Connexion Premium Tesla : faut-il payer 9,99 €/mois ? — Transcript

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1. 0:00€ 9.99 per month for Tesla Premium
2. 0:03Connectivity. Is it worth it? Do you
3. 0:06use all the features? Well, before
4. 0:10paying, let's see if it's worthwhile
5. 0:11and, more importantly, what functions
6. 0:13remain accessible without this
7. 0:15subscription. Hi everyone, welcome to
8. 0:17the Alexandre Tesla channel. Today,
9. 0:20we're going to talk about Tesla Premium
10. 0:22Connectivity. Do you really have to pay
11. 0:23for it? Since it's billed at € 9.99
12. 0:26per month. So we're going to see if
13. 0:28it's actually worth it. Starting with
14. 0:31the price, € 9.99 a month, let's
15. 0:33round it to € 10, that's € 119.88
16. 0:36for 12 monthly payments. So, € 120 a
17. 0:39year, that's the cost of this Tesla
18. 0:41Premium Connectivity. Some will say
19. 0:43it's not expensive, that you don't even
20. 0:45notice it, others will say it's still a
21. 0:47significant budget. I'm somewhere in
22. 0:49between. On one hand, I think it's not
23. 0:51much, but on the other, € 120 a year
24. 0:52pays for a mobile phone plan, for
25. 0:54example. So, we need to see if it's
26. 0:56relevant or not. But before we move on,
27. 0:59I just wanted to quickly thank you for
28. 1:00the growing number of people on this
29. 1:02YouTube channel. I also want to thank
30. 1:05everyone who used my referral link to
31. 1:07order their Tesla. A really big thank
32. 1:10you to you; it supports the channel and
33. 1:12encourages me to make more and more
34. 1:13videos. So I hope we reach 2,000
35. 1:15subscribers quickly; that would be
36. 1:17great. In any case, that's what we can
37. 1:19hope for in the coming month, the month
38. 1:21of November. It would be really great.
39. 1:24So, let's get back to Tesla Premium
40. 1:26Connectivity. First, what's included as
41. 1:29standard: without Premium Connectivity,
42. 1:32you have navigation and routing that
43. 1:35takes traffic into account, the trip
44. 1:37planner, and Supercharger availability.
45. 1:42Those are the basic GPS and driving
46. 1:44features, so to speak. Grok, on the
47. 1:47other hand. First thing, the Grok
48. 1:50assistant is currently in beta, only
49. 1:53for those who have the Ryzen processor,
50. 1:56meaning the latest Teslas at a minimum.
51. 2:01I actually made a video about Grok that
52. 2:03came out a few days ago. I invite you
53. 2:05to go watch it because we're doing a
54. 2:06similar exercise there. We're looking
55. 2:07at whether it's worth getting a paid
56. 2:09Grok subscription, a "Super Grok," in
57. 2:11your Tesla. In any case, whether you
58. 2:15are on a Tesla Premium Connectivity
59. 2:17plan or on Wi-Fi, meaning if you share
60. 2:20your phone's connection, you can have
61. 2:23access to Grok. You should know, and
62. 2:27you'll see in this video, that premium
63. 2:29connectivity allows you to have
64. 2:31internet all the time in your vehicle
65. 2:33with extra features. Even if some might
66. 2:36say to me, "Yes, but without premium
67. 2:37features, the Tesla is still connected
68. 2:39to the internet." That is the case. OK.
69. 2:42That is the case, it's just that you
70. 2:44will be—the browser is blocked,
71. 2:47Netflix for example, YouTube, etc., are
72. 2:50blocked. Basically, it's just a Wi-Fi
73. 2:53connection that is only used to launch
74. 2:54the GPS or play the radio, for example.
75. 2:57But overall, to get the most features,
76. 3:00you need to get premium connectivity,
77. 3:02though you will still have quite a few
78. 3:04features by sharing your phone's Wi-Fi
79. 3:06connection. Anyway, we will go over all
80. 3:09that as we go, don't worry. So first,
81. 3:13with premium connectivity, you have
82. 3:15satellite maps; you have the satellite
83. 3:17view on the navigation map. So that is
84. 3:20the colorful interface where you really
85. 3:23get the satellite view. Some people
86. 3:25like it, some people like it less,
87. 3:26actually. Well, it's a matter of taste.
88. 3:29Personally, I like it because I find
89. 3:31that you can see the terrain a bit, you
90. 3:33see the environment a little, it's cool
91. 3:35. Though, it's a bit less minimalist,
92. 3:37let's say, than the basic maps. With
93. 3:40premium, you also have 3D display for
94. 3:42these maps. It's fairly recent, and it
95. 3:44depends on the vehicle. You need to
96. 3:46have a vehicle with a Ryzen chip, so at
97. 3:48least from 2022. It allows you to see
98. 3:51the buildings, well, the buildings that
99. 3:54we see in 3D, all that, it's really
100. 3:56nice. However, it's not available when
101. 3:59the satellite view is enabled. It's
102. 4:01really only when you turn it off. With
103. 4:04premium connectivity, you have access
104. 4:06to weather and precipitation. So
105. 4:10on-site, meaning where you are located,
106. 4:12you can click and see directly what the
107. 4:14weather is like, including
108. 4:16precipitation, as well as at your GPS
109. 4:18destination. If for example you planned
110. 4:22your GPS for Paris, it will show you
111. 4:24directly what the weather is like over
112. 4:27there. It's convenient. With Premium,
113. 4:31you get traffic display; you can
114. 4:33visualize traffic on the map. Depending
115. 4:37on the color—if there is no color, it
116. 4:38means traffic is flowing. If it is
117. 4:40orange, it means there is a bit of
118. 4:41congestion. If it is red, vehicles are
119. 4:43at a standstill. You are in a traffic
120. 4:45jam. Traffic-based route calculation
121. 4:48remains included as standard. This
122. 4:51means the route will be planned
123. 4:53automatically while taking traffic into
124. 4:56account. With standard connectivity—
125. 5:00so without the premium connectivity
126. 5:01option—you just won't have the color
127. 5:03codes. As for choosing between multiple
128. 5:08routes, with Premium, you have the
129. 5:09ability to compare several paths, or
130. 5:12pre-defined routes. Once again, it will
131. 5:15depend on the vehicle and the
132. 5:16availability of the feature. So,
133. 5:18normally, you cannot do this without
134. 5:20the premium connectivity. You also have
135. 5:22access to speed cameras outside of
136. 5:24France. So, outside of France, you get
137. 5:26all the speed camera alerts and
138. 5:29information, which functions
139. 5:31differently than the French risk zones.
140. 5:33In France, we have risk zones, meaning
141. 5:36you won't get the exact location of the
142. 5:39radar. You will just get a risk zone a
143. 5:41bit before and a bit after. And you
144. 5:43will need to remain vigilant when
145. 5:45entering this risk zone, with a
146. 5:46different beep, of course. So, as I was
147. 5:48saying, in France, it signals risk
148. 5:50zones that may contain a hazard. A
149. 5:52signaled zone does not necessarily mean
150. 5:54there is a radar. It happens sometimes
151. 5:56that a zone is reported, but it is not
152. 5:59actually a radar. So, there you go, it
153. 6:01depends. A major advantage of premium
154. 6:04connectivity is the live camera feature
155. 6:06as well. This means you can preview and
156. 6:10have a remote view of the cameras from
157. 6:13your phone. That is a great feature.
158. 6:17It’s a shame it isn't included by
159. 6:18default, but it's practical for seeing
160. 6:19what is happening around your vehicle.
161. 6:21Premium, therefore, allows you to have
162. 6:23a real-time live feed. Right? You go to
163. 6:26the Tesla app and, if Sentry Mode is
164. 6:28enabled, you can see the cameras live.
165. 6:31If Sentry Mode is not enabled, that's
166. 6:32okay, you can enable it from your Tesla
167. 6:34app. You wait 5 seconds and then you
168. 6:36can see the cameras. However, for
169. 6:38Sentry Mode, even without the Premium
170. 6:41Connectivity option, Sentry Mode still
171. 6:43works. It's just that to see the videos
172. 6:45, you will have to get into the vehicle
173. 6:48and actually check what has been
174. 6:50recorded in the meantime. But there are
175. 6:53alternatives, there are apps that exist
176. 6:56; one app I've been using for a while
177. 6:58is called Sentry Guard, which allows
178. 7:01you to receive a notification when an
179. 7:03event has been detected by Sentry Mode.
180. 7:07So that's great for those who don't
181. 7:09have Premium Connectivity. I have two
182. 7:11Tesla vehicles, one has Premium
183. 7:12Connectivity and the other does not.
184. 7:14Regarding the dashcam on mobile. So you
185. 7:18can view recordings from the app,
186. 7:20meaning that with Premium Connectivity,
187. 7:23you can actually see all the videos
188. 7:26recorded by Sentry Mode on your phone.
189. 7:30This means your Tesla will stream the
190. 7:32videos to your phone. So that's nice.
191. 7:35It's not the same thing as retrieving
192. 7:37the local recording. If you don't have
193. 7:39Premium Connectivity, to get the videos
194. 7:41, you'll have to go to the vehicle,
195. 7:43watch them on the screen, or otherwise
196. 7:45take the USB drive from the glove box
197. 7:47and plug it into your computer. So,
198. 7:49it's true there's much less friction
199. 7:50and a lot more flexibility with Premium
200. 7:52Connectivity. You can easily access all
201. 7:55the recordings made with Sentry Mode.
202. 7:57So that's quite convenient. Pet Mode,
203. 8:00meaning you can now configure it; it
204. 8:02used to be called Dog Mode, now it's
205. 8:04Pet Mode. Well, because it could be a
206. 8:06cat or a hedgehog. Well, there is a dog
207. 8:08too, you can choose. You have the live
208. 8:11camera, meaning that in your Tesla, you
209. 8:13have a small camera at the top, and you
210. 8:16can view the cabin camera remotely.
211. 8:19That's very practical for seeing what's
212. 8:21happening in your vehicle if, for
213. 8:22example, you left your dog inside.
214. 8:24Maintaining the temperature, however,
215. 8:26is possible remotely. Anything related
216. 8:28to climate control can be adjusted
217. 8:30remotely without Premium Connectivity.
218. 8:31Music streaming. With Premium
219. 8:34Connectivity, you can access music,
220. 8:36podcasts, and audiobooks directly. Via
221. 8:39the various included apps like Spotify,
222. 8:43Apple Music, and also notably Amazon
223. 8:46Music. So, today most music streaming
224. 8:50applications are available. Uh, same
225. 8:53thing for audiobooks. Uh, there is the
226. 8:55book application, so Kindle Audio.
227. 8:58There are quite a few applications
228. 9:00today directly included in the Tesla.
229. 9:02All of this is compatible since premium
230. 9:04connectivity provides cellular data, so
231. 9:07it works. However, well, you will see
232. 9:09it's possible over Wi-Fi. As for video,
233. 9:11it's the same thing when parked. You
234. 9:15can, therefore, on the front screen or
235. 9:17the rear screen if the vehicle has one,
236. 9:20access streaming video, namely YouTube,
237. 9:23Twitch as well, and Netflix. There you
238. 9:28go, you can watch these applications
239. 9:29with premium connectivity without using
240. 9:31your phone. It connects to the cellular
241. 9:33network. You also have karaoke, which
242. 9:36works with premium connectivity
243. 9:38depending on the equipment and region.
244. 9:40So it's a karaoke application, and the
245. 9:43internet browser is also possible.
246. 9:45Browsing websites from the screen is
247. 9:47possible with premium connectivity. So
248. 9:51everything we've seen, in fact, most
249. 9:53features are available. Well,
250. 9:55everything we've seen is available with
251. 9:58the Tesla premium connectivity, charged
252. 10:01at € 9.99 per month. But it is
253. 10:05possible to have quite a few features
254. 10:07over Wi-Fi. So how do you do it?
255. 10:09Actually, it's simple from your phone.
256. 10:12You activate your hotspot, meaning your
257. 10:14phone will share its internet
258. 10:16connection. It will act as an internet
259. 10:20router. In a way, that's it. So you
260. 10:23activate the feature on your phone,
261. 10:24whether you are on iPhone or Android,
262. 10:26it's pretty much the same thing. Right
263. 10:30after, you go into your Tesla, you turn
264. 10:32on Wi-Fi and connect to the Wi-Fi
265. 10:34emitted by your phone, and then you can
266. 10:36access most applications. So, I noted
267. 10:40Grok, you can still have it. For music,
268. 10:43you can open Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
269. 10:46, you can listen to them, it will work.
270. 10:50Videos too, YouTube, Netflix, I forgot
271. 10:52which one, Twitch, it will work over
272. 10:55Wi-Fi, and the browser will work over
273. 10:58Wi-Fi. So all of that, in fact,
274. 11:00requires connecting to a Wi-Fi network.
275. 11:03However, it does not replace all
276. 11:05premium features. The subscriptions, in
277. 11:08any case, remain separate. Uh, so for
278. 11:11example, Premium funds the vehicle's
279. 11:13connectivity. It has nothing to do with
280. 11:15the other subscriptions, really. What I
281. 11:17understand is that the $ 9.99 per month
282. 11:20premium connectivity subscription gives
283. 11:22you all the possible connectivity on
284. 11:24the vehicle. Streaming services have
285. 11:27their own terms, meaning you don't have
286. 11:29, for example, Netflix included, and
287. 11:31you don't have Spotify included. I know
288. 11:34that a few years ago, when I got my
289. 11:35Tesla with Premium connectivity, a
290. 11:37Spotify account was included for us.
291. 11:39All of that no longer exists. And there
292. 11:41is no Super Grok subscription included.
293. 11:43You can use Grok, but you will be
294. 11:45limited quite quickly. If you want more
295. 11:47messages, you will need to get a Super
296. 11:48Grok subscription, which costs about
297. 11:50thirty euros a month. In any case, what
298. 11:53Premium does not change is that you
299. 11:55still have access to the trip planner,
300. 11:57so you can plan your trips. You can
301. 11:59still access the Superchargers; that
302. 12:01remains included. Updates are not
303. 12:03reserved for Premium. You can perform
304. 12:05vehicle updates. However, you must be
305. 12:07connected to Wi-Fi to perform the
306. 12:09updates. So, either directly at home
307. 12:13via your home Wi-Fi, or by tethering.
308. 12:16That is something that works well.
309. 12:18Meaning that when I'm on the move, I
310. 12:20turn on my hotspot and the Tesla
311. 12:22updates download thanks to my
312. 12:24connection sharing, and premium
313. 12:26connectivity does not change the
314. 12:28autopilot. It changes absolutely
315. 12:30nothing regarding the autopilot. So, to
316. 12:33conclude this video, do you have to pay
317. 12:35? Well, the question to ask yourself is
318. 12:38: what features do you use regularly?
319. 12:41If, for example, you use music, well,
320. 12:43you can actually use a hotspot; it
321. 12:45works. If you want to while parked. If
322. 12:49you watch a lot of YouTube while parked
323. 12:51, a hotspot works for that too. Where
324. 12:54it has a real benefit is for viewing
325. 12:56Sentry Mode cameras remotely. If, like
326. 12:59me, you are a bit...let's say, cautious
327. 13:02, and you don't want your vehicle
328. 13:04damaged, well, in that case, it's worth
329. 13:07paying to be able to see the cameras
330. 13:09remotely. If you want to access all the
331. 13:12cameras directly as well, that's not
332. 13:13bad. If you want to have the 3D map,
333. 13:16that's also nice to have. So, you
334. 13:19really need to define what you use the
335. 13:21most in your Tesla and which ones you
336. 13:24would miss without Premium. In any case
337. 13:27, for me, I'm telling you, I have two
338. 13:29Teslas. There's one Tesla that has
339. 13:32premium connectivity and the other
340. 13:33doesn't. And actually, overall, I don't
341. 13:37find it essential to have that premium
342. 13:42connectivity. Let's quickly go back to
343. 13:45the Tesla site, which also explains
344. 13:46things in a bit more detail. So here,
345. 13:48we see that with premium connectivity,
346. 13:50there's all this. But actually, if we
347. 13:53go through the points one by one, for
348. 13:54most things, we can actually do them
349. 13:56with a hotspot. What will really be
350. 14:00reserved for Tesla's premium
351. 14:03connectivity is, in fact, satellite
352. 14:06view maps. It is mandatory to have
353. 14:08premium connectivity. Precipitation and
354. 14:11weather forecasts, it's essential.
355. 14:14Speed cameras, it's essential. Risk
356. 14:17areas, it's essential. Live traffic
357. 14:19visualization maps, it's essential. So
358. 14:23already, everything related to maps and
359. 14:25weather is essential to Tesla's premium
360. 14:27connectivity. Sentry mode camera view
361. 14:31is essential. Dashcam viewer, same
362. 14:34thing on the mobile app, it's essential
363. 14:36. And Dog Mode, seeing the cabin camera
364. 14:39live, it's essential. OK, all of that
365. 14:42is actually essential to premium
366. 14:45connectivity. It's just this part,
367. 14:47music streaming, you can do that with a
368. 14:50hotspot, so it's not essential to have
369. 14:52premium connectivity. Video streaming,
370. 14:55same thing, you can do it with a
371. 14:57hotspot. So it is not essential to have
372. 14:59premium connectivity. Karaoke, well, if
373. 15:02you intend to use it, for now, you do
374. 15:04need premium connectivity. And the web
375. 15:08browser, it's not essential to have
376. 15:09premium connectivity since you can do
377. 15:11it with a hotspot. So today, the
378. 15:13question to ask yourself is, mainly,
379. 15:16especially for music for example, a
380. 15:19hotspot is enough, video streaming, a
381. 15:22hotspot is enough, web browser, a
382. 15:24hotspot is enough. There you go, I'm
383. 15:26repeating myself a lot, but at least I
384. 15:28think it's clear for you now. So,
385. 15:30however, if you are absolutely looking
386. 15:32for those features, uh, the maps, the
387. 15:34traffic radars, having really the best,
388. 15:36the best possible maps with the weather
389. 15:38, uh, with the weather, weather info,
390. 15:40all that, if you really want to have as
391. 15:42much security as possible, see Sentry
392. 15:44mode remotely, and so on, uh, well then
393. 15:46, it is worth it to get the Tesla
394. 15:47Premium Connectivity. I'm just noting
395. 15:50this, I learned it the hard way once.
396. 15:53Uh, be careful, to watch the live
397. 15:55cameras of your vehicle with Sentry
398. 15:57mode, it's 15 minutes per day maximum
399. 15:59of streaming. You cannot watch the
400. 16:01cameras for more than 15 minutes a day,
401. 16:03otherwise you'll get blocked. That is,
402. 16:06in any case, what I could tell you in
403. 16:08this complete video about Tesla Premium
404. 16:10Connectivity. I hope you liked it. I
405. 16:13hope it shed some light on your choice
406. 16:14to get this subscription or not. You
407. 16:16should know that on all new vehicles,
408. 16:17one month is offered. So you can test
409. 16:19the Premium Connectivity, but
410. 16:20afterwards you have to subscribe. There
411. 16:22is no advantage either to paying by the
412. 16:24year, it's every month at € 9.99.
413. 16:26It's up to you to judge if it's worth
414. 16:27it or not. Don't hesitate to tell me
415. 16:30what you think in the comments section,
416. 16:31whether you're taking it or not. For me
417. 16:35, to tell you what I think, it's nice
418. 16:37but not essential. Clearly, there are
419. 16:40times it's practical but it's not
420. 16:41always indispensable. At most, if you
421. 16:43travel, uh, if you go on vacation once
422. 16:45every 6 months, it might be worth
423. 16:46getting it for a month from time to
424. 16:47time. But on a daily basis, I don't
425. 16:50consider it to be really, uh, ultra
426. 16:52essential. It's just a shame sometimes
427. 16:54that it's not included in the vehicle,
428. 16:56but well, that's how it is, maybe one
429. 16:57day, who knows. In any case, uh, that's
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460. 17:57choice on the premium connectivity, and
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