To give you a high-end Tesla Model Y, what is the first thing you want to do?
It stands to reason that Tesla Model Y, a "coupe SUV" that shows performance everywhere, should be pulled to some places where no one has no car and "rush" fiercely.
My first thought was to take my family out on a trip and show off in front of my family. They usually only brush the news about Tesla on the Internet, but they have never personally experienced Tesla and other brands of electric vehicles, and test driving in the store is nothing more than driving two laps, and there is no way to judge whether the car is good or not.
It is particularly worth mentioning that my father is an old driver with more than 30 years of driving experience, driving large trucks, and then driving fuel cars, insisting on refusing to change trams.
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During this time, after getting the five-day Tesla Model Y experience card, I decided to take my family out and experience this car in the long-distance travel scene to see if it could move the elders who insisted on optimistic about fuel vehicles.
What is the experience of a car? We should listen more to the voices of real car owners, especially ordinary users, and the "peak crowd" such as enthusiasts, technology circlers and car critics can only belong to a niche group among the hundreds of millions of car owners around the world.
Tesla's high technology left the old driver's father at a loss
More than 30 years of driving experience is like a blank piece of paper in front of new energy vehicles, especially Tesla.
When it comes to my father's driving experience, it's not legendary, but it's not ordinary either. In the early years, he did a lot of hard work, including driving trucks and running transportation. Over the years, he has developed a steady and safe driving habit, and every time I sit in his car, it gives me a sense of incomparable stability.
His father rarely changes cars, the most recent being the Highlander he bought many years ago, but he still maintains a high level of attention to the auto industry, occasionally watching videos online and learning about changes in the industry through some news and car reviews.
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Whenever he talked to me about the intelligence of cars, he always looked at it with disgust.
"Car companies can do everything in the car screen, you can't point it when driving, and an air conditioner has to be ordered for half a day." If everyone looks at the screen of the car machine when driving in the future, it is troublesome to adjust the functions, and even watch videos and play games while driving, can this safety be guaranteed? ”
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This may also be the biggest question that many old drivers of fuel vehicles have about trams. What "third space", "travel space" and "robot on wheels" concepts are too far away for them, their eyes of the car is still just a travel tool, so they pay more attention to safety, stability, reliability and comfort.
In order to make the car "look" smarter, new energy manufacturers have removed a lot of physical buttons and integrated functions into the screen of the car machine, the screen is getting bigger and bigger, more and more, and some cars even have the back of the seat stuffed into the screen. These seem a bit bells and whistles to traditional oil owners who don't like to try new things.
Similar to the change of "interactive screen", there are many, many more in new energy vehicles, and many fuel vehicle owners are at a loss. How to open the car door is the problem that my family and I first encountered Model Y...
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The first thing my father did when I got into Model Y was to ask me if I forgot to "turn off" when I got out of the car yesterday, and I took the time to explain to him that after parking, you only need to hang up the parking gear, lock the car and leave, which is similar to turning off the screen of the mobile phone.
"Isn't the car draining electricity all night?" I don't think it's a good habit. ”
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Yes, strictly speaking, Tesla Model Y only has a "shutdown" button similar to a mobile phone, in fact, all functions will stop working after leaving the car, but if you choose not to "shut down", it will indeed be "standby" like a mobile phone, consuming about 7% of the power overnight, which is enough for me to commute to work.
"What is the screen showing? Why does the screen still light up when the car is locked? "My father kept asking questions.
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In fact, this is Tesla's "sentinel mode" activated, simply put, video recording, I tell my father when he is not with the car, it will automatically record things around him. For example, if I'm unlucky enough to get a Model Y, I can use video playback to call the police accountable. If the car is charging, the screen will show the charging status. My father said that this situation is not encountered most of the time.
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Tesla's central control is so simple that it is difficult for his father to adapt to it, and after driving a car for so many years, it is the first time he has seen a car that is so difficult to get started. There are almost no physical buttons, and everything has to be solved through the large screen in the middle. Under my patient guidance, my father barely learned to use the car map. What's even more terrifying than the simple controls on the screen is that he lets him type with the full keyboard on the screen, which is simply hellish difficulty.
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This scene almost coincides with the scene of teaching elders to use smartphones...
Tesla's air conditioner is also very high-tech, and the wind direction adjustment relies on screen sliding interaction. The whole hand-to-hand teaching process, my father was very confused, almost "dry burned" his brain, not to mention that you can also use the steering wheel to play racing games when parking, and the scene of high-tech washes away the concept of this traditional old driver, and the previous operation experience is completely useless.
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I'm ready to drive. My father quickly figured out where the electric doors, brakes, and steering wheel were, and the experience of the old driver made him directly throw out the question: "Where is the hazard light switch?" ”
At first, I didn't know, until I read the manual, I found out that it was on my head... It can only be said that Tesla is one of the few models that needs to be carefully read and memorized to use the manual. Tesla has many innovations that are "different for the sake of being different", which indeed raises the threshold for users to learn, which is completely contrary to the product concept of "no product manual" advocated by Jobs.
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When everything was ready, I drove off in the Model Y. The father soon lost interest in operating the car, while the mother lay quietly in the back seat to sleep. This makes me have to think about a question: have new energy vehicles abandoned the group of traditional old drivers?
If it is a traditional fuel vehicle, an old driver like my father only needs to spend a small amount of time to adapt to the physical button layout to achieve blind operation and fast departure. But in front of Tesla, all this has been completely subverted, many physical buttons are gone, and the car screen of more than a dozen inches can be described as "dazzling" for them.
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Words like "can't use it" and "good trouble" have also flashed through my mind. Although I am a "quasi-tech enthusiast" who has played with many digital products, when I first got the Model Y, the car machine was not used at all. The only way is to set everything up before leaving the car, try to avoid using the car machine during driving, and worry about it, I believe that many people will have the first deep contact with Tesla when they go on the road alone.
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At that moment, I finally figured out one thing: the new power trams represented by Tesla are also fundamentally different from traditional trams, although they are all a car, although their energy comes from batteries.
Because it is a test drive, my mobile phone cannot be bound to Model Y, which makes the intelligent experience a little missing, and remote operation has become a pity. Maybe my parents will see me turn on the air conditioner remotely, and their views on smart cars will be a little different.
Charge or keep on? Electric car owners have range anxiety
Along the way, the most common question my father asked me was, "Is the battery enough?" Do I need to find a service area to stop and recharge? You can't see the dashboard, how do you know if you're speeding? ”
Battery life anxiety and ticket anxiety are common among drivers. That's part of the many questions I had when I experienced the Model Y. I myself am also a person with severe "battery life anxiety", and for every 1% drop in the phone's battery when I go out, my inner panic index will increase by 100%, and the same is true for driving electric vehicles.
Charge or keep on? It's inevitable to get tangled. The anxiety of dropping 1% of the battery every once in a while made me nervous, but it was a waste of travel time to make a detour to find a suitable charging station.
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After I got used to the Model Y's power-down speed, I had a general understanding of how long it ran on 1% power, and my anxiety was slightly relieved. Because my family still had battery life anxiety when I took the Model Y for the first time, I chose to "feed" the Model Y in the last service area before the highway exit, and the battery was still 47% away.
While resting in the service area, I asked my family how they felt about the Model Y. They gave a common answer: it was quiet in the car and it was more comfortable to sit on.
The Model Y can be defined as a "coupe SUV" in a way, and its rear space is probably about the same as that of a compact SUV, which is enough space for most people.
In addition to the fact that the car machine is really difficult to adapt, they recognized the most basic mechanical quality of Model Y, the road noise caused by high-speed driving is mostly filtered, chatting in the car is not loud, listening to songs does not need to be too loud. However, because my control of the electric door is still relatively unfamiliar, the feeling of sudden acceleration and then deceleration is not comfortable for the occupants, and they even have some "motion sickness".
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The server has Tesla's supercharger, first use my mobile phone to scan the code to unlock the parking lock, and stop in within 2 minutes, and then unplug the charging interface to connect to the car to charge. It looks very novel but the steps are actually very cumbersome, if I have to do each step alone, then I have to complain about other car owners in line. The sense of respectful service of professional service personnel in the past gas stations is gone.
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I'll admit, the time spent in the service area watching the Model Y charge was really hard. At about 60% charge, it still took more than an hour to fill, and my family's patience had worn out, so I had to continue to set off and find another opportunity to recharge when I got to my destination.
Of course, cheap is indeed cheap, casually charging a few degrees of electricity only costs 11 yuan, a refueling of three or five hundred yuan does not exist on electric vehicles, is this "time for money"?
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You can use on-board entertainment when charging in the service area! However, the elders in the family, there are no special dramas they want to chase, they are not too "cold" about the entertainment items on the car, and the video playback on the car machine is useless. And really want to entertain, mobile phones are still the most convenient screen, long and short videos can be watched, any posture can be, no need to stretch your neck to look at the car screen. In this way, on-board entertainment is a pseudo-demand for "occupants".
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To cure battery life anxiety, electric vehicle companies also have to "prescribe the right medicine"
After returning to the use case, I also have a more detailed understanding of "battery life anxiety".
When the operation of the electric vehicle is completely within their own expectations, we will not be anxious at all, which leads to a point: driving an electric car often requires more careful planning, such as driving distance, vehicle range, road conditions, charging location, etc. When everything is under the control of the user, new energy vehicles cannot have endurance anxiety.
Anxiety comes from uncertainty. On the one hand, when you temporarily have to go far away, the electric car just has no electricity, and the battery life is not enough, there will naturally be endurance anxiety; On the other hand, the nominal endurance of electric vehicles under specific working conditions has a certain gap with the actual working conditions, and different weather conditions will also affect the working state of the tram. After the mileage is further "discounted", in exchange for the owner's fear of "insufficient power".
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On the one hand, more charging/swapping stations "charge when you want", and faster fast charging technology can make charging easier; On the other hand, electric vehicle companies should make the range data more accurate.
If the coverage of the gas station falls back to the level of the charging station/exchange station at this stage, if the fuel quantity data of the fuel vehicle is not accurate, the fuel vehicle owner will naturally have anxiety.
On the highway to our destination, we pass through 3 service areas that provide areas for car charging. The problem is that charging is still time-consuming. Fill the Model Y, which has half of the remaining charge, and roughly calculate that it will be less than 2 hours. Change to a fuel vehicle, go directly to the gas station to stop, and you can go to the toilet with full fuel on the road.
Owners of planned cars may not need to charge on the highway. But I didn't plan well, so I had to stay in the car and wait for the charge in order to save the extra overtime residency fee, watching the time pass little by little. At that moment, I finally saw the existing pain of electric vehicles from the perspective of the older generation, and I also understood that the decision to buy a car should be made from its own conditions and scenarios, and cannot be blinded by "trams are cheaper", because: time costs are also costs.
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Car owners who insist on buying fuel vehicles are by no means fond of the smell of gasoline
Usually, the elders in the family do not take the initiative to experience electric vehicles, but after the two-day journey, the Model Y five-day experience card has brought a new understanding to me and my family.
When I got there, I talked with my family for a long time about the Tesla Model Y and the "smart car" it represented.
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Although they are old, although they have a less welcoming attitude towards electric vehicles, they do not have "discrimination" in their hearts. Tesla Model Y in their opinion, is indeed a good car, the shape lines are simple and elegant, not as unconventional and pompous as some cars; It has the elements necessary for a comfortable ride, such as quietness, smoothness, and stability.
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As a young driver, I would have a better opinion of the Model Y.
Looking back, the Tesla Model Y gave me a pretty good experience, a lazy intelligent experience that made me pay more attention to the steering wheel, electric doors and brakes. Dual motors with 450 horsepower, one foot down the electric door, made my heart beat faster instantly, and the tension was mixed with indescribable stimulation and happiness.
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Of course, only the driver's seat is happy, even in the comfort mode, the push back feeling brought by this "floor electricity" is still amazing. For me, I would prefer that the Model Y in front of me be replaced with a single motor, and other configurations will not change, because 99% of the use scenarios do not need such surging power.
Let me run a few laps on a professional track before it is worthy of the power configuration of the high-end Model Y.
Accustomed to electronic devices, I quickly adapted to Tesla's vehicle-machine interaction, the most difficult to adapt to is the electric door pedal with kinetic energy recovery, step on more acceleration too strong, put too much "deceleration feeling" obvious, the occupants will feel inexplicable dizziness in the car. If you want to control this electric beast, it will take more time to run-in.
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"The Tesla Model Y is not bad, but I still recommend you buy a fuel car."
My father believes that before the popularity of charging stations is comparable to gas stations, having your own charging pile is a prerequisite for a good electric vehicle experience. It's just that the hundreds of electric cars, including Tesla, in the garage downstairs of my house can't make up a single charging pile. Whatever the problem is, there is none.
Insisting on buying fuel vehicles must be based on personal preferences and actual use conditions, which has been discussed in detail in the article "Fuel Vehicles, Can't Die" by Tram Pass before. Electric vehicles are suitable for people who are easy to charge, have a sufficient budget, want to reduce the cost of using a car, and want to experience some fresh designs. But car owners may also continue to follow fuel vehicles for various reasons, which is definitely not the "smell of gasoline" that some car company bosses mess with can be generalized - he should really talk to fuel vehicle owners, although electric vehicles are very strong, but the current market stock is still fuel vehicles.