- An Elon Musk with a fresh face revealed the new roadster in 2017
- Tesla’s website always has a page dedicated to Roadster reservations
- Are the promise of rockets and the capacity of theft still hold?
Despite an original unveiling in 2017 and suggested the date of the sale of 2020, Tesla has not yet provided additional information on its model of Roadster 2 expected for a long time – which was to erase the 0-60 MPH sprint in 1.9 seconds and offer a 620 mile beach from a single load.
Shortly after its sumptuous revelation eight years ago, the Tesla website began to take “fully reimbursable” reservations for a regular “ regular ” model of $ 200,000 or a high milk of $ 250,000 for one of the 1,000 variants of “founding series of limited edition founders, as it did with the Cybertruck.
There is no official word on the quantity of Tesla that Tesla has done so far on the Roadster 2 deposits, but he will continue to take your money, despite no Ulon Musk update on a production date, a complete specification, a final design or a final price, as indicated by Carscoops.
If you are angry enough, you can go to the Tesla Us website, where you will be asked to give $ 5,000 from your hard -earned money to simply reach the reservation list, where additional $ 45,000 will be required within 10 days to secure a construction niche.
Remember, there is no words on the final cost if the new roadster never materializes.
But in 2017, Tesla fanatics have gone crazy about the wild promises of Musk of fantastic acceleration time, frankly ridiculous range targets and a top speed of 250 + MPH.
Tesla’s serial tweeter, Sawyer Merritt, even suggested that the brand was aiming for a sprint time from 0 to 60 MPH less than 1, with Elon Musk apparently supporting these claims on X – although it is not explained how physics would really work.
In addition, the CEO of division then explained that the roadster 2 would have 10 small rocket propellers to help it reach these attractive acceleration times and even will fly … Yes, fly.
Analysis: Tesla customers are ready to pay for promises
We all know that Tesla is the undisputed king of wild promises, but Roadster 2 could fall into history as one of the most eccentric. Eight years later and we are still not clear about the fact that it was only one lucid dream or not.
But for some fans of Tesla, it turned out to be a nightmare, with electronic babibllards containing desperate pleads to obtain aid concerning potential legal procedures against the company, because they hold among the first Roadster 2 customers.
No matter your position on Tesla as a business, eight years is a frankly ridiculous time to wait for a product, especially the one that cost $ 250,000.
As a commentator from Reddit pointed out, if these same customers plowed their Roadster deposits in Tesla shares at its value of $ 21 in 2017, it was now worth around $ 3 million. A much more worthy investment.
But this is not the only problem that thwarted Tesla’s customers, because Tesla’s complete autonomous package was originally sold as real autonomous “hands on eyes” technologies, despite the fact that no legal framework is placed to allow such a thing.
Tesla quickly had to adapt the wording and designate its system as a complete autonomy (supervised), despite the continuation of making customers pay for technology. His website very clearly indicates that he will not offer refunds.
This raises the question, how long are Tesla’s greatest defenders willing to finance the promised innovations of the company? Especially if he continues not to deliver them.
