Tesla Roadster Kickflips Over a Semi, Then Asks $50,000 With No Price
Tesla's new Roadster flipped over a Semi on SpaceX-developed thrusters. Reservations cost $50,000, or $250,000 for Thrust, and Tesla lists no price.
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Tesla's new Roadster flipped over a Semi on SpaceX-developed thrusters. Reservations cost $50,000, or $250,000 for Thrust, and Tesla lists no price.
Tesla will livestream its Roadster event Thursday at 8:55 p.m. Eastern. The teaser hides a Back to the Future line on the car's rear.
Tesla moved its outdoor Roadster demo from October 1 to October 15, citing severe weather. The forecast backs it up. The nine-year wait is another story.

Tesla put October 1 on the Roadster, nine years after collecting $250 million in Founders Series deposits. At least the fourth date since November.

Court records show Angstrom, the supplier holding Tesla's Cybertruck tooling, lost a $30 million appeal in February and put a subsidiary through Chapter 11.

Tesla wants an emergency order to pull Cybertruck tooling from Angstrom Automotive's Troy, Texas plant. Replacement tooling would take five to six months to build.
A drone flyover of Gigafactory Texas on July 18, 2026 captured 245 Tesla Cybercab units staged across Austin factory lots, more than double the 102 cars observers counted five weeks earlier.

Tesla's Texas robotaxi tracker jumped by 58 vehicles on July 15, pushing the company's registered fleet in the state to 175 and marking its biggest one-day increase in the public Texas DMV-based tracker yet.
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