Hey boys and girls, I'm here with Franz and Lars and we're going to talk a little bit today about what's in back of us. This is the brand new Model Y with its brand new light bar and a bunch of styling cues that I'm sure that Franz is going to tell us about. And Franz, Lars, thank you so much for giving us this inside tour. I mean, I had no idea that the styling studio is in an airplane hangar. That's amazing. Welcome to the studio. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Kind of the birthplace of all the Tesla products. We've been here for a while. It is an old hangar. I think at 1.747 fuselage just came through here. It got painted. There was an old rail system that would go from one end to the other. We've kind of bisected it now, but it's twice the length when you see it. So it's got a pretty storied history here with some north Earth Earth products back in the day.
Now, I don't know if they actually built the flying wing in here, but that was at the airport and those doors. I don't know how they would have. They would have to put it this way instead of that way. But anyway, I love this kind of atmosphere. Yeah, it's a really unique building. It's a boat trust system, cable tension underneath the concrete. So there's literally no foundation. It just supports its own art. It's so cute. It survived. We made it home for a while. Well, I love it here. We got a chance to just look around a little bit. I like the balconies and stuff like that. This is the engineering up top. Yeah. And then design them. And then design them for a while. Wow. We started small, you know. Yeah, I do remember. Actually, I'm sure that Elon doesn't remember, but the Model S was actually designed really close to where we had our own facility in Troy.
And they came down for training. And Elon. The first engineers. Yeah. And so anyways, I was doing the training. And this wild man came in. Big tall guy running around and looking at everything we had. Airplanes and we had, what is this place? What does that mean? All this guy said, who is this guy? And he's the boss. But I never really equated this stuff until I bumped into one of those guys and said, remember when Elon came to your factory. So he doesn't know it. I'm sure he doesn't remember it. But that's where he found out about Reynolds, Reynolds aluminum. That was the Republic CB that we were tearing apart. And we said this stuff's magic. It welds and it stamps.
Yeah. Yeah, cool. So. Alright guys, I'm in Funchinowski here with Muno Delta Wheels. We'll get right back to your new Model Y video. But I have to show you these error covers here. So we've worked with Halo Black to manufacture these covers. They will fit on any Tesla, any wheel size, except for Cybertruck. And we've done extensive CFD and real world testing to optimize this for range. So some numbers. We increased efficiency by 8% on those Model 3 performance, which actually would increase the top speed for 163 miles an hour to 175. So if you're in Germany and you'd like to go faster, a little bit faster, maybe you'll take a look at these. Standard covers. This nets you about a 5% increase in range.
And to beat that, it's not just about covering the whole wheel, but there's a lot more tricks that go into their dynamics that meet the eye. So there's a chamfer around the perimeter that kind of extends the geometry of the tire, keeping the air flow laminar along the side of the vehicle. And actually on the rear, we've done some tricks to bring in some air into the wake of the vehicle, filling in that large low pressure bubble that drags behind the car, sucking your back. Additionally, these are about $2.99 for the covers as you see them. They come in black and white. But for just a little bit more, I think the price is going to be $360. We will actually print your own design onto these. And these are not stickers. This is a very high quality, full spectrum, high resolution UV print.
And you'll just upload a file, a PNG file, or whatever to the website. And we'll print this on there for you. So really, your imagination is the limit. You can really have whatever you want. Full color, super nice resolution. It doesn't come off. Really fancy stuff. And actually, a lot of my friends, they're like, hey, can I do this and that? You can do everything. Doesn't matter as long as you upload it. Additionally, since these covers extend over the entire wheel, we'll protect the wheel from curb rash. So especially on the performance versions, very low profile tires. It's pretty easy to scratch them up. And then there's not really a good way to fix aluminum wheels. These are sacrificial. So you can just scratch one, get a new one, no big deal. I'd rather scratch some plastic than a nice aluminum wheel such as you have.
If you have some existing curb rash, you can also cover it up. But I think with that, let's take it back to Sandy. Thank you, guys. So now, we're here looking at something brand spanking new. So I'd like to know more about it. Why don't we start with maybe telling us a little bit about what you've done to the styling? Because there's a lot of people that have described what they saw. Personally, I love this. You don't have to put a logo on this, baby. I mean, everybody knows it. Obviously, we did it, right?
Yeah, I think this was our chance to allow the Model Y to mature a little bit and separate itself from the Model 3. If you recall, we just did a facelift on the Model 3 last year. It created its own identity, got smaller eyes, a little more mature. It took some of the pay-be-fat out of the surfacing. And we had the chance to do something similar here where we could separate even further the Model Y from the Model 3. So when you see them on the road, you don't get confused anymore. There was a lot of carryover parts for the first go-around.
And this time we said, this car really deserves best-selling car. It deserves its own identity, right? We wanted to take some of the things that we've been exploring on our other products. You see on these, you know, the CyberCab and CyberTruck, you know, the light bar across the front. And we wanted to bring that signature to this product. And I think it works really well. One thing that's really unique is it actually looks like it's the headlights, but it's not.
So the light bar has the DRL in its super slim on the side, but really creates a down-the-road identity. The headlights are tucked in here basically where the old fog lights were on the outgoing model. And we just, you know, like I said, we took some of the baby fat out of it, crisped up the lines. You'll see that it's a little bit more bluff front-end. But we've also been able to improve the aerodynamic efficiency of it, both in the front and the rear, combining the slots on the side, et cetera. As you walk around, you'll notice, you know, the body side is fairly familiar.
Yeah, I really, I've seen them. I haven't driven one yet. But I heard I'm going to be getting a chance. We'll get you. I think there's somebody here that says I can get in. If only we knew who that was. But as you come to the back, you'll notice that it's pretty distinct in the rear as well. And we included, you know, what is arguably my favorite feature on the car is this one piece light bar. And it's really an industry first. It's a reflected light. So you don't actually see the light source.
And the light reflects onto this paddle here. No kidding. So your day running light gives you this really beautiful glow that kind of disperses out of here, you know, highlights the tesla badge. But it's not direct lighting. It's indirect lighting. Lars can turn it on. You'll see a side effect of it is. Yeah, that's what I like. And this kind of really beautiful glow. You can see it down on the radio and hear the red. And you kind of get this, like what I call the afterburner effect, you know.
You have this just really soft, you know, uninterrupted light source coming from the rear of the car. And then the brake lights and the indicators and everything are still in the kind of traditional shape that you might recognize on the road now. So yeah, it's really fresh. And then some other things we did, we just continued to look at, you know, what happens in service, what, how are these cars treated over their lifespan.
We worked on, you know, improving the whole bumper to liftgate relationships so that, you know, during impacts, those are separated now. And we have this, this bar lifts up with the liftgate and improved aerodynamics down this year. Yeah, why did you add another piece? Yeah, you know, that's how I make my living. But when you look at the liftgate, there's like, okay, we have this big giant light bar, but also we have this thermoplastic spoiler above it.
Like, why would we do that? Tesla's all about, you know, like lower number of parts. And really there were two reasons that we kind of did this. One was we wanted to increase the sharpness of the spoiler right on the edge. So the radius here is something that we just, you know, like have struggled with in aluminum. And I think it's a challenge in general on anybody that's trying to do something with this kind of undercut.
And when you look at it from the side, it's really deeply like that draw is really pretty deep if it was stamped. Yeah. Getting that sharpness did two things for us. One, it allowed us to get the characteristic line that Franz long, but two, it also helped us adjust the front rear lift balance because we're able to extend the arrow surface just a little bit. And so we actually, you know, reduce the vehicle's rear lift so that we can actually soften the rear damping and give you better ride comfort.
And when you add up like the intrinsic value of all those things, like okay, should I add a part? It's like, well, I can increase the range. I can make the car look better. And I can improve ride comfort. Then you got to do it. Extra part. Yeah. Well, I'm not. You know, we have it. We squared up the glass. And then that it did also add that like, which is kind of the rest. So, you know, the rounded glass now is gone and it's much more linear kind of read from behind the car. It looks very swoopy. I like, I like that.
Actually we walked by one thing I wanted to talk about. And I just spotted it when I was, and now it is, no, not yet. I'm, I'm, I'm more interested in this because this is usually one of the things that gives you all kinds of wind noise on our little road trip that we took. The, the biggest noise we had was these stupid things. And that's why I'm a big fan of how can we get rid of them? I would, I would love to see these kind of like vanish, but by putting something in here because of the car here.
And I just don't understand. Well, it's hard to, I mean, you think about it. You got a lot of old guys in Washington. They, you know, they probably there's 80 guys that, that do nothing. Right. But look at me. Tell you. And that's how you get. Well with the adoption of, you know, full self-driving and autonomy, the car doesn't need the mirrors now drive, right? If this is just a human function and when the car is doing the bulk of the driving, these are irrelevant. They're actually just getting in the way.
Well, exactly. And, and quite frankly, I, so I have, I have a, a cyber truck. I don't very much. If I looked in the rear view mirror three times since I owned it, why would I do that? I got it on the middle of my screen. Okay. So he says, oh yeah. Well, what happens if the lens gets dirty? Done. Now what? Yeah. So the first thing here is totally frosted up and blah, blah. So as far as I'm concerned, this is the way to go. And that's a relic from the stone ages, but it's a relic that we have to have currently with the regulations as they're written.
And so we work really hard to try to optimize them the best they can be. So you have, you know, the best viewing surface, but then also the most aerodynamic in kind of effect. And you'll notice the ridge here is added on actually deal with the noisy. We're talking about Sandy. Really? So yeah, so like a lot of the, when the air comes over the, the, the mirror nominally, it comes up here and you get this kind of recirculation that comes back here.
Yeah. And then you have the air coming here and so they fight each other and then get the buffeting off the windshield or off the side glass. But when we do this, we're actually able to keep a lot of the air down below here so that we don't get as much air mass coming over the top. It gives us a lot less of that interaction. And so the buffeting sound that you were complaining about is actually much, much better.
Well, one thing that I found out in talking to people who've already got on it, a model Y is that this is super duper quiet compared to the three, the, and you know, Y and, and actually the S as well. So, well, sorry, my wife's got an S. She likes it. It's nice and quiet, but it ain't like the two of them I drive. I mean, when you drive a cyber truck, it's like every product for inexpensive, getting better and better.
Well, that's the way the next one will do better than this. Yeah. But yeah, this one is, I think that's when you drive it, that'll be one of the things that instantly you recognize. It's like, yeah, wow, we do it the old-fashioned way. You know, like when you just throw a bunch of sound deadening in the car, that's like easy in too many parts.
So for me, it's like you start at the source, go to the tire and make sure the tire is like, you know, vibrational transmission is much, much lower. Its rolling plushness is, is, is better. And it's, it's, you know, acoustic radiated noise is lower as well. We do that through tread pattern optimization with our suppliers. So you make the tire better, then you stiffen the body, right?
We do that locally where we need it, where we know we had weak points before. So we actually have about six, seven percent more torsional stiffness on this car, but some of the upper arm and lower arm attachment points that were problem points for us for NVH, we actually increase the low, the local point mobility up as much as 40% in some areas, a couple areas up as much as 80%.
And that's just like through, you know, small changes to the body structure. Either we've replaced brackets with different brackets or in the case of the casting that we have on the front upper arm, we've changed like sort of the thickness and the ribbing just to improve the stiffness. And when you have this different body and the like more compliant softer, like I shouldn't say softer, but more isolating tire, then you can let the suspension work more.
And so that's a big bonus, but we didn't just stop there. We also changed the front and rear suspension kinematics completely. Because of what I told you about the rear lift balance, we're able to reduce the anti-lift at the rear. And we actually have more mechanical compliance when we hit a bump. We'll go more back and up with the rear suspension, which means it's fighting less of the impact as it goes through the stroke.
And then on the front suspension, we actually slowed down the steering ratio a little bit, increased our reduced our sensitivity to Ackerman through the turning angle so that you have more linear progressive feel from the suspension. But also we then have less, we have more disturbance rejection and less like issues when we hit little inputs just from the suspension.
So you couple all of that like better tire, stiffer body suspension that works more for ride and compliance. And then we added on top of that frequency selective damping, which is basically two valves in the damper, one for high frequency, one for low frequency. It's got a little mass on it. Bypass valve opens when you're in high frequency. So you get more flow.
So a lot of changes for the suspension. Well, one change actually is part of suspension, but is steering. Any reason why you didn't go with. Steer by wire? Steer by wire. I mean, like, you know, this is a fully redundant steering system. Obviously you drive a cyber truck. This is our first venture in the steer by wire. This car is obviously steer by wire. It doesn't have a wheel.
Yeah. I mean, to be honest, like, and I hate to say this, but we make 35,000 these a week and we have capacity. There's a lot of supply chain to change over and we just had to sort of pick and choose. We will get all our cars to steer by wires. We get rid of the steering wheels, of course, but you know, it is a process. We're going through as we go vehicle by vehicle as drawn side, each one getting better. Each one will get, you know, will replace more and more.
So I just got a download and the latency number dropped by 50%. I mean, are you going to, I don't know how you do that shit. But anyways, are you going to, is this one got, is it still, like, have you gone to, what do you call it, what is the word I'm trying to search for? I see ultra wide band. No, the shit. I love it when I have a brain fart and it goes on this long.
Either, either net. Oh, either. Yeah, moving it away from. So, yeah, so this is, like the control basis of this vehicle is still pretty much canned and like our, the same structure that was in the vehicle before, but in a few specific areas we started to implement private cans, which are running on ether loop. So the most part is canned, but like where we need the latency improvements, we're starting to add private connections on this.
Again, it's sort of like a building up of the, of the basis and supply chain. With Cybertruck, we had an opportunity with low volume new stuff to try and get in there and change everything. And this one, we got to kind of like iterate at a piece by piece and just chip it away.
Okay, so let's can all this chicken shit stuff. Can we pop the, can we pop the frunk here, the lid? Yeah. Because there's one thing that you've done that, I mean, it just eliminates everything, ah, here it is right here folks. This now, if I can get the dent, if I only had fingernails that worked, here we go. Look at that folks, I'm drained.
So now when you put your beverages in here, it'll just the water leaks out. Now people think, well, I don't know what an idiot, but you know, at the end of the day, it's the little things that really make me happy. And you know, Ford had theirs, you've got yours now, I'm so delighted. I'm glad. Congratulations. That is the engineering to be.
Yeah, that's right. I have two beers. Yeah. So anyways, yeah, I, I like the major things. I also like the little things too, but we haven't gone inside yet. Yeah, inside is all new. Completely new. It's completely new. It's like a real start over for Model Y and you know, it starts with like.
好的,没错。我喝了两杯啤酒。是的,总之,我喜欢大的东西,也喜欢小的东西,但我们还没进去过。里面是全新的,完全是新的。这对 Model Y 来说就像一个全新的开始,你知道,从头开始。
Please tell me you didn't change the seat configuration because you have without a question of a doubt, I don't know if you're aware of it, but I took, you know, we tore apart a bunch of these cars and, and I took one of the seats out of the, I think it was a Model Y and I bolted some wheels on it. And that is my chair. That is what I, because these things here, I have a back problem from when I was a.
An idiot kid working on a farm and it, and this, if I, if I come like fly and what on my back hurts, I go and sit in my chair, which is actually your chair and suddenly, I don't have a back problem anymore. It's like magic. So hopefully you kept the geometry of the, the, the key points on here and, and yeah, there's only a slight like styling change on the, on the, well, I see it's a little bit different, but the seat foam is essentially the same. So yeah, there's, there's little to zero working for us.
Yeah. We'll notice that the interior is an improvement on both the material story and just the, the layout of the, the space with, you know, we have ambient lighting now running around. It's a million colors. Take your pick. Nice center console now. And you know, with storage hidden storage. And just a, just a nice kind of cleanup. And yes. Wow. I brought back a stock. Um, okay. So you kept this. Some people say like it disappeared on some cars, but well, I disappeared on mine.
Yeah. You still remember why our big total sense. Right. Yeah. But have a seat. Yeah. Tell me what you think. Yeah. Thank you. Well, first off, I think it's made for somebody a lot shorter than I am. And I'm kind of sure. I thought we were over there. Perfect. Ah, so already I can tell you that the lumbars in a perfect spot. I'm, I'm happy. This is a, again, this is a, this is. The inside of this car to me is just perfectly ergonomic for me.
Um, and most of the people that I know of that drive these things, this is the part they like the best sitting in the driver's seat. And right now I can tell you with, I'm not, I don't want to use the word bullshit. So I can't think anything else, but really and truly, um, I can feel my back feeling better already. I don't know what you did, but I know that, um, I know that this is inject. Do I? What? Those are in the corner. So I'm shot.
Wow. So I don't even feel it. So this is a little different as well. Um, yeah, we got soft ampers on all those. Yeah. We were in the East. Yeah, touch. So I like these better anyway, because if I have to put a spring in it, it's just a spring that's going to go bad. Yeah, it's a lot, a lot less parts cheaper as well. Or we have less gaps to deal with. Yeah.
I like, I like it a lot. I mean, I've liked it since day one. And you know, I made a lot of noise about different things when, when you, when I got the first one, but at the end of the day, the, um, everything here is so easy to get used to that. Yeah, we just take that recipe from the first car and just improve it, take the feedback.
Um, I think, you know, improving the materials, improving the cleaning up the design, getting it a little more modern, complimenting the exterior work that we did. So yeah, I'm really pleased with, uh, I, I, you should be everything's, everything's just cool as anything. I really, I really like the interior. And I like that too. That's a little feature for the launch edition. Yeah.
Yeah. In the second row, we got some cool new stuff too. Oh, really? Uh, yeah. We carried over the screen from, uh, model three update from last year, but also we added power recline. You see the buttons, you can go in and check them out. They're right in the same spot that you were, uh, you know, adjusting the seat up in the front, but we tried to, you know, as it's a family SUV, one of the second row seats have a little bit better experience.
Yeah. You can look and learn. Go there. Oh, then go forward. So we get about, you know, 78 degrees of recline that you can really sit at. And they, of course, they fold all the way flat. So theoretically you could go more, but gives us a second row occupant, like just a better, you know, riding experience because they get that little bit extra comfort.
Actually, um, one of the other things that I've heard, but didn't see it, as you have, uh, auto magic here with the, um, Yeah, that's kind of a cool feature. Oh, here we are right here. So, uh, maybe we want to take this out. Yeah. How do we do that? Oh, excellent. And it goes in. Now it's designed to start right down here.
What a good idea that is too, because most people put it in a garage and never look at them again. Yeah. Yeah. I love this. Um, and you'll notice the front seats moving out of the way too for the headrest. So I did not notice that, but I do know. I pushed it back so you could see that. Oh, and there we go with the, uh, the other seat.
Yeah. One of the big things we did with this was, well, you know, which really, like, I had a challenge to the engineers. I said, look, if I'm going to fold down my seats and need to get some cargo on the back, you're only going to get this feature. And if you can get it to fold down by the time I get out of the door, if I press the button from the front seat, I want to come back here, open it up and they got to be down.
So they actually sped up the motor. It's about, you know, five, six seconds faster than anyone else on the market in order to make that, you know, just that feeling. It's a transition. Much better. So, um, another subtle little thing, which you can actually see from here is where we relocated the second row seat belts. Oh, yeah. To the seat pillar. Where is the second row seat belt? You see it's in the seat pillar there. And that's because when you fold these seats up, you know, previously it was back kind of almost in the D pillar. Yeah. And when that came back, it would get stuck behind the seat and get tangled. Now we put it in the seat pillar so it doesn't get tangled.
I have kids that complain to me about this all the time when they're getting it. Likewise. And so we're like, you know, the best customer is, you know, your own family. So we try to make that improved. All the most honest. Yeah, at least most honest. You'll never, you can't get away with anything with your, your kids. Yeah. So that's a big improvement there for the second row, I think overall. You notice this little light here in Sandy before you give me crap about having too many tail lights. This is also a federally regulated. I know it's you can't have too many tail lights because when the window is up, when the tail heads up like this, you got to still have the tail lights available for anyway.
Well, at the end of the day, I think it, I think you did a brilliant job. Yeah. And like I said, everybody that I know that's got one of these things is, is saying, you know, there's lots of storage and we're looking in here. We got lots of things going on. I don't want to break anything. And this is plenty deep. I mean, you could pack an extra couple of kids in here really. Yeah. My favorite one is actually this one. Yeah. This is the one I was looking. I like this a little bit of extra. A lot of times people put their charging cables up there. Yeah. Things you don't need to, maybe your entire repair kit.
Things you don't need every day. Yeah. Things that are important. I mean, talk to a woman and, and I like that place to put my purse so nobody can see it. And this is the ideal spot. Working to drop it in there. Yeah. And I like the fact that you kept these two. I love these. They did rub these on both sides. So let's put your stuff back in there. There we go. So yeah, it all looks very nice. So let me ask you a couple of questions about other stuff. My first reaction when I saw this was I'd really like to know what's going on at this end of the car.
Someone has told me that you've abandoned ship on castings and gone to sheet metal. Is that correct? Yeah. Well, I mean, three or four of our factories were already doing the front end in sheet metal. Yeah. Only Texas and then for a little while, Berlin built the full structural battery pack with the castings front and rear. And we, when we went to this vehicle, we went back to one like common body across the globe because we wanted to make sure that we had good interchangeability between each of our factories, we're running supply chain issues.
And so this has a modified version of what was in the old model wise with the front end. And the rear end is still cast and we actually redid the whole rear casting. It's about seven kilos lighter now. It's got about half the machining on it. And we continue to just to improve it there. So you told me the last time that when I was looking at the cyber truck, you said that you have a new CFD calculations.
Yeah. Or let me scrub this CFD. You still have additional fluid dynamics. But I know, but I try not to use acronyms. So you've got fluid dynamic program that helped you redesign the casting on the cyber truck with, looked like, little rivers. Yeah. And it became lighter and more toxic. I mean, we're using that now here too, but it's crazy for me. I was just looking at the numbers with 19. But original one piece casting from 2020 when we came out with this was like 67 kilos.
And now we're down just below 60. And it's crazy to think that we took out almost 15% of the mass and we increased the stiffness and we increased the point mobility locally. And I mean, the other thing that's impressive is our cycle time went from like 180, 170 seconds. We're down about 75 seconds now. So we do that through conformal cooling. Yeah, right. Yeah. So I've been talking to a bunch of dye makers and why not.
And especially the guy said, co-stand. And I mean, I'm totally blown away by what can happen when you use their kind of, their kind of process, the puzzle mold and why not. And I was a, I knew. You were a dine maker for always that one. And then I just got tired of working. So I became an engineer. But at the end of the day, listening to him talk about how much more they can shoot using that. I'm just wondering, is that also because of the cooling?
Yeah. I mean, like, you know, we really had to upgrade on many of our DCMs, like, sorry, our die cast machines. Yeah, yeah. The thermoconets that control the cooling, like when we first started, we had like four channels, you know, on the huge, and we would have like six or eight of them lined up to get enough cooling channels to get into the big die. And now we have thermal controllers that can have one for the entire die. And it's allows us to control, you know, within the fractions of a second, how much water is going where to cool what part of the die? And that means we can flow the material quicker through the die, not necessarily like, you know, still 10 milliseconds, 12 milliseconds shot, but we can cool it quicker as it gets in there. So, the working theory classification time really getting the whole thing to cool at once is what helps us with the dimensional stability, and you know, keeping it.
Giving you out of the mold faster. Yeah. The worst thing you can do is let that, you know, like the center of the core, that where the biscuit is just be hot and pull away heat shrink the whole thing in. Yeah. So like that kind of, you know, puzzle piece, puzzle block molding technology you're talking about. Like, that's really important for that. Because then you get high wear surfaces when you have all that cool, right? Yeah. You take out the puzzle piece, put a new one in, right for maintenance, and that we have actually now in order to do all this, we have a die shop in Texas, make our own inserts and like do our own maintenance and all that kind of stuff. At the end of the day, it's not rocket science once you've got, if they make the mold, pulling out a section and putting it on the other one's like not that big a deal.
So I'm like I've heard three to one, I've actually heard from some of the other people who bought those things as high as like four, almost four, four to one. So that just blows my mind. Because we were at like 180, yeah we're like about three to one. Three to one, right. Your numbers are almost like public domain. Yeah, I know, but you're just like stop watching on the show. Yeah, well there's people that take pictures and or sit with a pocket watch in your pocket. The factory on the tour, whatever. Yeah, but you're still at like something like 43, 45 seconds cycle time, right? Well for the for the whole car. For the whole car, yeah, we're just below 43. Like as the final line runs a little faster than the back end of the line because we don't want to get bottleneck. Yeah, about 43 seconds. Shanghai, you know, they're running two lines for Model Y now and they run 13k 140 hours. They got to be below like closer to 35 seconds.
35 seconds is amazing quick. You know, yeah, two lines coming out. So it's like one every other. Anyway, that's cool. So so the front casting is kind of like not there. Not today. We'll get in there. So what else could I like to say? I don't want to crawl underneath. What else are we looking at here that's been changed? One of the coolest things you guys will probably tear apart is the brake system. So the brake system and the actuation system, we went to like a hydraulic by wire system. Yeah. So we still have the hydraulic brakes through all the corners, but the actuation is all done with an electric motor at the booster side. So so the brake pedal is connected to like a, you know, sensor that dictates travel and that travel pushes into the motor.
Now there is a hydraulic backup because, you know, go stop steer, like go, you know, if you lose that, it's not so bad steering at least you can stop, stop. We wanted to be ultra cautious on this first effort and just make sure you keep it so you can push through, you know, the, the, the motor with a hydraulic bypass. But what that allows us to do is two things that are really cool. One is that means we get really consistent brake pedal feel. So we can put as much region on the A pedal as you want. And then if, you know, it's cold or if you're driving in low region, because you're just learning how to drive an EV, we can put all that region on the B pedal and get the same deceleration. So we get all the energy back that gave us, you know, half a percent, quarter percent, more efficiency, which is important as we're getting down to the, you know, like the fractions of a watt hour per mile and measurements of efficiency.
And the other thing is because we aren't relying on the hydraulic systems, you know, stiffness to get you brake pedal feel because we're using it, you know, it's sort of, I don't want to say the word, but decoupled from that system with, with the electric motor at the booster, we're able to actually pull the pads back, you know, a little further than we might nominally do. So we get less friction. Yeah. And then we can, because our actuation is, you know, now through the motor, we can quickly get them back up and you still get the bite really, really fast. But that, the way that reacts to you as a driver at the pedal is completely controlled by us though, in the mechanical state and has nothing to do with hydraulics.
So we get lower friction at the wheels, faster reaction time and a really consistent brake pedal with more recuperative energy. And that's pretty awesome because that's, I think the first time anyone's done something that level, people will say Rivean has a decoupled system. It's not exactly true. And we did it with, in four, you know, we talked about supply base, but we had to do it in four different factories with two different suppliers and get it all done in two years. And now that means this hydraulic system is fully ready to be, you know, by wire from future.
Yeah. Yeah. I want to really like, like it's, you know, you're not going to see it by looking at the car. It's something that's just underneath. Yeah. At the end of the day, the only way we get a chance to see what's underneath is buy one and tear it to pieces. And that gets expensive after a while. Yeah. We also updated, you pump a little bit, you'll find some, you know, fun new stuff in there. Um, yeah, but we increase the, the refrigerant cooling system. So the LCCR, so to add a little bit more cooling capacity.
And then depending on what model you get and when, you might find some interesting stuff within the, uh, the heat exchange unit itself, the super manifold. So super manifold. Yeah. Little upgrade. We call it super man of old V2. It's coming in factory by factory kind of rolling implementation. It's not in every car when we start, but it'll be there in a year or so. Wow. It's on our list. Um, they're not that easy. Well, actually, um, that may change a little bit here with, or you got protesters and stuff like that.
That'll take at least a month before these gangs all die down and they find something else to occupy their mind. But, uh, but it is on our tear down list. I want to, I want to see what other things you've come up with. Yeah. So, um, we're looking at, um, a bump in a road here, a little bit, um, with, um, with, um, um, electric buyers and stuff like that. Um, and the, um, elimination of maybe a whole bunch of, um, tax breaks or something like that. Sure.
What are your predictions on how this is going to affect Tesla? Well, I mean, for me, I think Franz and I, like we, we just try and make the best car we possibly can at the best value we can. Yeah. Um, you know, I think a lot of people when they look at buying a car, they want to buy a car that's, you know, suits their needs. It's comfortable. It's, you know, it's efficient. Yeah. It's fast. It's fun to drive.
But we try to give you all of that so that, you know, when you're out in the market trying to buy a car, you're buying your not just because it's electric, just because it's the best car that you can buy. And I think when you look at the incentives and things that various, you know, countries have really put in, we can focus on the U S and say, okay, we had it a few years ago. They took it away. They gave it back during the Biden administration.
It's all well and good. But we've been through that in other countries before. Yeah. And we just continue to grow our market share. And I think one of the things that honestly, I'm surprised you didn't mention, it's also also striving to make the safest cars on the road. And these are the safest cars on the road. Yeah, exactly. And these are the safe cars. And, you know, when if you're thinking about buying the first car for your kid or, you know, getting your kids into your transporting your kids around as a parent, you want them, you want to be in the safest possible vessel you can.
And you know, Lars and the team, they do an amazing job on. It's not like, it's not part of an EV thing. It's just like trying to make all the engineering solutions become the safest cars out there. Well, somebody. And they are. And I mean, you've got examples, a guy drives off the edge of a cliff, goes down, who knows how many feet, crashes upside down and everybody gets up.
Oh, that was exciting. So you can design a car to power, you know, be safe with all the, you know, the regulatory tests that you have to do. But those supersede that, right? Where the engineering supersedes just checking the box to pass the specific test. You know, the roof crush strength on these cars is through the roof. Yeah. Whatever.
But I mean, you know, I just had one yesterday, you know, that we got a, you know, X testimonial is truck full of oranges, fell over on a model three, like the, you know, the HVAC compressor, you know, for the refrigerant, like fell through the backseat. And, you know, the trailer fell through the front. And the first responders got there, cut the guy out and just walked away. Yeah. It's like that kind of stuff. When you read that, you feel good inside and you're like, okay, we did the right thing. But yeah, it's super safe product here.
But we also, you know, we did a couple of other things in safety. You're talking about kids who've had parental controls inside the car. So if you do have a kid, like when I got a car, I always tell the story. Like, I got my parents let me get the slowest car. You know, they only could go like five miles per hour. Yeah. Now you can set it to do that, right?
Yeah. So, okay. So first off, let me thank Lars and Franz for the wonderful interview that they just gave us. They also given us a car to tool around in a little bit. So we're going to take it out, spin it around a little bit. This is the worst California weather I've ever had. I've never been in L.A. for like this. So anyway, we're going to go out and drive around and stay tuned. Let's see what happens when we take it out on the road.
All right. So Sandy, first impressions. Uber quiet. It feels, I love the seat. So it feels really comfortable as far as I'm concerned. Let me pop this up. This is the way I normally would drive except I don't need to know what's going on in front of me. I usually want to see what's going on in back. These are really clear. This is a great view. So it's unusual for me to see, like I almost never look out the side mirrors and it's, I also have a rear view mirror which I don't really have on the, on the cyber truck.
So this is quite good actually. Okay. So there's more steering wheel here than what I'd have on the cyber truck as well because it's a, it's conventional steering. It's not like a steer by wire. But the big thing is it's quiet. It is super duper quiet. This is, I think this is almost as good as almost as good as the cyber truck which I think is the quietest vehicle on the planet. I mean just, I mean you can.
How does it handle? It handles just like, just like the SUSE Model S or the Model 3 at work. But it's different than, it's different than the cyber truck. The cyber truck is totally different, different kind of a feel. The big thing is, holy mackerel is this quiet. They were talking about how they've changed the suspension and stiffened it up and what not. And this is really obvious how much of a difference there is.
它开起来怎么样?它的驾驶感觉就像,嗯,就像SUSE Model S或者我工作的Model 3。但它和Cybertruck不一样,Cybertruck的感觉完全不同,是另一种体验。最大的不同是,这车真的太安静了。他们以前提到过调整了悬架,并且加强了它的硬度等等。这些变化现在真的很明显。
So I'm going to let this guy go first and now let's launch now. Okay, this is not as fast as SUSE, not as fast as the cyber truck. It's a little tamer but still sporty enough for 99% of the people on the planet. So what do you think there, Eric? I think it's very quiet. Yeah, see, if I was like that, I'd already be at that guy's headlights with the cyber truck. This is, this is final. You don't have to have a rocket ship every time.
So, yeah, it feels smooth. It is smooth. This is handling extraordinary. It, like I said, all Teslas, BMW and Tesla, they have the same feel. And it feels wonderful. It feels like a sports car. And that's where, okay, I see a guy with a big sign. That's probably a school here. Yeah, I'm not launching anywhere around here. How's the visibility in this for you?
Visibility is fabulous. I mean, this is much better visibility than what I would get with the cyber truck. SUSE car is very, like the Model S has got a lot of visibility. Very, well, as good as this for sure. Cyber truck is a little different because of those two A-pillars that kind of get in a way of things somewhat.
Hey boys and girls, thanks for watching. And Lars and Franz, thank you so much. For giving us the opportunity to drive your car. And I will probably be trying to talk my wife into maybe one of these. So at the end of the day, folks, this was great. I really appreciate the chance to have a look at this and the van and the Model 2, I call it the Model 2, the cyber taxi.
Anyway, stay tuned for more of Monroe Live and hopefully it won't be raining next to our snowing or whatever the hell it is. Anyway, so long. Thanks so much for watching. Bye now.