The NEW TESLA Model 3 - Race across the UK!

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A lot of you have been asking me to try out a Tesla, so I listened. I put the Tesla Supercharger network to the test, seeing if it's good enough to get me from the middle of England all the way up to Scotland. I can tell you now, it was one hell of a drive...

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[MarkEllisReviews]

Tesla owners: what made you go for this car over the other options on the market?

[topgazza]

Love that you’re doing the odd, different, product review. Every now and then it’s refreshing

[peteramey]

I had the same car for 24 hrs on a test drive. Went around many roundabouts and got used to the indicator buttons within a few hours. It's not a big deal at all. Excellent car, my order is in.

[mikepalmer]

I took one on a test drive last week it is a fantastic car, best EV period

[Popdog]

Most those hidden away options are changed via voice or with the buttons on the steering wheel like windscreen wipers speed it easy and all detailed in the manual.

[JamesTechTalk]

I’ve been a Tesla driver for the past 2 months, I literally love it. It’s such an amazing car, great review Mark!

[cokyrobes]

Great summary and review - well done for this great content! - Sub'd

[stuartcurrie]

Great video. I pick up my new Tesla model 3 at the end of the week and my excitement levels are high! Really helpful on accessories so will head to Amazon next week! I've followed on Instagram and thought the other vids were great too. Thanks. 🙏

[HansKruse]

Remember you can put desired shortcuts at the bottom of the screen. You can control the wiper speed with the left scroll wheel. No need to go into menus while driving. There is also speech recognition of commans.

[slowercuber]

16:36 "everything is drive by wire"? maybe not. The power steering is electric, not hydraulic, so it feels much more responsive and precise than any other cars I've driven, but unlike the CyberTruck, *all other Tesla models currently have a steering shaft which is mechanically linked to the (rack and pinion?) steering mechanism*. I do not know about the brakes. The accelerator pedal has no need for any mechanical linkage to the carburetor and can when let off (if so configured by the driver) will actuate regenerative braking with the motor(s) or even trigger some true braking if the battery has too high a charge to accept power from regenerative braking.

[slowercuber]

4:22 Phone app entry/exit/starting car: some people (including myself) have claimed one must fiddle with the phone a little at times. Most of the time everything works perfectly, but once in a while I'll need to take out my phone and bring the app to the foreground or even sometimes kill the mobile app and reload it before my car will recognize me and let me into the car or start the car. I had the problem sometimes with an iPhone 11 Pro and now still have it sometimes with my iPhone 15 Pro.
I don't find it much of a bother, and as I said, it usually works just fine, as smooth as you make it sound here, Mark.

[jamesmcphail]

Great review as always! I have has a model 3 for 2 and a half years and wouldn’t drive anything else. The range is great and considering I drive 25000 miles a year hardly ever have to charge it ast a super charger

[slowercuber]

11:44 charge at destination: I normally charge at home, because energy costs less than a third at my house than it costs on the road. This incentivises charging up to 80 or 90% right before I leave on a trip and I aim at having around 10% when I get home, in order to shave a few dollars off the cost of the trip, and up to 30 minutes off the time charging on the trip.

[michaelsamaan]

Really nice video. Couple of things. Steer-By-Wire isn’t available yet. Just in the Cybertruck but should trickle down to Model 3 and Model Y. You don’t need to go into the menu system to access things like the wind screen wiper speed. Just press the wind screen wiper button on the steering wheel and a menu pops up on your side where you can use your scroll wheel to change the settings/speed. Ditto with other things like the headlights.

[philip-tvyq]

Can I ask how much did the cost of your journey cost

[slowercuber]

Great review of the new Model 3. I've had my "old" 2023 Model Y LR AWD (Perl) for just over a year now and loved 12, 080+ of the 12, 110 miles that are on the car. The only exceptions were those miles already on the car (maybe 10?) when I picked her up in Georgia, the 10-15 miles my wife drove Perl when her truck was in the shop and about one mile of the 150 when I was driving myself on my way home to Alabama from picking Perl up in Georgia (Tesla can't deliver direct in Alabama). That one mile of dread and regret came from trusting the automatic wipers on the highway in an extremely heavy rain. Tesla has since greatly improved the auto-wiper experience, but those moments last July, when wipers stopped in the middle of a frog-strangler while traveling down the highway at 70mph in moderate traffic will forever be in my memory.
The lesson I learned was to make sure I know how to override Perl's auto-wiper control (and likewise the automatic bright lights).

[louisefindlay]

Do you hear the squeak when you're driving or does the road noise drown it out?

[slowercuber]

As for lack of stalks: One reason I bought my Model Y last year was I was concerned that Elon would prematurely eliminate the stalks. Many folk who have been driving stalkless Tesla's have adjust just fine to the buttons, but I wasn't sure I would be one of them. However, with a drive-by-wire system like on the CyberTruck, even old codgers like me could probably adjust, so if such steering comes to the other models, I'd be willing to take a chance on learning to use them -- even on traffic circles (there are more and more of those showing up on this side of the pond these days).

[ouethojlkjn]

A nice well balanced review the only thing I would add is the Range you quoted is for the less efficient 19 inch rims. The standard range on 18 inch rims will do 355 WLTP miles. The long range does 420 on the smaller wheels.

[savagedriver]

Very interesting review, and interesting to see satnav route planning involving charging stations being put to good use (I'm a patent examiner and have dealt with a few applications like this).
I do however think you're using the word "sparse" incorrectly - I think you meant to say that the interior is spartan.