Tesla Roadster Everything We Know: 0.55 Seconds, 1 MW, Still No Price
Everything we know about the Tesla Roadster: 1 MW rear drive, 500 kW charging, fans, thrusters, the cabin, conflicting specs and still no price.
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Everything we know about the Tesla Roadster: 1 MW rear drive, 500 kW charging, fans, thrusters, the cabin, conflicting specs and still no price.
Tesla's Roadster wing has road, high-downforce and low-drag positions. Tesla claims near-F1 downforce, and a Tesla patent for a matching wing says 700 kg.
Tesla says the Roadster's battery and drive unit make 1 MW, a third more than the Model S Plaid, at half the mass. Two rear motors do all the work.
Tesla fixed the new Roadster's seat in one position to save weight. Sawyer Merritt's videos show a screen with wing settings and thruster psi.
Tesla Roadster thrusters run on compressed air stored in COPV tanks. A video shows the tank and four nozzles, and a Tesla photo shows 5,500 psi.
SpaceX posts Q3 results October 20, one day before Tesla on October 21. Its last report put $15.8 billion into AI capex in a single quarter.
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.
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