it's pretty quick for a little SUV still mes right yeah but feels very solid yeah I mean globally the car is like 5% stiffer torsionally but really what we focused on was endpoint stuff for the suspension and connections make those super stiff and that way we could lower the bushing rates and get better isolation so you get a better ride but it also feels solid yeah it it's lighter but it feels heavier yeah it's a good way to and not not in the steering just in the like the agility sort of the feel of oh Bo it pulls hard yeah it does right yeah it pulls hard all the way [Music] up welcome that episode of Jay L's garage the car featuring today an early look at the 2026 model y a lot of upgrades on this you'll find out what they are here's my favorite thing about where working with Tesla see a lot of times they'll send like a product person or a sales representative we have the designer FR who designed it and Lars the engineer to tell us all about the car and these are the guys that made it what it is today let's bring them in fron and LS how you doing guys good to see you AJ good to see you how are you it's it's so nice that's right Jay you know the new you know you always get those kind of product guys and that's what I like about Tesla cut right to the Quake get the guys that actually built the thing very cool now the front end looks a lot cleaner to me that's your area design uh that's thing I picked up but I'm sure there a lot more subtle little design things here isn't it because it's not just about design it's about aerodynamics correct well it's about design and engineering and aerody Dynamics is a part of that and when we work together really well we end up with a great product you know the idea with the new model y was to take the bestselling vehicle on the road and make it better and we listen to customer feedback something were're really good at doing we just looked at you know what we're doing with new design language for cyber truck cyber cab and you start to see that emerging in the new model y as well so again the front really distinctive now it has its own personality I think that's something that was lacking on the the outgoing model y you know a lot of people thought it's it's just like a bigger model 3 now it has its own unique headlights unique front end look and with that we were able to make the car more efficient so is this the best selling car in this segment of the market it's the best selling car in the world in 2023 and we think 2024 the numbers aren't out yet but we're pretty sure 2024 as well you know what's funny because people who don't really know well how many cars does Tessa sell you like 10,000 no no it's the best it's the best selling car in the world now and in the luxury segment beats mercedesbenz Lexus everybody combined which is pretty amazing each year the change are just subtle it just becomes a better looking version that's that's the goal yeah this job dual motor version this is a dual motor it's actually uh we're starting with the launch edition um and then all of the other variants the dual motor uh base Edition rear wheel drive performance and seven seater options those will come later in the year and this is about what 46,000 so yeah the base price of launch edition is 46,0 990 but we get all the bells and whistles including everything uh it's $59.99 to start and then you yeah but that's with dual motor dual motor in launch edition is 455 horsepower 430 foot pounds of torque the base D dual motor is 410 horsepower but you know that's like it's not just horsepower it's a torque that matters we get that power straight off the line so right 0 to 60 is improved on this car goes 0 to 60 in 4.1 seconds well that's the old saying horsepower Sells Cars torque wins races that's right yeah I was talking with someone they said oh I like these headlight but these are not the headlights these are not the headlights not the headlights headlights are actually down here and this is a distinctive light bar um also DRL daytime running lights so required you know well let me ask you something about the headlights now these look lower to me is there something about the light that it's different because it seems like this would be awful low to meet the uh yeah I mean the headlight height requirement doesn't change based on the vehicle type and so actually the headlight position there that the fender raised just a little bit the old headlight was about here so it is a couple inches lower but it's still well within the requirements okay cool thing about the headlights you know they're Matrix style headlights so they have the ability to change their you know their beam pattern and uh we're going to launch in a couple of months uh right after we start delivering automatic Adaptive Driving beams so first in the US should be uh when other cars are coming at you the lights will turn off to the oncoming traffic so they don't get blinded yeah cuz you know I noticed something maybe it's me I maybe getting old LED headlights seem so much bright you know I come up of a Cold Water Canyon and the car's coming I'm like yeah blinded I'm like jeez and and I I'll flash my lights and real those were the low beams they flash me back but with this Matrix technology now you know we'll be able to not blind you but you'll still be able to see everything else on the road so okay safer for you and for the people coming at you yeah very good what else do we have new with the front I mean the front end it like I think it's a very good you were talking about the design FR but like it's a great merge of engineering and design so we get the look frons want but with this light bar we also get improved front end aerodynamics we have this kind of faceted sort of shingled feature here that allows us to flow the air up over the top faster and quicker than before and get a nice laminer flow going on the back the coefficient of drag you know overall is down as low as 0. 22 now depending on what wheels and tires you have it's like a four or five% Improvement It's really because of this front end but the other cool thing it did was it made it safer for you know pedestrian impacts and and and also frontal crash we're able to get a much better pulse reduce the occupant injury and give you a better uh not that you should hit people but if you do get hit like you fall sof on the hood they have to bounce off and get up laugh and a little Easter egg we got have a front camera now so pretty exciting for people that want to see what's down right in front of them you don't hit a curb anymore you it gives us the ability to do the 360 degree view which you know right now is in all our cars with Tesla sort of uh Vision showing that emulated view but you know we have the ability we could front let me ask you something as a designer cuz to me one of my favorite years for design was 1966 because from that point on all these government rules come in you could design what you could design the Lamborghini mura you could design whatever you want I don't want bumpers or anything I don't want anything in the front of and you know do do you sort of urine for those days you just have pure design because now the design has to earn its due it has it can't look good but not be efficient efficiency comes first correct I mean I think the the role of the designer is to take the rules and regulations and make them feel like they don't actually exist right and I think we do a pretty good job of that with our group where we make a beautiful looking car that meets all the regulations and all the engineering requirements and and but it doesn't feel like it's kind of hit with that ugly stick you know so in a way having some guardrails I think is actually good but yeah of course we want to do like the really wild crazy stuff um and you know maybe one day we'll back like when the uh what was it the the 60 15 5960 Chevy came out with the bat wing where and they had oh it it works as a pontoon to keep all this FY Stu the stories are great right yeah the rear end would lift up and all yeah hilarious I mean yeah definitely yearn for those days but you know again having the the guardrails also makes us f because you can get lost in the like the ability to do anything are you surprised we still have side view Mir cuz I would have thought by this point we'd have just a small camera here and you'd see like the one right this is an enormous piece of equipment here the drag must be pretty Yeah we actually added a feature you can see your hand is on it the feature is to improve the arrow drag but also the acoustic um drag on the windows so the the cabin noise is quieter with this little Ridge here it actually helps the air flow around because I found with mon sometimes we go I'm just trying to see around around the mirror around the mirror yeah yeah yeah hopefully it's coming soon we'll replace that with a monitor inside the car you know kind equal size but actually with full self-driving you don't need mirrors at all right the car is going to drive for you so you just sit back but yeah still want to the Europe has regulations that allow what France just talked about the US and the rest of the world just have to catch up well we're always late with that I remember uh in 1957 when dual headlights came out in a lot of States they had to make a single headlight model yeah because Connecticut you couldn't do it a few other oh dual headlights are too bright you know only they saw today's LEDs right exactly I mean there are still some rules like that in some states they dictate you know one or two states dictate what all the requirements for every state have to be and we have to abide by that I will say like when it comes to design and engineering and France you can tell me I'm wrong but like I my team and we we try to bend over backwards to give the designers whatever they want like we you know other companies I've worked at like in the past was sort of like engineering here's the rule here's a regulation and at Tesla we're like okay that's what you want let's figure out how we can make it work kind of like this headlight situation we were talking about I don't know nominally people would have probably just put it up here but France didn't want this like two beam sort of headlight thing we like okay we'll figure it out we wanted to make a non-traditional front end we wanted to kind of take it into the future we started seeing that with the Cyber truck and cyber cab so we want to continue that futuristic well it is funny though because you can't sell something before it's time we we' learned in history like when the Chrysler airf Flow came out oh what a beautiful car smooth aerodynamic but it didn't look it didn't have a big grill like this that push the air out of the way you know and people oh it doesn't look expensive it didn't didn't have a big ornament on the front of a man or a bird or something what like dusenberg hated that yeah yeah he did but the everybody wanted an ornament when they bought a dezenberg so the dealers came out with what they called the dooen bird that long the little bird that little thing on the front and that was not Factory you know you the engineers were like no we don't want oh all right fine that's what people want funny you should say that Jay you may notice no Grill there's no Grill and no badge up front we took the tea off we figured uh fronza styles were iconic enough people know it's a Tesla but I you know like after the war they didn't call it a hood ornament they called it a Gun Site yeah you know so you like you had a fighter pilot sort of thing on your car you know yeah just but remember the turn signals are out here on the Chrysler with the little tips look outside to see if the blinkers on yeah hilarious and was it Pontiac actually had the crosshatch you know that you could like see right down the middle now I noticed um for a while there disappearing uh windshield wipers were the big deal tuck them under yeah but now that they're sort of visible again it is there much drag with these well the air there's just a hint of a flip in the hood in the surface so it really is just deflecting the air over and it's it's always a game of how small can we make this to allow the wipers to come out we still need pressure on the on the wipers so that they actually clean the glass when you need them um and so we're just always playing with that balance and these are just they're just out of the air flow like that car over there that citrone SM that's the best car to drive in the rain because you don't need the wipers goes around it just goes I mean in a heavy rain obviously really but for the most part I rarely turned them on and that's 1971 so that's 50 years ago I mean it's it's pretty amazing okay let's move along down the down the line here what else do we have I mean the wheels are new and tires um this is actually our lowest combination rolling resistance and aerodynamic uh Wheel and Tire set that we've ever put on SUV right um this is a helix version 2 on the other one uh on the the 19in you get the cross flow has removable covers but these are you know we spend a lot of time down here in this airflow area you can see how the tire comes and meets the wheel like this right this like transition here is super important to keeping the air tight on the side of the car and reducing that drag so a lot of work went into that with the team similarly we got this little lip here on the edge of the side repeater that's actually to selfclean the camera okay so it creates an Edy current in the air it comes up and flows over and it cleans that camera makes sure that there's no water getting on the camera there I mean LS you also mentioned that like we have a air curtain so air comes through here and you can see it's it come comes out here and flows just over the tire so combining that with the design of the lip of the rim and the section of the tire you just get a really clear now one feature I I would always see in cars of the future would be skirts the wheel would be enclosed and the rear would you just see the the bottom the tire and it sort of made sense oh aerodynamics that's but that never caught on did it it's just too much well I mean the front tires have to turn so that's always a problem um you had some of those older cars where they encased it in the hous the whole fend yeah and then the rear like really with with everything shon's talking about like the benefits just aren't they outweigh the cons cuz then you can't change a tire you got take off the thing and like we don't really have that much you know Detachment back there or anything from even the shape we have here people like to see the wheels like on on your sitron back there you know you couldn't see the rear wheel it doesn't feel as sporty and obviously the flush handles same handles flush as before same handles not so much new on the on the body side there's a lot new in the interior we'll get to that in a little bit and this is a pretty high roof line isn't it this roof is actually just a couple fractions of an inch shorter than the old model y but we have the same interior Headroom yeah I remember Ed wellburn telling me the height of the average American Automobile now is the same as it was in 1938 I believe so many Su you know had Doo and the GU here and the roof is up here you know and that's where we are again he thought I thought that was pretty funny for some reason we hav come that far cuz it's the same height as it was in 1938 all cyclical right that roof's super cool though that roof is the first application of lowy acivity glass right uh in automotive application you get that a lot in uh AR kind of glass would you call it l e mity Lo e of l e it's Architectural Glass usually but what that does is allows us to reject about 25 30% more of the heat that's coming in the car with a glass roof obviously obviously can get hot in the summer and so we actually put what we what what that technology is is it's like micro deposits of silver all throughout the glass and that silver reflects the Heat and it keeps the cabin you know cooler on the inside um but but you wouldn't know that by looking at it right well it's interesting because when that Citron DS came out that had a fiberglass roof because it was extremely light I mean you're sort of raising your center of gravity how heavy is this piece of glass is it heavier than just having an aluminum roof you know when you when you have an aluminum roof you often add the headliner in so adding a full glass roof with the open headliner ends up only being like a couple of pounds heavier like for the benefit that you get in terms of like occupant head space and you know the view of the car and the aerodynamics you know in the view it's probably work when you're inside the car the view out feels Airy and spacious it doesn't feel like you're closed in and these wheel covers I mean it looks like a simple design but there's a lot of thought when into the aerodynamics of this Turbo with the way it's churning the air correct like for example is this more efficient than if you just had like a moon hub cap just smooth well the ideal scenario that fron knows we go for is like a moon hub cap exactly but actually what's most important for the aerodynamics as the wheel is spinning is on out on the outside so you see this outer inch here if you actually reach behind it you'll notice there's nothing behind there that is that right there you see how it falls away oh yeah yeah that right there is really the 80 8020 for us when it comes to you know aerodynamics and that's where we put a lot of effort in and then fron does a lot of work to try and make the wheel still flow down to the center look big look you know sporty while giving us that little surface now to the uninitiated it seems that like that churning air would force cool air into the brakes is that is that is that what it does does it sort of it actually kind of pumps it out sucks and it's different front and rear so the aerodynamic flow of the air through the wheel is different in the front and the rear so you know ideally you'd want a different wheel design for the front than in the rear and then multiply that to the same but they're the same you know from efficiency perspective so we balance it front and rear okay very good okay let's see what else we have here the back end is great it's really new stuff back here well this is my favorite part of the car the rear as Pally these haunches here you know I first became aware of that on a car David North designed the 66 tornado and it had it looked like shoulders shoulders right it looked like shoulders look like like when you see an animal like a cougar about to to it gives the mura has that too so the feminine front end masculine rear end which is kind which is kind of neat and this is I'm I'm I was looking at this thinking what am I missing here and then I realized oh there's there's no light here is there this is no this super cool this is a world first really yeah first in the industry We Believe of an indirect um running light basically so there's no direct light you see it's all reflecting on this panel we've designed the custom texture and then we just drop out the the word mark and it really creates a unique fresh look you know where there's a lot of cars with you know LED light strips that go across the car but this is really soft and just gives a really fresh new way well it's interesting because you think there' be some government regulation no no you must have a light right here it cannot be reflected cannot be but there's not is there well there there is there's a a light the regulation is how much lumens come off the surface but it never defines what kind of surface that has to be so this is what I was talking about earlier where we try really hard to give the the team what they want and so the light's actually coming from up top and it's reflecting off that surface that France talked about but the amount of light you see is actually the requirement now is this a third brake light as well no third brake light's still in the glass oh it's in the okay I can't see it and then the the brake lights and turn indicators are still here so you kind of you still get a little bit of that distinctive look when the brakes are on okay cool story about this though fron and I were in the studio and originally this was a three-piece lamp yeah and I remember fron standing there behind it looking at the brake in the light because when you had three pieces we had a tiny little Gap right and fron is like we got to make I hate it hate it and he's looking at me and I'm like yeah it's got to be one piece yeah and so we actually had to go with our our lighting suppliers buy the machines that were never made this big before this is over 5et wide it's like 5 foot 3 inch or something wide light and we had to buy new machines just like we did with our Giga castings to make the biggest injection molding machine two shot in in the world and we have them you know in one in each uh continent well let me ask you about that cuz you guys as engineers and designers I remember I always read about Carol Shelby and whether it's GM or Ford any uh like when they wanted to put the louvers in the front of the Corvette no just draw them on it's too expensive to do that I mean Tesla seems like you don't have that problem you need something you get it you know like the idea oh there's a little break here that drives you nuts but the average person wouldn't notice it so let's not bother you know what I'm saying I mean could I mean cost engineering is a real thing but like you got to I mean I think that too many people stop at like oh it's hard but actually making one part is easier than making three right and you only have to ship one part so the logistics go down and like we can we we try like to you know pull costs out of other areas and put it in areas that are really important and you know overall like I don't cost is in there but the first answer to any idea is not no but it costs this much it's yes and I'll figure out how to do it and and we pay attention to the details and details eventually they add up to the hole right so when you have a car with you know doesn't have a lot of excessive stuff those little details make all the difference well that's what I like about Tesla they really understand manufacturing like I know the rivan great vehicle but if you if you kind of get a little prong in that rear quarter panel oh my God it's like it's almost a total it's like $50,000 to repair because it's all one unit or one piece you know well actually on that on that um discussion we looked at what happened with the current or the outgoing model Y and we said rear impacts into the lift gate are a problem so we we increased the offset to the bumper and the liftgate so now you're not going to have on rear impact you're not going to have the lift gate affected by oh you're just you're just to the plastic you just hit that part now so you know little improvements like that again like what you're saying we're putting back into this car the other thing you were talking about is The Stance you know from the rear of the car it's the hunches and The Stance but we also changed that by bringing the the glass to a square corner so it really kind of helps Define visually The Stance of the car is that glass glass or is it like a plastic composite glass no that glass all the glass on the car is glass glass um it's all acoustically laminated glass now make the cabin quieter on the backl as well as a laminated piece of glass so there's a piece of glass on the outside a PVB layer plastic in between so it's lighter than the equivalent if this was 1958 and you were doing J just soda lme glass soda line yeah it would be a 300 lb P yeah let's can we open the trunk here let's see yeah so like a lot of times when you open the trunk um you know you have to stand and touch a button but what we've done is just made it handsfree so you just walk up to it and opens yeah okay but supp as you're just you're just walking by well that's you noticed he stood there for a few seconds I have my phone in my pocket and rather than giving you some stupid other feature where you have to wave your foot or do some magic hand thing right we just linked it to the phone using Ultra wideband Bluetooth and so it has a millimeter level detection of where you're standing so you have to be right in that spot and we have a a window about this big where you can stand and you have to be there for a couple seconds so if you're just walking by it won't open up now here's something that just seems so simple this I I've had this in mind too what do you do with this when you parcel shelf a parcel shelf so you know we added the parcel shelf midlife cycle model Y and because a lot of people wanted to cover up their stuff you know for for security right but the problem is you go to the store and you know you have something you want to get out of the store and you're like oh man I got this big thing now I got this huge box in my trunk where do I put it well we decided to take a little advantage of our packaging space and just give you a little cubby there so you still get a big flat thing yeah and you can store away your parcel shelf when but see you should do it like uh you take this like you know how they would do it on those bad infomercials ordinary partial shelves go everywhere it doesn't fit in the back it won't fit in the front what do you do with it you know that's my favorite thing let you see the work the hose hot water cold water who can figure out which it's such a big deal yeah but but good stuff though it just seems so simple yeah very nice up there and you know like these kind of little details like fron is talking about well if you leave it out we can we can talk about it sure yeah super flush load floor now so you don't get your stuff caught and then it falls in you do get a lot of extra storage space down below which is great and if you need even more storage space just at the touch of a button we have the flip and fold seats that usually you have to do manually and now we've added that as a as a power system so now can take it out was there ever the thought of adding a spare tire for example I bought a I find with with the roads are so terrible in California and I got those big wheels on my my plaid I I three flat tires in a year and now I have so I bought a spare Tesla Tire I just carry sometimes because I'm on my way to the airport and I get a flat I can't change it I got to you know is there any thought about somebody coming up with some kind of possible spare yeah so I mean we talk about spares all the time um I mean the truth is like you I think you're the exception to the rule with three flat tires a year but like the number of flats that occur year-over-year go down because we do a lot of work in the tires to make sure that they can resist those we do offer like the you know the fixed flat inflator kit that you can get with the car oh the can of ready with you mean but you know you plug it into the you plug it into the outlet and it Powers it up for you so it's it's powered compressor um and then of course we have our mobile road service which you I'm sure used many times but but now but the 19in tire is usually okay super robust yeah with the other one it always splits a sidewall so the inflatable can not helpful doesn't doesn't do anything you know very good we have good roadside assistant too they come and help you out pretty quickly we also made it so that if the front seats are in the way of the rear seats they do a little choreography where they tip down the front seats so the rear seats can get down and then the front seat goes back and that's cuz we do our own inhouse controls you know we don't have to buy that from A supplier so cool so we're actually able to increase the volume here from the outgoing car as well um so you get a little bit more space for all your stuff and you can configure it in a way that you want if you have people or you going to Ikea or Home Depot or whatever you can put all your stuff and a lot of these ideas come from feedback from customers abely all of them yeah a lot of times you you're sitting in the design room you think you know more about the car than your customers but actually your customers are the ones who know right so we always try and listen to what they're saying what they want and and put it into the car yeah I mean we're we're paying attention for a while we had a supercharger right in front of our studio right so people would come in super while they're supercharging and I would run into them and they' just say hey you know I love my car but can you fix this this and they you know once they get going and they go and they're like the captive audience so we take all that to heart and we want to you know make the best product something that people love and we'll continue to talk about so those that feedback is super important so keep telling us and we'll keep improving yeah very good very good all right let's put this back down where is the here P the button man I love that light yeah the light is really good yeah well let's uh let's get inside the car and show what's new there yeah the interior is all new so excited to to show you that give it a shot cool well the first thing I noticed the door shuts with a more convincing thud like a a bank vault and then it used to that yeah something that Lars came up with is that we raised the window a little bit right um as you're closing the door so it doesn't rattle inside the door so it just feels nice and solid it goes back down after you close the door but this is a little little Le little trick we do to make make the car nicer right let's see what else is new well the whole interior is new so I think you know what what we did was we obviously listened to a lot of feedback we improved the material story in here but we created a really nice wraparound design um and you know we have ambient lighting now in the car so million colors you can choose your mood um change the color to whatever whatever you want and you know we have just new new materials all the way through the the air blade um has textile on the top now bringing around in the door and you know the white is it's a you know synthetic leather right and it's super easy to clean people are like oh I'm not sure about white it's going to get dirty but just uh soap and water cleans right up and Open Water yeah yeah well how do you dry it with with towel I guess towel all right okay very but yeah if you know if you have kids I have kids and we have a wedding chair in our car and and it's it's looks like you know brand new and so again with you know this this new wraparound design we have a center console now with two phones for charging charge two phones like you're doing right now one thing that's actually quite nice um and we listen to the customers on this is we brought back the stock for the indicators so oh thank you yes oh that's you know that is great cuz that's the idea of I always have to look at my that I just I'll turn on the wipers I'll Flash the high beam yeah you know there's some ideas it just work it's like the stick that holds the hood up Y and the stick goes and holds the hood they come with the dampeners and all this other kind of stuff but you know the stick it's full lasts forever lasts the life of the car I you know I just notice that well that's great so when you indicate the you know left turn right turn comes up on the screen as well so and we have you know some blind spot warnings that that appear there as well but well it's interesting when I talk to a lot of people they seem to want the return of buttons and switches again it's you know we went through the whole your door is a jar and all all the Talking car stuff that way and then oh he just touched the screen but now people think oh you got to clean the screen and you know having the old like even the new roll that has the actual buttons because their customers prefer right but it doesn't give you the chance to kind of infinitely configure right the the use case for the the interior so I think you know and and in a world where we're going to see more and more autonomous vehicles and and full stelf driving for Tesla is advancing rapidly and people will be driving less you need you know less buttons to interface with and giving you the ability for us to to consistently make the car better through the U the UI improvements um hard buttons kind of limit you on that you're stuck with that and it it it can date the car as well yeah but you know with the stock we always say at Tesla if you aren't deleting so much that you have to put something back you haven't deleted enough right right and like well maybe we delete I do like it just makes it easy you know the my Ford GT has it too you have to I have I have to look to make sure I'm hting just like this it just seems so much simpler oh very good I knew you'd be happy about that it's a retro thing very good very good another thing that's actually quite cool is we um you know we've added more speakers into the interior so they much more immersive sound um but and some of them are actually hidden in the e- pillar they just the speaker behind the material so we develop the material that the sound can flow through you don't have to have a big speaker mesh up here that's kind of like in your eyeballs we also added microphones and so that when you're on your phone calls they're about 2/3 more clear oh okay because we added microphones up in the headliner there in the corner so that it get triangulates your voice better um we know it's coming from the driver so we can get that sound and isolate out the other sounds plus there was a time in the '90s and the 2000s where you had an impressive looking speak the speaker is right here it has bong and Olson or whatever it's all written in there it's oh this is very classy you I like the idea that it's hidden much you know it's unknown feature about Tesla we we actually do our own digital Sound Processing we have a great Sound audio team our sound system has its own integrated amplifier it's got 6 speakers plus one subwoofer the immersivity of it is really amazing like if you're an audio file there's only one car to buy yeah right and it's us and and like I think people just underappreciate that a lot so you don't have to go to Ed and Al's Auto Sound and have the that was a big thing you buy a new car first thing you do change the stereo the little handle that pulls out and you can take it with you suit that's so funny on the audio system back here I actually get my own space now yeah so we we have a 8 in screen back here we took over just from the new model 3 but um new in this car is really awesome is you can actually pair uh your Bluetooth to the back screen and watch something different so if the kids can watch a cartoon right and you can listen to whatever you want so you don't have to interact with your family at all that's fantastic those long road trips just got so much easier just yeah driving through the Grand what are you going to watch when you're going through the Grand Canyon you got to have something to look at you that's right okay and this is just a mirror or is the camera too just a mirror there right above that is the camera okay um another really kind of technological innovation sort of hidden in here is we actually have had a radar up there for a number of years an interior cabin radar and what we're doing with that now is we're actually classifying occupants so we're looking at the size of the occupant in there the height the weight the heartbeat and we're able to use that information more directly to better adjust our safety systems such as the safety belt and the airbag based on who's in the seat and you know in the future in a few months we're still working on this we'll add it to the rear seat so you know if you leave your dog or your your kid in the rear seat you'll get a notification like hey hey hey um there's someone alive still in the car right but don't worry we have dog mode so as long as you leave the dogs won't suffocate yeah the dog mode is that's kind of cool is it great it's a it's a feature that everybody loves and allows you to keep your pets in the car sa right right doesn't keep idiots from smashing the window yeah well we make we put a big label on the screen so what does it say my person will be back soon yes oh that's fun well very good all right we ready to go for a ride yeah let's let's do it yeah it's pretty quick for a little SUV still yeah very but it feels very solid yeah I mean we actually did a lot of work on the underbody that you don't globally the car is like 5% stiffer torsionally but really what we focused on was endpoint stuff for the suspension and connections make those super stiff and that way we could lower the bushing rates and get better isolation so you get a better ride but it also feels solid yeah it's lighter but it feels heavier yeah it's a good way to and not not in the steering just in the like the agility sort of the feel of well suspension is all new in that regard you know we redid the front and rear kinematics uh the rear kinematics really focusing on impact noise it's big complaint from a lot of our customers impact noise is down about 25 30% and that all comes from the suspension geometry and that point stiffening that we were talking about Let the Body flow back there and and reduce that booming that that people get annoyed by so you have better conversation front rear what's the highest mileage Tesla you found that a customer has had is there anybody there's this guy in the UK he's got over 200,000 miles almost uh oh that's 300,000 km I thought it was going to be and there's a guy that goes to and from Vegas I think he's up to 500,000 oh okay it's kind of crazy actually there's a study in the UK that just came out um that said our batteries and powert Trin costs you know over lifetime to get to 200,000 mies or whatever is significantly better than any other car on the road whether it's a battery EV or you which is true there's not you don't have to replace anything you know I haven't heard of anybody dying the batteries just dead dead no I mean it's really you can't really Breck a battery anymore you know like that was a problem early days original Roadster but um now we get on you know on life support and even if if the you leave the car sit for a while you can still revive them I mean I had my 12 for N9 years and uh it was it was uh maybe 2% 3% less yeah even my P1 McLaren I've been driving that for 10 years that's got that battery it's at 91% because I keep it charged in I you know if you maintain the battery like you're saying yeah people just I I mean I know a guy with the 918 Porsche third battery on it cuz he do doesn't take care of it and then you go to Europe for six months you come back oh to plug it in one of the things I always notice about this car when we're sitting here at a light is with all that acoustic glass and the other noise improvements we made it's like really quiet right now it's it's really quiet like you can't hear the cars on the outside or the train going by it makes you feel like you're in your own space which is kind of relaxing when you're on the highway and autopilot yeah that that's great and then when you do use the sound system it just has you know you're not competing for all the with the all the outside noise and how many speakers in 16 speakers so it's quite a bit and then the one yeah in the launch edition all-wheel drive you get the 16 speaker standard you know in in our lesser models we have 12 and 14 depending on which one you get but there's really no audio option we never make a bad audio system yeah but it doesn't feel like you're looking at a boom box with speakers all over the place yeah that usually be the selling point it's like when the turbo Turbo on the side of the car when the arrows pointing under the hood oh my gosh you know it got bad when they started calling cars turbo that didn't have turbo right yeah yeah well Porche we so surprised me that the electric what is it the T what is that tan tan tur it's the turbo cuz I hear kids go I want to get one with the turbo but there's no turbo yeah no it's there's no it's it's electric there's no turbo that's puzzling name it seems so UNP likee yeah exactly right you know the Germans have that you know there's such a pragmatic approach it's like the ger the three stoes if man has no hair why would you be called Curly it does not make sense yeah it's so funny this rearview mirror looks like a camera to me well you can still pull it up on the screen if you want all the cameras or you can put the front camera up on the screen I love using this you know other cars other electrics that have a screen you only get the rearview camera when backing up but there's no law right you can have it you can have it on all the time I mean it seems like a wonderful safety feature just to keep an eye on and now we put the you know the left and right uh repeater camera so you can see you know your blind spots too yeah yeah that's great oh the stock yeah how's the stock the stock is great it's one of those things it's just so intuitive that you know you just okay down is that way it's like an instinctual thing to just press right yeah yeah new seats so we have heated and cooled seats now so in the front you can uh cool down or heat up is great is that just the front or just the front he heated in the rear yeah we have heated seats in the rear but ventilated is only in the front and it works with HVAC system so it's all auto we in Tesla HVAC we sort of believe you know all input is error and so we try and make it work with the system but of course you can override it and you know do whatever you want yeah lots of storage here storage up here can hide it all the way close it all up you don't have to see the cup holders or anything so if you don't have an iPhone you don't have a sound system correct oh no no there sound systems in the car oh this the sound system comes with the car oh okay good and we have lots of choices for sound between Spotify Apple music is now new tune in on my on my Tesla the um you just say a song and it plays it y okay yeah that's everything for sure do they make a three motor version of this as well we do not make three just one or two three is reserved for plaid and uh a beast and the road and a roadster and the road right you know the speed you get out of this car I don't know if you really need three it's quite quick it's almost 500 horsepower and the torque is is nearly the same that's like that you know that used to be super car territory right so what you got there Jay is uh in all our all our Teslas we always have all of our automated safety features included right so if you get too close to laying on the left or the right it's actually going to help you steer back to the center gotcha so that's corrective steering that's applied and I notice you're on the brake pedal here at the at the light gives me opportunity to remember um one of the things we did with this car that's super unique is we actually um have a pedal that um has a separate hydraulic channel to the brake system right so that when we're driving all of the regen and all of the braking can be put into the motor and the battery as much as possible and we can actually do blending on both the accelerator pedal and the brake pedal so we get as much energy back as we can and that way you get the most efficient vehicle possible but another cool feature for that is the brake pedal doesn't move when you're an autopilot so a lot of people had complained about how it was farther away when they went to you know take over it's always going to be in the same place now it's always going to feel the same gotcha and we got more efficient vehicle out of it right yeah suspension impacts are nice and quiet now right they're super quiet um impact noise yeah is down quite a bit in this car but even on this like relatively bumpy road you can feel it and I think in the second row you feel it the most you know um there's a lot of improvement back here the noise from behind the that is anything revolutionary happening in Battery Technology like you know the 5 minute charge or the 10minute charge you know everyone's always uh hoping for the next big leap in in battery and cell technology the reality is it's it's it's you know like an incremental thing to improve it and um we're always working on uh new improvements one of the things we did just this winter um for charging was you know in the cold um our batteries don't like to take energy no batteries do so we actually started using using um preconditioning and which we've done for a while where we take heat out of the motors and other places and put it into the batteries to get ready to charge and we started using the supercharger with a thing we call AC current Ripple to heat up the batteries so you can charge faster even when it's likeus 20 out yeah I actually was just up in Alaska with our team testing that and what used to take an hour to precondition to start charging in a super charger now only takes 15 or 20 minutes even in Alaska Inus 20° it's pretty crazy that's interesting and that actually goes into all the cars you know at Tesla we're always beaming new software out and that one out this winter um to a number of customers cuz you know as fron said we listen there a big complaints so we came up with a unique novel way charge faster I had a funny joke about Alaska I did a gig up there in February the sun came up at 11:30 went down at 1:30 afternoon it was 40° below zero but when I went into the Thrifty drugstore the ice cream was still soft off I don't I don't understand how that's possible it's such just stupid well we test up there you know in the winter CU it's it is dark all the time and cold like you said but - 40 is a special temperature where Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same and I feel like that's when you know you shouldn't be outside a lot of people say you know do your cars work in the winter and I mean we spend months up there making sure that they work in the cold and making improvements dealing with all this stupid myths and misconceptions is yeah just got to be frustrating as a well I think that's why we're super thankful to be talking to you today yeah cuz we can you know debunk a lot of that yeah yeah give a shout out to those guys that spend I mean this thing is so fast hilarious you know when people get that little smile you got I call it the Tesla chuckle well you know it's so funny I I've been driving cars lately that have to me ridiculous sounds they make the electric CS to me I find the absence of noise as exciting as noise it's just when it's in the middle and it doesn't make any sense that I find it annoying you know I was talking to a director about that the other day he wanted to do a car chase and I said why don't you do an electric car chase but make the cars a sword noise like you know yeah two of them come up to a light and then they CH and it's a completely silent Chase but you just hear that the wish the like Like a Knife cutting through the air you know and and he he kind of thought that was intriguing but it it was just it's just a new kind of car chase instead of you know it's like when I you know I was watching the classic Hawaii Foo he's driving that giant Mercury Marquee right and he's in the sand on the beach the car you know sque tires really yeah hilarious you know it's just so funny with because there's certain things people just expect to happen yeah nobody questions that noise right with when they're watching well my favorite one I always feel sorry for Audi I'm watching the born identity and they have whatever the brand new Audi was that year for 2012 it's got the you know the steel door locks and B he runs in parket gets in touch two wire the blue wire and the red wire the car starts right imagine they would pull my hair out it's a little more difficult nowadays to jump St well now with the latest software you can use your Apple watch as your key as well oh that's interesting Bo it really does feel more planted it just feels hunkered down you know that's something we've been working on for a while is just making these cars more holistic you know it's got the same uh frequency uh selective damping that we had in the new model 3 we adopted that in here and that really allows us to separate primary and secondary ride make it more planted but also more comfortable I don't hear about it very often but I assume there still just building charging stations left and right correct that is correct yeah we are expanding the supercharger Network all the time and we've also put a lot of effort into expanding like AC charging or destination charging overnight charging but it's uh all over the states all over Europe you can charge you know pretty much anywhere you want in China and in Japan all the major countries does California have the most charging stations that's a tough one probably I mean California is like the biggest state you know population was but you can pretty much go anywhere and find a supercharger right you know outside C click charger there on the right frze and you can pull them up there's all the ones nearby oh yeah look at that it's like a Red Sea yeah so all the dots give you an idea of what's where we are locally and I guess there are people that still have the first gen that still get free supercharging there's a handful of those people out there that is correct and you know the guy will never sell it right primarily for that reason yep one of the cool things about you know the charging Network that you see on here and trip planner is like in the in the this new software that you get with model Y and it'll be beamed everything we upgraded our trip planner to include not only um the number of people that are at the charger but also this the rate of charge and the weather which fron is putting on here of course we're in Southern California so there's not much weather wether right now but there's a weather overlay for what's happening and we include that weather now in the in the trip planner so if you're going up through the mountains and it's raining and cold and you're going to be using more heat it'll be included in trip planner so we know that you can trust that and get to your destination with the right amount of charge how much heat does uh obviously you better off running just your heated seat rather than heating the whole car correct well I mean we balance that but like you with the he heat pump system we're actually not like generating heat unless we need it in the cold we have a 12 KW uh compressor that can generate heat but what we're doing is we're taking the waste heat from the motor you just like an IC engine um and using that to heat the cabin um but with a heat pump it's really cool because you can just move heat around and so like when you think about cooling you also think oh I need I need to have a condenser and you know and and to cool things down but actually what we do with the heat pump and the heat exchanger is we just suck the heat out of the cabin you know and that way we're using the heat pump to cool as well and putting heat where it needs to go where than that be the battery of the motor what's not possible now but will be someday anything you think of like I mean I can remember even as much as 20 years ago oh it'll take a 100 years to convert from gas to electric remember remember that all that talk it'll be the 21st century before that ever happened and of course it's literally happening I mean it slowed down a little bit it's going to be be 2030 but then everybody kind of got scared flying car yeah flying car that's never going to Happ that seems really stupid Never Say Never that seems like the dumbest thing to me yeah but it'd be fun would be fun well just the idea that imagine the average idiot somebody's below more automated and autonomous environment then I think you run into those issues less and less I think that's really where you get hit the nose FRS like what's not possible now but almost in the future is this fully autonomous driving like we are really close we're doing it you know fully autonomous rides in our engineering Fleet right now and in in Texas and that's coming around the corner and I don't think people really realize how close it is to just getting in a car pressing the destination and then getting there without even touching the wheel or the pedals and like that's going to be ubiquitous I think you know faster than we imag the absence of wheels and pedals because of that exactly cyber cab when we did the October event no wheels no pedals but it seems like you would always have to have some sort of fail for example there's no crank here but if this window electric window didn't work there's a way to get the window down correct or the or the door door can open manual but in the front you got the manual release and in the back here in the I think I would always want something you know just seem a little yeah I mean I think people feel comfortable with that emergency stop button um but you know you get in a plane or a a train you have no control you just get to the destination right right so be it'll be similar to that feeling well Tesla's Robo taxi is supposed to start pretty soon isn't it yeah cyber cabs are like LS was saying we're testing in Texas and rolling it out and you know starting in June we'll have cyber cabs rolling around in Texas area so super exciting um yeah and I think that's going to be the we were talking about that'll be the technology that is feels like the future but it's happening today right right and every Tesla comes fully capable with that you know this car does um your car has it and so when I'm when I'm sort of like thinking about in my life is my kids here you know they're they're eight and 10 and I wonder if they're ever going to drive a car like I think about it all the time it was the first thing I wanted to do when I was 16 you know and I my kids I get in the car and they're like dad put it on autopilot I I think they're just never going to drive but as a parent you want safety for your kids right autopilot already to be safer people still want to sail yeah that's true you know because you wanted the wind and all you know people want to ride horses people yeah they ride horses they climb they rock climb yeah I think but it's not the primary means of right do it for recreation exactly but there are more horses Now in America there've been any other time in in history right now it's crazy to think about right you think 1880s they're all for recreational purposes we should do a jeno's garage on a horse yeah I know that' be funny well you know that's why when the Model T came out oh my god there used to be 60 60,000 tons of manure on the streets of New York every single day people died of disent and the summer the smell and the Heat and people become sick and suddenly Henry Ford comes along and he little blue smoke in your face oh this is oh this is quite Pleasant you know makes you feel a little little high it's okay yeah yeah it's all right it was it seem like a good idea well actually back on on safety for your kids you know if you do have a new kid learning how to drive we actually have parental controls in the Tesla so you can set the maximum acceleration speed that's put a lack password in you know one of the things my parents did when I first learned how to drive is they only let me drive the old car 060 in like 18 seconds you know top speed of8 mph it was a diesel still have that car of course I turbocharged it and made it quite a bit faster but you know they were they were trying to control you know it's funny the one thing I noticed with really young kids today like seven eight nine if I take my count to a car show they oh cool you want to sit in it yeah no no they don't well I was a Oh God but now there like oh that you know but you know they said the same thing when I was a kid television was going to ruin everything kids on never read books they'll just watch television I suppose there's a certain amount of Truth there give my kids a television or a book can tell you which one they're going to pick yeah but nobody really watches television anymore right yeah it's true oh boy it pulls hard yeah it does right yeah it pulls hard all the way [Music] up well I hope you all learned something about new model Y and France and Lars of course the designer and the engineer that's what's great they can tell you all the little changes cuz if we first you look at it you go it looks different but I can't figure out what's different and then once you point them out they become pretty obvious but uh I learned a little today I hope you did too guys thanks a lot I really appreciate you taking the time to comeb by and show us what's new at Tesla and I'm still waiting for that roader can me too so yeah we'll see what happens let's get back to the studio from back to the studio that's right hey thanks you guys we'll see you again next week thanks for checking it out