(truck engine revving)
- [Male 1] Something's
coming down with that truck.
- [Male 2] I know.
- Something else is coming right now.
That truck is lowering.
Something is happening right now.
(yelling)
(truck horn)
- That's right, tonight
is the Tesla semi-truck
unveiling event, and I'm here.
I was lucky enough that some of my friends
that are Tesla YouTubers invited me
to use one of their
passes to come tonight,
so of course I was all about it.
But first, look at all these Teslas:
Model 3 Model S, Model S, Model 3.
And check this out, the
old school roadster.
Beautiful orange. It's so tiny.
It's so tiny.
So we're here.
What other surprises are gonna come?
Maybe you've already seen it?
I hope that Elon Musk
is here again tonight,
because I'm kind of fan-boying over him.
So here we go.
(high energy, heavy beat music)
Alright, we made it into the holding area.
They have a logo of the
Tesla semi-truck up there,
really loud music,
hopefully you can hear me,
lots of Tesla logos.
But one of my favorite things,
we are in southern California
at the same time they have
about 30 of these heaters.
Why do you need that in California?
Come on.
(techno music)
We are about 30 minutes away
from the beginning of this thing.
It's getting packed.
I'm gonna turn this around,
look at this like ...
All those people.
So we're at the very front.
If you look through
these hedges right here,
look what you see.
There it is.
Oh, move people.
Oh baby, there is is.
So that's where we're at, right now.
I just heard that Elon pulled
up, so he is in the building.
We have been waiting for
about 45 minutes here.
- Here we go, YouTubers.
It's getting close. It's getting close.
- Am I going to be on YouTube?
- Look at all the people.
I think so.
- All right.
♪ Let's go. ♪
(techno music)
(yelling)
(truck honking)
- That thing is actually super fast.
The horn, they might
want to work on the horn
and get a little bit manlier on the horn.
That's my only complaint.
- [Announcer] Tesla semi
can do 65 miles per hour
up a 5% grade.
(cheering)
♪ Never take away our story. ♪
♪ Our story. ♪
♪ We've come too far to waste our story. ♪
♪ Waste our story. ♪
(cheering)
- Alright, so, that's the Tesla semi.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
(cheering)
- There's Elon Musk right in
front of me like 20 feet away.
Elon Musk.
(yelling)
(rock music)
Yes.
Yes.
Hey
- Hey
- What! I just shook his hand.
We just shook Elon Musk's hand.
Not a bad day.
(cheering)
- [Audience Member] Elon. Thank you.
- [Audience Member 2] Good job.
(escalating tone)
- Somethings coming out of that truck.
Something else is coming right now.
That truck is lowering.
Something is happening right now.
Whoa!
(yelling)
What!
(cheering)
(yelling)
Oh my God!
(yelling)
(rock music)
(cheering)
(yelling)
Oh my gosh, that was so fast.
- [Audience Member] Oh my God. Ah.
(rock music)
(cheering)
- Holy smokes, that is so cool.
That is a really fast Roadster.
(cheering)
- It was the front edge
of a modern company.
It was because the Roadster.
People have asked us for a long time,
when are you going to make a new Roadster?
We are making it now.
- [Audience Member] Yeah!
(electronic music)
- [Audience Member] 620 miles!
- Holy moly, this is getting real.
- [Audience Member] It's amazing.
- 620 mile highway range. What!
(electronic music)
- Alright, we're gonna test it out.
This is the Roadster, first look.
(slow electronic music)
- Alright, I just checked it out.
It's kind of a mob scene.
I'll let everybody else go,
but that is pretty cool.
Wow, what a shocker.
The Roadster, 1.9 seconds zero to 60.
4.9 zero to 100.
Which, my Tesla Model
X does 4.7 zero to 60.
600 and something range,
I can't even remember.
That's a crazy range right there.
Holy smokes.
(techno music)
- Alright now we are heading
over to the after party.
That was pretty dang rad.
(techno music)
- Wow, okay, Ben, what's your
thoughts on this from tonight?
- Wow! That's it.
- That car, okay, that car, that Roadster,
he already gets on for
free, so when they come out,
he's already earned one for
referring so many people.
- I can't even.
- You better give me a ride,
the first week you got it.
I'm coming down.
- You're one of the
first people, absolutely.
- Yes, you heard it. I'm
documenting it right now.
- Yes.
- Ben invited me to come.
It's been a blast.
Elon Musk is incredible.
I shook his hand.
What else do I need from the video, right?
- You know
- Did you shake Elon's hand?
- No, I didn't.
No, I don't know what to say.
(techno music)
- So I am in line to go
on a ride in the Roadster.
There has been about 30 or 40 people
that have gone on a ride.
I am hoping it has enough
battery by the time I get to it.
It is my turn to go on a ride
in the brand new Roadster.
Okay, we are getting in.
Look at this thing.
I am touching it.
I touched it.
Look at this seat down there.
I'm going in.
- [Driver] Buckle up.
- Put your hand over
the back of the headrest
when he accelerates, make sure
you don't get any whiplash.
- Okay. I'll try not to.
- [Driver] That's good advice, actually.
My name's Amil.
- I'm Dan, nice to meet you.
- [Amil] Nice to meet you, Dan.
- You get to do this all day, huh?
- [Amil] All night long, yes sir.
- Dude, Amil is the man.
So Amil is the driver.
He's cruising in this thing.
Anything I should know that's cool
to look at as we are doing this?
- Yes, the screen will go
plaid because, keep in mind,
we've seen ludicrous mode,
we've experienced that.
We're now talking next level stuff, plaid.
- [Dan] Plaid.
- [Amil] The screen will go plaid.
- [Dan] What's the story with
this steering wheel? Wow.
- It's the yolk steering wheel.
A pretty cool thing, it
feels amazing in my hands.
It will take a little getting
used to for some folks,
but the beauty of it is that it forces
you to keep your hands at 9 and 3.
Just as we have been instructing drivers
for years at racing schools.
- [Dan] That makes sense.
- [Amil] It's really cool.
You'll notice you have a display
right in front of you, same as mine.
- [Dan] Zero to 70 in ...
- [Amil] We're going to do
zero to 70, but zero to 60
within that is going to
be less than two seconds.
- [Dan] Holy smokes.
Okay, my hand is against it, we got this.
Racetrack coming in front of us.
- [Amil] Three, two, one ...
- Whoa! Oh!
What?
(Dan laughs)
- [Amil] I'm here to tell
you that never gets old.
Never gets old.
- That was more than any
ride I have ever been on
in any place, any,
I don't know, Disney World, anything.
(whoa screamed in slow motion)
- [Amil] I think I saw 80 or 81.
- That was 80.
We went 80.
That felt crazy.
- [Amil] Did you see it go plaid?
- I saw it.
I saw it briefly.
I don't know if I was seeing
stars or seeing plaid.
(laughing)
- [Passenger] That was insane.
- [Dan] Are you an astronaut on the side?
- It's funny, I'm a racing driver,
but even the race cars I
drive, nothing accelerates
as fast as this, at least
nothing that I've driven.
So it's a pretty amazing thing.
- [Dan] How long have you been
driving this? Like when ...
- So they called me to do some
of the development driving
about two months ago, a month
and a half, two months ago.
So I have been doing some of the driving.
I think I was the second person.
Alan Clarke, the chief engineer,
I think, on the project
was one of the first to drive it.
And then I've been doing all of the
development driving since then.
- [Dan] That's amazing.
- Yeah, I couldn't believe
I got the call to do so.
I hope to continue to do it.
- This was incredible.
It was totally worth it.
- [Amil] I'm glad you enjoyed it.
- Incredible, incredible.
I've got to get me one of these.
Thank you.
- Take care, bro.
- How do you open this door, here?
- [Attendant] Secret button.
- [Dan] Okay, alright take care.
As a parting gift they gave us
these red sketches of the Roadster.
As a quick wrap up, shit that was amazing.
I thought that it was going
to be a semi truck event
and it was just going to be about a truck
and I am like, I've never
driven in a semi truck.
I don't know why I need to
go to a semi truck event.
The semi truck was actually super cool.
I mean, you think about the
amount of gasoline that is used
in the U.S.A. alone just
on trucks driving across
from state to state,
or even within cities.
I mean, this could save so much.
These trucks are going to be powered
by solar power, basically.
In 30 minutes you get a 300 mile charge.
That's ridiculous.
So anyway, thank you Tesla
for letting me come to this.
Thank you to Ben from Teslanomics
for inviting me to this.
Check them out in the
link in the description,
we'll put them down below
and you can check out
his channel and learn
all you can about Tesla.
Rode in the Roadster.
Shook Elon Musk's hand.
Let me know what your
thoughts are on the Roadster.
Is it worth paying
$250,000 for a Roadster?
After riding in it, I can
say, that's debatable.
- [Background Voice] No,
no, no, keep coming up.
- [Dan] 620 Miles!
