Elon Musk hints that pending Tesla Roadster could fly
A flying car may be on the cards for the pending Tesla Roadster after Elon Musk played it coy in a recent interview. He also mentioned it could have a 0 – 100 km/h sprint time of a second!
For some reason, the automotive world has always been infatuated with blending the borders between road-driven vehicles and flight. There have been attempts in the past, some with more success than others and now it seems Elon Musk and his next-generation Tesla Roadster will endeavour for the same goal.
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In a recent interview about the pending Tesla Roadster, Musk was asked about how the company plans on overcoming the immensely popular Cybertruck, of which over a million orders have already been placed. Despite the South African-born entrepreneur’s praise for the Tesla team that created this ‘once-a-decade product’ which he claims is the firm’s best offering right now, there seems to be something massive brewing for the pending Roadster replacement.
Prior to the interview on X, Musk had made it public that the next iteration model of the nameplate which had kicked it all off for Tesla would have some features ‘that have never existed before’ on a car courtesy of a collaboration with SpaceX.
When asked if this collaboration would yield a flying car by the interviewer, Musk clamoured up before responding ‘maybe’ and ‘it is not out of the question’.
The Don Lemon Show episode 1: Elon Musk
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(02:23) News on X
(10:07) Donald Trump and Endorsing a Candidate
(13:04) The New Tesla Roadster
(16:46) Relaxation and Video Games
(17:54) Tweeting and Drug Use
(23:19) The Great Replacement Theory
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Prying slightly further, Musk mentioned it wouldn’t have big wings, nor propellers but it does away with the conventional steering wheel in favour of a drive-by-wire yoke system which in Musk’s words ‘is kinda like the way modern-day aircraft are controlled’.
Playing it coy, Musk added that the collaboration between his two entities would create something that ‘is not really even a car’ and he believes no other companies would ever dare to make something like the pending Roadster ever again. Regardless of what it is, he further added that it will have the ability to sprint from 0 – 100 km/h in less than a second.
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