Ciao everyone, here it's Marchettino and today I will let Vanessa experience for her first time on a full electric car!
Ciao! Honey I can't wait to test this new electric car! - She has no idea what she's about to face, she doesn't know the acceleration of an electric car!
Right guys, due to popular demand I decided to feature Vanessa on the channel
and today I wanna take the opportunity to let Vanessa experience a new thing, getting onboard - and later drive also - a full electric car.
I thank also Termelcars from Milan to have lent me this Tesla Model S 100D which is brand new, there's still some plastic film in the interior so let's say that
I'm doing the break-in period today, let's see how the batteries react!
You need to know this is an electric car so there's not the classic thermal combustion engine, here we have 2 electric engines that combined produce the equivalent of 540hp
and a whopping 930nm of torque, the cool thing about the electric is that whenever you smash the foot on the throttle you have immediately all the power!
So we take off! - Yeah!
Understood!
Got it? - Definitely!
But it's so silent! - Yeah also the experience of the electric is that you don't hear any noise!
You don't expect that from a car so silent you - Continue - I was saying.. you can have such insane acceleration!
The acceleration of a full electric car is tough to beat if you have a thermal combustion engine!
We're flying!
Another particular thing of the electric is that you don't have a transmission with gears to change, here you only have 1 gear, you put the car in Drive and you have just to press the throttle or the brake!
I would be very curious to drive it! - This car is too fast for you! - Come on I'll try to go slow, I've learnt from the best!
You don't necessarily need to press on the brakes because if I lift the foot off the throttle can you feel how quickly it decelerates? - Yup
With the electric engine you have a huge engine brake and when the car decelerates the electric engine charges the battery!
So if you brake or slow down you charge a bit the battery - And what's the autonomy on a full charge?
When we took the car at Termelcars earlier today, it was about 600km on a full charge but by accelerating and using the A/C and other electric things on,
I think on the average you drive 400/450km on a full charge, the problem is to find charging points because in Italy the electric is not popular yet so it could be a problem to make a long trip in Italy with such kind of car.
What you doing? - Nothing! There's a straight line so usually
We're taking off!
It's so silent!
So silent I can hear your thoughts! - So you already imagine what thoughts!
It's so impressive I didn't expect it - Why you change the voice when you talk?
Well you know, we're taking off!
Another straight!
Swapping from an M3 E92 with Armytrix to a full electric Tesla.. - It's a different whole thing! - 2 opposites!
No comment!
You prefere the smell of petrol? - Definitely! Especially the noise - That's my girlfriend!
The sound of a petrol engine!
When you smash the foot on the throttle you feel like the car is about to take off, I feel the front that raises, it has such an impressive acceleration!
I feel that too! - And this is not even Tesla's most powerful version! - Which one's the most powerful?
A more powerful one.
It must have a name then! You don't know it! - The P100D!
And Termelcars told me " We decided to take this one instead of the most powerful because at the end of the rentals we'd love to have the car back in one piece! "
You need to be very careful even with this one it has a scary acceleration!
You just need to be in the traffic, on the highway, too close to the other cars and push too much the throttle and you're not inside the car but on the top of it!
I think it's also more dangerous than a petrol car that makes noise - For the pedestrians?
For the pedestrians and also the other cars because I realize when there's a car incoming - It's dangerous because pedestrians are always distracted and from the outside you don't hear it! - Zero!
It's so silent we heard the air vents! - So silent we can hear the vents!
What do you think of the acceleration? - It takes off! I say everything with this response!
What I really like is the central display - The interior is based on this huge tablet that is plenty of functions but honestly I think it's a huge distraction, I already get distracted with - With your girlfriend! - Also!
I think it's too complicated - Big! - Also big and excessive! If you notice, there's no buttons in the car there's only the one for the hazardous lights and I don't know what's this for but
you control the whole car through this display which is the brain.
What carbon part it has? - Yeah it has a few carbon bits on the dash, on the central part but honestly it's just - Design!
Yeah cosmetic because this car weights more than 2.1t, these carbon parts don't make the car lighter but such heavy car, it's impressive to have such kind of performance!
What I can't stand I explain, usually he makes the face " Now I shift down and look what I do! " and he doesn't do that here so I can't - Unexpected!
Exactly!
You're making me nervous!
Really? - I like to keep control of the things!
Now you drive it! - Sure? - NO!
I'm not sure but you're driving!
Ready? Oh yes! So,
Foot on the brake, put Drive, let's go..
What do you mean let's go, it's not on! Stupid, it's electric!
Go, it's already on!
It's not on!
It's on!
You need to go slow because it's a powerful electric engine, it's a powerful electric engine that provides all the power at once so watch out.
See that?
Slow down!
How awesome! Now I understood I feel the take off even more!
You need to brake just a little, cool!
I love it! - Even on the passenger seat
The problem is that on the passenger seat this sensation of speed is widened!
So slow down!
I think this is the only way to scare you, letting me drive cars! - Especially the powerful ones!
Don't worry! - I was looking the straight line - I see you, how can I say, worried! - No no!
Aren't you having fun?
This is for all the times you created a psychological damage on me!
Just wait you're back on the M3 with me and see how I make all the roundabouts sideways! - Honey I'm sorry, I'm slowing down - Slow down!
What's this laugh? - I can't make the Marchettino laugh but sooner or later I will learn!
I slide the Tesla!
Hopefully it's AWD and not RWD!
It's not easy to slide a AWD! - No! - It's easier with a RWD! - That's for sure!
We did a few accelerations and the autonomy went from 410 to 383km,
if you smash on the throttle the batteries suffer and the autonomy goes sensisly down.
Don't squeeze the tires, you little hooligan! - But there's nobody around!
You're crazier than me behind the wheel! -  I repeat, I learnt from you!
The electric acceleration is awesome! - I can hear your heart pump!
The irony, the battery of the GoPro has died so I'm closing the video with the phone!
Hopefully we've stopped and now I'm driving because you, you're a danger - It's not true!
Interesting experience on this Tesla, especially for Vanessa, her first time on a electric car!
This confirms I have to drive, you're not staying behind the wheel anymore if I'm in the car! - Last meters!
Slow I promise! - Nope we're heading back to Termelcars and I drive!
Ok but I had lots of fun, I didn't expect it really!
I thank again Termelcars for having lent me their Tesla, in the video description below you find their links.
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