Tesla Roadster Oct 1st launch in Texas

[simonrockman]

A friend who has had a deposit on the new Roadster for nigh on 10 years - his was the first in Europe - has been invited to a launch event in Texas on Oct 1st. The original specs were Rimac type performance at a tenth of the price. Let's see what actually transpires. Tesla has the advantage of scale in the components.

[Nasty_Gash]

Time flys, only seems yesterday my work colleagues and I were gawping at this Tesla outside our office in Southwark.

[simonrockman]

The friend had one of these.

[David87]

Holy st. Tesla is mental.

[Gone fishing]

Holy st it’s still not going into production anytime soon. 1 to 2 years away is musk speak for kicking the can down the road.

In fact I’d suggest it’s never going to go into production.

[simonrockman]

I expect that the Performance and Thrust will, Rocket will not

[GTO-3R]

[MCBrowncoat]

A space frame with some thrusters and smoke canisters inside?

[RacerMike]

I find it amazing how many people will queue up to buy more snake oil from the snake oil salesman, when their original snake oil wasn't even delivered.

Cool demo. Zero relationship to anything you'll ever be able to buy. The 'Rocket' spec will go the same way as the extra battery pack for the Cybertruck. The 'base' thrusterless Roadster will come out in 4-6 years time, will cost 300k and will sell 10% of the suggested volume. The 'thrust' pack will be promised 'in 6 months' then will quietly be dropped and never come out too.

[Zcd1]

RacerMike said:

I find it amazing how many people will queue up to buy more snake oil from the snake oil salesman, when their original snake oil wasn't even delivered.

Cool demo. Zero relationship to anything you'll ever be able to buy. The 'Rocket' spec will go the same way as the extra battery pack for the Cybertruck. The 'base' thrusterless Roadster will come out in 4-6 years time, will cost 300k and will sell 10% of the suggested volume. The 'thrust' pack will be promised 'in 6 months' then will quietly be dropped and never come out too.

Really? So you have a deposit on one? No? Then what do you care?

Meanwhile, Tesla remains the best-selling EV on the market by far....

[Gone fishing]

Zcd1 said:

RacerMike said:

I find it amazing how many people will queue up to buy more snake oil from the snake oil salesman, when their original snake oil wasn't even delivered.

Cool demo. Zero relationship to anything you'll ever be able to buy. The 'Rocket' spec will go the same way as the extra battery pack for the Cybertruck. The 'base' thrusterless Roadster will come out in 4-6 years time, will cost 300k and will sell 10% of the suggested volume. The 'thrust' pack will be promised 'in 6 months' then will quietly be dropped and never come out too.

Really? So you have a deposit on one? No? Then what do you care?

Meanwhile, Tesla remains the best-selling EV on the market by far....

I took the comment to refer to the roadster which people are again putting deposits down for thinking what they saw last night might somehow make an appearance and not learning from those that put deposits down 9 years ago

As for the best selling EV brand, you’re forgetting BYD.

The more I see of the demo, the more I think it’s a SpaceX only demo, and given they’ve already landed rocket boosters on ships after being used, something which is genuinely impressive, flipping a box in the shape of a car through 360 degrees in a very premeditated move, and only when it’s not windy, is a bit underwhelming really.

[RacerMike]

Gone fishing said:

Zcd1 said:

RacerMike said:

I find it amazing how many people will queue up to buy more snake oil from the snake oil salesman, when their original snake oil wasn't even delivered.

Cool demo. Zero relationship to anything you'll ever be able to buy. The 'Rocket' spec will go the same way as the extra battery pack for the Cybertruck. The 'base' thrusterless Roadster will come out in 4-6 years time, will cost 300k and will sell 10% of the suggested volume. The 'thrust' pack will be promised 'in 6 months' then will quietly be dropped and never come out too.

Really? So you have a deposit on one? No? Then what do you care?

Meanwhile, Tesla remains the best-selling EV on the market by far....

I took the comment to refer to the roadster which people are again putting deposits down for thinking what they saw last night might somehow make an appearance and not learning from those that put deposits down 9 years ago

As for the best selling EV brand, you re forgetting BYD.

The more I see of the demo, the more I think it s a SpaceX only demo, and given they ve already landed rocket boosters on ships after being used, something which is genuinely impressive, flipping a box in the shape of a car through 360 degrees in a very premeditated move, and only when it s not windy, is a bit underwhelming really.

You understood what I meant

Looking at the three different models you can put a deposit on (one of which is by invitation only), I would strongly predict that the only one that ends up existing will be the base thrusterless Roadster which will be thoroughly outlcassed by absolutely every other EV supercar.

I then predict he will offer people who requested the cold thruster pack that supposedly achieves the sub 1sec acceleration, the base model car with 'an upgrade' when the 'small teathing problems are ironed out'. That will then quietly get dropped, or a very very limited number of 'thrust' models will be delivered which have probably half the power of the proposed solution here, don't achieve a sub 1s 0-60 and are more of a party piece than a practical application of thrust.

As you said. This was a space X demo of an object powered and controlled by Space X tech. The idea anyone will get a car that can hop is hilarious.

[Zcd1]

Nobody would actually expect to be able to buy the “flying” version. It’s the other versions that are interesting to consider:

https://insideevs.com/news/812242/tesla-roadster-2...

Edited by Zcd1 on Friday 16th October 17:59

[Gone fishing]

Zcd1 said:

Nobody would actually expect to be able to buy the flying version. It s the other versions that are interesting to consider:

https://insideevs.com/news/812242/tesla-roadster-2...

Edited by Zcd1 on Friday 16th October 17:59

So you agree all the trickery stunt stuff was irrelevant?

What we saw with respect to the actual car you’ll buy (and maybe one day take delivery of) is no more, arguably less, than what they showed of the original roadster 2 launch all those years ago, And we’re supposed to be impressed?

[Zcd1]

Gone fishing said:

So you agree all the trickery stunt stuff was irrelevant?

What we saw with respect to the actual car you ll buy (and maybe one day take delivery of) is no more, arguably less, than what they showed of the original roadster 2 launch all those years ago, And we re supposed to be impressed?

The new car looks cool to me.

Performance stats are much better, range stat much worse than what was previously announced. I’d argue that the performance matters far more than the range for a car like this.

But it matters not whether you or I am impressed - we’re not buying one, right?

If it delivers on the promised performance, even at double the originally announced price, it will be a bargain in that tiny market niche.