Today in a mall parking lot I came across the scene of a fire that had just been put out for a parked car. It was already put out when I arrived but it looked like a scary scene as the windshield had to be beaten out for the fire to be put out, and the fire seemed to have started from under the hood. If that had been a Tesla or EV it would have made national news. People would be lining up with pitchforks. Instead, no one will ever know about it.
When I started researching the Model S my two biggest concerns were the cost of insurance and the cost and frequency of changing tires. Obviously insurance costs are different around the country (I'm in southeast Georgia), but with full coverage on a 2020 model I'm paying $150 a month which is about what I was paying on my Excursion with just liability. The Tesla store put 4 new tires on the car before it was delivered and with the limited amount of driving I do they should give me 6 or 7 years easily. I got the Long Range Dual Motor S that was originally EPA rated at a full charge with 405 miles. Today with 60K miles on it, a 100% charge reads 365 miles, so for 4 years I don't consider that to be a lot of degradation. Plus I love the darn thing!
I’ve had my Model Y Perf. for about 4 months now and I love it. I charge at home every night and/or my gf apartment has chargers which are to two places I’m at the most. I am always on the go and have done 2 road trips already and is perfect for bathroom breaks/food stops and I arrive less tired and stressed although trips are usually a hour longer than gas. I did push it to 0% one time just to test the waters but I was less than 3 miles from the supercharger. I barely supercharge unless road tripping or plug in cause one is nearby when I’m out at a restaurant or shopping. People for some reason think I’m rich although the Y and 3 are not that expensive anymore. When people ask me about purchasing one the one thing I always say is if you don’t have charging at home or really close to home it’s not worth it. Other than that it’s a great car. Really fast, amazing sound system and although they’re so popular now still a head turner. When the Cybertruck prices go down I’m getting one.
That’s awesome! That is the way. I am undecided about a future Cybertruck but hopefully some time next year they will come down to normal, or the standard range will be available
Radiation?! Retired Electrical Engineer here; you can rest assured that batteries produce no radiation, and the electronics produce EM that is vastly too low-frequency to affect our bodies. One EV myth that *_is_* largely true though, is that EVs can chew through tires quickly. As with any car, however, that depends a lot upon how aggressively you drive, not suprisingly. Especially if you turn off traction control, accelerate like a bat outta Hell, and/or drift a lot. Even with just normal driving though, their weight does wear tires a bit faster than ordinary gasoline cars. Nevertheless, they don’t burn out tires much faster than other heavy vehicles like pickup trucks or large SUVs, again assuming that you drive normally.
@@vegasteslafamily, you probably know better than I do then. We’ve only owned our Model Y for 2.5 weeks now. Nevertheless, I have heard quite a few Tesla and other-EV owners confirm that they do indeed burn through tires very quickly. Then again, one of them admits that he sometimes accelerates hard, etc. I’m a 63-year-old retired engineer, coming from 15 years of driving Priuses, so I drive wimpy! 😂😅 Undoubtedly though, the type of tires is a big factor. Especially the hardness of the tread material, but other factors as well.
I love Teslas and I love yalls channel I like how you show us your cars and how great they work when I am older I will be definitely be buying one thanks you for showing us your cars I like how you have put a lot of accessories on it is really cool
Another I've heard is that you'll constantly have to buy new expensive tires, and along with that the car sheds little bits of tire rubber dust into the air polluting the environment and our lungs. (Of course, no one complains about the shredded truck tires I constantly see on the highway.)
Tires can indeed burn quicker but its how you use it, with the strong torque power of EVs if you constantly punch it going 0-60 quickly they will burn out fast, if not you can get up to 50k roughly driving relaxed.
I traded my Camaro for a Tesla and I can honestly say I’ll never go back. If you truly want to know how it is just test drive one. You’ll get it for 30 minutes. Trust me it’s a whole different experience. I live in apartments and I can’t charge at home like others but a quick supercharger while wife and I eat and we’re done. At the end of the day life is to short to not enjoy everything life has to offer.
Great video, lots of good points! I still get people who say you can’t road trip in teslas or think it takes hours to charge. People with slow gas cars who think they’re fast say things like microwaved steak after getting left behind by a Tesla to make themselves feel better about their slow car. 😂
Insurance is very expensive. We were about to get one but when we checked how much the insurance would cost, we backed out. GEICO quoted us $3200/year. I’m currently paying $900 for my Acura MDX. Might have to check out other EVs.
@@marky3870 - driving record is spotless, I’m over 50 and live in Hawaii. $250/month for insurance is expensive considering I’m only paying $75 a month for my MDX. Checked with other Tesla owners locally, they said insurance for Tesla in Hawaii is 3-4 times more than other cars- not sure why but I’m currently investigating.
The group of people who are fearful of change, lack curiosity or courage, have low information and who feel uncomfortable outside their comfort zone tend to be the same group as those who cannot afford a Tesla. For a reason.
America is a country built on systems. One of those systems is gas. We have five families and all of the country that own 80% of the fuel in America. They also own the media. Every vehicle you see on the street is one less car getting gas. This eats at the profits. One of the myths is that America is a capitalist country. America is a governed country. What that means is, if you start to encroach on a major corporations profits, they will utilize the media as well as the government to have a negative ad campaign against your product. Either get banned, or get it canceled and the court of public opinion. This is the problem with electric vehicles, and this is where the hate started. More specifically, Chevrolet or GM had the EV1 and Michael Moore had a documentary called “what happened to the EV” where he showed George Bush weapon the US military to go pick up the keys owners of this vehicle… at gunpoint! this is an actual true thing. Here’s the catch though Michael Moore has been banned from showing that video anywhere in this country. In order to find this video, you actually have to go to another country and search their BitTorrent servers. I wish this was fake news. But remember the Bush’s are one of those five families that own all the fuel!
All the above, as well it has been turned into a political statement. Been called a libartard with an electric car, semi trucks who purposely pull to the side of the road to pelt your car with rocks. Been coal rolled a couple of times and flipped off for no logical reason. This triggered hateful rhetoric most certainly started at the political level, and I’m going to say who.
Eh love mine but with cost of insurance and putting in the charge station you dont save really much if anything the first year and if you drive a hybrid you wont really save on gas with insurance increase
The one about the Tesla (or EVs in general) having emissions equivalent or worse than an ICE is just straight up batty. Great video to bust those myths! I like how you incorporated your wife driving/jamming and then looking like she's partied out. 😄
The crazy people that say crazy things about EV's don't own an EV and have no interesting owning an EV. I don't get why they complain so much about something they have no interest in.
As a firefighter who has had to fight multiple tesla fires, they may not catch on fire “more often” but when they do catch on fire they are RIDICULOUSLY difficult to put out and they make it VERY hard to rescue someone if they are inside. Just saying . . . dont crash your tesla and get trapped. but still pretty cool cars.
Appreciate your service! Got family who are firemen. They are not that much more difficult though. More hazardous, potentially, but not that much more difficult. And they have manual doors, impossible to get trapped.
About Myth No. 5. If not using solar, how is your home electricity being generated (can you say natural gas, coal, and petroleum)? Are Tesla superchargers connected to a solar grid? Is the sizeable battery in your Tesie biodegradable? How did the battery maker come about getting those fancy rare earth metals for them there batteries (can you say strip mining)?
I'm thinking of buying a Tesla and I found your video only a little bit useful. Every commentary sounds like a Tesla commercial. I can put 550 miles worth of gas in my Subaru Legacy in less than 5 minutes (from arrival to departure) when I pay at the pump. There was some legitimacy to that Cybertruck that died in the carwash. You didn't really address it.
While I agree that they catch less fire than an internal combustion engine, the consequences of an electric car catching fire are significant as they are nearly impossible to extinguish. In contrast, ICE vehicles generally overheat, start smoking, and eventually catch fire when stopped alongside the road. However, an electric car can catch fire while at home in your garage while you are asleep.
Of all the fires in the US 18% of them are vehicle fires. Out of that only .02% are EV fires, the numbers show how extremely rare a EV fire is but extremely over hyped.
@joecushman6030 your 0.02% is such a misleading number. The number is so low because there are hardly any EVs on the road. Not because it is relatively unlikely that an EV catches fire. I think what would be interesting is to see the damage of EV fires whether caused by EVs or caused by the charger or anything else but where the EV caught fire because of it. I think that ICE vehicles catch fire while driving. EVs catch fire while charging. Besides that no one might be around to identify the fire, it is also almost impossible to kill the fire. So while your claim might be right that it is 0.02%, which I find hard to beleive as numbers I am familiar with are more like 4 times less likely than ice, it is about the cost and impact the fire has. A car that burns along side the road is a lot less impact full than a car fire in the garage that is unstoppable and burns a house down.
The only vehicle I was a direct witness to catching on fire in the middle of the night in a garage for no apparent reason was a Toyota Corolla- which is supposed to be one of the most reliable proof cars ever made.
Definitely not. I've heard and seen many people say these things about my Tesla. When people are ignorant, they tend to think they know everything until they actually own one.
Today in a mall parking lot I came across the scene of a fire that had just been put out for a parked car. It was already put out when I arrived but it looked like a scary scene as the windshield had to be beaten out for the fire to be put out, and the fire seemed to have started from under the hood. If that had been a Tesla or EV it would have made national news. People would be lining up with pitchforks. Instead, no one will ever know about it.
Every video you can find online of a car on fire, you will find a comment under it with someone saying “must be a Tesla”
@@LucasEverett crazy eh, cars powered by flammable liquid are more prone to catching fire 🤯😂
@@theinvisibleman2070 cars powered by gasoline are more likely to catch fire than EVs….. cope
@@theinvisibleman2070 my bad then I misinterpreted your reply 🤦
When I started researching the Model S my two biggest concerns were the cost of insurance and the cost and frequency of changing tires.
Obviously insurance costs are different around the country (I'm in southeast Georgia), but with full coverage on a 2020 model I'm paying $150 a month which is about what I was paying on my Excursion with just liability. The Tesla store put 4 new tires on the car before it was delivered and with the limited amount of driving I do they should give me 6 or 7 years easily.
I got the Long Range Dual Motor S that was originally EPA rated at a full charge with 405 miles. Today with 60K miles on it, a 100% charge reads 365 miles, so for 4 years I don't consider that to be a lot of degradation.
Plus I love the darn thing!
Awesome! That’s not bad degradation at all, that’s still plenty of range. More than my model 3 LR when it was new!
Thanks for the road trip checklist! Great content as always
Thank you you are welcome!
I’ve had my Model Y Perf. for about 4 months now and I love it. I charge at home every night and/or my gf apartment has chargers which are to two places I’m at the most. I am always on the go and have done 2 road trips already and is perfect for bathroom breaks/food stops and I arrive less tired and stressed although trips are usually a hour longer than gas. I did push it to 0% one time just to test the waters but I was less than 3 miles from the supercharger. I barely supercharge unless road tripping or plug in cause one is nearby when I’m out at a restaurant or shopping. People for some reason think I’m rich although the Y and 3 are not that expensive anymore. When people ask me about purchasing one the one thing I always say is if you don’t have charging at home or really close to home it’s not worth it. Other than that it’s a great car. Really fast, amazing sound system and although they’re so popular now still a head turner. When the Cybertruck prices go down I’m getting one.
That’s awesome! That is the way. I am undecided about a future Cybertruck but hopefully some time next year they will come down to normal, or the standard range will be available
@@vegasteslafamily I think for me it’s I always wanted a truck but I fell in love with Tesla vehicles, so it’s the best of both worlds 😅
I find my Tesla catches on fire in the car wash but only when I forget to change the oil on time 😂
Hate when that happens
THE BEST TESLA CONTENT OUT THERE FOLKS! LISTEN UP! 👏🏼 WELL DONE.
@@fimparo10 😭😭
“Things you’ll hear from your uncle at the dinner table” 😂 - spot on
@@fimparo10 my uncle follows Kamala Harris so I don’t hear much
Radiation?! Retired Electrical Engineer here; you can rest assured that batteries produce no radiation, and the electronics produce EM that is vastly too low-frequency to affect our bodies.
One EV myth that *_is_* largely true though, is that EVs can chew through tires quickly. As with any car, however, that depends a lot upon how aggressively you drive, not suprisingly. Especially if you turn off traction control, accelerate like a bat outta Hell, and/or drift a lot. Even with just normal driving though, their weight does wear tires a bit faster than ordinary gasoline cars. Nevertheless, they don’t burn out tires much faster than other heavy vehicles like pickup trucks or large SUVs, again assuming that you drive normally.
What if you drive normally with a Tesla? My model 3 has surpassed 50k miles and I’m still on original tires that look good.
@@vegasteslafamily, you probably know better than I do then. We’ve only owned our Model Y for 2.5 weeks now.
Nevertheless, I have heard quite a few Tesla and other-EV owners confirm that they do indeed burn through tires very quickly. Then again, one of them admits that he sometimes accelerates hard, etc.
I’m a 63-year-old retired engineer, coming from 15 years of driving Priuses, so I drive wimpy! 😂😅
Undoubtedly though, the type of tires is a big factor. Especially the hardness of the tread material, but other factors as well.
2022 MYP. Have taken two 2500 mile road trips. No problem changing. Best vehicle I have ever owned.
Love it!
I love Teslas and I love yalls channel I like how you show us your cars and how great they work when I am older I will be definitely be buying one thanks you for showing us your cars I like how you have put a lot of accessories on it is really cool
Thank you! I was in your shoes once. Spent my first paycheck on my model 3!
Another I've heard is that you'll constantly have to buy new expensive tires, and along with that the car sheds little bits of tire rubber dust into the air polluting the environment and our lungs. (Of course, no one complains about the shredded truck tires I constantly see on the highway.)
Good one! I just hit 50k miles on my 3. Original tires still!
Tires can indeed burn quicker but its how you use it, with the strong torque power of EVs if you constantly punch it going 0-60 quickly they will burn out fast, if not you can get up to 50k roughly driving relaxed.
As a Tesla owner I approve this message 😁❤
😂⚡️ thank you!
I like that Ryan Shaw fsd b roll 👀 😁 but fr you really up your game on this video dude 💪🏼 🤌🏼
I don’t know who that is so we must’ve both got it from the Tesla page 😂 but thank you!
Is that model y colour the new stealth grey
No it is the old grey
Great Video!!! Tried to download checklist. Says file is in owners trash and won’t let me download.
Sorry! Don't know why that is. I updated it in our linktree if you try again and hope it should work!
Working now thanks for all
The information!!!
Debunked 👍 love the video
Thank you!
I also get the "lots of children died mining the cobalt in your battery" and " lithium mining is far worse than coal mining or oil extraction"
I haven’t heard the children dying in a long time 😂 but yes tons of battery mining experts out there for sure 😭
@@vegasteslafamily with their references being 100% social media or Bob down at the pub!
They forgot to mention that cobalt is a by-product of copper and nickel mining.
Never heard anyone complaining about the mining of copper or nickel...
Great videos!! Thank you.
Thank you!
I traded my Camaro for a Tesla and I can honestly say I’ll never go back. If you truly want to know how it is just test drive one. You’ll get it for 30 minutes. Trust me it’s a whole different experience. I live in apartments and I can’t charge at home like others but a quick supercharger while wife and I eat and we’re done. At the end of the day life is to short to not enjoy everything life has to offer.
My dad loves camaros but he will never trade one for a Tesla no matter how much I talk about it 😂
I’ve been driving over about a week now.. I can’t believe people not getting more into electric cars
Congrats! And welcome ⚡️
And last but not least there are more Tesla reviews on TH-cam than any other videos.
50k mile model 3 review coming up 😜
Great video, lots of good points! I still get people who say you can’t road trip in teslas or think it takes hours to charge. People with slow gas cars who think they’re fast say things like microwaved steak after getting left behind by a Tesla to make themselves feel better about their slow car. 😂
Thank you! I get that all the time. Then I direct them to my road trip videos. But I don’t hear from them again 🤔
you hit it on the head
Haha thank you!
But My uncle at the dinner table is always right!
Uncle Frankie?!
Insurance is very expensive. We were about to get one but when we checked how much the insurance would cost, we backed out. GEICO quoted us $3200/year. I’m currently paying $900 for my Acura MDX. Might have to check out other EVs.
We have Tesla insurance, with our 3 and Y with good coverage we pay $280/mo for both
Mine is half the cost compared to my Audi 2016 for a m3p 2024
You’ve done something wrong, are 17, or live in a very bad area. I just got a 2024 M3P and pay $250 a month for full coverage.
@@marky3870 - driving record is spotless, I’m over 50 and live in Hawaii. $250/month for insurance is expensive considering I’m only paying $75 a month for my MDX. Checked with other Tesla owners locally, they said insurance for Tesla in Hawaii is 3-4 times more than other cars- not sure why but I’m currently investigating.
@@JohnCalhoun-o2j what insurance company are you using?
Most people will charge at 48 A or at least 40. I think 16 A is a poor example of the typical Tesla charger
We used to charge at 12A. More people have a 12A in their garage rather then a 48A. All the above get the job done.
16A is not that uncommon in other parts of the world but in 3 phase so 11.5kw.
Do this one, teslas drive like they are dragging an anchor.
Okay! Fastest dragging anchor vehicles on the planet
@@vegasteslafamily nothing to do with speed, rather than the draggy feel of 1 pedal driving. I really don’t like it. It’s a massive perversion
@@tonymcflattie2450 it can be turned off with a touch of a button
I dont really understand why a lot of people hate EVs. who started this hate? 🙄
People love to hate lol
The group of people who are fearful of change, lack curiosity or courage, have low information and who feel uncomfortable outside their comfort zone tend to be the same group as those who cannot afford a Tesla. For a reason.
America is a country built on systems. One of those systems is gas. We have five families and all of the country that own 80% of the fuel in America. They also own the media. Every vehicle you see on the street is one less car getting gas. This eats at the profits. One of the myths is that America is a capitalist country. America is a governed country. What that means is, if you start to encroach on a major corporations profits, they will utilize the media as well as the government to have a negative ad campaign against your product. Either get banned, or get it canceled and the court of public opinion. This is the problem with electric vehicles, and this is where the hate started.
More specifically, Chevrolet or GM had the EV1 and Michael Moore had a documentary called “what happened to the EV” where he showed George Bush weapon the US military to go pick up the keys owners of this vehicle… at gunpoint! this is an actual true thing. Here’s the catch though Michael Moore has been banned from showing that video anywhere in this country. In order to find this video, you actually have to go to another country and search their BitTorrent servers. I wish this was fake news. But remember the Bush’s are one of those five families that own all the fuel!
Oil companies.
All the above, as well it has been turned into a political statement. Been called a libartard with an electric car, semi trucks who purposely pull to the side of the road to pelt your car with rocks. Been coal rolled a couple of times and flipped off for no logical reason. This triggered hateful rhetoric most certainly started at the political level, and I’m going to say who.
Eh love mine but with cost of insurance and putting in the charge station you dont save really much if anything the first year and if you drive a hybrid you wont really save on gas with insurance increase
I’ve saved literally thousands
I have had my tesla now for 8 months, and have never had to charge at a DC fast charger. I jave done a dew times to test it out , but not necessary
Most don’t have to!
What shoes are you wearing
Kanes!
When i travel long distances i take a plane
Nice!
I enjoy my tesla funnest car I drive, and charge it at home so when I wake up its good to drive again I don't have to stop at a gas station.
Love it!
The one about the Tesla (or EVs in general) having emissions equivalent or worse than an ICE is just straight up batty. Great video to bust those myths! I like how you incorporated your wife driving/jamming and then looking like she's partied out. 😄
You won’t believe how many people have said that to me, that Tesla’s are worse for the environment than gas cars
Teslas drive like a golf cart! (1 pedal driving bs)
Love it
The crazy people that say crazy things about EV's don't own an EV and have no interesting owning an EV. I don't get why they complain so much about something they have no interest in.
People love to hate
As a firefighter who has had to fight multiple tesla fires, they may not catch on fire “more often” but when they do catch on fire they are RIDICULOUSLY difficult to put out and they make it VERY hard to rescue someone if they are inside. Just saying . . . dont crash your tesla and get trapped. but still pretty cool cars.
Appreciate your service! Got family who are firemen. They are not that much more difficult though. More hazardous, potentially, but not that much more difficult. And they have manual doors, impossible to get trapped.
Did you know that you cam't drve an EV when it's raining?... You'll get electrocuted!.. True....(not) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve heard this one too 🤦
You want subscribers don’t show Elon Musk I say Tesla as a stock holder but never acknowledge Elon Musk
Lol
About Myth No. 5. If not using solar, how is your home electricity being generated (can you say natural gas, coal, and petroleum)? Are Tesla superchargers connected to a solar grid? Is the sizeable battery in your Tesie biodegradable? How did the battery maker come about getting those fancy rare earth metals for them there batteries (can you say strip mining)?
Nice
I'm thinking of buying a Tesla and I found your video only a little bit useful. Every commentary sounds like a Tesla commercial. I can put 550 miles worth of gas in my Subaru Legacy in less than 5 minutes (from arrival to departure) when I pay at the pump. There was some legitimacy to that Cybertruck that died in the carwash. You didn't really address it.
Thanks’
While I agree that they catch less fire than an internal combustion engine, the consequences of an electric car catching fire are significant as they are nearly impossible to extinguish. In contrast, ICE vehicles generally overheat, start smoking, and eventually catch fire when stopped alongside the road. However, an electric car can catch fire while at home in your garage while you are asleep.
It can. But it doesn’t.
Of all the fires in the US 18% of them are vehicle fires. Out of that only .02% are EV fires, the numbers show how extremely rare a EV fire is but extremely over hyped.
@joecushman6030 your 0.02% is such a misleading number. The number is so low because there are hardly any EVs on the road. Not because it is relatively unlikely that an EV catches fire.
I think what would be interesting is to see the damage of EV fires whether caused by EVs or caused by the charger or anything else but where the EV caught fire because of it. I think that ICE vehicles catch fire while driving. EVs catch fire while charging. Besides that no one might be around to identify the fire, it is also almost impossible to kill the fire. So while your claim might be right that it is 0.02%, which I find hard to beleive as numbers I am familiar with are more like 4 times less likely than ice, it is about the cost and impact the fire has.
A car that burns along side the road is a lot less impact full than a car fire in the garage that is unstoppable and burns a house down.
@@vegasteslafamily it does
The only vehicle I was a direct witness to catching on fire in the middle of the night in a garage for no apparent reason was a Toyota Corolla- which is supposed to be one of the most reliable proof cars ever made.
I think you made up some of those myths.
@@Derpy1969 I promise you, look at my tiktok comments. You’ll find many more
Definitely not. I've heard and seen many people say these things about my Tesla. When people are ignorant, they tend to think they know everything until they actually own one.