![]() That way, when you arrive at your destination, there’s still juice to make it to another charger on the return leg. If you’re able, it’s best to charge to full capacity even if you don’t need to. After plugging in, you can either hang around and follow the charging progress on a smartphone app, or just wait in the car – though fan noise during charging can get quite loud. When you do have to charge, though, the experience is painless. Throw in the ability to charge at home and at work, and unless you’re venturing very far, and into an area of lower charging coverage, range is hardly worth thinking about. While you can get chargers installed in your home, we were able to complete trips between Peterborough and London – along with local errands – by just using the Superchargers at Bishops Stortford on the way up or down. Just twist the stalk to pick the distance between you and the car ahead and sink into the Model X’s luxury interior. Once the system decides the road is suitable, Autopilot is engaged with two pulls of the dedicated stalk, and that’s pretty much it. Our Model X was fitted with Tesla Autopilot, and it remains one of the best driving assistance packages on the market today. Of course, Tesla’s ultimate ambition is that you won’t be driving in the traditional sense all the time anyway. It may be a family car, but it’s an area where Tesla will need to improve on to compete with the work of more experienced chassis engineers if it wants to appeal to drivers who actually enjoy driving. Changing it to a sportier mode certainly helps, but not much. Like its siblings, the Model X’s steering is more of a switch than a precise instrument. ![]() If its acceleration is too fast for you, putting the car in Chill mode will make the performance a little more laidback – and handily extend the battery range too. It just happens to be whisper-quiet and quick. The performance is fun on slip roads and genuinely useful on the motorway, but don’t think this is an Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio rival. Just like the saloon, the Model X offers a relatively firm ride and swift linear acceleration, but only really reminds you of its 2.3 tonnes when you brake or turn. Add a few options and even the least-expensive model is going to be close to £100,000.Imagine a Model S with more height and weight, and you’re pretty much there. Tesla’s strange strategy means the cost of a Model X fluctuates all of the time, but it’s never cheap. There is one downside to all this though, and that’s the price. Instead it is constantly receiving data over the airwaves, bringing you everything from more performance to a light and sound show at Christmas. Like all of the Tesla software updates, you won’t need to visit a dealer to get your car upgraded. You’ll have to wait for it to be allowed in this country though its expected within a few months. If you tick a box for the expensive full Self Drive function, it will also be able to park itself, navigate on and off motorways and bring itself to you in a car park with no driver. Having the heavy battery pack low down in the car makes it more stable than a ‘normal’ SUV, cameras and radar detect any possible threats and the structure around the passengers is immensely strong too.Īll of those sensors also give the Model X the ability to drive itself in certain situations, such as on motorways and A-roads. The Model X has been judged as one of the safest cars on the road, with a technology package which makes crashes less likely in the first place. If all that power in an SUV seems a little inadvisable, there is little need to worry. There’s a less-muscular, cheaper Longer Range version if that seems a little excessive, but even that has 560bhp – more than an AMG Mercedes GLE. ![]() The Model X’s twin motors produce 795bhp – that’s two and a half times as much as the most powerful Land Rover Discovery. If the mood takes you, the Performance version (with an amusingly-named Ludicrous mode) will leave Ferraris and Lamborghinis trailing in its wake – in a straight line at least. Unusually for an electric car, the Model X can be fitted with a tow bar, and while it’s not going to be able to wade across a swamp, it does have all-wheel-drive to help keep you moving on slippery road surfaces.īut perhaps the most impressive part of the Model X is the ferocious performance.
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