Living with a Tesla Model X: A Review

The Tesla Model X is an electric SUV that has been making waves in the automotive world. With its impressive performance, accessibility, and space, it's no wonder why many people are considering this car as an alternative to traditional gas-guzzlers like Range Rovers. However, there are also some potential drawbacks to owning a Tesla, such as the high upfront cost and limited range.

One of the things that struck me during my time with the Model X was its performance. I had the opportunity to drive it on various roads, including highways and rural routes, and I was impressed by its acceleration and handling. The car's electric motor produces 750 horsepower, which makes it one of the most powerful vehicles in its class. However, I did notice that the car can be a bit sluggish when accelerating from low speeds, which may be a drawback for some drivers.

The Model X also excels in terms of accessibility. Its massive doors, which can open up to 20 inches wide, make it easy for people with mobility issues to get in and out of the vehicle. The car's interior is also designed with families in mind, with plenty of space for passengers and cargo. I was particularly impressed by the boot space at the back of the car, which can accommodate a large amount of luggage or equipment.

However, there are some areas where the Model X falls short. For example, I found that the build quality and materials used in its construction could be improved. The car's interior, while comfortable, lacks some features that I've seen in other vehicles, such as lumbar support in the driver's seat. Additionally, the rearview mirror is not very effective at providing a clear view of what's behind the car.

Despite these drawbacks, I was impressed by the Tesla Model X's resale value. According to Chris or did the macaron film with recently, finance companies are struggling to determine how to calculate the residual value of electric vehicles like the Model X. However, it seems that Tesla is confident in its cars' durability, and offers a warranty of up to 8 years on the battery.

Speaking of the battery, I was interested to see how it would hold up over time. While Tesla claims that its batteries will last for up to 8 years without significant degradation, I noticed that the car's range seemed to be decreasing slightly as I drove more miles. However, this may not be a major concern for most drivers, who can simply charge their cars at home or visit a charging station whenever needed.

One of the things that really stood out to me during my time with the Model X was its low running costs. With electricity being significantly cheaper than gasoline, owning an electric vehicle like this car could be a cost-effective option in the long run. Additionally, there's no road tax, and the car's maintenance requirements are minimal compared to other vehicles.

However, there is one area where I think Tesla needs to improve: residual value. While the company has made efforts to calculate the value of its cars more accurately, it still seems that the Model X's resale value could be higher. According to Chris or did the macaron film with recently, finance companies are worried about how to determine the residual value of electric vehicles like the Model X, as the battery life is not yet fully understood.

Overall, my experience with the Tesla Model X has been overwhelmingly positive. While it may not be perfect, this car offers a unique combination of performance, accessibility, and space that makes it an attractive option for many drivers. As the automotive industry continues to shift towards electric vehicles, I think the Model X is going to play an increasingly important role in shaping our future on the road.

A Special Thank You to Emma

I want to extend a huge thank you to Emma, a Tesla representative who joined me on my review of the Model X. It was a pleasure to have her along for the ride, and I appreciate the opportunity to explore some of the car's features and capabilities with her guidance. As it turns out, Emma had previously reviewed the Model S with me over a year ago, so she became the perfect partner for this journey.

While my review may have been a bit unconventional in that I drove the Model X alone, without any cameras attached to the outside of the car, Emma's presence made all the difference. She was able to provide valuable insights and feedback on the car's features, and I appreciated her expertise as we explored some of the challenges of owning an electric vehicle.

I hope you've enjoyed this review of the Tesla Model X, and that it has provided a more nuanced understanding of what it's like to live with one of these cars. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reach out – I'm always happy to hear from readers. And if you're considering an electric vehicle for yourself, I encourage you to take the Model X for a spin and see how it compares to other options in its class.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to petrol ped so you join me at Tesla in West reiten London because today is gonna be a very very cool day because today I am gonna spend the whole day with a car I've waited to drive for a very very long time we can just see Ruby roads the parked up here no more internal combustion engine for me today because today I'm gonna be spending the day in the Tesla Model X let's get in go for a drive we're gonna try and work out just what it's like to live with a Tesla Model X this should be a good one so here we are behind the wheel of the Tesla Model X perfect silence as you'd imagine but the really weird thing about driving and evey that I still need to get my head round is you don't have to turn it on you just basically put it into drive with your foot on the brake and off we go that's it it's just so counterintuitive so so wrong in a way there's just not announcer noise it's brilliant for film in mind so you may well have seen my video from last year I got to drive a Tesla Model S from here last year he was probably one of the first videos I did that went really really big and ever since then I've been trying to get hold of the Model X and this is one of their press cars and they've been amazing to let me have it for the day and it's a really really in-demand car was just talking to Emma who arranged the car through and you know it's a really in demand car everybody wants to drive it there's still a big list of journalists that wanna get behind the wheel of a car so I'm very lucky to be able to have it for a day and the premise of the video is I want to try and spend a bit of time oh you'll never get you never get bored of that instant talk spend a little bit of time with the car take it on a drive and just kind of have a look at some of the really really cool features of this car and instantly the first thing you will notice whether if you've never driven a Tesla before and I don't know whether it's the same in other electric cars but I'm sure it probably is is the there's a very large proportion of the braking is done regenerative Li so as you accelerate away I mean we'll talk more about the performance and the throttle response to this car throughout the day I'm sure but as you brake you lift off the throttle and the retardation happens straightaway you get this regenerative braking so even before you put your foot on the brake you're slowing down quite a lot actually and just from the kind of regenerative braking and I think that's that's something that takes a little while to get used to the other thing that takes a little while to get used to it is so quiet so let's just have a bit of a chat about this specific spec of this car in terms of if you like what's not under the bonnet but what's under the floor so this is a Model X 100 deep and that what if you're not familiar with the naming conventions of Tesla the 100 basically refers to the capacity of the battery packs in this car hundred kilowatt hour and then the D stands for dual or all-wheel drive so I've got four-wheel drive in this car and the largest battery configuration that they've got they do do a smaller one and there's also you can get this in 8p 100 D with P standing for performance and it's when you've got the P that you have access to things like ludicrous mode so unfortunately this car doesn't have ludicrous mode but believe me it's fast enough so you just can't do a review of a Tesla Model X without talking about these Falcon wing doors but I just triple click on the button and they just open up they are truly a work of art and they give this exceptional access into the rear of the vehicle and also if I guess if you're putting the kids in or strapping somebody in you've got protection from the rain which also comes in very very useful but absolutely beautiful meant to close them you just quickly just click on a button there and that's them sure how cool is that this model eggs on a little bit of twisty road and it actually performs really really well it's clearly quite a big car and our heavy cards got a lot of kind of batteries but the interesting thing about the Model X and the Model S is effectively the floor of the car is batteries so there's a lot of weight but it's very low down which means this cars a very low center of gravity which is good for handling and the the throttle response is something that you just you just don't expect when you've not driven an electric car before the first thing you'll notice is the throttle response literally from any speed it's it's almost an instant voice Ana and it makes for really really interesting driving but yet from a handling point of view this car will surprise you on think I'm pretty sure now I think one of the really cool things about this car is just the accessibility into the rear of the car these Falcon wing doors just make it so easy to sit here and I've got loads and loads of legroom now this car has got the six seat configuration so you can get a bench seat here with three seats so that will give you two at the front three at the back that makes five or you could have six seats which is to either side here and two in the back or obviously a bench seat and two in the back which make seven but what I really like is if I just get in the back it's just so easy to move around and you can get in the back here and I've got loads of legroom I mean yes I'm a bit tied up here if I was a little person but I just stick my legs out the front gives me loads and loads of legroom and what a reasonable amount of head space I am touching the touching the top a little bit but it's still really really accessible the other thing this car has is for ISOFIX points so basically on all of these rear seats you've got ISOFIX points for kiddy seats so such a family oriented car and so if you've got your kids and you want the practicality of getting them in and out quickly and that's where this car comes up trumps I think so what I can also do if I just open up the the tailgate is when you look at this you think well that's not actually a huge sized boot but we have got the two seats in the back so there's just a little button just on the side there you just hit that and you push it forward and you've now got I do the same on this side you know got actually a fairly large size load area so if you had the five seat Berrien you wouldn't have these two seats in the back anyway so you'd have a really large boot space and one thing you can't get which i think would be a really really good idea is there's no way of having some kind of cargo net or or load a sort of break through there to stop stuff flying in there so you've got your you know your weekly shopping in the boot you have to brake hard and it all ends up in the floor well of the second row seats so some kind of safety net across there would be a really good idea and I believe you can't currently get one of those so tears designers if you're watching that was my idea call it the petrol pet food stop or something so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna put this full screen for a moment so we're basically going to go and do some charge so even though if I have a look on here I've got or probably a hundred and fifty five miles of range left and I'm actually gonna go and find a super charging station so we're parked just near Windsor Great Park place called Virginia water so if I just click on this button down the bottom here I can do a search for all my different super charges and the supercharger I'm going to go to is this one just here so it's basically going to calculate the route to the supercharger and how far have we got to go there so it's only 36 miles so there that's where we're going to go bit of motorway driving and go and get some supercharged so while we're driving to South Mims a couple of things about the inside of this car which are interesting and worth noting the first one is this front windscreen so this is the largest single piece of glass windscreen of any car in production today it stretches from above my head all the way down to the bonnet and it gives immense amounts of visibility it's got like a kind of graded sunscreen in it so you don't get too much glare which is good my only criticism of it is and it's actually not really to do with the windscreen it's to do with the rear view mirror the rear view is just top very big and it's quite difficult to position to get a decent view out the back the only downside I do in this route is I'm on the m25 and it is its normal carpark State and a couple of things worth noting though as I'm going along on the sat-nav obviously gives you things like ETA but it also gives you your estimated charge state when you get to the charging station so I've currently got 144 miles of range left and when I get to the charging station I'll have 37% of battery life which I think is quite useful the other things I've got is on my display in front of me I've basically got a rather than a miles per gallon fuel consumption I've got an energy consumption so in the past 30 miles I've been averaging 396 watts per mile and the interesting thing on a motorway is actually I'm not really using the brake very much at all it's sufficient in this kind of stop-start traffic just to lift off the throttle and let the regenerative braking stop the car it's that effective okay we have arrived at South MIM services so the next thing we got to do is find their Tesla supercharges traffic was pants don't know what gave me the bright idea to travel on the m25 but anyway I normally avoid it at all costs let's go and find the supercharger get this car some juice with a coffee Wow to know what my day is so bad I've even got traffic jam in the carpark so I'm basically gonna go the wrong way I don't care I found the superchargers they all tucked away in a corner found them right let's get popped up get some juice in this baby just a thing to note when you're searching for your supercharger things really really cool is you get a list of all the nearby ones on the left hand side but when you actually find one on a map if we just zoom into that one you can kind of see there's a number of little red bars that's how many of the stations currently have a car charging in them so if we go to the one where we are at the moment you can see there that there are no currently no cars parked which is correct because you can have a look round we are the only Tesla in the supercharged station so in order to do some charging if I just type controls down there and then charging up here and then I can do open the charge port and that's gonna basically pop the little port open on the back and we can start doing some charging so you got a little charge port just here by the rear light cluster so I guess it's time to do my first ever test for supercharged you plug this puppy in nice click green flash recharging now come back inside the car and you can see the supercharger is in place so we've currently got an hour and ten minutes to wait if we wanted a full charge so while the Model X has a bit of a supercharge you might just be able to make it out just over in the right-hand corner over there I thought I would stop for a bit of a Starbucks and just have a chat about the whole charging process so when I reviewed the Model S all the superchargers were free basically you could turn up charge your car up wouldn't cost you anything they've changed that policy now so that they're basically there is a charge but every Tesla owner has a thousand miles of super charging free every year and then after that they pay a small amount to recharge the car and the idea where that was to invest some money back into the infrastructure so but that's not the primary way most Tesla owners will charge their car everyone's gonna have basically a challenging station at home and you drive your car home at night plug it in and overnight in a process of maybe five hours or so your car will fully charge and you'll wake up with a car with over 300 miles of range if it's a hundred diga like the one I've got and and it cost you you know really small amount of money you're talking a small amount of pounds four or five pounds for a full charge so you've got home charging which is your most likely charging super charging and really that's there if you can do a long journey if you program a route into sat-nav and and it's further than the range of your car the sat-nav will automatically reroute you around a supercharger and you can get you know a pretty good charge in half an hour full charge in about an hour just enough time to get some Starbucks and then finally new since I last drove a Tesla is what's called destination charging point now of things are hotels and spas and and places where you would actually maybe go for a weekend to you go to a hotel that have a destination charge if you plug your car in a while you were there you could have a recharge a bill to drive home so that's the three different ways you're gonna charge your car okay so that's me all done so I think we just push on that it kicks how it comes put it back up there and we are now gonna be the fully recharged because I need to get back to the Tesla showroom but that's certainly enough juice just to give me a little bit more bit more range now even though this car is not fitted with a ludicrous mode it still has a ridiculous naught to 60 so it would be rude of me not to at least give it a go three two one go 60 still pretty rapid it's not gonna beat the Model S that I did that was 2.8 seconds but that's with the ludicrous mode so it's still a really really quick car I guess we do need to have a chat about the price of this vehicle however so this 100d variant is in the kind of region of around about a hundred and five two hundred and ten thousand pounds and it depends on which options you put on it if you went for the P 100 d with the performance pack and the ludicrous mode you could be nudging 150 thousand quid which is a huge amount of money and bangs this kind of electric SUV right up against things like Range Rovers and and that kind of level of car now this is no Range Rover and the interior is lovely but it's not a Range Rover but it does have some advantages you know the servicing is minimal there's no engine so you know apart from things like tires and brakes there's no real servicing running costs are going to be relatively low if you charge at home you know you can fill up a full tank of electricity per you know five quid you've got no road tax and those types of things at the moment anyway so you know the running costs are all there there's an interesting question about residual value and talking to Chris or did the macaron film with recently there's got a lot of the finance companies will struggle to kind of work out how to give you fine on to this because they're worried about residual value because the battery life on these although tesslar quote you know quite a long time sort of eight years or so at the end of that you still need to replace the batteries but looking at the tesla example finance thing in their showroom today you know the residual value after four years they're still sort of guarantee about fifty five thousand quid on one of these which is which is pretty good but that is actually only with ten thousand miles a year which maybe that isn't so good so there are a lot of money they will i'll guess they're they'll kind of appeal to a certain demographic they are brilliant if you've got a family the accessibility in the rear for this car is amazing and you've got the practicality of a big SUV but far far more accessibility than than any of the kind of 7c SUVs I've been in it really is super those flock on them doors are absolutely genius so what are my final impressions of this car well I wanted to approach this video slightly differently why I called it living with a Tesla Model X I wanted to do some miles in it I wanted to really see if having an electric vehicle is a viable proposition if you're gonna do miles and I kind of need to apologize why I haven't had lots of shots with cameras stuck on the outside of the car on saw because I've just been on the kind of roads where to be quite frank I don't wanna stick cameras on the outside of clothes they fall off so apologies for the lack of camera angles but it's certainly been a very very interesting day and I'm massively impressed by a great deal to do with this car I think the performance is great I would love to drive the performance version with a with a ludicrous mode I can imagine that's an absolute riot the accessibility and space inside this car quite frankly is like no other car I've been in it's certainly and Trump's its rivals if you put this SUV up against the likes of Range Rovers and discoveries and even things like xc90 there's loads of accessibility in the back load of space you've got a huge boot that back you for obviously a big boot at the front as well so so there's a lot of things to like things I don't like these cars get an awful lot of comments about their build quality and choice of materials that honestly sat in the driver's seat right now I honestly don't know where those comments come from and the the the quality and materials and I think it's excellent in here whether I could live with white leather seats I don't think I could I'm not a big fan of the driver's seat if I'm honest it could do with a bit more lumbar support I just haven't really managed to feel comfortable in it all day and I don't really like the lack of visibility from that rear view mirror that's my favorite mirror to kind of check what's behind me and I'm really struggling with that have been all day but apart from that you know there's not a great deal more to like about this car so I'm going to finish my video there I need to say a huge thank you to Emma a Tesla and West rating because she actually came with me when I did the Model S review over a year ago now it was a unaccompanied drive so - let me go out on my own in this car as a real privilege and I know there's a big queue of reviewers and journalists want to get access to this car so it's been a very special day and I kind of hope you've enjoyed the slightly different look at things and sort of really exploring some of the challenges around owning an electric vehicle so I hope you've enjoyed the video if you have done so give me a thumbs up comment below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrol pay for plenty more content to come maybe next time a little bit more petrol fueled but anyway you take care guys drive safehey guys and welcome to petrol ped so you join me at Tesla in West reiten London because today is gonna be a very very cool day because today I am gonna spend the whole day with a car I've waited to drive for a very very long time we can just see Ruby roads the parked up here no more internal combustion engine for me today because today I'm gonna be spending the day in the Tesla Model X let's get in go for a drive we're gonna try and work out just what it's like to live with a Tesla Model X this should be a good one so here we are behind the wheel of the Tesla Model X perfect silence as you'd imagine but the really weird thing about driving and evey that I still need to get my head round is you don't have to turn it on you just basically put it into drive with your foot on the brake and off we go that's it it's just so counterintuitive so so wrong in a way there's just not announcer noise it's brilliant for film in mind so you may well have seen my video from last year I got to drive a Tesla Model S from here last year he was probably one of the first videos I did that went really really big and ever since then I've been trying to get hold of the Model X and this is one of their press cars and they've been amazing to let me have it for the day and it's a really really in-demand car was just talking to Emma who arranged the car through and you know it's a really in demand car everybody wants to drive it there's still a big list of journalists that wanna get behind the wheel of a car so I'm very lucky to be able to have it for a day and the premise of the video is I want to try and spend a bit of time oh you'll never get you never get bored of that instant talk spend a little bit of time with the car take it on a drive and just kind of have a look at some of the really really cool features of this car and instantly the first thing you will notice whether if you've never driven a Tesla before and I don't know whether it's the same in other electric cars but I'm sure it probably is is the there's a very large proportion of the braking is done regenerative Li so as you accelerate away I mean we'll talk more about the performance and the throttle response to this car throughout the day I'm sure but as you brake you lift off the throttle and the retardation happens straightaway you get this regenerative braking so even before you put your foot on the brake you're slowing down quite a lot actually and just from the kind of regenerative braking and I think that's that's something that takes a little while to get used to the other thing that takes a little while to get used to it is so quiet so let's just have a bit of a chat about this specific spec of this car in terms of if you like what's not under the bonnet but what's under the floor so this is a Model X 100 deep and that what if you're not familiar with the naming conventions of Tesla the 100 basically refers to the capacity of the battery packs in this car hundred kilowatt hour and then the D stands for dual or all-wheel drive so I've got four-wheel drive in this car and the largest battery configuration that they've got they do do a smaller one and there's also you can get this in 8p 100 D with P standing for performance and it's when you've got the P that you have access to things like ludicrous mode so unfortunately this car doesn't have ludicrous mode but believe me it's fast enough so you just can't do a review of a Tesla Model X without talking about these Falcon wing doors but I just triple click on the button and they just open up they are truly a work of art and they give this exceptional access into the rear of the vehicle and also if I guess if you're putting the kids in or strapping somebody in you've got protection from the rain which also comes in very very useful but absolutely beautiful meant to close them you just quickly just click on a button there and that's them sure how cool is that this model eggs on a little bit of twisty road and it actually performs really really well it's clearly quite a big car and our heavy cards got a lot of kind of batteries but the interesting thing about the Model X and the Model S is effectively the floor of the car is batteries so there's a lot of weight but it's very low down which means this cars a very low center of gravity which is good for handling and the the throttle response is something that you just you just don't expect when you've not driven an electric car before the first thing you'll notice is the throttle response literally from any speed it's it's almost an instant voice Ana and it makes for really really interesting driving but yet from a handling point of view this car will surprise you on think I'm pretty sure now I think one of the really cool things about this car is just the accessibility into the rear of the car these Falcon wing doors just make it so easy to sit here and I've got loads and loads of legroom now this car has got the six seat configuration so you can get a bench seat here with three seats so that will give you two at the front three at the back that makes five or you could have six seats which is to either side here and two in the back or obviously a bench seat and two in the back which make seven but what I really like is if I just get in the back it's just so easy to move around and you can get in the back here and I've got loads of legroom I mean yes I'm a bit tied up here if I was a little person but I just stick my legs out the front gives me loads and loads of legroom and what a reasonable amount of head space I am touching the touching the top a little bit but it's still really really accessible the other thing this car has is for ISOFIX points so basically on all of these rear seats you've got ISOFIX points for kiddy seats so such a family oriented car and so if you've got your kids and you want the practicality of getting them in and out quickly and that's where this car comes up trumps I think so what I can also do if I just open up the the tailgate is when you look at this you think well that's not actually a huge sized boot but we have got the two seats in the back so there's just a little button just on the side there you just hit that and you push it forward and you've now got I do the same on this side you know got actually a fairly large size load area so if you had the five seat Berrien you wouldn't have these two seats in the back anyway so you'd have a really large boot space and one thing you can't get which i think would be a really really good idea is there's no way of having some kind of cargo net or or load a sort of break through there to stop stuff flying in there so you've got your you know your weekly shopping in the boot you have to brake hard and it all ends up in the floor well of the second row seats so some kind of safety net across there would be a really good idea and I believe you can't currently get one of those so tears designers if you're watching that was my idea call it the petrol pet food stop or something so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna put this full screen for a moment so we're basically going to go and do some charge so even though if I have a look on here I've got or probably a hundred and fifty five miles of range left and I'm actually gonna go and find a super charging station so we're parked just near Windsor Great Park place called Virginia water so if I just click on this button down the bottom here I can do a search for all my different super charges and the supercharger I'm going to go to is this one just here so it's basically going to calculate the route to the supercharger and how far have we got to go there so it's only 36 miles so there that's where we're going to go bit of motorway driving and go and get some supercharged so while we're driving to South Mims a couple of things about the inside of this car which are interesting and worth noting the first one is this front windscreen so this is the largest single piece of glass windscreen of any car in production today it stretches from above my head all the way down to the bonnet and it gives immense amounts of visibility it's got like a kind of graded sunscreen in it so you don't get too much glare which is good my only criticism of it is and it's actually not really to do with the windscreen it's to do with the rear view mirror the rear view is just top very big and it's quite difficult to position to get a decent view out the back the only downside I do in this route is I'm on the m25 and it is its normal carpark State and a couple of things worth noting though as I'm going along on the sat-nav obviously gives you things like ETA but it also gives you your estimated charge state when you get to the charging station so I've currently got 144 miles of range left and when I get to the charging station I'll have 37% of battery life which I think is quite useful the other things I've got is on my display in front of me I've basically got a rather than a miles per gallon fuel consumption I've got an energy consumption so in the past 30 miles I've been averaging 396 watts per mile and the interesting thing on a motorway is actually I'm not really using the brake very much at all it's sufficient in this kind of stop-start traffic just to lift off the throttle and let the regenerative braking stop the car it's that effective okay we have arrived at South MIM services so the next thing we got to do is find their Tesla supercharges traffic was pants don't know what gave me the bright idea to travel on the m25 but anyway I normally avoid it at all costs let's go and find the supercharger get this car some juice with a coffee Wow to know what my day is so bad I've even got traffic jam in the carpark so I'm basically gonna go the wrong way I don't care I found the superchargers they all tucked away in a corner found them right let's get popped up get some juice in this baby just a thing to note when you're searching for your supercharger things really really cool is you get a list of all the nearby ones on the left hand side but when you actually find one on a map if we just zoom into that one you can kind of see there's a number of little red bars that's how many of the stations currently have a car charging in them so if we go to the one where we are at the moment you can see there that there are no currently no cars parked which is correct because you can have a look round we are the only Tesla in the supercharged station so in order to do some charging if I just type controls down there and then charging up here and then I can do open the charge port and that's gonna basically pop the little port open on the back and we can start doing some charging so you got a little charge port just here by the rear light cluster so I guess it's time to do my first ever test for supercharged you plug this puppy in nice click green flash recharging now come back inside the car and you can see the supercharger is in place so we've currently got an hour and ten minutes to wait if we wanted a full charge so while the Model X has a bit of a supercharge you might just be able to make it out just over in the right-hand corner over there I thought I would stop for a bit of a Starbucks and just have a chat about the whole charging process so when I reviewed the Model S all the superchargers were free basically you could turn up charge your car up wouldn't cost you anything they've changed that policy now so that they're basically there is a charge but every Tesla owner has a thousand miles of super charging free every year and then after that they pay a small amount to recharge the car and the idea where that was to invest some money back into the infrastructure so but that's not the primary way most Tesla owners will charge their car everyone's gonna have basically a challenging station at home and you drive your car home at night plug it in and overnight in a process of maybe five hours or so your car will fully charge and you'll wake up with a car with over 300 miles of range if it's a hundred diga like the one I've got and and it cost you you know really small amount of money you're talking a small amount of pounds four or five pounds for a full charge so you've got home charging which is your most likely charging super charging and really that's there if you can do a long journey if you program a route into sat-nav and and it's further than the range of your car the sat-nav will automatically reroute you around a supercharger and you can get you know a pretty good charge in half an hour full charge in about an hour just enough time to get some Starbucks and then finally new since I last drove a Tesla is what's called destination charging point now of things are hotels and spas and and places where you would actually maybe go for a weekend to you go to a hotel that have a destination charge if you plug your car in a while you were there you could have a recharge a bill to drive home so that's the three different ways you're gonna charge your car okay so that's me all done so I think we just push on that it kicks how it comes put it back up there and we are now gonna be the fully recharged because I need to get back to the Tesla showroom but that's certainly enough juice just to give me a little bit more bit more range now even though this car is not fitted with a ludicrous mode it still has a ridiculous naught to 60 so it would be rude of me not to at least give it a go three two one go 60 still pretty rapid it's not gonna beat the Model S that I did that was 2.8 seconds but that's with the ludicrous mode so it's still a really really quick car I guess we do need to have a chat about the price of this vehicle however so this 100d variant is in the kind of region of around about a hundred and five two hundred and ten thousand pounds and it depends on which options you put on it if you went for the P 100 d with the performance pack and the ludicrous mode you could be nudging 150 thousand quid which is a huge amount of money and bangs this kind of electric SUV right up against things like Range Rovers and and that kind of level of car now this is no Range Rover and the interior is lovely but it's not a Range Rover but it does have some advantages you know the servicing is minimal there's no engine so you know apart from things like tires and brakes there's no real servicing running costs are going to be relatively low if you charge at home you know you can fill up a full tank of electricity per you know five quid you've got no road tax and those types of things at the moment anyway so you know the running costs are all there there's an interesting question about residual value and talking to Chris or did the macaron film with recently there's got a lot of the finance companies will struggle to kind of work out how to give you fine on to this because they're worried about residual value because the battery life on these although tesslar quote you know quite a long time sort of eight years or so at the end of that you still need to replace the batteries but looking at the tesla example finance thing in their showroom today you know the residual value after four years they're still sort of guarantee about fifty five thousand quid on one of these which is which is pretty good but that is actually only with ten thousand miles a year which maybe that isn't so good so there are a lot of money they will i'll guess they're they'll kind of appeal to a certain demographic they are brilliant if you've got a family the accessibility in the rear for this car is amazing and you've got the practicality of a big SUV but far far more accessibility than than any of the kind of 7c SUVs I've been in it really is super those flock on them doors are absolutely genius so what are my final impressions of this car well I wanted to approach this video slightly differently why I called it living with a Tesla Model X I wanted to do some miles in it I wanted to really see if having an electric vehicle is a viable proposition if you're gonna do miles and I kind of need to apologize why I haven't had lots of shots with cameras stuck on the outside of the car on saw because I've just been on the kind of roads where to be quite frank I don't wanna stick cameras on the outside of clothes they fall off so apologies for the lack of camera angles but it's certainly been a very very interesting day and I'm massively impressed by a great deal to do with this car I think the performance is great I would love to drive the performance version with a with a ludicrous mode I can imagine that's an absolute riot the accessibility and space inside this car quite frankly is like no other car I've been in it's certainly and Trump's its rivals if you put this SUV up against the likes of Range Rovers and discoveries and even things like xc90 there's loads of accessibility in the back load of space you've got a huge boot that back you for obviously a big boot at the front as well so so there's a lot of things to like things I don't like these cars get an awful lot of comments about their build quality and choice of materials that honestly sat in the driver's seat right now I honestly don't know where those comments come from and the the the quality and materials and I think it's excellent in here whether I could live with white leather seats I don't think I could I'm not a big fan of the driver's seat if I'm honest it could do with a bit more lumbar support I just haven't really managed to feel comfortable in it all day and I don't really like the lack of visibility from that rear view mirror that's my favorite mirror to kind of check what's behind me and I'm really struggling with that have been all day but apart from that you know there's not a great deal more to like about this car so I'm going to finish my video there I need to say a huge thank you to Emma a Tesla and West rating because she actually came with me when I did the Model S review over a year ago now it was a unaccompanied drive so - let me go out on my own in this car as a real privilege and I know there's a big queue of reviewers and journalists want to get access to this car so it's been a very special day and I kind of hope you've enjoyed the slightly different look at things and sort of really exploring some of the challenges around owning an electric vehicle so I hope you've enjoyed the video if you have done so give me a thumbs up comment below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrol pay for plenty more content to come maybe next time a little bit more petrol fueled but anyway you take care guys drive safe\n"