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I want to thank the awesome folks at anchor and the Power Core 2 portable battery for making this epic video possible keeping all our gear charged up so this is a Tesla Model X it's actually my card I've been driving it for the better part of a year we've held off on her floor review because the car was delivered to me initially it was missing a ton of features ultimately came over the air so it has the autopilot 2.0 hardware but at delivery none of it was active in fact the car could do less and older cars that are quipped with Hardware 1.0 when I mentioned autopilot to Hardware essentially it's 12 ultrasonic sensors all around the car and eight cameras gonna make this thing eventually according to Elon Musk and supposedly by the end of the year be fully level five autonomous so this version that I have is a seventy five D the 75 means it's got a 75 kilowatt hour battery in the D is dual motor so essentially it's all-wheel drive it's got an advertised range of about 237 miles but I've never once gotten close to that when I do almost a full hundred cent charge generally shows about 220 miles and that's not actual range it's gonna depend on your driving so you got to really use the car to see how many miles you can actually get Tesla's recommend you charge the card up to a hundred percent the recommend about 80 percent so sort of cycles through the cells it's gonna be a 0-60 time of about four and a half seconds I've actually clocked it that's where I got so it's not a slow car for being something this big you could option it up cuz let's sort of change your battery pack size and get a 100 D give you a faster do 216 up your range just under 300 and if you want the fastest Model X available you can get a P 100 D so bringing it down to about four seconds or under four seconds and keep that almost 300 mile range of course things start to get super expensive from there so driving an e V is different for some people it's obviously no gas and other questions that I get is what is it gonna cost to actually fill up or charge the car so I charge my in off hours here in Southern California so it's about ten to eleven cents per kilowatt so from zero to a full 75 kilowatt hour charge it's gonna cost me about $8.25 so to go 200 ish miles it's about eight dollars for me so way less what you get with gas charging up tamal X is pretty easy I installed the 240 outlet at home when I just use the standard charge that came with the car it'll charge generally about 20-ish miles an hour you can get bigger faster charges but for me that was totally fine it's like a cell phone I plug in at night and I wake up in the morning and it's got a full charge I never have to deal with gas station tracer or issue at all but if you need faster charging you need sort of more regular charging definitely got super chargers all over the US in fact they're expanding I think they're gonna go like 2x which is what they have right now I would can charge your car up to 80% in about 30 minutes and it is insanely fast it's not quite as fast as Gaston yet but it works and the stations are almost everywhere and actually inside the car will tell you if there's a stall available mixer etymon Alexa was the doors the Falco pink doors people love them or hate them I'm kind of in the middle I certainly liked them when I got the car sort of the big appeal of a car like this and practical use they work very well in certain situations and others they are definitely an inconvenience they used to be really slow when the car first shipped it would take almost four seconds the doors open up but as how software updates have come doors are opened up a way faster and I will say even in tight spots I have never once hit another car the cards are really good about detecting overhead beams ever hid overhead beams either putting kids in out of the car it's been really nice to have those I have to sort of twist of my back to get kids in and sort of walk up to the car and you can just put the kids straight in so the Falcon wing doors have held up really well I haven't had any issues with them but my passenger door it's a little bit a creaking it you can you can hear what it sounds like doesn't affect the performance at all or detecting anything it just sort of is a bit of an annoyance so aside from the Falcon doors another highlight feature of the Model X it's kind of helicopter type of windshield and you sit in the car it's unlike any other experience you can look up and you can sort of see straight up a difference that a panoramic group you don't have I'm sort of cross beam and just sort of glass all the way up and it sounds awesome on paper they put some sort of tint on it to drive and block episode and they claim it blocks 97% of UV rays and the heat but it gets really hot so Tesla does some things really well they're innovators and technology but some stuff is just kind of baffling to me why they would do it the visors on the model X are weird it's like a strange magnetic dance you got to pull it and snap it and then pull it down again to get the visor to come out and if you want to block the Sun so you got his freakin glass over you it's strange to do and it's so little profile doesn't do much so you can configure the car with different seating arrangement so you can get a five seater a six seater or seven seater I opted for the six seater I like to serve that alley in the middle I mean it's gonna give you two captain chairs in the second row and then two seats in the third row you get a ton of storage back there that sort of a hidden compartment in the back sort of store stuff kind of like a minivan kind of looks like a minivan anyway you've got the front trunk two stories for sorting some kind of extra stuff that you might need it so I opted for the white interior and when I first did our video on the Model X I got a lot of like what's wrong with you you got kids why would you go white so according to Elon Musk the vegan material that goes into this is the most durable of all the Tesla materials that includes their leathers and synthetics so I was a bit dubious to have white in my car someone who wears jeans every day so going on now a year I've had ketchup spill on those seats I've had coffee spill on those seats and I've had other gross stuff that kids tend to eat on those seats and I can say the seats look almost brand new so if you're nervous about getting the white actually seems to be really good even more durable and some of the leather options at Tesla offers so I option in my car with the air suspension that means you can sort of raise it up or down you can sort of do it manually it'll remember locations so if you'd like to raise it up when you go to work it'll do that automatically you get there it's a really cool feature that the car has the main reason that got it thought is gonna make the ride seem a little smooth I can sort of adjust itself as it goes over bumps it turns out the suspension on this thing is tuned like a sports car you feel every single bump in the road but I don't matter you've got your suspension or not I was kind of disappointed the suspension of Tesla put in here it's a way harsher ride that would have wanted from the big family hauling SUV if I had a Model S maybe I'd expect it if I had even a model three or a roadster you kind of want that hard suspension you want to feel the bumps in the road but like this that was not a welcome surprise the biggest reason that I got the Model X was autopilot I loved what it could do and I loved the promise of what it was ultimately going to be able to do but as it stands right now it's like leveled to a shot I mean it means it can do some stuff they got to stay aware and stay diligent but when it's doing its thing in the right conditions it is awesome so you give the cruise control stock a little DoubleTap towards you it's gonna activate autopilot and it works you can essentially take your hands off the wheel while paying attention and the car is going to navigate itself it's meant to be used on freeways it's still technically in beta but it works in all conditions it works on turns it works in the rain it works out of anywhere you want to use it on a freeway damn is it cool if you want to change lanes you put the signal up and it'll change lanes for you on its own it'll make sure things are clear and it'll go it won't keep going if you keep the signal on that you got to turn off and turn it back on again and it'll keep speed other features are coming like being able to pass on its own and that kind of stuff but as it stands right now it works really well with a few super dangerous caveat if it can't track the lanes it'll try and track a car in front of it you'll see the car kind of turned blue on the - if flame markings aren't so bright it'll kind of ping-pong around it also works on city streets it's not technically meant for that but you can turn it on I'm going to go through a big intersection if there isn't a car in front you that it can track I mean this thing can almost veer off into another Lane so you got to stay diligent and you got to stay awake when using autopilot but in the right conditions it is absolutely awesome it can make a long drive or stop and go traffic really kind of usable so I mentioned the cars equipped with autopilot 2.0 and as this filming doesn't really do anything that the original auto pilot didn't but it does do a ton of stuff so first the cars got a summon feature which means from your key fob or the mobile app you can make the card go forward or back without anybody in it which is insane and ultimately the car is going to use the autopilot 2.0 software to drive itself so you could park it in a spot you can summon it the car to come to you it'll pull out the spot it'll turn and drive and go right to where you are doesn't work as of yet right now it's forward and reversed but it is really cool I'd also can for a particular Park itself or parallel park itself with varying degrees of accuracy so I love the Model X for me it's perfect but the car itself is far from perfect I like what it represents I like it's sort of electric propulsion I like them kind of paying to pave the way for cars like the model three I'm okay with all of that I wish Tesla would have done some other stuff I wish there was more storage in the car I wish dividers weren't freaking weird I wish autopilot wasn't kind of squirrely at times but overall in a whole package the cars been incredible that's what delivered on their promise without going doors are awesome they're usable they're not necessary but I'm glad that they're here if anything they're kind of a conversation starter I'm really happy with the Model X it was a three year lease for me and I'll be sad to give it away in two more years perhaps my next car will be a model 3a model wife and another one of these guys I think Tesla hit a home run with this car I know it's not growing any beauty awards but for a functional family hauler or a car that has a lot of storage capacity it's really good in fact that's probably my favorite car I've never had so much to my surprise the ultra white seats held up the Falco in doors have been usable with no issues the car is still plenty fast enough and I love it it's not a perfect car but it's a perfect car for me this vide has been a year in the making we wanted to show the Model X when it got to its full capacity or at least on par with what autopilot 1.0 could do it's only gonna get better from here we should have full autonomy coming in the next two years hopefully if you subscribe to eelain's promises more features should be coming over the next few years this car will drive itself this car park itself this car will become even more usable than day one and I love that as a geek as a car enthusiast as a tech guy and as a dad this car has been the most perfect package that could imagine so like pretty much all V's for hydrogen the Tesla uses lithium-ion cells to give it its juice it's sort of the same with you mine cells that's something like an external battery pack would use and I want to take a quick second to thank our friends at inker for sponsoring this video and making something of this epic proportion happen I've got their power core to hear it's a 10,000 million power battery same lithium-ion technology that's in the car is in the battery pack like this so if you want something that's gonna last you wanna be able make sure your gadgets can be charged much like you want your car to be charged so I don't learn more about anchor or the battery path will link to them down below so you guys think I hope you enjoy it's a new kind of video for us I really want to make it as epic as possible until next time I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo hope you guys enjoyed the review none of our incredible aerial shots or car tracking shots could be possible without the incredibly awesome and talented people at drone gear wanna 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