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Piper
Unplugged

Electric road trips.

I'm Piper. I don't need FSD, my husband drives. I don't pay for electricity either. Our 2016 Tesla Model X is the only one who gets to stay plugged in. The rest of us unplug along the way.

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Two places that aren't YouTube

Everything else here sends you somewhere else. These two don't.

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The Feed
Everything from the road that never made it into an episode. Superchargers, motel rooms, tiny towns, the parts that went wrong. Hundreds of them, and you can scroll as long as you like.
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The Talk Room
One room per episode, where the comment doesn't get buried under a thousand others. I get these on my phone and I answer them myself. No account, no algorithm.
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Subscribers
98K
Engagement Rate
5.6%
Total Views
566K
Superchargers Visited
78
Where we're at

Two numbers we're chasing

Nothing on this channel is behind a paywall, so these are the only scoreboards we have. They update as YouTube reports them.

The silver button
98,381 / 100,000 subs
98% there1,619 to go

Ten years on YouTube and I've never had one. Hit subscribe and you're on the hook for the unboxing.

Getting monetized
2,376 / 4,000 hours watched
59% there1,624 hours to go

YouTube pays a channel nothing until people have watched 4,000 hours of it in one rolling year. Shorts don't count. Only the long episodes and the lives do, which is a big part of why we go live. See the full tracker →

The Show

Four shows, one battery meter

New episodes whenever the battery lets us.

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Piper Unplugged
Documentary episodes from the road, and the why behind electricity.
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Live Nights
Live nights, learning GTA in public. I have never played a video game. It shows.
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Motel Motel
Hosted motel reviews from the road. Where I sleep, what I find, how it went.
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Shorts
The quick ones. Superchargers, motel rooms, tiny towns, and whatever happened in the last live.
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The Documentary

Latest episode

New to the show? Start with the pilot →  ·  See everything on the channel →

Live Nights

I had never played a video game

Then people kept telling me a Tesla drives itself like it's GTA, so in August I picked up a controller for the first time in my life and went live to find out. Seven nights in, I still steal the same taxi and I still cannot park. Live, no edit, no script. The chat runs the whole thing, which is exactly why it works.

There's a second reason we do it. Live minutes are the only kind YouTube counts toward monetization, and a road trip can't happen every week. So this is the part where the channel earns its way to 4,000 hours.

Night Seven
GTA 6 Launches In November. A Data Centre Has To Run It.
Sep 22 · 2h 28m
Live · Data centres
One Hour Of Data Centres Is 8,000 Charges Of My Tesla.
Sep 22 · 1h 19m
Night Six
Four Hours Of GTA. Somewhere In There I'm Becoming A Taxi Driver.
Sep 12 · 4h 09m
Live · Cybercab
Tesla Cybercab Is Here. Who's Going To Be Mad This Time?
Sep 8 · 1h 36m
Night Five
They Took The Disc Out Of GTA 6. Tesla Did This To Me First.
Sep 7 · 4h 57m
Night Four
I Played 4 Hours Of GTA 5 To An Empty Room. Here's What You Missed.
Sep 3 · 4h 00m
Live · Ask me anything
They Took My Model X And Gave Me A CYBERTRUCK. Ask Me Anything.
Sep 1 · 42m
Night Three
GTA 6 Comes Out In November. Will You Play As The Girl?
Aug 31 · 4h 02m
Night Two
I've Played GTA Twice Now. Here's Why Nothing It Taught Me Works In Real Life.
Aug 27 · 4h 09m
Night One
I've Never Played GTA. I Got Through 4 Missions In 3.5 Hours.
Aug 26 · 3h 34m

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Reviews

What I'm leaving on Google

Honest reviews of every Tesla Supercharger, motel, and weird roadside thing we visit. The whole thing is on the record.

★★★★★
"Everything's new enough that you want to take your shoes off."
— Red Coat Inn · Fort Macleod, AB
★★★★★
"Outside plugs on the property, so we charged our Tesla Model X overnight from the room."
— Rondo Motel · Golden, BC
★★★★
"An RV park next door where people actually cook out and talk to you."
— Maple Leaf Motel · Oliver, BC
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Who

The crew

Piper hosts the show. Vincent runs the camera. Some nights she's live from home, where GTA is the only place anyone lets her drive.

Made with

Sinopé

We spent an afternoon at Sinopé's smart-home showhome in Vancouver. BC Hydro's free smart thermostat, made by Sinopé, is coming this fall.

Get on the list → Sinopé on YouTube Sinopé on Instagram

Own a motel?

Motel Motel features one motel per town. Comp us a night, get a dedicated episode, a story page, and honest reviews. The last motel we featured asked to work with us again.

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What we travel with
Tesla · DJI Power 1000 · Induction cooktop · Starlink Roam · Cast iron · 4K cameras

You can't tip me yet. That's the point. ⚡

YouTube doesn't let a channel take a single dollar until people have watched enough of it. I'm 624 hours away from the line where you're allowed to throw me a few bucks during a live. So there's nothing to buy here and nothing behind a paywall. Watching a live is the whole donation. It's free and it's the only thing that actually counts.

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