Last night (February 28), Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the social platform X that the **Roadster has completed the production design and will be launched at the end of this year and shipped next year.
Musk claims that Tesla has fundamentally raised the design goals of the **roadster.
The Roadster is an all-electric sports car launched by Tesla in 2008 and discontinued in 2012, and it is also the company's first production model. Tesla sold about 2,450 Roadster vehicles in more than 30 countries before the production was discontinued.
According to reports, the Roadster will provide the SpaceX thruster option package, which will install about 10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around the car, which will greatly improve the car's acceleration, top speed, braking and cornering capabilities.
With the addition of SpaceX thrusters, the Roadster will accelerate from 0 to 60 miles (about 000) in less than 1 second. 」
At the same time, the **Roadster will be equipped with a larger-capacity battery that will have a range of up to 620 miles (about 997.).79km), which may become one of the longest range electric vehicles on the market today.
Six years ago, when Tesla announced that it would launch a new generation of Roadster at the end of 2020, it said that the model would be available in 1Acceleration to 60 miles in 9 seconds. In 2021, Musk revealed that the Roadster 2 with jet propulsion could reach 1100 km/h acceleration in 1 second.
Although the mass production delivery time of this model has been postponed many times, judging from the latest information revealed by Musk this time, Tesla's optimization work has been ongoing.
There will never be a second car like this, if you can even call it a car. Musk commented on it, "You will love your new roadster more than your house."