Model 3 Performance Road Trip Up The Entire Breadth Of The USA - Louisiana to North Dakota
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2020
- Kyle, Alyssa, Bleu, and Ellie travel from the southern tip of the US to the northernmost city in North Dakota, Minot in the Tesla Model 3 Performance. A long one, but another typical Out of Spec Motoring road trip with all the data! Grab some popcorn, and enjoy.
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Episode 1: • Starting Our Massive M...
Episode 2: • Gearing Up The Model 3...
Episode 3: • Model 3 Performance Ro...
Episode 4: • Tesla Model 3 Adventur...
Episode 5: • Tesla Camping In Natio...
Episode 6 (part 1): • Tesla Model 3 Road Tri...
Episode 6 (part 2): • Tesla Adventuring In B...
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I got my dinner ready for this adventure!!! I don't have a Tesla, but I'm living thru these videos.. Let's roll!!!
Enjoy your dinner and road trip video! Thank you for watching!
I HOPE YOUR DINNER WAS VEGAN SWEETHEART.........THESE GUYS DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT FOOD...
@@RonPaulgirls Arent you funny! You got my attention. I am subscribing to your channel to find out about becoming vegan. I need to lose weight and get in better health. Thanks for the link. Enjoy your day
Hands down the best road trip videos on TH-cam. I appreciate the hard work and entertainment!
Thanks for watching!
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My girlfriend and I love riding along with you two and your doggos. You're funny and goofy at times, but you're also doing a very valuable service for people in general. You're enabling people to see how painless and actually desirable it is to drive an EV in everyday life and because you two are so normal and relatable people actually want to watch an hour-long plus video. Thanks for all the vids so far and I hope you keep them coming☮
Thanks for watching!!
Granite City is a chain, thanks so much for stopping!!
We’ll have to stop in again next time we roll through a town with a location. Great spot!
Living in the UK it's fascinating to see a journey, which by European standards is almost unimaginable in distance! Nine years ago I drove from London via the Channel Tunnel to the Northern Italian lakes, which I think was around 800 miles which to me seemed a distance of epic proportions.
Your video diary of this trip makes for almost compulsive viewing with undoubtedly your four legged passengers becoming the stars of the show! In fact given your dog's unabated enthusiasm, in particular the black one, perhaps with the aid of the auto pilot feature you can elicit his help with some of the driving. I think that video would absolutely guarantee unprecedented viewing numbers!!! 😃
Meantime I eagerly await the next installment...
We have a significant UK / EU (are they separate yet?) viewership so I try to include cool American cars / trucks / busses when possible
Uk 🇬🇧 fan here also. Top notch 👍🏻
European countries are small, but the whole of the EU is pretty big. If you wanted to have a long-distance European roadtrip, you could do Lisbon to Tallinn for instance, which is comparable to NY to LA in distance, about 2700 mi.
I have a 4 hour UK trip coming up taking us from the middle of the UK to the coast and for us that is a trip of grand proportions…. Even though it will only require 1 supercharge, if that! So these videos are awesome to watch, i am jealous of the travel opportunities you have across the pond in the US!
The best road trip videos ever! I also enjoy the charging summaries
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More to come!
You guys are my favorite and this journey has been so much fun to watch! I never have patience for more than a 10 minute video but I've sat and watched both episodes all the way through! Alyssa you crack me UP 😂 "am I boring you?" 🤣
Tesla does really have an impressive charging network .. that is the key ingredient a lot of other electric companies are missing.
It’s got it’s ups and downs..
While most of the cars can manage a good chunk of the USA network just fine, there’s more than a few spots in the great southwest (and in the north as you saw) that can get VERY hairy.
Only if you have a Tesla. But I'm not impressed by proprietary networks, so from my perspective they are the worst. They won't charge any other kind of electric car. This is bad for electric cars in general.
@@duotronicnone4572 You do understand why though, right? Can you imagine the experience for Telsa owners if they opened it up to every electric car? Telsa chargers would be crazy busy all the time .. for 2 reasons .. they are located in very many places in the US and the world and they charge at a high level. I also believe that they are open to other electric car companies using their network if they paid for it (which is only fair) - www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-elon-musk-open-supercharger-network/
This! I can’t imagine even considering another electric car anywhere in Tesla’s price range. They don’t have as good of a range on top of not having super chargers!
Strongly disagree, in Europe and Asian Tesla uses CCS so the handles don't overheat and no adapters needed to use the out of network DC fast chargers.
Got to tell you right now! I'm so excited to find this video! I'm a TESLA fan who can't afford a Tesla Y YET. But I travel and camp in my 2006 RAV4 with my 15 year old toy poodle. Great vehicle. But now that I see this can be comfortably done in a M3 with a Yakima box I'm rethinking. My other big issue was I didn't want to be trapped on the Interstate. So you've shown me it can be done on back roads!! THANK YOU! I'm on the third video of the day. I watched while cooking up a yummy Stroganoff! By the way I encourage other retirees, DO IT, just DO IT!
Great video, really liked the longer road trip. You are living my dream.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Welcome to North Dakota ! My wife and I are residents from Wahpeton, ND (just south of Fargo.) I've been watching your youtube channel for some time now, as I have an interest in EV's and would like our next car purchase to be an EV. I think we could replace one of our two ICE vehicles and not experience any real pain from it. Thank you very much for educating me over the past year or so.
I do have one request. If you ever find yourself looking for something new to try with your Model 3, come to North Dakota in January. We typically get 2 or 3 weeks a year of -20° F to -40° F weather. Even ICE vehicles experience some unique challenges in this weather. I would be very curious to see the battery related issues with this quantified and demonstrated. You may need to time your trip around the weather report to get up here during cold weather, but would make for a very interesting and educational youtube video. In our particular case we have a heated garage, so we would only be effected when the car is left outside. The only cold weather demonstrations that I have seen on youtube have been at +20° F or +30° F. The colder temperatures in January and February are a different animal.
In any event, I am glad to see that TESLA has finally installed some supercharging locations in ND. Hopefully they will get Minot, Devils Lake, and some other cities covered in the near future. I would also really like to see them locate a service center in Fargo. Right now, one negative is that we would need to travel to Minneapolis for any service not covered by the mobile service trucks.
Thanks again for all of that you have done to educate us about EV's !
Aaron Riebe
Will do some cold weather tests this winter
Aaron... check this video out done by Kyle last Winter ❄️ th-cam.com/video/ICtBTNRgaNM/w-d-xo.html
@@dconner9 Thanks !
You should look at TeslaBjorn for cold weather challenges.
Watched thru the entire video in one sitting. Im waiting for my delivery of my blue model 3 LR in late august, so really enjoying these videos right now. Have a nice trip onwards
Doing the same thing, waiting for my Model Y. 👍
Hi Manahar! Aquapel! That stuff is great. Thanks for the shout dude :)
Yes. I have used it on my Car after watching your video and it was great. I thought the Out Of Spec Motoring car must try it out since they always hit rain on their roadtrips.
Thanks, Manohar! It was great meeting you.
Love these videos so much...you literally cannot make them long enough so never worry about that! So much valuable info, especially for newer Tesla owners and those who have yet to get one but are considering. And so entertaining at the same time - perfect blend. Can't wait for the next one...
The angel statues made me think of the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. I was hoping you'd quote the "don't blink" lines.
I though the same
@@bromide999 Me Three!! :)
I've been waiting for the next episode! I got very happy, when I found out it was over 1 hour long.
I love watching your videos, while I wait for my Model 3 delivery in august!
Love you both!
Thank you so much for watching!!! Enjoy!
Congrats on your new Tesla!
I’ve been watching them while waiting for my Model X! We’ll both get our cars eventually haha.
Thanks for let us participate your road-trip. Real interesting - also that higher speed-limit in North Dakota. Looking forward for the next episode. Greeting from Bremen / Germany.
Love Bremen!
So ready for my cyber truck so I can do this! Keep up the great videos, fellow wake county native!
Good tip on cooling the charger handle
Epic trip so far! Having trash cans and windshield washing stations is a great idea for a supercharger location. Great tip on using a wet microfiber cloth on the supercharger handle.
I cant wait for the 500 mile cybertruck to come out. I'm going to get one in 2023 and rip across America with it haha
Hopefully 2022!
Greetings from the UK. Watched your video with interest as these are places we have never visited. A couple of years ago we sailed up the Mississippi from New Orleans to Memphis and then drove to Washington via Gatlinburg and one of the stops on the cruise was Natchez but missed the turning angel. A great video. Thanks.
Great stuff
Really do enjoy your roadtrip videos, maybe shouldn't say this but yours & Bjorn Nylands are the best. This video brought back very fond memories of a week by the very same lake many years ago, not a place many of us from the UK get to see.
If you want the rear vents to always turn on have someone sit in the rear seat without the seatbelt then in the front tap and hold the red fasten seatbelt icon until it turns to child seat. now it will always turn on!
Interesting, I recently hit car seat for all of them since the dogs were pretty heavy and have been noticing the vents default to on. Cool tip! Thanks
Thanks for the tip, this has been bugging me for months now
I was just talking about the dogs too! I love them.. they are so adorable
“I pupreciate all the luv from our viewers. Mum and Ded think people watch because of the fancy box on wheels but we know it’s for us” ♥️ Bleu and Ellie
This is the best road trip YT channel I’ve seen. Keep up the great job guys. Looking forward to more episodes.
Thank you for the support! And of course thanks for watching!
We had fun camping with you guys! Can’t wait to meet up again and hope next time we can stick around longer! Thanks for the shout out!
Looks like so much fun and Your choice of music is great 👍!
Be safe!
so true, what is your favourite tesla car?
I love how you two just set off with no real game plan as to where you will be staying. I'm curious about your real time planning strategy on these trips. Does one of you spend time looking up campgrounds/hotels on the route path while the other is driving? Also thanks for the atlas obscura tip. I've had a hard time trying to come up with fun road trips. So what is different in the 'Kyle w/Dogs' profile - no Easy Entry? Wow, that Table Rock Lake campsite was just awesome. I can't believe you had that all to yourselves. Love that Springfield supercharger with trashcan, windshield washer, and 10% off, that's so awesome. 55:06 Nice quick change Alyssa! That 246 mile stretch was quite the pucker factor and I'm amazed how efficient the 3 is with a roof box.
My iPad battery dropped to 19% , time to charge. Fun vid.
Will your iPad make it to the next supercharger in time?
Put a wet rag on the charger!
glad you got to stop by my hometown and experience Joe's BBQ!
Very good!
Nice tip about the shaded stall and damp cloth!
Must say love watching your videos, keep them coming.. Thank you for providing this information we appreciate y'all.
dont have time to watch it yet, but I am liking it now because i know its gonna be a good one :)
Very nice movie
You guys have to get out more instead of just zipping around the country at 80 mph! That was a swamp buggy in Perry. They are all over South Florida in fact there used to be big swamp buggy races out near Immokolee, not that far from Marco Island. Lots of movies were filmed at Weeki Watchi. Having fun watching you motor out of Florida as we have traveled those roads many times
Didn't know cooling down the handle would help with charging speeds. awesome.
Love these cruises 🌊
Great tip about the wet rag. Won’t need it that often in damp uk 🇬🇧 but when we do get a hot day it will be very useful 👍🏻
Informative, well produced, entertaining, and one of a kind. Thank you both!
Enjoy your trip and looking forward to the next one.
Hope you are still talking to each other at the end of this ! :-) In our family we woud call a trip like this a 'relationship tester'.
24:22 translation: I am sick of the Walmart dinners I want a nice sit down brunch now. He hesitated a little bit his angsty wife detector was in low charge probably . His reaction should have been thats a great idea I was thinking the same thing! I hope he was ok.
She seems generally annoyed with him. 🤣 Great video though!
The future of entertainment, through the age of Tesla cars. Marvelous !
Tesla and all EVs!
Somebody needs to make a "blue ice" charging handle cover that you take out of your cooler, snap around the handle, then plug the handle into the charging port. No more hot handles, no more damp rags....
Cool episode! Interesting stops and I like the info you provide regarding how to manage and monitor battery usage. Glad you all made it safe to Minot. See you in the next leg!
Really enjoyed watching this. Can't wait for more!
really nice soundtrack and even though these videos are hour long there is so much stuff going on,keeping the viewer really engaged...love from India...:)
Oh snap, you were in my grandmothers town (mom's side ) of Natchez. ANNNDDD you were where my granny is buried lol. Thats awesome. There's alot of histoy in that town. I would have to tell ya
Drop some of the history I'm curious now lol
Videos like yours helped me pull the trigger on going electric. Thanks for documenting and sharing your experiences.
I was actually stationed up in Minot for 6 years so hearing that name again brought back some memories!
Alyssa’s brother flies B-52s out of there!
@@OutofSpecMotoring That's awesome! I was a missile maintainer up there. Question. If you do more trips, would you consider switching to the aero wheels?
Aeros don’t fit on the Performance with big brakes. I run the Martian MW03s as my Aeros setup
Love the details u put up in your videos.. have been watching ur videos since the past 2 months.. must say that I am impressed. Keep up
Really enjoyed this video. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this road trip video. I also loved the music interludes. Good choices Kyle!
-John W.
Great road trip. Can’t wait for your next video.
Nice you made it to Minot! Didn't think you could from Fargo to Minot
Had to stop in Jamestown but getting to Minot wasn’t an issue!
Love it! Can't wait for the next one! Kyle, you're doing my long time wish. I hope I can do it someday! Have a safe and happy trip!!!
Absolutely love these road trips video! Can’t wait to take one in my tesla! Keen up the good work!
Good road trip!!!! appreciated for sharing!!!!!!!!!
It was long but time went by fast because of the enjoyment ‼️ loved it
Enjoying a lot your trip. Keep on
Great travel video! I like that you offer both the travel and the tech sides.
Love this video series!
Hands down the best road trip videos you can find on youtube especially for EV’s. Quality content, very informative and you do all this with enthusiasm. Appreciate all the hard work you put in your channel. Keep making these videos man! Again, the best content out there! Cheers from the middle east!
When the retro synthwave hits just right.
I love this series! Makes me wanna do a similar road trip. Order a Model Y earlier this month and this series has been holding me over until delivery. I'm working from home right now, and these videos help past the time.
This is exactly what I want to do after the virus is long gone. I’m subscribing, thanks for the tips, and interesting ideas!
Love the 80´s themed soundtrack! Very nice videos guys, cheers from Portugal!
I live in council bluffs IA. So glad you liked the super charger. I always thought it was a good one. There is a Tesla repair shop really close to the super charger as well. I was hoping at some point I would see it in your videos. Thanks for the great videos.
thanks for the wet rag tip
I enjoyed the review of my trip with Tesla. Thank you.
Try a hitch-mount cargo box. They don't look as nice as the roof boxes but they're much more energy efficient.
Just made a HOlland-UK and Holland-Austria trip with my model 3. Just perfect woth the superchargers and destination charging!
Thank you really loved the longer road trip videos.... been talking with tesla rep need to schedule my model 3 test drive. I have ridden in a model s years ago loved it but I know model 3 will be next car just need to wait my condo I own is supposed to add lvl 2 charging soon once that happens I will pull trigger
This is soooo much time invested traveling and editing, fu🤴 amazing!
Love these videos! You two inspired us to make some big trips in the 2018 M3P- will be doing Saskatoon, Canada to Starbase Texas soon! New distance record for us. Thanks again!
cool video ! Can't wait to have my model Y :)
Great videos and a really nice road trips you are doing. 😎
Thank you for the detailed explanation of the power post (24:53) at the camp by the lake. Good to see the array of options.
Also, "Thank you" for the explanation of the urban Supercharger (forced split). Makes more sense to me now.
If it were up to me, these would send full power when unpaired and split straight to half when paired.
@@rosmarin2438 Maybe, that's kind of how the v2 Superchargers work, except the split isn't 50/50. Instead, it favors the person who was there first. It's like 70/30 and slow rebalances as the first person's car becomes more charged and starts its normal taper downward. The second driver tapers up, but how far depends on how much their state of charge, the temp of their batteries, ambient, and, as we have now learned, the temperature of the handle/cable of the EVSE (Supercharger station).
However, I don't know the specifics of the actual ratio of the v2 split. Let's say, 2 M3 show up with identical characteristics with a 2% state of charge. Once the first one ramps up to full current, how much will it fall when the second M3 plugs in? What is the algorithm as charging continues?
I saw Panda Express trending on twitter this morning and Kyle was the first person I thought of
Hey. The mission station is where I charge up when I need to go shopping! Love the videos
Love your videos. We love road trips, and I think these videos convinced me the LR Model 3 was the way to go. Bought a used one four days ago and no “ragrets”.
Great series! Enjoyable and candid. I've learned quite a lot on how to truly travel with a Tesla. I have a 2015 Model S, and waiting on the Model Y so we can star traveling like this!
Does the Tesla navigator not have the ability for you to mark a road as closed, by clicking on it, and automatically present an alternate route?
Had my model 3 for over a year but thanks to your channel i don’t baby it. I don’t mind if it gets a little dirty. We get the car to enjoy it. Might as well do what it’s made to do. Thanks again
Granite city is a Chain restaurant. I believe it was named after St. Cloud MN the “Granite City”.
Thanks!
Out of Spec Motoring Sure! Having fun watching your road trip so far, even though I don’t have a Tesla.
@@tylerk24 I would argue most of their viewers do not have Teslas.
1:10:23, 3wh/mi is unbelievable with the roof box!
Lol it is unbelievable
I love you guys . i stayed at home but it feel like im there laughing anyways i hope you enjoy yourselves .
Loving the content! I’d like to see a video of how y’all prepare for one of these trips (packing list, verifying charging requirements at various campsites, etc.) Keep up the good work!
We have one on Patreon! Costs just $1 to see it
Oh wow, I just stayed at camp ground at Council Bluffs in July!
thanks for sharing enjoyed your road trip thats the one thing we can't do here on an island
I have never seen the original Joe's that empty. I used to go over to that location all the time when I was going to school at UMKC. Usually, the line was to the door and a few times if you timed it wrong it would be out the door and down the front. I can't even imagine how long the line would be if you needed to do 6 ft spacing.
Where do you buy your wet water?
Loving the series guys! Really fun following along on your epic road trip. Can't wait for the next episode!
Great video！ One of the most youtuber I loved!
I've ordered the tri motor fsd cyber truck..BADASS!! .the S is my next buy..I love SPACE X TOO
Been watching your videos! Keep up the great content!
I know all I need to about you having seen how you love your dog's. I am a very big fan. Thank you for your great videos.
As a model 3 owner I am loving this series!
*Roofbox Energy Saving Potential:*
There were rumors that a roofbox mounted backwards can save fuel. Or electric energy, depending on the vehicle.
A german car magazine tested it and they found out that this is correct. Has something to do with the aerodynamics of these boxes. Of course, not all of them are the same, but they tried three different boxes and the result was similar for all three of them.
So it may sound stupid, even look stupid, but perhaps you want to try. Especially when driving an EV with limited range.
Yes we will test, also some safety measures to consider with the mounting points. I thought I’d do it during the trip but it’s something I’ll test after. With the way the clamps work I wouldn’t mount it backwards while loaded
Out of Spec Motoring I’d also really appreciate you testing the setup of mounting the box backwards in the future. With all the experience and data you have to compare, it would be a great test. Thanks in advance! Also this is the first trip of yours that I’ve seen the videos of, and they’ve been great. A nice combination of tips for road tripping in the Model 3, with entertaining real world experiences. Thanks for the work putting the videos out here for us to enjoy!