Tesla Model 3 SR+ MIC 1000 km challenge 

"Åh, I just came!"🤣🤣🤣

That acceleration noise is addictive. Hard to pick up in the video but I knew what you meant as I have same car in my garage, only white on white. I've had my M3SRP for just over a month now and still can't quite believe I own such an incredible machine it is so futuristic, capable, fun and above all, clean. I love that you are so enthusiastic about the car, 'I just came' just about sums it up. Now I just need to save for a Tesla Bot to wash the car.

Yup, the LR only really makes sense if you have a round trip you often make that you can comfortably not charge for in the LR where you would have to in the SR+. Otherwise the SR+ works fine if your country has enough charging infrastructure.

I picked up my SR+ in June, much thanks to your recommendation. I couldn't be happier with it. One of the possible downsides for me was the non-premium sound system in the SR versus the LR/performance. The stock audio is still pretty good, but I ended up installing the Hansshow wiring harness to activate 4 of the inactive speakers - it sounds even better now! And I agree with the comments here, I can only see LR being beneficial if you often go on very long roadtrips or if you don't have access to chargers (northern Norway maybe). Saving those 100k NOK for 150km shorter range and 1.2 second slower 0-100 is easily worth it IMO :-)

Thanks Björn for all these testings 👍

many say that the SR3 model is a cheap model, of "poor" .. I really like that in this clip you showed the exact opposite ... even if it has a small range, 320-330km real, it is enough for a trip and even in the city. You do a wonderful job, keep it up

love that acceleration sound, my 4 y old son as well 😂 always asks me to push on that "fun-pedal" again!

3:00 That is a beautiful sound! I just love EV sound :-)

It’s worth checking the plate on the charger. Some chargers are 300kw at 800v and a lower speed at lower voltages.

Great vid Bjørn!

1:17 The infotainment is snappy, but it's still limited by the data connection on downloading map data? Maybe Tesla should add the option (like on phones) to go to your settings and select offline maps.

Great video bjorn lots of great information about model 3 sr+

Thanks Bjorn, you're a legend!!!

Love that acceleration sound as well ! does all tesla's has it

Yey! I’m loving that Rock ‘n’ Roll music at 15:45! 👍👍👍😄

I have a 2021 Model 3 SR+ MIF, and I agree with your conclusion, Bjorn. I’ve only had the car for four months, but have taken it on two longish road trips: 1) with my wife and two teenage sons for a 1,100 miles, and 2) a solo trip of 1,200 miles (both are round trip figures). The SR+ was over $9,000USD less than the LR, and I certainly don’t feel I was “shorted” in driving long distances. Each leg of my trips was 500+ miles, and that meant 3 or 4 charging stops, approximately 20 min each stop. Not a hardship or inconvenience at all, as those stops were welcomed every couple of hours. Long enough to use the bathroom, get a bite/drink, stretch legs a bit, and then back on the road. For every 7 to 8 hours of trip time, an hour or so of charging. I’m sure the LR is useful, but we are very satisfied with the M3 SR+ as a family (or solo) road trip car. And we can use the $9,000 USD to pay for many such trips. It is a Road Warrior!

Hi Bjorn, Thanks for these videos, they are so very informative and interesting. I have only recently started to watch and subscribed to your channel - I have learned a lot. We have just ordered a Model 3 Long Range - I live in Australia. The model 3's here are China made cars. Surprisingly the road types and conditions you have in Norway look very similar to what we have in Oz. But fortunately, we don't have the very cold weather you experience - we have the other extreme very hot long summers! Regards, Paul.

Hmmmm it's a shame it isn't all on V3 to see the absolute best time possible, still love the 1000km challenge. Any ideas on LFP best charging practise?

Nice guitar sound at Minute 16:00, and very good Model 3 stuff.

I agree with the sentiment about when to buy the SR+ over the LR --- for Norway, with its well developed Supercharger/DCFC networks. For countries less well endowed the LR has a lot more value.

"ooooooh i just came" x'D! DUUUUUDE! You crack me up! You're so funny. I just ordered the new Tesla M3 LFP with 491km range WLTP. Your videos made it easy to choose the Tesla. Cheers from your neighbour Sweden! /Martin

Boom! Another awesome test.

Nice to hear a nerd-gasm Bjørn 😀 long time since you last came in a car 😃

I love the Tesla challanges

car reviewer: "aahhhh I just came" 3:25 Edit: added timestamp

Please test the long range 75kw LG MIc Version, Björn!! Thank you!!

Wow. Summer in Norway. 9PM and it's like daytime.

I got to drive a model Y dual motor LR last weekend. Its a brilliant car. I have driven a few other evs, like the VW and hyundai, but honestly Yesla has warped my sense of reality. I still need to drive a few others like the machE and ionic5/ev6. But next is model3 sr on the list.

yea sounds great!

3:26 ooooooh

Never mind vidi and vici, you did your fair share of veni though!

I think the 2019 model 3 Sr+ might be the fastest sr+ now a days since they updated it to 170 kW. When I charge at a v3 I get about 170 kW all to 15 percent. And decreases slower.

Your tests convinced me to choose the Model 3 SR+ over the LR, except - maybe - for the sound system.

4:53 I wonder when we will get option for preheating to third party chargers. You can trick it navigating to Supercharger, but driving somewhere else, if they are close enough, but then you can often just choose the Supercharger anyway.

I think larger capacity battery packs are an advantage on medium range trips of about 150 km each way meaning no charging required compared with a smaller capacity battery pack where there would be some charging involved. Long trips obviously all down to charging speed.

😂😂 i just cameeeee… u made me and my wife laugh well, thks

Hi Bjorn, love your video's and it took away my last fear for stepping away from fossel and getting to an EV which will most likely be a M3 SR+. I was wondering, is it possible to use ABRP as an app for navigation in the M3 rather than the legacy google nav which is already in the M3 OS?

We are at NEIN-NEIN-NEIN-NEIN! 😂👍 Bra video!😃👍

You don't find test like this anywhere, thanks.

great value!

Is there more motor sound from the SR+? The one motor is working harder so could make sense

Thanks for another great video very interesting too see the difference! Going to pick up a sr+ today and want to use scan my Tesla on my iPhone do I need anything more than the dongle obdlink mx+ and the app ? And were is the obd2 port in the model 3 thanks

as many other i dont know if SR+ is enough for my needs or maybe put the extra money for a LR. I know there is more benefits than range if i decide to pick LR, but i feel like SR+ is already a bit over my budget lol. I live in Sweden and my next job career will be Oslo so will probably buy the car over there :)

"Ooohh, I just came.." 😆 Bjøøøørn

23:46 What kind of sun roof do you have installed? This looks really Good. Thanks in advance.

Anyone else checking out gas prices in Norway through Björn's vids? 😅

Does anyone know if it is possible to force the battery preheat? For example if you are going to a non Tesla charger? And maybe an aprox time to engage the preheat function before charge?

I read that SR+ will get a 60 kwh battery, will be interesting how well that will do

What range can we expect in winter with LFP battery? Hope to see Your test of this car in winter conditions this year!

I'd love if in Germany on the Autobahn the grass would also be cut at night and not in the beginning rush hour at short to 8, I am getting a little bit jealous

The max Ampere is to low for the low voltage of the lfp battery. On v3 I get the 165 every time.

Holy s**** you just answered a million dollar question with your comprehensive tests and data collection Was thinking that LR would be the pick for the model 3, but for 99% of use cases SR + is already good enough (courtesy of the Supercharger network off course) Great work you're doing here, I will now subscribe!

Like the music starting at 15:40 - but cannot find it in your Artlist playlist. What is it?

Video upvoted when he said "I just came"

Just made a trip from Riga (Latvia) to Arzl im Pitztal (Austria).. 2000km+. with 3 people, lagage and roof box with skis. Interesting, but not quite plesant experience. Frankly, main issue is a luck of high power charging stations in eastern Europe. Either you have to consider the route through SuperCharger/Ionity only.. and thus always charge from less than 20% to 100% to reach next charing point.. and this is crazy time consuming. Or you need to consider lower power stations, which also quite problematic as they usually not right on the route and it may add up to 15-20 km just to drive to a station somewhere aside. Another issure - there can be stations belonging to different suppliers and this is another headache - you have to have all they fu..ng Apps in the phone with account establised and credit card linked. No one of them have card terminal right on the station. Once I crossed Germany border all changed quite significant. Highpower chargers are almost everywhere, and even in case this is not Supercharger or Ionity chain, you may simply pay by card using payPass/ApplePay/GooglePay (e.g Aral stations). Just for the referrence - out of 1100 KM from a hotel in Lodz, 340 km to Poland border took about 7 hours.. and this is total crap. Further, from Polant border to Arzl I have made ~760Km in about 9.5 hours..with ~2 hours of charging time (6 stops). Average speed was 95km/h (max was about 130+) and average consumption - 240W/km.

What's the music at 3:32 ? I couldn't find it in your playlist. Thanks!

You should do the trip in an gas care to have as benchmark

Sorry if I missed it - is this the „old“ engine (A) or the new Hairpin one (J) ? Regarding the sound … my SR+ will arrive with the A engine in about two weeks

Have you done any tests to see how the RWD SR+ performs on snow and ice compared to the AWD LR? Some RWD cars (notably BMW) are terrible on snow or ice. Does SR+ have a snow mode?

It's just that LR has the better sound system. All the speakers connected, subwoofer and amp.

You might have gotten less power at the Hypercharger because they sometimes have cables limited to only 400A instead of 500A. According to HYC display you got ~148kW which at 400A result in 370V at the battery which is plausible for the LFP. The charger can still provide 300kW for 800V cars (400A*800V=320kW) but Ionity states 350kW therefore they must have 500A cables. Would you mind doing a video on that kind of nerd stuff sometimes?

I just came… haaaaa… u made me and my wife laugh well… thks

I saw the Model Y for the first time yesterday. I looks great! We have a Model 3, if we ever need more room in the car the Model Y looks like a great alternative :-)

Would you please also check the MIC long range Model 3 with LFP battery? Apparently they are available immediately in Europe. At least in Germany I am sure. With 580km range.

Great video thanks. Would be great to see how real world traffic affects it's range/consumption/amount of charging stops contrary going into the night without traffic

21:15 NaNaNaNein!

When should you navigate to a supercharger to get optimal battery temperature for charging? 10 min before? 20? 30?

This is a very strange result. When you plan a route in ABRP with the LFP Model and the nonLFP the LFP Model has like a third longer charging stops for my calculations. Now you just demonstrated that the LFP Model(aka MIC(I thought the internet already agreed on LFP Model 3)) in non ideal environment is faster than the nonLFP model in ideal ones. So now I am quite confused.

I wonder if there is anyone who can explain the reason for the difference in the charging power of the 2 Supercharge stalls when there are no other cars that are charging (13:54). Reduced power for a stall should not be an issue under these ideal conditions. Can this behavior explain why many people experience changing charging power when using Superchargers? It is basically assumed that it is the battery temperature that is the cause - and it may not be the case at all.

Interesting to see those consumption numbers compared side by side... Just one question though...are the numbers for the Tesla taken from the onboard electronics or from the Chargers? I have heard that Tesla likes to "cheat" and only displays the pure driving KWh instead of the actual consumption with climate, battery heating and so on.

You should do a Oslo-Bergen-Oslo challenge, more realistic

I always push pedal to the metal to hear that satisfying sound. Something mesmerising is in there. Do other cars sound similar?

Hi Bjorn. Just a quick question for you and viewers. I have a Model 3 that when driven in the dark (no street lighting) even on a three lane motorway It keeps giving messages left/right pillar camera and multiple cameras blocked or blinded. So AutoPilot disengages or won't engage. Customer service and technicians won't look at the car because they say it is normal behaviour. Well is it? Or do I have the only Model 3 that can't see in the dark?

Cool. Faster than the Ioniq 5 with 800V system...

Has the matrix functionality been unlocked for the headlights?

3:55 which song is it? Cant find it in your artlist nor Shazam.

Fun fact: on this trip Kris Rifa is laying in the trunk, tied up and gagged.

Hi Bjørn. Will you also test the Long Range MIC? Im very curious about that one!

3:08

300 kW is for 800V system, 150 kW for 400V. there is a limit in amps that you can use with that cable, 350/400A. Supercharger V3 is 550A at 400V, too much amps and waste of energy. Maybe there will be a solution to reuse that energy wasted in heat.

Model 3 LR is only 35 min faster than model 3 sr+ with a huge $10k price difference, sheeeeyt!!!!!

I don't hear the Tesla whine in our Model Y, wonder if it's better insulated. Wish I could. Maybe it's my ears, I'm 69 years old.

Hm, I'm getting 170KW on my 2 year old SR+ in Germany.

Model 3 LR with 82 kWh battery is a beast, will we have the possibility (like in Q2 /2021) to get one from Tesla in EU? Or we will have only LG batteries in the LR only?! Coming from China?!

Which country is this ?

Is it really a mistake by the user? I would say a tesla is far from perfect. Adding 100 kW more in a 800V system is called what, when 140 kW are fast?

Tesla LG battery low charging

22:07 to save you about 22 min :)

sounds like a jet engine when you accelerate

🤣🤣🤣🤣ooohhh I just came!!!!

Fun fact: SR stands for Super Range

First one :)