The Tesla Roadster was the American automaker’s first vehicle program.
During its first production run between 2008 and 2012, it motivated automakers to launch several of their own electric vehicle program – virtually starting an electric vehicle revolution.
In 2017, Tesla unveiled a new generation of the electric sports car to enter production in 2020. Here are all the details.
Elon Musk discussed the next-gen Tesla Roadster in a new interview and hinted that the automaker could manage to find a way for owners to have cameras instead of side mirrors like on the prototype (pictured above).
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Today, I went down the rabbit hole of staring at pictures of Tesla’s upcoming next-generation Roadster, which led to wondering how close the interior of the production will be to the concept that they unveiled.
Elon Musk said that the “production design will be better, especially in details”, but that’s just not their focus right now.
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Emile Bouret is amongst a rare group of people who had the chance to drive the Tesla next-generation Roadster.
Today, he tentatively shared a few details about his experience with the vehicle.
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Elon Musk has confirmed that he is completely serious about adding thrusters to the new Tesla Roadster and he added that the optional package will replace the mysterious back seats that the upcoming electric supercar is supposedly going to have.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that the automaker’s next-gen Roadster will have a ‘SpaceX package’, which will include “~10 small rocket thrusters.”
While it sounds like a joke, Musk has made other comments hinting at the plan actually being real.
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Some people already have issues managing all the power in Tesla’s current performance vehicles and that power is going to be dwarfed by Tesla’s next-gen Roadster.
CEO Elon Musk now says that the upcoming supercar is going to have an ‘Augmented Mode’ to help you handle all that power.
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At the Tesla Semi unveiling last year, Tesla unveiled two next-generation Roadster prototypes: one red working prototype and another grey design model.
The automaker is now showing a new white Roadster model at its shareholder meeting.
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Tesla has released a new action-packed video, which might actually become a quarterly thing according to CEO Elon Musk.
There are few bits of footage that are especially interesting in the less-than-two-minute-long video, including a mystery car underwrap and new footage of the next-gen Roadster in action.
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While Tesla’s original Roadster that SpaceX launched into space on the new Falcon Heavy captured a lot of attention, we are still more excited here about the next-generation Roadster currently under development.
Now a Tesla next-generation Roadster prototype shows up at Gigafactory 1 in Nevada.
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The next-generation Tesla Roadster is going on some outings this week.
After hitting a few Tesla locations, the prototype has now been spied doing runs on Fremont factory’s test track.
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We haven’t seen much of Tesla’s next-generation Roadster since the surprise unveiling during the Tesla Semi event last November.
Now, the automaker puts the prototype on display for the first time at their headquarters.
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Rimac has been teasing its new hypercar, another all-electric vehicle built from the ground up by the Croatian company to follow the Concept_One, over the last few months.
Now the specs have reportedly been revealed ahead of the official unveiling and unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to compete with the upcoming next-gen Tesla Roadster.
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After this week’s planned Falcon Heavy test launch with a Tesla Roadster as ballast, the world was treated to some incredible images of the car, with driver, orbiting the Earth. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had the good sense to attach multiple cameras to the car so everyone could see what was happening up there, and the images did not disappoint.
Now, a couple days later, astronomers at an observatory on the ground have given us a different view of Starman and his Tesla Roadster – a tiny dot speeding along amongst the stars on its journey towards the asteroid belt.
While Tesla doesn’t do any traditional advertising, it has been marketing its vehicles quite efficiently over the years, but never in a more spectacular way than what happened yesterday.
If you have missed it and you probably haven’t because that was the point, a Tesla Roadster was successfully launched into space on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Ahead of the launch, Elon Musk said that many unknown factors result in “about a 50% chance” that the Falcon Heavy demonstration flight fails and destroys his Tesla Roadster in the process.
Yet, the launch was actually successful and all three first stage boosters separated to propel the second stage with the Tesla Roadster into space.
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A day ahead of the planned demonstration launch of SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket, CEO Elon Musk released a simulation video of a Tesla Roadster, the demonstration payload, going to Mars.
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Elon Musk’s unbelievable plan to use his own Tesla Roadster as the demonstration payload for the inaugural test launch of SpaceX’s new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, is reportedly set to happen on February 6.
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Almost two months after the next-generation Tesla Roadster was unveiled and stole the show at the Tesla Semi unveiling event, we now get to see the first sighting of the new electric vehicle prototype in the wild.
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There have been a lot of doubts and confusion around Elon Musk’s claim that the first payload of SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy will be his own original Tesla Roadster.
But now it looks more real than ever as we get to see the first image of the electric vehicle being turned into a payload.
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Apparently, some people had issues with the livestream of Tesla’s Semi and Roadster unveiling event last month and the company didn’t release the video like it generally does after an event.
But now a month later, they’ve released a newly edited version.
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The new vehicles that Tesla unveiled last week featured some design details and technologies that we have seen before in Tesla’s vehicles, but it also featured some incremental improvements and apparent technological leaps that surprised us.
It opens up the question: are we going to see some of those developments in Tesla’s other vehicle lines?
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It looks like Tesla’s next-generation Roadster might have set the bar for new sports cars coming out. A Taipei-based startup unveils its new electric hypercar prototype today and compares the specs with Tesla’s new electric vehicle.
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Data is now confirming what most people likely suspected, that Tesla’s next-gen Roadster stole the show from the company’s electric truck at the new vehicle’s own launch event.
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