---
title: "Exclusive Footage of the Record-Setting Cross-Country Tesla Drive"
description: "The Drive followed Alex Roy’s team on their journey to drive a Tesla Model S across America, setting the transcontinental record for semi-autonomous vehicle."
date: "2015-11-10"
modified: "2019-05-24"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/837/exclusive-footage-of-the-record-setting-cross-country-tesla-drive"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Tesla"
---

# Exclusive Footage of the Record-Setting Cross-Country Tesla Drive

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Three weeks ago, on [Oct. 21](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/591/this-team-just-broke-the-ev-cross-country-record-in-the-tesla-model-s>), Alex Roy arrived in Manhattan, exhausted. He, and his team, Carl Reese and Deena Mastracci, had just done something incredible: Set the record for fastest drive across America in a semi-autonomous vehicle. That’d be 2,995 miles in 57 hours and 48 minutes. Roy, Reese and Mastracci invited *The Drive* to come along for the ride for an exclusive, [behind-the-scenes look](<https://www.diffeyewear.com/pages/prescription-faq>).

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