Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Top 5 Tesla Model S Features!”.
Hey, what is up guys mkbhd here and what better way to break out of the box than with a car video can’t really think of a better way uh. So i’m obviously not a car reviewer. I’Ve never even really shown that i’m interested in cars any more than the super sweet ones that anyone likes anyway. But i do appreciate a good car and when tesla offered me the opportunity to check out the tesla model s for the day.
I couldn’t really say no to that, so without any further ado. It’S my first car video. These are the top five tech features in the tesla model. S so spoiler. I’Ve never actually owned. A car. I’Ve always lived close enough to the school.
I go to my whole life that i’ve never actually needed to own a car, but even through all that this car and all the tech inside keeps catching my eye and of course it’s a car. That’S been in the news, a lot sure, but i don’t think there’s any doubt that this is one of the most modern cars of this generation. So, of course, there’s a lot of tech inside to talk about so number. Five is the sound system and that’s actually the one thing i couldn’t get on camera to demo, for you guys, while i was messing with the car but uh to make a long story short, it sounds fantastic now this is a really quiet car. Obviously, there’s no engine noise and it’s a really really tightly isolated cabin.
The acoustics are actually fantastic and with the tech package that i’ll talk about later in this article and the fantastic speakers, it sounds great to sit in the driver’s seat position, the audio exactly where it should be, and just listen to your music. On top of that, it hooks up your phone actually via bluetooth. There was no auxiliary jack, no three and a half millimeter headphone deck to just plug in a pair of like, and maybe an ipod, or something like that. So i guess that was the biggest con. Maybe of the whole car, but the fact that it has a pretty sweet sound system hooks up via bluetooth, uh, it’s pretty great, so that brings description number four, and that is the design of this car.
Now i happen to think it’s actually a really good. Looking car, but it has a point – it’s actually very pretty in that way for a reason, so this model s is a striking car. Obviously it resembles a lot of other bodies out there. Some jaguar some aston martin, some maserati, even there’s a little bit of each of those in the design of this car.
But in case you didn’t already know, it’s all electric and a big part of getting the best range out of the batteries is efficiency and, with its shape, the model s has a ridiculously low drag coefficient of 0.24, which is actually the lowest of any car, which Means it’s going to cut through the air with the least amount of wind resistance. Basically, it’s technically a hatchback, but it still has that aggressive profile and low center of gravity, because all the batteries are on the floor of the car and it has a completely flat bottom. So there’s no transmission or anything sticking out the bottom and interrupting airflow. The design all is here with a purpose to keep the car cutting through the air.
Also, this is the highest end: 85 kilowatt hour, performance plus model. So with this, you can grab a tech package and get a carbon fiber spoiler on the back that even further improves airflow and even besides airflow. This car is really well designed inside and out and that’s another thing we’ll get to in a second. This also isn’t the first iteration of the model s it’s gotten a few hardware tweaks since it first came out and one of those little hardware, tweaks was folding mirrors and that’s actually pretty big cars, so you’ll kind of need, those in new york and, like a Cherry on top for the design, when you unlock the car, the mirrors and door handles unfold, which brings us right to number three, the key. This is the key for unlocking the tesla model s. It’S a mini model s. It actually has some hot spots uh on the key to let you unlock doors, uh, lock the doors or even completely open the hatchback. To give you access to the trunk, it has rfid tags inside.
So when you get up to the handles you get close enough to the car they’ll automatically deploy the handles for you. So really out of all the car keys i’ve seen even from supercars i’ve seen this one, i mean it’s, it’s a mini version of the car. It’S really cool uh, it’s the closest thing to a smartphone gimmick about this car that i can think of it’s something that you can demo to someone live and they’ll instantly. Remember it. So i guess what i’m trying to say here is show me a cooler key of a car and i’ll be impressed. I was really happy about the way the key looks on the model: s anyway number two uh, which is arguably straight strictly car tech, but i would call the tech of the car anyway. It’S the electric motor that powers the entire model s. This thing is a beast, so when i visited tesla to check this car out, they had the frame of a model s on display in there showing the tray where the thousands of batteries sit and the suspension and the wheels and the electric motor right there. That little guy, that is what powers this car and makes it absolutely fly.
So, like i said, i got to mess with the highest end 85 kilowatt hour, performance plus model, and i got to drive it and well it’s pretty awesome, so it sports a 0 to 60 time of 4.2 seconds. So that’s gon na give you a pretty idea of how lightning quick it is off the line and it’s an electric car, so it has all of the torque available immediately as soon as you touch the gas pedal, not the gas pedal, though the go pedal. It’S a very different feeling versus the normal lag you have between stomping on the gas pedal of a gas car and actually accelerating, so that instant torque makes this car so much fun to drive.
So the 0 to 40 time is obviously really impressive and it puts you in the backyard seat when you’re flying. But the thing is so is the 40 to 60 time, and that also allows you to put you in the back your seat. And while i didn’t have the roads in new york to test this 60 to 80 mile an hour time, but i’m sure that too would have been awesome best way to describe the instant torque is it feels like a roller coaster launch when the tires stick, this Car is really something else now there are also some other benefits of being electric for one. There is almost nothing under the hood to maintain in this car. You pop the front trunk, of course, using your fancy key and you will see well that’s exactly what it is a front trunk. All you have to maintain is just windshield, wiper fluid, that’s it. So you have a pretty sizable front trunk, they call a frunk and that’s i guess what the people of tesla call it. You know the electric motor in the back is also so small that you really have tons and tons of space in the back again, it’s a hatchback style, but it’s a big sedan and this car has significantly more space than any other car its size. I mean, if you put the seats down, you can fit probably like eight golf bags in the back of this car. It’S just massive, so the batteries are also on the floor. So you have headroom for days a big open space where the transmission and gearbox would normally be. I mean there are so many spaces opened up by not having a gas engine and a gas tank and all the maintenance that comes with that stuff.
Oh and the cherry on top of all that driving this car, it is completely silent, that’s right! So that brings us to the number one best part of the tech inside this car, and i think it’s pretty obvious at this point. The number one is the center console. It is a 17 inch touchscreen in the center of the the console of the car that replaces all the buttons and dials and knobs that you’d find in basically any other car. It’S the number one head turner. It’S the number one thing people talk about when i was at ces and people were looking inside the car. That’S the number one thing that they talked about the center console on the model.
S is really impressive. It’S big enough and high enough resolution to control. Literally everything about the car and it’s running a custom built os from tesla that can get free, over-the-air updates over the 3g connection included in the car that actually adds functionality every time they update the car. So the latest one was memory seats.
They just added it with an update so yeah. This is an internet connected car, basically with a giant 17-inch 1080p tablet in the center, not the highest pixel density, but still packing way more pixels than probably any other car, i’m sure. So in terms of functionality, you have your energy tracking for the battery usage, the media, playback controls for your phone, audio or radio, and you have google maps navigation, which i’d say is probably the most trustworthy at any time, and you can swap these in any configuration Top to bottom, or even make one of them full screen whenever you want and last but not least, you have a full html web browser, so there’s no flash, so it won’t play youtube, video or stream audio from any website. But you can totally have your passenger. Look up the score of a game on the center console if his phone is dead or something he can always access the internet there so yeah, then in the bar at the bottom, you have the stuff that doesn’t ever move, so it kind of becomes muscle memory.
It’S always there that stuff replaces the typical knobs for your audio volume and climate control temperature, so you can also control more physical parts of the car through the touch screen like the sunroof, which literally just lets, you drag an image of the car, the sunroof to Whatever percentage you want just to open it with dragging the touchscreen, it’s crazy, convenient and pretty quick too, and you also have a rear-facing, wide-angle backup camera on the car. It turns on automatically when you’re in reverse, or you can turn it on yourself. Whenever you want and it’s decent quality, it’s actually pretty good. I might start doing some reviews with it or maybe not so yeah. This thing is fully featured. Basically, the number one question people have when they see this huge screen in the car is: is it distracting while you’re driving uh, and i would say not really, it was on auto brightness and i got used to it pretty quickly? I was the only one.
I was driving for maybe an hour or two and i got used to it and if you’re driving at night, it switches into night mode and inverts a lot of the colors. But if you really need to punch in directions while you’re driving using google maps, you still have your passenger, do it since nothing gets disabled while you’re driving, so all the functionality is always available so yeah. You won’t find anything like this in any other car right now. It’S the number one tech in the tesla model, s for sure.
It’S just one of those things like front-facing speakers on a phone where it feels like the future, and i kind of wish everyone else would adopt it. So there you go guys just a fun little video on the tesla model s i figured i’d share the experience with you guys and i also have more stuff coming up with tesla and hopefully other car stuff too, along with the other stuff i’m breaking out of So again, stay tuned here. If you want to see more stuff like that, and let me know what you guys think of the model s i mean. Obviously it’s an electric car, so there’s gon na be the people who just don’t like electric cars, the range anxiety bothers people for me personally, the biggest con of the car, i think, is a lack of an audio jack. But again it’s a highly acclaimed car with the all the awards it’s won and the the motor trend car the year and the highest ratings on safety tests.
All that kind of stuff is doing really well so either way. Thanks for watching, that’s been it. I hope to talk to you guys in the next one see you then peace, you .