- Welcome to a video of us traveling.
It's been awhile since
we've gone on a travel
and done a vlog but we
want to show you guys
some Tesla charging tips
because we're driving
through La Vegas and all
the way to Los Angeles today
and there are some
things that I've learned
over the years of having
a Tesla that I think
typical people that are
first buying a Tesla
wouldn't think about so I'm gonna share
with you our best tips but we're also
gonna take you on a little trip.
You excited?
- Yeah, it's gonna be long.
- It's gonna be long but this video's not
gonna be long, just our
trip's gonna be long.
- No the video's gonna be kind of short.
- Welcome to stop and
go traffic in Las Vegas.
We made it.
Lincoln is now playing Fortnite
in the back on his phone.
- Hi.
- No longer sitting in front because
while this windshield is beautiful,
apparently it's not ideal for Fortnite
playing on mobile.
(yelling)
So Tesla road trip tips.
Right now we have 81 miles
left of range and it says
if we're going to get to Primm, Nevada,
which is where the ideal supercharger is,
it's about 42 miles away
so what Tesla will do,
which is really smart,
is the car will navigate
and tell you, that's the ideal next stop,
Primm, Nevada and you'll have
five percent battery left.
There are a couple of
superchargers right here
in Vegas that are very
convenient to get to.
One of them on the south end of the strip
is the most convenient and it's right
by shopping and everything.
So tip number one, run
your battery down as pretty
close to, I mean not
dangerously low so you run out
of battery, I've been there.
Run your battery as low as you can before
you get to a charging
station, try not to stop
at every single charging
station to keep like
a really good energy
on there and the reason
is because when you have a low battery
and you want to get up to about 80 percent
full of charge, the
charge goes the fastest.
It accepts the most amount of electricity
and it doesn't take that long of a time,
it's really, really, really fast but once
you have more battery
in your car and you pull
up to a supercharger,
the car is smart enough
to limit the amount of
energy that's coming
into your car so that it
doesn't ruin the battery
by putting too much
juice on the higher end,
on the full end of the
battery and by the way,
auto pilot is coming in clutch right now.
When you are in major
traffic, stop and go traffic,
it's so nice to have auto pilot.
It's looking at all the cars,
it's going, it's stopping,
sometimes it's totally
stopped for 30 seconds
and then it keeps going again
so auto pilot, it's the best.
(lively music)
Oh made it to Primm.
15 miles range left,
that's a little tight.
I would not recommend
keeping it that tight
but I'm happy with it.
Charging right here.
Tesla charging tip number two, here it is.
So right now I think we
have 10 superchargers here.
There are five batteries
that are behind this
thing that run all 10 of these so you have
two different superchargers
that run on the same
battery that's back here
so I just drove around
and looked, there's two other cars here
and if you look on the supercharger,
there are numbers, this
is 1A, this one's 2A,
this black car over here is actually at 1B
so if I pull into 1B,
this battery is gonna give
priority to that car
and so 1A is gonna have
a lower ampage out until that guy leaves
or until his battery
becomes full and so you
can literally cut your
supercharging time in half
if you go to a supercharger
that doesn't have
anybody there so.
- This is where we learned the tip too.
- This is, somebody
told us randomly, right?
- Yep.
- The best part about
Primm, Nevada is that you've
got this casino over here,
Primm Valley River Casino,
it has a giant outlet
mall right there so they
have Nike store in there,
they've got like a Guess store
so you can go walk around,
do some shopping indoors,
where it's nice and cool and
it's a good place to stop.
Here's what you wanna look at.
Right now we're at 57 kilowatts right now.
That's not good.
We should be at like 113 or something.
This isn't gonna work,
this isn't gonna work.
So let's go pull up to another one.
We're just gonna move
from one to the other.
(upbeat music)
Let's watch those kilowatts.
This is the number to look for.
60 is not that great.
- [Lincoln] It's not great at all.
(upbeat music)
- So right now we're at 101 kilowatts,
you see that?
All we did was move
from one spot so I guess
that would be tip number
three is to take a look
at how much energy is
coming in, even though
somebody was, there was nobody at either
one of those spots at the adjoining ones,
it still was lower.
Some of the batteries just
run slower than others
at different charging stations so don't
be afraid to back up,
pull forward and back up
into another one because
it could save you a bunch
of time on your trip.
We're at 112 kilowatts.
- That's what we wanna be at.
- That's exactly what we wanna be at.
As your battery gets fuller
like above 50 percent,
the kilowatts start to drop
down and it'll get down
to like 30 kilowatts so that will be have
something to do with tip
number four but for now,
we're gonna go shopping so
let's go shopping first.
(lively music)
Welcome to Baker, California.
This is one of my favorite
charging stops in the entire
west coast and you're gonna see why.
Lincoln's in the car, it
has more charging stations
than I've ever seen so
Lincoln doesn't know yet,
we're gonna pull up and show him but first
I had to stop right here by the sign.
It's close to Death
Valley and so they always
have this giant thermometer that's up,
right now it is 7:22 pm,
it's 104 degrees outside.
West coast is the best coast,
I'm sorry east coasters.
So apparently that
thermometer that we drove by
isn't just a big thermometer,
there's something
special about it.
- It's the world's tallest thermometer.
- [Daniel] Tallest.
- Very, very tall.
- That's pretty cool.
Well now we're about to see
a Tesla supercharging station
that you know what, we
don't even technically
have to stop, we're
supposed to keep driving
according to our navigation
to the next supercharger,
I still have 189 miles left of range.
I don't know if this is true or not
but I feel like this
is the world's largest
supercharging facility.
- What in the world?
- [Daniel] Look at all
those superchargers.
- No one's even there.
- No, nobody's ever
here, nobody's ever here,
like navigation wouldn't
tell me to go here.
- There's like a roof and stuff.
- [Daniel] Yeah, it's solar panels on top.
- Yeah, this is probably
the world's largest.
- There are so many, there
are so many right here
so we might as well
charge for a few minutes
and I gotta show you this place.
K Lincoln, let's count em up.
How many are there?
- 40.
- 40?
He did a fast math
because, which is smart,
I like his style.
Over here there is 20 A and
20 B and so 20 is the highest
number, there are 40 superchargers
here in Baker, California.
So check this out, all of
these are to power this.
Now there's a couple of
things going on here.
I'm still not an expert
on Tesla stuff but this
looks very similar to a hotel that we know
that has Tesla batteries
in it so this side
of it could be the batteries
that capture the sun
from these up here but
these look different.
These must be, yeah they are, look at it,
post 1A and 1B so this right
here is the battery pack
that is for supercharger 1A
and 1B that's right there.
At the last supercharging
station when I said that
the two different chargers
A and B work off of the same
battery, this is it right
here, these are them.
I've never actually seen this before.
- [Lincoln] Whoa, it's hot.
- It's blowing some air out
of it, well it's hot air.
Which one are we in?
We're in 13A.
Here's ours.
There's the wind.
- How do you know that?
Oh yeah.
- It says 13 on it.
How cool that you've got the
sun charging these batteries
and providing energy for these cars.
The lights went on, the sun is down,
isn't this beautiful?
Pink sky, blue sky, Tesla chargers,
tons of chargers over here,
tons of chargers over there
and a Dairy Queen if you
wanna get some ice cream, yum.
Alright, let's just unplug
and get out of here.
- It doesn't make sense
for this place to be 40.
- There's never any cars here.
- [Lincoln] I know.
- I feel like the GPS
doesn't recognize and doesn't
tell people to stop here
yet 'cause it's so new.
We have 18 superchargers
here in Yermo, California.
Do you see this giant ice
cream sundae above my head
over here, that's where we're heading.
This is my favorite supercharger
that I've been to so far
because of the candy and actually
because of the bathrooms,
let me show ya.
(lively music)
Toys over there.
Candy, nuts, organic candy, raw nuts,
crystal candy, what's crystal candy?
- [Lincoln] It's a hard rock candy.
- [Daniel] Oh wow, yum, that looks good.
- I've actually made those before.
- You've made em?
Wow.
Raisin clusters, raisin
clusters, frosted honeycomb,
honeycomb sponge and you
have all these Beanieboos,
all just looking at us.
This is the gummy candy section.
- [Lincoln] Oh this is
my favorite section.
- [Daniel] Blue jelly beans,
a pizza, a gummy pizza.
- [Lincoln] What?
- [Daniel] A gummy pizza.
Oh, there's a giant gummy snake.
(lively music)
Oh, my favorite, the green frogs.
- Oh yes, those and the sharks.
I don't know why, the
two animals are the best.
- [Daniel] They are good.
- They're so good.
- [Daniel] I don't know what it is.
Randomly you've got the Lakers
original court over here.
Eddie World Yermo, one
of only two in existence,
this is a piece that the
Lakers had from 1967 to 1999,
this is the floor.
- That's six NBA championships
just on that floor?
- This floor experienced
six NBA championships
and it's in Yermo, California
at a candy gas station stop.
Okay, there's something
interesting in the bathroom.
We're gonna go in there but
I can't film in there so
okay here's the urinals, what is this?
- What am I supposed to do?
- [Daniel] Why is there like, maybe if you
start peeing it does something.
I feel like my hands are
dirty just from touching that.
- Now I can't pee anymore.
- It's got a cricket game going on.
You play it as you pee
it, it sees your pee.
It's looking at your
pee, how does it know?
Game over, you lose.
You lost the pee game.
K, I'm not gonna show any peeing.
Family friendly here but I'm about
to crush it on some game.
There's gotta be some
violation of privacy going on
with this cricket game.
I mean it was fun, don't get me wrong.
I need to see what's inside that game.
How does it know as soon as I stand there,
it didn't do it until I unzipped my pants
and got ready and then it
knew, I wanted to play ball.
Maybe I don't recommend using that.
Come to Yermo, let's check out the floor,
get some food, we're about
to get some ice cream
but maybe don't do the
urinal because I'm a little
concerned about my privacy.
(lively music)
The ice cream was so good
I didn't even show it
on camera but we just had ice cream.
- It was so good.
- It was good, see they agree.
There we go, there's the
end of Eddie world for you.
I think I've already done tip number four.
Here's tip number five, if
I skipped one this is four
but anyway, tip number five.
You don't need to fully charge
at every single station.
It's better to stop at more stations
and charge for like 25
minutes because when you get
to the end of the charging
and like I said earlier,
the last 70 percent to
100 percent it could take
you forever, maybe I
already mentioned this tip.
Fill up like 50 to 80
percent or 50 to 70 percent
and then bolt.
Off we go.
We've got an hour and 20
minutes left, it's dark in here,
sorry until we get there,
10:24 to our hotel.
We're doing some cool stuff in Los Angeles
so get ready, oh, thanks for the light.
Alright we just pulled up to our hotel in
Ontario, California by the
airport at a Doubletree
'cause we like eating the cookies.
Okay and check this out,
battery power very low,
26 miles.
This is not a best
practice to run it this low
but I'm doing a special YouTube video,
hopefully it'll be out tomorrow
about the Tesla battery
and a possible way to charge
it back up when it's died
so it's gonna be an interesting experiment
but what it means is that
I have to get it this low
so that tomorrow we're
probably gonna run it
to zero just for the video to test
out a theory that we have.
I guess that's the end of
our road trip, oh no no no,
the cookie, we gotta show you the cookie.
This is why we stay at the Doubletree.
They give you warm cookies,
chocolate chip cookies
when you stay here and
here's a little secret,
sometimes if you see
a Doubletree close by,
you can just go in, even
if you're not a guest
and if they're nice at the front desk,
you can ask em, hey, can I have a cookie
and they'll give you a cookie
just anytime of the day.
I think the record of
cookies was Lincoln and Zach
when we were in Hawaii at a Doubletree.
- Yes.
- They got seven cookies in
one day from the front desk.
We were staying there so
that's good but anyway,
it's 10:30, it's nighttime,
our car is almost dead
and so we're gonna let it sit there
all night to go down even more.
Tomorrow we're gonna film a
crazy video with a dead battery.
- The seven cookies was really good.
I don't think I can beat it though.
- [Daniel] This one right here,
birds apparently like to live on it.
