In addition to stratospheric acceleration, Elon Musk promises that the future Tesla Roadster will be able to fly. What credit should be given to this latest statement from the Tesla boss?
The future Tesla Roadster looks like a unicorn, including the wings, apparently. Elon Musk takes great pleasure in promising extraordinary performance to this future model from the American manufacturer. Except that for the moment, this model is still missing from the Tesla range, although this is not for lack of promising it since 2017.
It was in a response on the new Tesla Roadster will be able to fly “. A publication which, as always, does not fail to exult the fans and arouse the mockery of the most skeptical.
The Roadster for the end of 2024?
During the shareholders conference on June 13, Tesla presented the Tesla range with three models camouflaged under a sheet. This raised further concern among some fans of the brand, as the Tesla Roadster seemed to be missing.
The robotaxi, presented on August 8, is necessarily under one of the veils. There must also be the van, announced during a previous presentation. The third model is more undecided: could it finally be the Roadster, supposed to be launched at the end of 2024? However, the postponements of this project have been so numerous that doubts about this model arriving in 2025 are strong.
Customers don’t ask for that much
In February, Elon Musk reignited the excitement around the Roadster by declaring an association with SpaceX and unprecedented performance. He communicated that the Tesla Roadster could go from 0 to 100 km/h in less than a second, which inevitably caught the attention of specialists, as it seemed unrealistic.
Customers interested in the Tesla Roadster would especially like to receive the car for which they have put down a deposit of €43,000 for several years. This is one of the criticisms that appears following Elon Musk’s publication on ?
If the Roadster flies like the Cybertruck floats…
The experience acquired over the years tells us that we must be wary of the thunderous declarations of Elon Musk. Especially regarding the characteristics of its future models. A few months before the first deliveries of Tesla’s Cybertruck, Elon Musk announced that it would be able to float to cross a canal. The final version of the model can ride in a certain amount of water, but it is not designed to float in a canal, unlike the Chinese YangWang U8 SUV.
So, when Elon Musk announces that the future Roadster will be able to fly, it is better to take the statement with a little perspective. Developing drone cars, some Chinese manufacturers like Xpeng are seriously looking into it, but it has nothing to do with a car such as the Roadster was presented as a prototype.
As the public jokes on the social network Some illustrate it with the video of a rental Model S which had glided through the streets of San Francisco before crashing with irreparable damage.
Tesla would be better off focusing on releasing a functional vehicle than promising insane features, which only interest a few fans as pert as the brand’s boss. If Elon Musk hopes to boost the stock price with untenable promises, he is taking big risks.
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