- A fresco by Elon Musk revealed the new Roadster in 2017
- The Tesla website still has a page dedicated to Roadster reservations
- Is the promise of rockets and the ability to fly still?
Despite an original presentation in 2017 and suggested a date for sale of 2020, Tesla has not yet delivered more information about its long-term Roadster 2 model, one that was scheduled to erase the 0-60 MPH sprint in 1.9 seconds and offer a range of 620 miles from a single position.
Shortly after its dazzling revelation eight years ago, the Tesla website began to take “totally reimbursable” reservations for a ‘regular’ model of $ 200,000 or a considerable deposit of $ 250,000 for one of the 1,000 variants of ‘Founders’ series of limited edition, as it did with Cybertruck.
There is no official word about how much Tesla has so far made in Roadster 2 deposits, but will continue to take your money, although there are no updates of Elon Musk on a production date, full specification, 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 deliver $ 5,000 of your cash won with so much effort to join the reservations list, where $ 45,000 will be required within 10 days to ensure a compilation slot.
Remember, it is not known what the final cost will be if the new Roadster ever materializes.
But in 2017, Tesla fans went crazy for the wild Musk promises of fantastic acceleration times, frankly ridiculous rank objectives and a maximum speed of 250+mph.
The Tesla Tweeter in series, Sawyer Merritt, even suggested that the brand was pointing to a 0-60 mph sub-1 sprint time, with Elon Musk apparently supporting those statements in X, despite not explaining how physics would really work.
In addition, the divisive CEO then explained that the Roadster 2 would have 10 small rocket propellants to help you reach those striking acceleration times and even fly … yes, fly.
Analysis: Tesla clients are willing to pay for promises
We all know that Tesla is the undisputed king of wild promises, but Roadster 2 could go down in history as one of the most crazy. Eight years later and we still are not clear whether or not everything was a lucid dream.
But for some Tesla fans, it has proven to be a nightmare, with message boards that contain desperate help of help with respect to possible legal procedures against the company, since they resist being among the first customers of Roadster 2.
No matter its position on Tesla as a business, eight years is a frankly ridiculous amount of time to expect a product, especially one that has cost some people $ 250,000.
As a Reddit commentator pointed out, if those same clients crossed their deposits in Roadster in Tesla’s shares with its value of $ 21 in 2017, it would now be worth around $ 3 million. A much more valuable investment.
But this is not the only problem that has bothered Tesla’s customers, since Tesla’s full autonomous driving package was originally sold as a genuine autonomous technology of “without a view”, although there is no legal framework to allow such a thing.
Tesla quickly had to adapt the writing and refer to its system as a complete autonomous (supervised) driving, despite continuing to make customers pay for technology. Its website makes it very clear that it will not offer reimbursements.
The question is raised, how much more are Tesla’s greatest defenders willing to finance the company’s promised innovations? Especially if he continues not complying with them.
