And You Thought A Tesla Can't Offroad? Check Out This Model X Tackling The Mud

Being a ~$100,000 electric SUV, Tesla’s Model X isn’t a vehicle that you would expect to see off-roading, but an owner was crazy enough to do it in deep mud and came out impressed.

Again, you kind of have to be a little bit crazy to use a $100,000 premium electric SUV as an off-road vehicle, but there are apparently quite a few crazy Tesla Model X owners out there.

For example, we have seen a Tesla Model X used off-road as a tractor on a vineyard in Austria, another one drifting off-road in the desert, and popular Norwegian Tesla owner Bjorn Nyland has been known to take his Model X off-road from time to time.

 

jerseycat1010 - 6/20/2019 2:23:51 PM

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That's a gorgeous Tesla! Unbelievably capable too.

Truthy - 6/20/2019 2:36:24 PM

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I think all Tesla owners are crazy - not just the ones who offroad their $100,000 minivan.

MDarringer - 6/20/2019 3:57:53 PM

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So when it loses its charge offroad, what do you do?

TomM - 6/20/2019 7:38:23 PM

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Get an EV Towtruck - so that you can get TWo Vehicle struck far off road.!

This remains one of the Achilles heels of an EV - no way to enter a small charge to get it back from situations like this to a highway and maybe a charging station (ALthough the likelihood of being near a charging station is low).

At some point - I would suspect that one would be able to get a separate - auxiliary battery pack that you could plug in for these types of situation - but none yet.

SanJoseDriver - 6/21/2019 10:21:06 PM

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What happens when you run out of gas?

MDarringer - 6/21/2019 10:40:53 PM

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@SJD You're such an ignorant dumbass. Serious off-roaders typically carry Jerry cans.

SanJoseDriver - 6/24/2019 9:57:20 PM

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Sorry I'm not a hick, but that just extends your tank marginally.. what do you do when you run out of cans? All cars have a finite range that you need to be aware of.

MDarringer - 6/24/2019 10:09:41 PM

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You may not be a hick, but that statement shows you to be a sneering bigot.

SanJoseDriver - 6/26/2019 10:05:18 PM

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I'm not a bigot either and I have nothing against hicks for the record.

Dexter1 - 6/20/2019 5:10:36 PM

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Fell asleep. Sorry.

valhallakey - 6/20/2019 11:38:35 PM

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Not bad for an SUV, a bit surprised they did not get stuck as those tires look like standard passenger car A/S tires.

SanJoseDriver - 6/21/2019 10:21:39 PM

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Dual motor AWD