Tesla Model 3 Cross-Country Road Trip: Vegas to Chicago 

That's why I love AutoPilot for roadtrips.. doesn't just reduce driver fatigue (a LOT; charge rest stops/breaks help also)... but having the car constantly watching 360o around you and making sure staying in lane & far enough behind car ahead of you, reassures me that a drowsy drop in attention won't be as dangerous. Still gotta be careful! But having car as co-pilot, helps a lot

@@cgamiga absolutely. Before, I would dread 3 hour road trips playing lacrosse in college. Now I willingly use autpilot across the country!

14:25 A Bed Sounds Pretty Good 😂😂😂

Haha! Can make it without stopping to charge!

Haha thank you! Autopilot helps a ton. We could never do this without it

Thank you! 😁 it was yummy to me, her first reaction didn’t seem to agree 😂 Glad to help! 😊

We did a road trip during a negative degree winter storm, it’s on this channel! Same route.

Makes sense!!

Thanks for watching! 😁

😂😂😂 oh oh oh tell me

I was so out of it 😂😂😂

Idk what’s worse, it being closed or driving 28 hours for her to tell me it’s not the same 😂

THANK YOU

Yep! Learned this. This makes sense! Thank you

Thank you!

Yes, but it doesn’t make for a good road trip video 😜

There’s Portillo’s not too far in California, but the Lou’s may be worth a trip!

Thanks! Our first time on this route - pretty boring outside Colorado and Utah!

The good thing is that it is a straight shot. I mostly turned on autopilot and let it rip.

The cheese fries tho

Thanks for watching!

Overrated!

Thanks for the watch! You can be our 500th sub 😁 Google navigation said 24 hours if we drove straight and didn’t stop to charge or get gas! The cost- not sure, looks to be almost double what we paid.

@@Sw33tBabyRays yes there is 😋

We got another road trip coming up, maybe we’ll do pooping across America!

Nice🎉😂

@@Nippelssiini 😂 but thanks for watching, we are trying to learn and make each video better! We’re making the same trip next month with hopefully a better video!

Thank you 😁

It is an app called tezlab

Geaux saints! Thank you 😁

Interesting! It’s very stiff, I thought maybe a version of an extended handle as well

This video is an authentic overnight road trip experience powered by caffeine 🤷😂

Love it

It’s part of the experience! 😜

Thank you!

We wanted down to the second

Thank you! Much appreciated ❤️ we got the food slap from Ryan Trahan! But we prefer the i40 definitely. The Route 66 things along the route make great stops. i70, however, between vegas and Chicago is about a 2 hour less of a drive, that’s why we’ve taken that a few times too! Except it’s not that much shorter when you get hit by a snow storm lol

@@vegasteslafamily super helpful! Thanks for your take!

Honestly didn’t keep count

Thank you! 😁 we have a tire inflator and some slime thing with it in the trunk. Not a full spare, but hopefully enough to help us drive to somewhere to get a spare in case of emergency!

You know it 🔥🔥🔥

Only bangers aka the entire game soundtrack

30% on the windshield! 15% on all side windows. Wish I did 5% on the windows. I love the look of the darker windshield, and it's manageable, but I wouldnt go any darker than that lol. Our Y is 50% but idk if we have any videos, it's been in the shop shortly after we tinted it.

@@vegasteslafamily Sweet! I think I’m for sure going to do 30% or 35% after seeing what it looks like. It’s been a struggle to find M3’s online that have windshield tint darker than 50%. I got the car in black so it’s gonna look super stealthy. Thanks! 😆

​@@zkogianes_ I have 5% on the sides, 20% on the windshield. I love it.

@@isco1853 yeah sorry we didn’t calculate for this trip! Doing math, depending on time and rates it was between $200-250

Tessie!

They have a TON of more data too. Awesome app. Not sponsored. Yet 😂

share.tessie.com/FuDoQU2pvDb my referral if you wanna check it out! It’s a free app

@@vegasteslafamily Great road trip - thanks for sharing! Do you have any tips and tricks for using Tessie? I just signed up using your link :) Thanks in advance!

@@drmyers85021 sweet! I actually have a top 10 road trip tips video that I think is great… The content itself at least, I’m still working on the “production” side of things 😜

Yep! More content 😅

Thank you! 😁

Thank you! This one was just on autopilot, we don’t have FSD currently

Good question - not sure honestly, maybe 2-3 extra stops, a few minutes extra at some chargers

For the entire trip, not sure! I put the screenshot up from a third party app of what we paid vs what it would have costed for gas at each charging stop though

We do not! On road trips where you’re mostly on highway, you’ll be using standard autopilot a great majority of the time anyway!

@@vegasteslafamily good point. This will be my first road trip in my M3P

When you navigate to a destination, it tells you what % battery you’ll arrive with. So when we navigate to the next supercharger, we see what % we will arrive with based on what % we leave with!

The in-car navigation does ALL the planning, and tells you onscreen, during driving and charging, and in the app (eg will alert you a few minutes before charging is ready to go, so you can walk back to car.) It also pre-conditions the battery enroute to a charger to heat/cool it, for fastest & safest charging. The nav does take elevation, temps, recent speeds/driving, traffic, and even forecast headwinds into account for planning range/arrival times! This is a HUGE benefit and SUPER easy vs other EVs/charge networks, especially given the car nav also knows the stall counts & status for all supercharger sites, so if one goes full (rare) or goes down (even MORE rare), it will auto-reroute you to another charger. It isn't perfect as noted in the video @11:14, sometimes it might route you to a slower charger or charge for a long time at one spot for some reason, but as they did, you can just check map yourself and manually route if desired. Charging most EVs above 80% is VERY slow as power(speed) is reduced a LOT, to protect the nearly-full battery... often it can take LONGER (some 2x!) to charge from 80-100%, than from entire 10-80%. You don't "fill up" EVs at each stop, different mindset. Just charge enough to get to next supercharger as they did, and the car plans that. At home of course, charge whatever you want. You CAN of course charge more/longer if you want, eg if you are eating food and taking longer, you can just keep charging... might be enough to skip one charger, as they did. A recommended app/website for other EVs is ABetterRoutePlanner, super-great and advanced trip/charge planner, works for all EVs based on real collected efficiency data, and chargers. Sometimes smarter/bit more efficient than Tesla, but ... not as brain-dead simple :)

I didn’t add up the total cost but I posted them at each stop if you wanna do the math 😂

Tessie here! I use Tezlab now. They’re kinda the same. Most of my friends use Tezlab so that’s why I converted

What bed?

@@vegasteslafamily they have beds for people to camp in look up Tesla camping.

For a fun trip I saw someone's video in Georgia some where there's a new v4 superstation!

@@DavidMcLellan-k7y I wanna see one!

I don’t let politics influence my vehicle purchase decisions. I will happily continue to put my family in the safest cars in the road

I am human

I know 😂

Next one less of that I promise

Me too 😜 no longer do I have that haircut!

Congrats!!! Range anxiety is overrated! Which one are you getting?

I'm getting the Model Y Performance :) @@vegasteslafamily

I also had range anxiety when driving across country but it does go away there is really Chargers everywhere. Your issue comes to the quality of the charger where some are rated at 250 kilowatts and you're only charging at 72 kilowatts it really takes a toll on your body waiting that long each trip

Haha we went to visit family too!

@@vegasteslafamily I assumed that it was more than just a hot dog run. lol

Sorry lol

@@TommyboyGTP didn’t add up the specifics on this trip, but 2,000 miles and ~$200

Thank you! Will do 🫡

😂 frogs in the grass. Happens all the time

Nope! Navigation is standard connectivity I believe, which is free. Premium connectivity is $10/month. The 25k EV is kind of here quite honestly. The standard model 3 with the EV credit and state incentives knock on that price right now.

@@vegasteslafamily Cool. The tax credit only means something if you have enough taxes to have 7500 in taxes owed. when I mean base model of 25k That should be before tax credit and "gas saved". All car companies should have a 20-25k base car model before incentives so that normal people not living above their means can afford. Keep up the good vids.

All Tesla connectivity and "tech" features are free/standard, at least for 8years supposedly (they made some noises about older ModelS etc, I think more because they had too-old LTE modems.) Tesla standard gps/nav & other tech is a LOT better than premium navs in other vehicles... MUCH better performance & response, nicer features, often MUCH bigger screen, etc.. and free OTA updates for life, car features added as well as map updates. Oh, and voice control that works VERY well and over 137-150 commands, including texting (contact search is lame though, but response text input works well) Premium connectivity is $10/mo, that basically just covers Tesla's LTE bandwidth (many features below DO work on wifi, eg if you use phone hotspot), lets you: - see google satellite photomaps (VERY useful and helpful for roadtrips & finding unfamiliar superchargers in a parking lot), plus also displays road traffic like google does (red/orange on roads) - video & music streaming for youtube, netflix, disney etc & more, plus Slacker and TuneIn (free accounts ok) plus other music streaming (spotify, apple music, tidal, if you subscribe to their premium accounts).. oh, and Caraoke :). And, internet browser.. .very handy to view business websites DIRECT from the map icon! or, google search (voice commands!) while driving, like "google price of audi x5" to compare vs your Model Y :) - live remote SentryCam views of car cameras while parked, from the app www.tesla.com/support/connectivity

Yup! Was a unique case. Only one available when I pulled in 😁

Thank you! I recommend Hertz honestly, it may be a bit beat up but you’ll get the best price. If you want a specific one, I’d recommend renting through Turo.

Yes

Nice

He was sick! He’s good now

Exciting! I have the M3 long range. If the RWD was a LFP battery back when I purchased, I would’ve went with RWD as well. Being able to use 100% of the battery daily is sweet!

We had FSD for this trip last year. Much prefer it without! No necessary lane changes

@@chemtrail_brew_Que yes we know 😋

Thank you 😁

Oh us too, every time! We visited family for the week in Chicago though 😜

Yes

@@vegasteslafamily same race of your girlfriend hehe

Sorry!

We do! Where are you moving from?

@@vegasteslafamily From North CA.

😂😂 we love saying this

Because it's $12,000 and our current RU-vid income is $0/year!

Thank you, sorry to hear that

Thanks for watching! 😁