Sandy Munro: Model Y is the best EV Tesla makes 

We’d like to give a heartfelt thanks to Sean for hosting Sandy on the show! Always a pleasure catching up with you, and we appreciate the support!

"If we don't sell integrity we sell nothing" - well said.

What I'd like to see from Sandy and Tesla would be.... Tesla brings Sandy to the Cybertruck during development so he can make these suggestions BEFORE it's built so it becomes the greatest vehicle ever made. It has the potential!! Sandy's knowledge would guarantee it.

My vote is that I'd watch anything that Munro did ... I'm nerdy like that !!! Vehicle tear-downs are fascinating. Sandy's experience and insight is educational. Every episode I watch, I feel that much smarter !!! Looking forward to the CyberTruck and TESLA Semi Tear-Down.

Sandy get some rest your a National treasure. Oh and tear down a Mustang Mach-E

"those buggers were drinking wine!!!" That was so funny!

It still amazes me that Tesla can be so far ahead on the difficult things but so far behind on the easy things.

love how Sandy says "We spend 15 minutes on this tops"... that's what is so great about his videos... you know you are getting the straight dope... there is no polish or second thoughts, just somebody who knows their stuff, speaking plainly.

I would like Sandy to analyze whatever he considers to be Tesla’s closest competitor.

would like to see the cybertruck when it comes out

The new electric Mustang would be another good one as well as the VW id3.

I'd be really interested in a deep dive into the VW ID.3, as soon as it comes out, since it's what VW is banking a great part of its future on! The MEB platform, that's in that car, is also going into a whole bunch of other VW-group brands, so it makes sense to know about its workings.

I would love to see a teardown of a Chinese electric car or maybe a Renault kze or Zoe

I want to see a tear down of the "Made In China" Model 3. I want to see what changes Tesla made to the clean slate assembly line after the Munro tear down made suggestions to Tesla.

Cybertruck please :) when it is out

I really hope that Elon listens to these comments about Model Y paint quality from Sandy.

please balance the audio properly, I keep having to lower the volume when you speak and raise it when sandy speaks

Loved that Whiskey detail. Have fun Sandy.

Heisstill saying "if you want an electric car". I'd like to hear his thoughts on how model Y compares to ICE cars in similar price bracket and lower prices cars that have similar cost of ownership.

I vote for Sandy as person of the year. Humble, honest and knowledgeable.

Tell Sandy he should cover whatever he thinks is interesting - it will come through in the video. He'd be surprised at how many people would be VERY into a super deep dive into about anything. Also, Sandy tesing anything destructively is always fun, lol.

What I don’t like is that every Tesla hating journalist quotes what Sandy does not like, which deals with fit and finish defects of these early Model Y’s.

Thanks for this interview, Sean. Sending good vibes from LA!

Hydrogen is dead. For cars

I would love to see Munro & Associates help Rivian.

Ford Mustang Mach e

Cybertruck and Tesla semi-truck when they come out. Hydrogen cars seem less practical and obselete before they get a start.

Why doesn't Sandy's company sell detailed diagrams of the vehicles they analyze in poster form? Both techies and auto-fanatics would love to support them that way.

So many Tesla / EV youtubers. Rarely can you find a smart, quality, Informative & HONEST video without silly banter, theme music & graphics. Sean is an amazing interviewer and Sandy is Sandy, there’s only one. Sandy’s team deserves a secondary income from youtube. they do the work. They deserves the prophets.

I wanna see a teardown of the Xpeng clone.

Impressive to get Sandy Munro for this amount of time!!

VW Id.3 and ID.4 tear downs would be great!

Can Sandy teardown the Chinese EV - Nio and Xpeng and how similar they are to Teslas?

Hydrogent fueling stations have a bad habit of exploding. Newer stations are designed to be explosion proof? Not a great experience if you are fueling at the time.

Good to see you, Sandy Munro! Ordered my Model Y, LR about a month ago. Can’t wait to get it! 😊☺️👍

I would like to see the Polestar 2!

At 30:30 the question comes up about cost, and whether 70% of the model 3 parts got reused. Sandy said that he didn't see that in his teardown, compared to his model 3 teardown, but the model 3 he's using as reference was older (a year?) than the model Y he's tearing down now. It may very well be that the model 3 has also been updated with these improvements, so that if Sandy tore a brand new 3 down he might find more commonality with the parts.

We want to see the VW ID.3, Fuel Cell is lame..

nice to see Sandy with a big smile on his face

The paint on the Cybertruck will be perfect!

Sandy has looked in detail at many cars per year...and yet he can still say ‘I bought a Jeep’ 🤔 Great interview Sean, as always with Sandy Sandy, you analyzing the Mirai might be a good thing - to kill fuel cells off in a dispassionate manner. The dealers would be keen to sell fuel cell vehicles though, as there are plenty more maintenance $ for service centers to feed off

Sandy has the right stuff. Can't stop watching him!

Sean: "there was 1500 meters of wiring" Sandy Monroe: "There was actually one and a half kilometers of wiring" 😂

I'd be interested in the build quality of the Chinese MG ZS EV (SAIC Motor) It's relatively cheap but is it any good?

Sandy, follow what you were saying. Truck comparisons AND the hydro-yota. Anything you do man, it will be very appreciated by MANY people.

Munro and associates can start to tear down Chinese cars and SUVs that are coming to Europe this year... they look great and with quality...

I’m always surprised at reports that the Model Y’s heat pump is loud, because the heat pump in our Prius Prime is no louder than the air conditioner, and it works quite well, and efficiently too. So yeah, cavitation due to manufacturing error seems plausible.

a focus session on Battery Technology would be appreciated. Get massive information with every take. Thank you, Sandy

As someone who extensive dealing(25yrs>) with body repairing Tesla’s and their high end German and Italian competitors, I can say their vehicle quality & after sales support was alarmingly poor. The quality of plastic replacement parts- particularly facias(bumpers) was so bad they looked like aftermarket / copy parts at best. We would often repair old fascia as new replacement one would arrive requiring hours of high building and spot repairs. Parts supply was always holding up key to key times. If customers Model# needed new door it would be supplied from Tilburg (5days shipping) even if one of my local SC had stock - we would have to prompt customer to complain to Tesla about parts delay. Some new vehicles looked like final stage QC / snagging was lacking or purposely left to dealer / customer sort issue between them. Our paint finishes caused original factory poor finish to be highlighted - orange peeling against nice fresh painted / polished glass like panel would frequently cause 4 way arguments customer x repairer x Tesla x insurance company. Panel gaps... No two cars had same specs. No chance gap gauges were in use. They did innovative and tech stuff amazingly well but old coach building and wet work was miles off the pace.

Shocking to hear that Tesla’s newest model is the best. When does that ever happen?

i would love to see a teardown of the Chinese EV's, and see what makes em so cheap

I'd love to see the ID3 teardown. First truly mainstream mass market, bottom up electric vehicle by a big European manufacturer.

Nice talk guys👍 Also I would like to see Sandy do a teardown on the Leaf. I got a new SL Plus Leaf for 30 K. It was 10k less than a similar model 3. The leafs also has pro pilot with is an autonomous drive assist feature. Another reason I would like to see a leaf teardown is because of its air cooled battery. Was that a good move to save costs??? Thanks!

Drinking Canadian Club. Thanks for your support!🇨🇦😜

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” *Elon Musk*

Great show!

Hyundai Kona - its made by a Korean company who have been making ICE vehicles for a long time. What have they learnt and compromised by have a ICE-EV body. Is there any innovation with the build processes?

Why not hydrogen? 1) Economics - Hydrogen cost more to fuel than BEV. 2) A hydrogen generator cost thousands. A charger cost $400. 3) You can't charge at home. 4) No charging network yet. 5) Too explosive - leaked hydrogen can build up in your car or garage. Boom! But if someone discovers how to separate hydrogen from water cheaply, all of those are just engineering problems.

As interesting the engineering of the Hydrogen fuel cells are, I think with every auto-manufacturer admitting that BEV is the way to go there might not be much interest in that. The miurai is an engineering marvel but in the wrong time. If we didn't have lithium ion batteries they would be very interesting to the public. The VW ID.3 is coming soon so I'd love to see as much as possible about that car. It's positioned to compete with the model 3 and they're doing a lot of things differently in that car. Would like to see how VW would go about creating a BEV platform.

Awesome stuff you two! As for an idea of a next car for Munroe live.. it won’t be cheap.. and might be next year.. but seeing a Rivian torn down to see what they’re doing.. would be awesome.. the MIT people probably have at least a few new cool things to find deep inside the guts of that truck

Sandy asked what your viewers would like to see next, well I’d like to see them get a current manufactured model 3 and compare the changes to the old one they took apart. I don’t know if that would make sense for them financially though.

I'd love to see a tear-down of the 2020 Corvette. Be great to know how GM's managed to get 90% of the performance of a European super-car for a quarter of the cost.

A fuel cell car would be cool to tear down. How about the new Bronco as well?

Would like to see a tear down of the VW id3 when it is released

May be they have issues with evacuating air from the Octovalve and system, because of the complex structure; many points for air to get stuck. Also cavitation does not need air in the system. Some cross section made too small during assembly could cause it.

Maybe Teardown on an Early VW ID3/ID4 compare to Model 3 or Y can be very intresting or an Mustang Mach E. Lg

Please tear down the VW id4 coming out!

Almost all hydrogen is obtained from Steam Reforming of Natural Gas. The fossil fuel industry promotes fuel cell cars as a way to prolong their business. We would all be driving electric if fuel cell money and talent had been directed toward battery and EV development. Sandy's talents are a national treasure and should be directed to viable technology and not a fossil fuel scam.

The Polestar 2.

For someone so smart as Sandy, I am always amazed how people cannot see past the relative inefficiency of hydrogen as a fuel for a car and write it off immediately without further wasted thought....

Please ask why wheel rim manufacturers don't make left and right side wheels when they're radially asymmetrical. One side of the vehicle always looks wrong as they spin in opposite directions.

It's good to hear Sandy say some good things about Tesla. I might come to like him after all. As for the paint job and other comments, I had some minor issues with my 2016 S, but the 2019 paint and body were better than any Audi or Mercedes I ever owned. My wife's 2018 Model 3 is perfect also. Makes me wonder where he got the model Y.

I would personally love to see things that Sandy finds interesting. For me, that perspective of an expert has some real value. It wouldn't even need to be a complete teardown of any specific vehicle, could be stuff like 2-3 episodes on a particularly interesting engine or a production process or a material he found to be curious. Or even something like showing how some processes got more refined over time. Honestly, so far, even explaining how doors are built was giving me some insight that I didn't have before, and that's what makes it worth watching.

update we love space x we traveled to Boca Chica to see the starship get built. & we got the S dual motor fsd last Christmas 🎄 😎 still have the cybertruck tri motor or 4 motor fsd on order, i got lots of solar & backup battery system to charge them both. i have tsla too. i just got tried of paying $5 for a gallon of gasoline.

Always thumbs-up for Sandy

Great interview. I’m far more interested in what’s under the skin on the Y than the paint job, (though of course it’d still be nice if it was improved.) Hydrogen cars? Nope. Not interested, and also don’t believe there’s a future for them for personal transport at all.

I'd like to see the potential for a system of conversion adapters for older cars that are still sound.

I would like to see the electric Kona tear down.

I was really confused about the face w/o the mask, thanks for the small introduction

This one viewer would like to know more about Munro Associates work, not cars of any kind. How about discussing an old report (that no longer has any monetary worth) on something like a dishwasher, or a rocket, or something they can freely disclose, and go through the exercise of explaining the how and why of Munro analysis work and derived conclusions - in GREAT detail? This is one VERY interesting business they've got.

I’m just gonna go out on a limb here, and say that Elon is probably watching this. . . and if he isn’t, he should be. “When Sandy talks. . . the street listens”. I use the 10-second back up more for Sandy than anyone. , .

Regarding cost and similar parts: It is possible that the later model 3 is more in common than the Y than the early model 3 that Munro broke down. Perhaps the newer parts developed in the Model Y is going to find its way to the model 3 too.

I would like to see a breakdown of a Fuel Cell car. If not that, a Chinese EV car. Just so we can see how they are progressing vs main US/EU manufacturing.

I totally called it when i was telling people they weren't changing the wiring

My suggestions (in order of interest) 1) Toyota Mirai 2) Porsche Taycan 3) Polestar (One or Two) 4) Rivian R1T 5) Volvo XC40 Recharge 6) Ford Mustang Mach-E 7) Bollinger B2 Many of the above are not released yet - so, obviously when they hit the market. :)

Sean, I appreciate your open, honest discussion around the Tesla cars. Fair praise and criticism is really valued.

I'd like to see cost reduction ideas for Bollinger B1 / B2

Your prediction on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is one that I held 20 years ago. In the year 2000 I had no concept that battery technology would advance so far. Today, I'm not at all certain of the hydrogen fuel cell future. Neat technology. But if low-cost solid state batteries capable of 5000 cycles with low degradation come to fruition, I can only imagine it's lights-out for ICE and FC vehicles.

I would really like to know Sandy's take on the type of steel Tesla is using on the Model Y and its susceptibility to rust. All I've been able to determine by asking Tesla, when I ordered a Model Y several months ago, is that they dip the cars in a rust-proofing coating. My underlying question is whether they are using galvanized steel, as the US OEMs started doing in the early '80s (shortly after I left Chrysler in the late 70s). The stonewalling I got from Tesla on this caused me to cancel my Model Y order and I'm continuing to drive my 2006 Toyota Highlander hybrid with virtually no rust, here in snowy, salty Minnesota. Thanks, Jack Falker in Minneapolis

Need AvE to consult alongside Sandy

Whenever I hear someone talking about leg room it reminds me of a few f100s and an Audi I had that had leg room all the way to the asphalt!!!! Ahh the fifties and sixties!!! They don't makem like that today! No siree!!!

I saved this so I can watch it later. And I am so glad I get to watch these videos.

I'm coming to the conclusion that the Y frame is defective. When the Y was announced, Musk promised a one-piece cast aluminum frame. This didn't happen. There is a small rear casting, now one piece, but the rest is fabricated steel stampings and the result is clearly defective, hence the inability to get panels, doors, hatch, frunk to fit. If the plan is to gradually replace the steel fabrication with aluminum castings, that might explain why Tesla can't be bothered to fix the current frame, which is bad news for anyone planning to buy a Y.

It would be very interesting to hear about the Toyota fuel-cell car. Also, Daimler had the EQC out in Europe on 2019 - would be very interesting to hear what kind of solutions they have there. About Taycan - having this analyzed is very tempting as it is the flagship premium EV of VAG.

C’mon Tesla, you should be able to properly paint a car by now!

Fuel cell car breakdown would be awesome.... I would love to see the truck comparisons also...... Also, just doing a comparison in "general" about what Japan is doing for longevity (such as toyota's and honda') vs american cars like dodge and chevy and why the imports tend to last 100k miles more or better---- Seeing exactly what the difference is would be great.

Have they replaced the heat pump since this video? That is what sets the Y from the 3.

I'd like to see you do a teardown of the Bye Aerospace eFlyer or the Eviation Alice, Sandy.

My suggestions: tear down a current Model 3 and compare to Model Y; and the new VW ID 4 Excellent video by both Sandy and Sean

Don't know if there are enough being produced to do anything, but, seeing as Mr Monro has a background in aviation I'd like to hear his analysis of the many electric airplanes under development. Not drone types but eviation, zunum, magnix. Turboprop sized, short ranged, very economical, access to smaller airports. Thanks.