Tesla Roadster 2028 News

Tesla has built a literal Batmobile that can hang upside down, fly and land, with edgy aggressive styling. This is the long promised Roadster, almost a decade after it was first shown in concept form. At a cult-like event at SpaceX's facility in Texas, Tesla's supremo Elon Musk, Head of Design Franz von Holzhausen and Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy put on a show of the "world's best driver's car". The Roadster can hang upside down due to extreme downforce, which Musk said makes it the best car to corner and will “crush every record”. Tesla demonstrated the Roadster flying, doing a barrel roll, or kick-flip as Musk called it, and landing successfully with the help of actual rocket thrusters. Tesla has harnessed the power of Musk’s rocket company SpaceX to build the Roadster. It doesn’t use rocket fuel to undertake its airborne acrobatics, instead it uses compressed air for its thrusters. “It can fly like a rocket, can roll, do gymnastics and takes the fun metre to 11 out of 10,” said Musk. Musk said the Roadster was “unlike any car you’ve seen before” and ”better than any James Bond car”. It is a two-seater, seats are built into the chassis and it uses steer-by-wire. Lars Moravy said it is meant to be the best driver’s car, and the company had broken the laws of physics and it can corner at more than 2.0G. Thanks to its compressed air thrusters it can break the speed of sound and can hit 60mph (96km/h) in under one second. It did it in 0.81 seconds during a live test. “This will be long-term the only manually-driven car that Tesla makes,” Musk said. “If you are going to have only one manually-driven car let’s take it way past the limits." It was first revealed in concept form back in 2017, along with the Tesla Semi truck. One of those is already on the road. Those who have put down a deposit on the Roadster, which cost more than $75,000 in Australia, only have a little bit longer to wait, with Musk revealing the start of production. “(It will) enter production in 2028... actually,” said Musk.