Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave some conflicting indicators concerning the upcoming Roadster on Tuesday evening. “Tonight, we radically elevated the design targets for the brand new Tesla Roadster,” the CEO mentioned, by way of a submit on X.
Musk then clarified that the manufacturing design is full and the product is because of be unveiled on the finish of 2024, with goals to ship it in 2025.
Tonight, we radically elevated the design targets for the brand new Tesla Roadster.
There’ll by no means be one other automotive like this, in the event you might even name it a automotive.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 28, 2024
In one other follow-up submit, Musk claimed that the mannequin’s 0-60 mph time is now below one second—an enormous enchancment over the beforehand claimed 1.9 seconds—“and that’s the least fascinating half.”
The CEO, who has teased rocket tech for the Roadster earlier than—maybe supplementing traction from the tires—additional hinted that it “has a shot at being probably the most mind-blowing product demo of all time.”
2020 Tesla Roadster
The brand new Roadster was revealed in 2017, in what gave the impression to be a production-bound prototype, with a claimed vary of 620 miles. Tesla instantly began taking reservations for the mannequin that was then due for deliveries in 2020. Preliminary costs ranged from $50,000 to $250,000, relying on efficiency, with a Founders Sequence topping the lineup and encompassing the primary 1,000 reservations.
Tesla has put apart the Roadster undertaking a number of instances over time. In SEC paperwork again in 2010, Tesla confirmed plans for a second-generation Roadster due in 2013, shortly after the Mannequin S. This latest Roadster undertaking has been delayed varied instances. In 2021 Tesla delayed the Roadster to 2023.
