Announced in 2017, delayed many times, the project seems to be taking shape.
Tesla will unveil its “roadster” electric sports car at the end of 2024, for production from next year, the automobile company’s CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday.
“Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter), specifying that the design of the machine will be completed and revealed by the end of the year.
“There will never be another car like this, if you can even call it a car,” he boldly added.
Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster.
There will never be another car like this, if you could even call it a car.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 28, 2024
The roadster model, a four-seater battery-powered car, was announced at the end of 2017 by Tesla.
Its launch, initially planned for 2020, had been pushed back to 2021, with Elon Musk citing problems in the global supply chain.
In 2023, the whimsical entrepreneur hoped to finally begin production of his sports car in 2024. The release of the latest model marketed by Tesla, the CyberTruck, had also been largely delayed.
This time, to keep future buyers waiting, the founder of SpaceX and Neuralink, also owner of
This should accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (
miles per hour
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) in less than a second.
“And that’s the least interesting part,” praises the boss, who refers to the car as “the most breathtaking of all time.”
A collaboration with SpaceX?
Elon Musk also highlights, again in his messages published on X, a collaboration between his space company SpaceX and Tesla on the sports coupe model.
Without, however, giving more details.
In 2018, he already jokingly mentioned an option that would include “around 10 small rocket boosters” in the vehicle.
Going so far as to imagine that Tesla cars would one day be able to “fly”.
The “Tesla Roadster”, which should be sold for $250,000, is in any case pre-ordered on the Tesla website, with a deposit of 43,000 euros.