Tesla Roadster (2020)
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| Overview | |
| Manufacturer | Tesla, Inc. |
| Model years | 2020 (to commence) |
| Designer | Franz von Holzhausen |
| Body and chassis | |
| Class | Sports car (S) |
| Body style | 2-door 2+2 coupe |
| Layout | Triple motor, all-wheel drive |
| Powertrain | |
| Electric motor | 3 electric motors (one front, two rear) |
| Battery | 200 kWh (720 MJ) |
| Electric range | 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| Chronology | |
| Predecessor | Tesla Roadster (2008) |
The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric battery-powered four-seater sports car prototype from Tesla, Inc. It was announced in November 2017 that it would be the fastest accelerating production car ever made.
Deliveries are scheduled for 2020 and not expected to begin before the Tesla Model Y launches. Elon Musk stated that the Roadster would be the quickest vehicle in the Tesla lineup, with a new acceleration mode called "Maximum Plaid", beyond the previously released 'Insane' and 'Ludicrous' acceleration modes found in the performance model versions of the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X.
The 2020-era Roadster was designed by Franz Von Holzhausen. Tesla Motors' first production car was the 2008 Roadster.
In 2011, at the end of the production run of the original Tesla Roadster, Elon Musk suggested that a new version of the Roadster, without the Lotus chassis, would return to production by 2014. The new Roadster was first teased in 2014.
In 2015, Musk suggested a new Roadster in 2019, capable of faster acceleration. A tweet by Elon Musk in December 2016 reconfirmed a second Roadster was in the works, but still "some years away".
The 2020 version of the Roadster was shown as a surprise at the end of the Tesla Semi event on November 16, 2017—during which a Roadster was driven out of the back of one of the semi-truck trailers to the song "Sabotage". Musk explained the concept as: "The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars. Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche." The car will retail for upwards of $200,000; test rides were given at the event for those who immediately paid the first $5,000 of a $50,000 deposit to pre-order the vehicle.
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