Tesla Model 3 Guide: What to Know Before Buying!

So this is my ultimate beginner's

guide

on how to buy and own a Tesla Model 3. Actually, we're going to use mine real quick and I'll tell you everything you need to

know

. When you finish this video, you will

know

exactly which

model

it is. 3 is about whether it's a good option for you, how to go through the ordering process, and

what

options to choose at any point in this video. You can use the timestamped links in the description below to jump to a certain section and if you do, If you decide to order a

model

3, you can get 6 months of free super charging if you use my referral link also listed on description below or you can click the I icon at the top right of this video at any time. leave my full video of the model 3 if you haven't seen it yet.

I recommend watching it because it will help you a lot. Now we're going for a ride, so let me give you a quick overview: The Tesla Model 3 is an all-electric vehicle. which means you will never have to buy gas again, which is really good. It is currently the most affordable Tesla vehicle available. It is one of the best-selling premium mid-size sedans in the US. It is made of aluminum and steel and earned five stars in all safety categories and had the lowest probability of injury of any car ever tested by the NHTSA, making it one of the safest cars ever produced.

It has many unique design elements, including an all-glass roof. 15-inch central touchscreen that controls just about everything and a stylish exterior that focuses on maximizing aerodynamics, so I've had my Model 3 for over six months and it's still the best car I've ever driven, so let's park and I'll open the web browser on the touch screen here on the Model 3. I'll walk you through the design process and show you

what

options you want to consider when ordering your own Model 3. If the Model 3 piques your interest in any way and you're thinking In ordering one, everything is done online, so I will

guide

you through the entire design process.

For example, we will use my referral link so that when you visit my referral link it will show a box that says free supercharge. Annie's referral code gives you 6 months of free supercharging and then you go ahead and click design now. If you already have a mother of 3 reservation, you can go and click on that, but do a little layout now and design it from scratch so you can explain all the options available for your Model 3. There are currently 3 configurations available for a Model 3 Now Tesla is constantly changing and adjusting their prices and options, so be sure to check their website for the most up-to-date information.

I'll leave the link in the description below, of course, you can use my or for a link if you want, it will take you directly to this page and show you the most up to date information or whatever they are offering for the model three, for what right now there is rear drive, mid range battery that starts at $46,000 and has a range of 260 miles from zero to sixty five point six seconds, that's their lowest level right now, the mid level is the battery long range with all-wheel drive and dual motor, so it starts at $53,000 with 310 miles of range, that's 50 miles more range than the mid-range battery and it's a little quicker from 0 to 60 0.4 .5 seconds and then you have the high performance dual motor all-wheel drive which is the fastest of all three models, the same long range battery as the normal dual motor, but you get a little bit faster, actually quite a bit faster, 0-60 and 3.3 seconds which is very quick and starts at $64,000 so as you can see you'll have to have at least a budget of around $50,000 if you want I'm considering a Model 3 right now and all of these prices are before tax incentives, which I will go over and explain the federal tax credit in the next section, so this option is the most important choice you will make for your Model 3. because it determines what type of motor and battery you have, so in my opinion I would choose if I had to buy it all again, I would choose the mid level, long range battery, normal all-wheel drive with dual motor without performance because I think 300 miles of range is one of the biggest advantages of the Model 3.

I think having 300 miles of range is really beneficial for anyone transitioning to an electric vehicle because you want the longest range possible, as you've probably heard. I've heard before that range is king when it comes to fully electric vehicles so 300 miles of range is very important to me especially if you go on road trips and drive commuting quite frequently now if you want the cheapest if you have a On a budget and want the cheapest, you'll obviously have to go for the mid-range in the future sometime in 2019. It hasn't been announced yet. The base $35,000 Model 3 with a standard 220-mile range battery will launch sometime in 2019, but that hasn't been done.

It hasn't been confirmed or released yet, no one knows when it will be out, so right now your cheapest option is the mid-range battery with rear drive and a 260 mile range of course if you want the top of the line if you need it. speed and you want the fastest, you should go with the dual motor performance and now not only does it give you the madness of 0 to 60, you also get that long range battery, but it also has some other features that come included. With that, because it starts at 64 thousand dollars, which is quite high, so when it comes to paint, black is included on all three models right now, if you want any other color besides black, you will have to pay at least $1500.

Depending on what color you want, I have the red one and it's now $2500 which is a steep price increase. I really wish Tesla wouldn't charge so much for their paint. Any other color besides black will cost you a little more. Pay for the single motor wheels and the normal dual motor with no performance. You have a choice: it comes with 18-inch arrow wheels included, which I own and highly recommend, or you can pay an extra $1,500 and get 19-inch sport wheels. In reality, you get more and better. range with the standard 18 inch Aero wheels, that's why I stayed in line as some people don't like the look of them but I like the look of the Aero wheels in red which is what I have and Plus, you get that extra boost, a slight boost. range efficiency with Aero wheels but some people just like the way sport wheels look, 19 inch sport wheels it's up to you $1500 I always recommend saving $1500 and getting extra range plus , you can remove those aero wheels and then reveal that a nice Look at the rim underneath Now, if you get the dual high performance motor, it automatically comes with 20 inch high performance wheels, so you don't have a choice.

All three models right now come with the black premium interior included and it has all of these features: Premium heating. Seats Center console Storage with dock for two smartphones Get the tinted glass roof Auto-dimming and folding mirrors LED fog lights Premium connectivity for one year includes all that good stuff if for some reason you don't want black and want white , extra $1000, so those are your two options for the interior and the last option you have is to choose whether you want to buy the upgraded autopilot right now or not, so if you buy it right now when ordering, it's $5,000 or you can buy it. after delivery and in my opinion it cost you $7,000, a Tesla owner has an upgraded autopilot, it's a must, it costs $5,000, it's a lot of money, but if you're

buying

a Tesla, I think it's definitely worth it .

I use it almost every time I drive and it's from Tesla if you don't, if you're not familiar with Enhanced Autopilot, it's Tesla's Level 2 partial self-driving feature, so it's a partial automation for your vehicle, so it will keep you in the lanes and keep distance between you. and the car in front of you, depending on the speed you set it to, will brake and accelerate for you. You can even, according to me, if you turn on the turn signal it will change lanes for you on a highway and helps you drive a lot. When you're driving on the highway, it comes in handy, it's very convenient.

I love autopilot, so I recommend you budget $5,000 for that because I think you can try to do a free trial after ordering if you don't ask for it. You can take a free trial later after delivery, but you will pay $2,000 or more if you decide to get it after delivery, so we highly recommend that you get the enhanced autopilot when you order and then in the end, here is where you can leave your $2,500 Payment and then the rest is due when you get your loan or when you go and take delivery and you can see here you get six months of free strip loading with my referral code if you use it and once you make your order, that's when you start the waiting game on your estimated delivery date, it gives you an estimated delivery date, but it totally depends on your location and the type of car you set up.

Now let's talk about the federal tax credit disclaimer. I am not a tax professional, so don't take this as legal tax advice, always consult a tax professional, but I will try to explain the federal tax credit the way I understand it, so that the federal tax credit is basically as a discount on how much you owe in federal income taxes. for the year you receive your car, so for a Tesla, if you owe at least seventy five hundred dollars in federal income taxes in 2018 and you receive your model three before 2019, then you will be eligible for that full federal tax of $ 7,500. credit and that's only if you get your car before 2019 and you owe at least that seventy five hundred dollars in federal income taxes if you owe less than seventy five hundred dollars let's say you owe five thousand dollars in federal income taxes then just get what you owe so if you owe five thousand dollars you're only going to get a five thousand dollar tax credit and that's only if you take delivery in 2018 if you take delivery in the first half of 2019 that federal tax credit you get cut it in half to bring it down to 3750, which is still very good, that's almost four thousand dollars, so if you owe at least thirty-seven fifty and federal income tax, then you and you will receive delivery in the that in the first half of 2010 they will receive a federal tax credit and basically thirty seven hundred and fifty dollars will be deducted from their federal income taxes owed for 2019 and if they take delivery in the second half of 2019, the federal tax credit is reduced halved again, so it's 1875, which is still almost two thousand dollars, which is bad.

The bottom line is that the sooner you order your model three, the more likely you are to save the most money when it comes to getting that tech tax credit, so if you owe $7,500 in federal income taxes, do everything you can to get your model three before 2019 and you can even arrange to pick up your model three at the Fremont factory and Tesla says that if you do, it's usually less than four weeks from the time you order your model three, just do fix it and Pick It Up Yourself, you still have to pay that $1,200 destination fee that's required for all Tesla orders, even if you pick it up at the Fremont factory, but it will guarantee you that $7,500 tax credit if you get it before 2019 Now if you want to get it.

You can receive that 3750 tax credit in the first half of 2019 and still receive it as long as you owe that amount in federal income taxes, so you will get that imitation 3750 if you really want to order the model 3, try to do that. as soon as possible to ensure that you'll get that $7,500 tax credit or this 3750 if you're okay with getting it in the first half of 2019, so let's say you ordered your model three and it's now getting ready for delivery, so these are the things to consider when preparing for delivery, so your Tesla representative or testing contact will contact you and the scheduled delivery day for you.

In the meantime, check your Tesla account, just make sure you pay attention to when that VIN. The number appears and make sure you apply for your loan as soon as possible so that it is ready when you go to take delivery of your car, so that when you make the transition from a gas car to a fully electric car, it is a lifestyle change. and the most important thing from the beginning is to make sure you have a place to charge your car because you will be charging it almost every night. The best situation is to have a garage where you can install an outlet or charging station for your car and if you don't have a garage it is still possible to charge and install a charging point but it is optimal to have a garage so your options in your garage or anywhere you install theoutlet for your Tesla you go to. to have a couple of options, the most popular and cheapest option to get the best bang for your buck, I guess you could say it's a NEMA 1450 outlet and that will charge your model 3, give you 30 miles of range per hour of load and that is It will be enough for most people that is what I have and the installation cost will vary depending on your location so contact your local electrician and tell him you want to get a quote for NEMA 1450 installation in your garage and the Tesla in its model. 3 comes with everything you need, the mobile connector to plug it into that outlet and that will be the cheapest option compared to getting a Tesla wall connector which is your other option, it is now possible to charge your Tesla Model 3. in a normal 110 outlet, but it's not feasible, it only gives you one or two, maybe three miles of range per hour of charging, which is not feasible at all for normal daily charging, you'll want a NEMA 1450 like the one we just mentioned or the Tesla Wall Connector which is the more expensive option but charges your Model 3 a little faster and gives you about 42 miles of range per hour of charging with that Tesla wall connector, the wall connector itself is five hundred dollars plus the amount for an electrician to install it, so now that you have a place to charge your car, check with your electric company to see if there are special rates for electric vehicle owners, sometimes they will give you special rebates or sometimes , they will give you certain rate plans that you can change. offers you a lower electricity rate, making it cheaper to charge your car at night and during off-peak hours, so check with your electric company that the next thing you should do is have your car delivered to the nearest Tesla service and once you receive delivery you will go there you will be guided through the delivery specialist will guide you through the basics of your car you will obtain your access card they will guide you through the download the Tesla app, which controls many functions of the car and when you are there, make sure you carry a checklist with you to check the most important parts of your car before taking delivery and accepting the car, make sure there is nothing. wrong with your car I'll leave you a link to a Tesla checklist, a model 3 checklist that you can print out and take with you on delivery day, so once you get in your car and drive it out of the parking lot, That's when the fun begins.

Soak it up, it's one of the best fills of your life up to that point, probably, so let's talk about driving and charging the Model 3 so we know you can charge the Model 3 at home, but what about when you're on a road trip? That's one of the biggest advantages of owning a Tesla is that you have access to the nationwide network of Tesla Superchargers and those Superchargers will charge your car extremely fast so you can get about 170 miles of range in about 30 minutes of charging with a Supercharger. and there are over 10,000 superchargers around the world and you can travel pretty much anywhere in the US.

I think I will travel the major highways just charging with Tesla superchargers only, so that is a big advantage of having a Tesla because when You have an all-electric vehicle in the car, you need to have ways to charge it quickly when you're on the road and that's where superchargers come in. Now you can also use apps like plug share and charge point to find public EV charging stations where you can charge your test lab. It won't be as fast as a Tesla Supercharger, however you can still do it. It's great to not only have access to superchargers but also any public EV charging point and charging will generally be much cheaper than

buying

petrol.

It will be a fraction of the cost of gasoline, even a super charge, so charging at home will be your least expensive option, so that is the best way to save as much money as charging at home as much as possible, but even when You are on a road trip and you have to super charge and pay for the super charge. Hopefully you'll get that free six months of super charging if you use my referral code, but electric vehicles will save you a lot when it comes to fuel economy now. Driving the Model 3 is extremely fun and super relaxing.

I'm in stop-and-go traffic right now and when you see the direction icon appear on the screen, which means enhanced autopilot is available, you can enable it, so double-tapping down on the right stick will enable autopilot, it says : Always keep your hands on the steering wheel, so what I do is I just put my hand here on the bottom of the wooden steering wheel and it recognizes that my hand is here and I'm not. I move the steering wheel and I'm not accelerating, this is all done by autopilot, so the autopilot will maintain distance from the car in front of me, accelerate to whatever speed I set and then also ease off the brakes. when necessary when the car you know slows down in front of me and it will also stay within the lanes and you can see on the screen here that it recognizes all the cars around me and it recognizes the lanes because the car has cameras around it sensors car and ultrasonics and a radar, so everything that is used and Hansel in a pilot is constantly improving, which and we will talk about software updates in the next section, but yes, driving the Model 3 is a lot of fun to drive.

I look for any excuse to drive it, it's relaxing, you have a clear and stunning view from the windshield because there's no instrument cluster, it's just a minimalist dashboard and a lot of people think the interior is cheap, but I think it's made with simplicity. in mind and sometimes less is more and I really love driving the model 3. You will learn how to use the scroll wheels. The scroll wheels are very easy, I mean one is linked to the autopilot of the speed at which you can scroll up. and down to control the speed, the other scroll wheels are dedicated to music playback.

Now one of the biggest changes you need to adapt to when going to a Tesla Model 3 or an all-electric vehicle is the way braking works. in a fully electric vehicle, when you let go of the ball, you let off the accelerator, the brakes actually come on and it's called regenerative braking and that actually puts a little bit of energy back into the battery to improve your performance. range now when driving at highway speeds, so at 70 miles per hour or more you won't get the estimated range, you'll use more range than what's estimated here on the screen, so this shows you how much mileage I have.

I left my battery in, but if I'm going 70 miles per hour or more, I'll use more battery faster and you can see how much power you've used since the last charge and since the last time you started the car. and it will tell you that you know your average energy use and of course with any electric vehicle the instant torque is what makes it so fast and the model three of course is one of the best performing electric cars of all e even the slowest. The model 3 is still very fast just because that instant torque, as you can see, Tesla focuses a lot on software, probably the best software in any car right now and they heavily base their cars on software alone.

Your car receives free software updates for the life of the car. The car has a built-in LTE connection, so premium connectivity only comes at an additional cost, it costs $99 a year, but that only applies to streaming music from your car. car, even if you choose not to get that premium connectivity your car will always have the LTE Connection and always download software updates as they become available and you will always have navigation on board and your maps will always use the LTE signal for that since I have my car , I have received many updates and my car has received many new features that it did not have when I first bought the car, for example, I am now on autopilot and navigating on autopilot is one of the most important new features of the new version 9 of the software, now the touch screen takes some time.

To get used to it, since almost everything is controlled on the touch screen, you have these menu icons down here, even the climate control is controlled through the touch screen. Now the good news is that the touch screen is super responsive, so it's like having an iPad, a new iPad. I mean, it's very responsive and doesn't lag like you would think of a normal car touch screen with lag and slowness. This is really fast and we expect it to stay fast over time. Now that we know Tesla is constantly improving the software these are some of the things that were recently added we have an energy tab now we can look and see what our average energy usage is over the last five miles 15 miles or 30 miles you can see your charge and you know when was the last time you supercharged you can set your limit It is better to set your limit to 80% when charging daily for your daily driving, only charge 100% when you need to go on a long road trip and in fact you can also Schedule your charging so you know exactly when to start. charging if you have that rate plan set for your electricity at home so you can take advantage of that lower rate if you have that option and with the premium connectivity it includes that radio streaming and streaming music and podcasts that you know with the voice commands that you can tell it Play a certain artist or song and it will play the voice commands.

You also know that you can use it for direction purposes and you can also say drive to a certain location or drive to this address and the trip navigation will appear. What I'm really going to talk about now. I'm going to navigate, you can type any address, it will show step by step instructions here on the screen and on the map you can visually see where you are and where you need to go. In turn, this is one of the best features of the Model 3, this big screen with the navigation map, so I recommend that you check all the settings because everything is here, everything is here, everything you can customize like here if you have multiple drivers in your home right here, you can have different drivers and you can choose and switch between each one and if you can set your seat to the steering wheel position, everything is custom configured so you can easily switch between driving profiles. driver that This is great and of course you can see everything about your model 3 here on the screen.

You have access to the manual even on the screen itself, so if you need to look up something in the manual, you have that access here on the screen. and then you have your fun little Easter eggs driving in the Mars taxi with all those things that Santa drives kids love it has a built-in Wi-Fi connection so you can connect to your own home Wi-Fi network it has connectivity Bluetooth to Stream music from your phone and there really is no key for the model 3. Your phone is actually your main key because it uses Bluetooth, it will automatically unlock when you get closer to the car and lock the car when you walk away from the car. and you can use the smartphone app to control many of your car's functions, as well as from anywhere you are, because cars are constantly connected to the internet and you can't really turn it off, the car stays on all the time, so that when it comes in, it's already on and you're ready to go, which is something you're going to have to get used to if you're coming from a gas car, the software is the street, it's dynamic, you know, if you get a car that has knobs and physical dials, they are static, they don't change, however, it is dynamic, it will constantly improve, it can constantly change and improve over time and that is the beauty of owning a Tesla, so let's talk about the maintenance and care that goes into it.

It's going to be a very short section because maintenance isn't really that necessary on an electric vehicle compared to a gas vehicle, so the only maintenance that's really done on a regular basis is rotating the tires and checking more windshield wiper fluid every couple of minutes. years. More or less you are going to have the battery coolant checked. I think it's in the manual, but really, the month to month stuff is just checking to make sure your tires are okay. You know there is no gasoline engine, there is no oil. gears no belts no transmission there's nothing like that so maintenance is very easy for the most part and it comes with your standard vehicle warranty and it also comes with a battery warranty so hopefully you won't have to do it.

I've been worrying about that for a while. I did a whole separate video on the top accessories that I recommend to all Model 3 owners and a lot of them have to deal with keeping the car clean and just taking care of it, so check that out. It would probably be betterfor you to watch the full video separately. Too easy. Also, when you have a Model 3, I like to keep it clean and take care of it. It's really fun. In conclusion, the Model 3 is all electric and you can't even compare it. to a similarly priced gas vehicle, I'd still choose the model 3 any day of the week, it's all electric which is awesome, you get all these software features, you get this comfortable new minimalist futuristic design, it's fun to talk to the people who notice it and people are always amazed by the model 3 itself and they always ask me questions about it and everyone is really impressed and I myself feel much better and enjoy it a lot.

Stop Driving Again I used to hate driving and the Model 3 made driving fun again, so that's my summary of the Model 3. Again, if you want that free six months of Super Charging when you order your Model 3, I will leave you my reference link. In the description below, I think in advance if you use it, so thank you for traveling with me. I hope you enjoy your model 3 when you get one and I'll talk to you next time, bye.