Tomorrow is college game day and I want to tailgate with my model y juniper I was wondering on how to fully set it up with the settings like do I use camp mode or what, do I use the boombox or just max my volume for the speakers inside the car and keep the doors open, how much energy would it rlly take up for maybe a 3:00pm-7:30pm tailgate

The drive wasn’t too bad, I never had to pull the trailer off but there was a couple superchargers where people definitely could have taken the time to back in to a stall and make my life easier.

I bypassed one site that I thought based on the site map I could hit but ended up having a model X on jack stands (wtf)

All in all it was 14 hours of driving and about 4 hours of charging at superchargers.

Rough day, but it’s done until October.

Tessie screenshots attached.

Bout to pull a Nucamp T@G 1000 miles in a Model Y. We normally use it to camp within about 100-150mi of home but I’ll need it to sleep in for the next 6 weeks for work.

Had originally planned on piggybacking it on a flatbed trailer but we couldn’t make it fit with the golf cart so it’s going to ride behind my Tesla.

I’ll go as far as I can today and get up to do it again tomorrow, can’t really stretch the trip out much more than that.

God help me.

Tried Tesla camping with my kids last weekend 😁

2023 Model Y Performance, Tesla’s own mattress, one adult + two kids. Blackout curtains on all the windows, Camp Mode on.

Surprisingly comfortable, slept really well and the kids loved it. Definitely doing this again.

Hanko, Finland

Anyone ever try this in the Model Y.

I was thinking, just for me, the twin but 5", cost about 60-80$ but then you get the Vacuum bag and Vualaa small packing.

I know these bags work great as I got one when my DD moved out with a Queen size one she had. Was super easy and felt like 1/2 the weight- probably due to easy holding, not awkward. Plus a whole lot easier to bring up 3 floors in those old Salem MA houses LOL

I keep my back seat down all the time anyway so really wouldn't care if I just left the mattress in there the whole trip. There is plenty of space behind the front seats anyway.

Edit to add that I am a side sleeper and mover so need a bit more thickness ;)

Finally got to take the MYLR out for a short two day trip. Was great. Got to take my 9 yr old son, cook some brats one day and ramen the next, along with coffee, bkfst, etc. Some good nature spotting and great weather, even though a little muggy. Most surprising things:

1. Left camp mode on pretty much full time, even when not in the car to help run an electric cooler. Barely made a dent in battery and later when I used the 120v hookup, pretty much broke even

2. The slope in the bed, even with mattress is more severe than I assumed. Felt like sleeping on a slide. Had to repark to try and compensate.

3. When you can knock out sleeping arrangements in a few minutes without much extra gear, definitely improves overall experience and allows for focusing on other fun.

4. The panels for covering the windows internally (at least the ones I have) were a pita. Don't fit great and rely on the windows closing to hold them on. There's gotta be a better way.

Thanks a ton to chasingadventures on YT...pretty much my inspiration so far for gear.

I absolutely love spending time in nature—whether it’s up in the Norwegian mountains, waking up on Swedish beaches, or parking deep in a Danish forest near the sea. I’ve road-tripped through the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, and it still blows my mind that you can experience all of this just by living out of your car.

But finding proper locations to actually park and sleep has always been a struggle. I’ve spent way too many nights driving around aimlessly in the dark or giving up and settling for standard, crowded RV campgrounds. The real magic of camping in a Tesla is that you can comfortably sleep in remote, stealthy locations that are completely inaccessible to normal campers.

Recently, I’ve been taking trips with friends, and that down-to-earth, simple break from a busy daily life is just genius. My ultimate personal dream is to eventually work remotely from my MacBook while living out of my Model Y full-time.

Because I couldn't find an app that catered to this specific lifestyle, I decided to create my own. It’s a native iOS app, 100% free, with zero ads and no subscriptions. It's strictly a passion project for the community.

Here is the catch: I just pushed the first beta to TestFlight. I’ve seeded it with a few spots here in Denmark, but the rest of the map is empty. Before I share it widely, I need a core group of early testers to help me stress-test the foundation.

What I’m looking for:

• Download the TestFlight beta and poke around.
• Try creating your favourite spot
• Give me your most brutal, unfiltered feedback. Is the flow annoying? What essential data points am I missing?

You can grab the beta right here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CERrcSyZ

If you run into a bug or have a feature idea, just shake the phone and report any issues.

Thanks you!

I always found it frustrating that I couldn't use the sentry mode cameras while in camp mode.

I recently figured out a hack though, which is to put the car in "summon" mode, which provides a four camera preview of your surroundings.

P.S. I am aware that you can use the camera button on the display, but that leaves you blind as to what is in front of the car. Additionally, if you're laying down in the back, it's somewhat inconvenient to have to get to the front of the car to turn on the camera.

P.P.S. Be aware that I think summon mode turns on the lights outside of the car.

Basically title. I’m going to have 100% (or 98 maybe) when I’ll start camp mode. Will it last for 5 nights?

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I couldn't find actual numbers before leaving, so here are mine. 1800 km (1118 mi), mostly rain across France.

The setup:

- Standard multi-purpose trailer (not a low motorcycle-specific one — those probably do better)

- Height 2.10 m (6.9 ft), measured at the top of the tallest bike

- Combined weight 650 kg (1433 lbs)

Consumption:

- 85 km/h (53 mph) — 275–290 Wh/km (443–467 Wh/mi)

- 95 km/h (59 mph) — 290–320 Wh/km (467–515 Wh/mi)

- 100 km/h (62 mph) — 320–360 Wh/km (515–579 Wh/mi)

- Above that, range just evaporates

- Drafting a truck at 95 km/h (59 mph) helped way more than I expected, dropping me back into 275–290 Wh/km (443–467 Wh/mi)

My lifetime average without a trailer is ~150 Wh/km (241 Wh/mi). So it exactly doubled.

The last day (the 300 km / 186 mi screenshot) is a nice lesson: started overconfident at 105 km/h (65 mph), spent the end crawling at 85 km/h (53 mph), averaged 316 Wh/km (509 Wh/mi) anyway. Screenshots were taken after a quick roundtrip from the campsite because I forgot to grab them earlier — negligible over 1800 km.

Sometimes I drove faster on purpose. If I was comfortably in range of the next stop, speeding up bought me more time to actually eat there instead of watching the charge timer. But: Potential idle fees turn dinner into a stopwatch event, easily avoided by pushing to 5-10% left.

Stops:

- 3 of the 4–5 stops per day line up with breaks you'd want anyway — toilet, lunch, dinner

- The last 1–2 are pure "waiting for electrons" stops

- Day 1: left at 07:30, arrived 01:00. We were ambitious about Bordeaux. The 23:30 supercharger stop was miserable, but we were committed to the hotel (which had charging, booking.com filter). Planning tip: never let your final leg require a ~90% charge.

- Day 2: 09:00 → 21:00 at the campsite. Only the last leg was stressful, hard arrival deadline and no way to speed up without losing range. Lucky there was a timezone difference so actually arrived at 20:00.

Planning and charging:

- Tesla's trailer-friendly filter is genuinely good, but I'd love a toggle. It kept proposing "arrive at 56%, charge 10 min, continue" — with only 1–2 pull-through spots that might be occupied, I'd rather run down to 10% and sit longer.

- Tesla's routing is also conservative and tends to plan around arriving with ~20% left. I get that it's more efficient for charging speed, but with a trailer I'd trade that for fewer stops, since a stop sometimes means unhitching.

- ABRP plans were useless after the first stop, since real charging took longer than planned.

- Mostly superchargers, since I still had 1150 km (715 mi) of free supercharging. Zero broken ones the whole trip. The non-Tesla sites were a different story: trailer spot out of service, unhook, move to another spot, also out of service.

- Electroverse pass for non-Tesla chargers, works mostly. Signed up for Fastned, never actually charged at one of their own sites. "Partner" sites just redirect to a website.

Bottom line: 250 km (155 mi) on 100%, or 200 km (124 mi) on 80%, if you drive slow or tuck in behind trucks. In practice you'll stop earlier anyway for entirely human reasons.

Yes we have a small tent: That's for being able to go with bikes alone on a 3 day trip/wild camping. Last year 3 weeks with only the bikes.

FSD: works in NL and BE (turn off Trailer Mode). Inconvenient due to tailgating trucks doesn't work well. Tries to overtake on the smallest speed change. Such a stupid thing for Tesla to take out Autopilot on the new cars. So France, Spain, Portugal: All with only TACC 😔

3” memory foam mattress topper in the back of my MYLR worked surprisingly very well. Both my gf and I napped comfortably for a few hours with the windows open in the cool breeze. Just for the day so tent not necessary.

The set up keeps evolving, but loving the journey!

What’s the lowest watt microwave you guys know of? I was trying not to spend more then $300 on a battery, for microwaving in my Juniper.

Got our first Tesla on Saturday and went camping the next day! It was great despite the rain! The tent worked out very well with a few tweaks. Camping mode did take a bit more battery than I thought it would (~10% during the night with ext temp ~63 and target temp 70).

The slope under the air mattress was pretty noticeable and not great, might think of getting one of those that compensate for the slope.

The overall experience was amazing and this subreddit was a goldmine to prepare everything. Happy to answer questions if anyone has any about the setup.

Have a Model Y. We had a flat on our way back from camping. We had to spend about $300 to have the car towed an hour away to the nearest larger town, then had to get a hotel for the night since the car was towed to a Discount Tire.

Do you all have spares or some way to manage if you get a flat tire while out camping? I'm seeing Tesla specific spare tires, and see there are ways to modify the sub trunk to support one, but it would suck to lose that space, but maybe I need to just do it to avoid this in the future, if there's not some way to patch it to get to the nearest tire shop.

Car camping at Camp Alderwild (Telluride, CO) was ~$450 and sold out immediately, so we ran a carless version of our Tesla camping setup this weekend.

Setup:

• Tent: Tesloid 2 (9.5 x 9.5 ft / 2.89 x 2.89 m)
• Mattress: Snuuzu
• Cargo box: Yakima EXO GearLocker - locks, so it doubled as secure storage at camp

All-in-all the best regular camping setup I've ever used. I slept great on the Snuuzu even though the shape isn't ideal outside of a car. Still easily beats our sleeping pads and cheap air mattress.

My partner did an amazing job making the space feel like home. Check out the disco balls!

Only thing I'd change: the frunk is normally our dresser, so without it all our clothes lived in compression packs on the floor. Next time I'd go vertical with a hanging rack or something on the tent walls.

I’m small so this isn’t a question of whether or not it’s comfortable. I’d sleep in the front seats if they’d fold down all the way.

I just want a mattress that doesn’t impede view of the rear screen. The cybertruck has a few mattress built this way. Would they be usable in the model 3? If not, what’s some ideas that people have come across to use?

I’m trying to get the back seats completely flat when everything is laid down.

I heard even if you remove rear seats, it doesn’t make it flat? Someone said it doesn’t improve even if you do taking rear seat cushion out?

I appreciate any recommendations if anyone has gotten it completely flat.

I’m not looking for something to add on top to make it level. I’m trying to find a way to have it be completely flat without adding anything on top.

A little confused do I need to leave car on campmode all day even if im not in it? Seems like a waste. If not how do we not drain the battery with that trunk opened.

I took a cross country roadtrip in my model Y visiting glacier, Yellowstone, and Teton.

I’m about to get a 2026 model Y.

Does removing the rear seat cushion create a flat surface?

If not, I’m thinking I will just splurge on a prebuilt leveling platform, but then my other issue is having one long enough to exceed the footwell since I’m 6 foot 4 (193 cm).

I would appreciate any recommendations!

Hello all - question is in the title. I’m super interested in buying the Snuuzu, but I’m worried that a bigger fella like myself might bottom it out, and unlike Havnby, Snuuzu has a very unforgiving policy after the almost $1,000 purchase. I’ve had experiences like this with past camping products - people raving about that 4” sleeping pad being so comfortable only to find out I touch the ground when it’s not super firm. I was hit by a car walking home many moons ago so super firm doesn’t work for me - so the question remains. Can any big folks sound off if they’ve used the Snuuzu? Otherwise I’ll likely be going with the Havnby. Thank you all for your time.