge disappeared relative to projected use. We were driving below speed limit. Anyone know how this happens?

Literally can't tell this was filmed on the iPhone X or the SE until the bridge sene. Going to Oregon in a year and it look beautiful

I have rented all the Tesla models available for sale to the public, although I prefer the Model S and Model X, I am warming up to the Model 3; Consumer reports was right.

Seems to be a trend with others too, the rwd with lfp pack don't or can't preheat the battery properly. Maybe a lfp issue, or maybe limitations of a single motor. They also regenerate poorly on long stretches of downhill...

Great video. I wonder if the preconditioning chemistry is different for LFP battery packs and maybe Tesla hasn't quite figured this out yet. Just a theory.

Yes it's more road trips.. are you driving through PDX, Portland, Oregon?

I hope the Autopilot stack gets updated with the new FSD highway and fixes little wacky stuff like onramp swerving

I look forward to seeing this trip done in an Aptera some day for comparison.

Yes. I would like to see the return trip too

I’ve driven my Model 3 from Central, FL to Cleveland, OH and it’s a breeze. I’m always running back to the car cause the car is done charging.

Could you ask the local Tesla peeps to do a quick diagnostic of the battery heater to see if there really is something wrong with it? That would be helpful to know. It also might get you faster charging times.

I wonder what the issues with the charger was.

I’ve seen other EV channels and their trip videos are full of anxiety because most of the time the fast chargers aren’t working. The charging network is what separates Tesla from every other EV.

The older I get the more I realize the value of spending your time well. Racing on a road trip takes the enjoyment out of it and it feels like work. My Tesla makes it worthwhile, fun, good - it allows me to have higher value time with my family.

Just random question, are you gonna get ppf for your Tesla….

Yes more road trip videos 🎉

I have had my car reroute me… which to me made no sense… once it even tried to send me back to a charger I had already gone to?? I had to override it by making my destination to the charger, it initially was trying to go to… as smart as the car is, sometimes you have to outsmart it, when it goes against logic!! 😂

It’s nice that you arrived well rested, but 3 hours for charging?! I wonder how a long range model would have fared on this trip.

There are plenty of times where they change my route. I just put the original one back in. Then see the arrival battery percentage. Based on that I go with the original or the new suggestion. Also, FSD Beta has fixed that wide lane issue for the most part. But I get that doesn't help you.

I have a MYP and will never want to road trip any other vehicle. Why the hell would I want to drive a car that has no driver assist features? I drove 32 hours out of 36 hours on a road trip from WI to AZ. Never felt tired or worn out. Love how you can take in your surroundings as you’re driving and not focus on having to stay dead in the middle of the lane. It’s also nice how you are forced to take a break every 2-3 hours. Let’s you and your passengers stretch your legs, go to the bathroom and grab a snack. When you’re traveling with more than just yourself, someone will have to stop and go to the bathroom every 2-3 hours anyways.

You are doing roadtrips wrong. 😉 If you like to arrive with a low charge - 15% is NOT low. I just did 2000 km in 20:25. With 5 persons in MYLR. 1) aim to arrive with 2-3% at each charger. 2) charge 15-18 minutes to around 50 - 70%, depending on distance to next 250kw sc. 3) leave sc when next sc has 5% estimated and drive fast to reach 2%. 4) I also plan 1 or 2 longer stops (35 min) so we have time to pick up fastfood to eat in the car.

I love these videos

Gotta take the road tripping tips from Out of Spec. Charging to 90% is insane

Pretty slow charging speeds at V3 🤔. Just got 262KWh on a LR M3 last week. Only for a very short period, but still.

What was your average mph?

Super cool 😎

Nice, $59 isn’t bad. It is important to include the cost of leaving at 100% and arriving at a low SOC. At least include one of those into the cost figure, so maybe add $5-10

Yea it’s like iPad charging with 100w it’s fast 😊

So even on the base LFP car you’re getting a 300 mile range with 200wh/mi. I think you’d get roughly the same range in any other Tesla?!

I love how everything went well, except when the autopilot scared the sh1t out of the people inside. 🤣

Man I wish the SR Model Y was LFP 😫

13:54 You mean Bingus

We drove to Colorado and back recently, I really HATE that AP does that drift into the turn lane nonsense. We found it did that a lot in Kansas, I refuse to spend thousands on FSD because it isn't actually FSD and it's beta, give me a polished product and a way to move it around cars and there they go.

Charging Stopped Twice? Not very Tesla-like. Sure you weren't using EA chargers disguised as superchargers? (just joking) Those mountains were amazing!

You have a lot more tolerance than I do for occasionally alarming behavior.

you're just darling

Document the return leg

Best car overall

Getting Kyle Conner vibes with this video

Its because you dont have beta, this next update should be fully released soon

If you drove a normal car, you would not have to stop so often and wait for ever to get back on the road. Good luck.

Sub to FSD . FSD is much better than AP when changing lanes and off ramping and on ramping. I very much doubt Tesla will update AP with FSD and limit its use to just highways. AP will be just be stuck using the non-AI implementation.

I agree, turn off these damn auto pilot sounds!!!!

Tesla don’t want you to drop 15k for FSD Beta. The best option for most users is the 199 subscription. Especially if you only want it for long trips. If you use it say 4 months a year it would be close to 18 and half years before the two balanced to even in cost.

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Really, you don’t know how to set the speed on Autopilot or are you just trolling?

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Why not subscribe to FSD for $200/mo instead of paying 15k? It ends up being cheaper over 6 years ($200/mo for 6 years = $14,400). I love the fact that i can unsubscribe any time.

8:06 my 2022 Model 3 also has a lot of wind noise from the driver side in cold weathers only, maybe we should make a service appointment?? 🥲

Now I’m curious what Aptera would be like for this kinda route. 😳. Given the smaller battery and better range.