Elon Musk claims that Tesla’s always ‘coming next year’ Roadster can fly

Elon Musk is once more claiming that Tesla’s all the time “coming subsequent yr” Roadster will be capable of fly.

The prototype for the next-generation Tesla Roadster was first unveiled in 2017, and it was supposed to return into manufacturing in 2020, but it surely has been delayed yearly since then.

It has grow to be a kind of operating joke, and there are doubts that it’s going to ever come to market regardless of Tesla’s promise of dozens of free new Roadsters to Tesla owners who participated in its referral program years in the past.

However earlier this yr, CEO Elon Musk made some rare new comments about the next-gen Tesla Roadster, reviving hope that the automobile will lastly occur.

Musk mentioned that Tesla will unveil a much-needed up to date model of the next-gen Roadster for the reason that design of the yet-to-be-revealed automobile is already 7 years outdated, and he mentioned that automobile would come to market in 2025.

We haven’t heard something bout the automobile since and it wasn’t in Tesla’s shareholders meeting presentation.

Now, Musk has once more made a uncommon new remark concerning the new Tesla Roadster – saying that it “can fly”:

The CEO had beforehand talked about an up to date model of the brand new Tesla Roadster with one thing known as ‘SpaceX package deal’, which would come with chilly air thrusters that would theoretically make the automobile “fly”, or quite bounce and presumably hover, for brief distances.

Electrek’s Take

It’s fairly humorous that Elon is responding to a man utilizing the traditional expertise grievance that “we had been promised flying vehicles, however they’re by no means coming” with a automobile that Tesla has been promising yearly for the previous 4 years.

At this level, the Roadster, like FSD, is one thing that entered the “put up, or shut up” section.

Convey it or cease speaking about it, particularly the flying half. The Roadster was purported to be the “halo impact” for electrical vehicles. I’m undecided how the chilly air trusters play into this.