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00:00All right, they finally did it, they finally did it, we knew it was coming, you know, Tesla
00:08Model S is fundamentally a 10 plus year old design, which is a long time in car years
00:15and even longer in tech years.
00:17So we knew that some sort of a refresh of Tesla Model S was eventually going to happen
00:21to catch it up with all the new stuff about Model 3 and Model Y.
00:25And now it's happened.
00:26About 24 hours ago, Tesla finally updated their site, they had their earnings call,
00:30they dropped the new design of the Model S and X on their site, inside and out, a lot
00:35of new stuff.
00:36I had some initial reactions and I tweeted some of them, but then I chilled for a little
00:39bit and I slept on it and I got some more thoughts and some more questions.
00:44So this video is going to be all my thoughts on everything new in one place, some honest
00:48reactions from an electric car enthusiast, but also a Tesla driver currently who was
00:54thinking about getting one.
00:55And at the end of the video, I'll tell you about my decision on the new Tesla.
00:59So let's get into it.
01:00So first of all, the outside, if you look at it, looks like a pretty minor change,
01:04nothing too drastic.
01:05It's still clearly the Model S shape, but now with black trim where the chrome used
01:09to be.
01:10That's a good change.
01:11I like that.
01:12RIP to the chrome.
01:13It's looked kind of dated for a long time.
01:15We won't miss that.
01:16But really the biggest change to the outside that I can see is the front grill and the
01:19front splitter at the bottom are a little bigger, a little simpler.
01:22The fog lights are a little bit narrower, a little bit cleaned up.
01:25And Model X also got this change too, by the way.
01:27So they have this unified front look.
01:30I think they look solid, but still obviously very familiar.
01:32Also some of you may know I'm a big fan of wrapping my car, so I guess none of this would
01:36really matter too much to me, but I like the silhouette of the car so it stays the same.
01:39But where most of the major changes were, were on the interior.
01:43So this is the new interior of the Tesla Model S and X, and boy, do we have a lot going on
01:50here.
01:51OK, overall, overall, I think it looks hot, but there's a couple of key things that I
01:56think will be more important than others with the new stuff here.
01:59So let's just start with that steering wheel, shall we?
02:01So this is what they call a yoke steering wheel.
02:04They also have this style steering wheel in the new Roadster prototypes.
02:08And it basically looks like someone just took a regular steering wheel and chopped off the
02:12top half of it.
02:13So now this is the part that we all look at and we're like, OK, on one hand, that looks
02:16pretty sick.
02:17And in a straight line, it's going to feel like a fighter jet.
02:20It's just it looks like an airplane steering wheel.
02:23But the more we think about using it, well, the more you come up with the reasons why
02:28maybe that's not the best idea.
02:30But first of all, if you look at the images again, there's no stocks or anything behind
02:34the steering wheel.
02:35Typically, you have your paddles, your gear selectors, your blinkers.
02:38There's none of that in this car.
02:40So that's why it has a super minimal look.
02:42So if you look on the steering wheel, that's where all the buttons are.
02:46There's two scroll wheels and then there's blinker buttons on one side and you have a
02:50button for the headlights and for cleaning the windshield and the mic for voice commands.
02:55And even the horn, for some reason, is a separate button.
02:58So they've really gone full on.
03:00It's like an F1 car, basically, where all of the buttons are on the steering wheel for
03:03quick, easy access.
03:04So the driver never has to take their hands off the wheel.
03:07It's inspired by, I guess, that functionality.
03:09So it's interesting.
03:10I think that's definitely something that's going to have to take some getting used to,
03:13like a lot of things in Tesla's.
03:15But I really hope those are physical buttons and not like touchscreen buttons, because
03:19if that was a touchscreen button, that's not the way to go on a steering wheel button.
03:23But it looks like a regular button.
03:24But then with the half wheel thing, I know I've sort of mentioned this before and I thought
03:28we've gone over like the question, is this even legal?
03:31There's a lot of things Tesla does and renders and prototypes that aren't shipped yet that
03:34you're like, is this even legal?
03:35But if we forget even the legality question, the question of is it legal or not really
03:40stems from is this safe or not?
03:42Is this smart or not?
03:44Not having a top of the steering wheel is very different for a lot of people.
03:47Like I imagine in autopilot, of course, this makes total sense, but just driving in a
03:52straight line, a lot of people like to rest their hand on top of the steering wheel.
03:55There is no top anymore.
03:57And also for turning, you know, just a lot of those moves where you're like sliding the
04:01wheel through your hands, there's just whenever there's a chunk of the wheel missing, that's
04:05a question.
04:06I feel like I have to use it to understand if it's worth the trade off or not.
04:09But hey, it's a render.
04:10So we have yet to see if they're actually going to finally ship a yoke steering wheel
04:14in a Tesla like they've said they would.
04:17But I can already imagine there's a bunch of third-party add-on accessories being planned
04:22for this top part.
04:23Maybe you get like a carbon fiber piece or you get some like suede leather, whatever's
04:26going on.
04:27I'm sure there's a lot of companies looking their chops that are going to make that.
04:30Bottom line, I'm going to have to try it.
04:31I have lots of negative thoughts on it looking at it, but it looks cool.
04:35So I want to try it.
04:36Oh, and then also I was just wondering, because I had just been looking at the pictures for
04:40a while, there's no gear selector.
04:43Like that's usually also a stock like every other car, but there's no stocks in this
04:48car.
04:49And now where do you just go into drive?
04:51That was my question.
04:52How do you reverse?
04:53How do you go into neutral?
04:54And apparently I found an Elon tweet where he says that the car guesses your drive gear
05:01based on what obstacles it sees, the context and the map.
05:05And you can overwrite it on the touch screen in the middle.
05:09This might be the definition of, I don't know about that one, chief.
05:13I really think a drive selector is like a fundamental thing in a car.
05:17And I know Tesla likes bending the mold of fundamentals in cars, but I can imagine this
05:22is either going to be great than 90% of the times it works or awful and potentially dangerous
05:28the 10% of the time it doesn't work.
05:31Like I imagine trying to pull a K turn on a busy road and then you have to reverse
05:34and it's not letting you reverse and you hit the pedal and you go forward.
05:37It's a lot.
05:38I don't know about that one, but anyway, in the interior, the most important change I
05:41think is this move to the new horizontal touchscreen, which makes it easier for their
05:45software development.
05:46Since now all the cars have horizontal screens and they don't have to do separate dedicated
05:50resources for doing vertical screen stuff anymore.
05:53I kind of wonder how that will affect my car and everyone who has a current Model S who
05:57has a vertical screen.
05:58Will the software updates start to get slower?
06:00Not sure, but this sort of unifies their lineup, but the screen looks nice.
06:04It's a 17 inch diagonal again, 2200 by 1300 resolution should be pretty bright and sharp.
06:11And they mentioned excellent responsiveness and there's a lot of compute power behind
06:14this screen, so I have no doubt about that.
06:16And it looks even better than Model 3.
06:18It looks, I think, much better integrated into the car itself.
06:21Like it just doesn't stick out as much as it does in the Model 3.
06:24And you know what's interesting?
06:25It says on the site, it has left, right tilt.
06:29Like maybe it moves or something.
06:31Now looking at the renders, I don't know exactly how it's supposed to move.
06:34Like if you just grab it, will it pop out of the dash and you can sort of tilt it towards
06:37you?
06:38Not sure.
06:39I'm very curious how they pull that off.
06:40Currently, it's kind of hard to see sometimes, but the Model S screen is tilted a little
06:44bit towards the driver.
06:45So that's pretty important.
06:46Model 3, it's a little closer to flat.
06:48Then Model S has now inherited the touchscreen controlled air conditioning vents from the
06:52Model 3.
06:53I'm pretty neutral on these.
06:55And there's also now a pair of wireless chargers underneath that screen, much higher up.
06:59I love this, but still a major advantage of the Model S and Model X, they're more premium
07:03vehicles for their setups, is that it still has a display behind the steering wheel.
07:08And so this one is still here, which is sweet.
07:10And I think it even got a little bit bigger, which is dope.
07:12But it opens up more room now that you have that info, like your speed and your drive
07:17and maybe your navigation in the middle.
07:19It opens up more room on the center display.
07:21And then there's a new third display added for the backseat passengers, which I assume
07:26will let them control their air conditioning, but they can also play games from a wireless
07:31controller, which I think gets a lot of people excited.
07:32The thing is, it sounds pretty sweet, but it's so low down there that I imagine if you're
07:37in the backseat, like craning your neck, looking down at the screen for so long, you
07:40probably don't want to game on it for a while.
07:43Usually screens in the backseat are up against the headrest, but maybe a kid would enjoy
07:47that.
07:48It's a cool feature.
07:49I'm not going to downplay it.
07:50I just think it's funny.
07:51It's so low.
07:52But anyway, then there's a couple extras that I noticed.
07:53One, ventilated seats are back.
07:54Nice.
07:55Then there's also now Model 3 door style handles on the inside.
07:59And there's a pair of wireless charging mats in that new backseat armrest for your passengers,
08:04which is sick.
08:05The site details a new speaker system with 22 speakers and active noise cancellation.
08:12But the key word here, the key word, active, active noise cancellation, which is really
08:17interesting.
08:18If it works anything like I've seen in active noise canceling headphones, what they're basically
08:22doing is using microphones to hear the noise outside the car, like road noise, wind noise,
08:28maybe even pedestrian murmur, just sort of white noise outside.
08:32And then it pumps in anti-noise into the car to make it sound perfectly silent inside
08:37the car.
08:38And I think that that might be the most Tesla thing ever.
08:40It's really fascinating.
08:41So many manufacturers have gotten really good at like their window seals and every little
08:45gap in the car is as tiny as possible to minimize the sound that gets in from the outside.
08:50And that's a nice premium quiet experience.
08:52Obviously, Tesla is not quite as good at that yet.
08:55So they just do it with software.
08:58That's the most Tesla thing ever.
08:59Either way, I got to test it.
09:00I want to hear it for myself.
09:01I'm curious about that.
09:03But that brings us last but not least to the insane specs and prices.
09:09So Model S is now simplified to three versions, long range, plaid, and plaid plus.
09:14So as you can see, the base price went up.
09:16It's no longer 69,420, sorry fans, but it is a dual motor long range version and it'll
09:22do 412 miles, zero to 60 in 3.1 seconds and 155 mile an hour top speed.
09:29That's already pretty sweet.
09:30So that's a performance car already, but that's the long range version with dual motors.
09:35Then there's plaid and the way to look at plaid is it's basically a new improved performance
09:39Model S.
09:40So this time it's triple motors.
09:42So the range goes down a little bit to 390 miles and it'll do zero to 60 in 1.99 seconds.
09:50Thanks to 1020 horsepower from those motors and a 200 mile an hour top speed on the right
09:57tires.
09:58It's actually a bit less than that on street tires, but not that that should matter.
10:02That's a, that's a ridiculous number and a ridiculous set of specs for a 5,000 pound
10:07sedan.
10:09But here's where it gets interesting.
10:11As a truck drives by, uh, now there's plaid plus.
10:15So the plaid plus version will do 520 plus miles of range and a slightly faster zero
10:21to 60 with a little bit more horsepower, 1100 horsepower.
10:26And then just for fun, they quoted a sub nine second quarter mile, which would make
10:29it the quickest production car ever made.
10:32So aside from the ridiculousness of a 5,000 pound four door family sedan rocketing zero
10:38to 60 in under two seconds and the fastest quarter mile ever, I want to focus just for
10:43a second on the difference in range between plaid and plaid plus.
10:47That's a pretty big difference from 390 miles to 520 plus miles.
10:52So that leads me to believe that plaid plus when it comes out later in the year, because
10:56plaid is right around the corner, plaid plus is likely a new battery of some kind, new
11:01battery technology, new battery capacity, maybe both.
11:05Because if you look at model X, there actually is no plaid plus model X.
11:08So it's just the long range, which goes 360 miles.
11:11And then plaid, which again is the performance model that loses a bit of range.
11:15It goes to 340.
11:16So this new performance model, the plaid model S with triple motors is going to start shipping
11:20in March, which is right around the corner, but the plaid plus is still in development
11:24and coming later in this year, 2021, if it's on time.
11:28And I assume this is a new battery technology that will also end up in Cybertruck because
11:33that thing promises also 500 plus miles of range and the roadster when it happens, because
11:38that promises 600, which brings me neatly to my conclusion.
11:43I'm not ordering a plaid model S or a plaid plus model S.
11:47I don't plan on needing that.
11:49Now don't get me wrong, I want it.
11:52I want to experience face melting zero to 60 in under two seconds, and I think it would
11:57be sick.
11:58But as far as differences between the model S I already drive, not a whole lot of them
12:03making a big difference to me.
12:05Maybe the range is the one biggest thing I'd be missing out on, but I'm staying patient
12:09for roadster.
12:10And we did finally get an update, just one random tweet on roadster, which looks like
12:14it's now going to be 2022 if it's on time.
12:17But also the thing is, early Tesla models, if you haven't noticed, tend to be the ones
12:21with the most tiny problems and the most little bugs, and I think this will be a little period
12:26of working those things out.
12:28Working out what the deal is with the steering wheel and the software about going from reverse
12:31to forward and figuring it out like that.
12:34That's going to take a little bit.
12:36So I'm staying patient.
12:38I'm staying patient and I will have eventually a roadster to look forward to that will do
12:43this crazy range and will somehow have even better performance than this rocket sedan
12:48that they just made.
12:49The Plaid Plus Model S.
12:50So anyway, that's pretty much it.
12:52That's my thoughts.
12:53I'm super curious what you guys think seeing this new interior.
12:55Does it bring Tesla up to the luxury look or luxury levels you're into?
12:59And what do you think of the yoke steering wheel?
13:01Because I think that's going to be the most polarizing piece, but either way, I'll leave
13:05my Dear Electric Cars video down below the like button if you want to check that out.
13:08That's about it for this one.
13:09Thanks for watching.
13:10Catch you next time.
13:11Peace!