- A fresh face elon musk revealed the new roadster back in 2017
- Teslas Website still has a page dedicated to roadster reservations
- Is the promise of rockets and an ability to fly still?
Despite an original disclosure in 2017 and proposed sales on the 2020 sale, Tesla has not yet provided further information on its long-due Roadster 2 model, which was intended to annihilate 0-60 MPH SPRINT in 1.9 seconds and offer a 620-miles range from a single charge.
Shortly after its sparkling reveal eight years ago, the Tesla Web site began to take “fully refundable” reservations for a $ 200,000 ‘regular’ model or a fierce $ 250,000 deposit for one of 1,000 limited edition ‘Founder Series’ variant, as it did with cybertruck.
There is no official word about how much Tesla has made so far on Roadster 2 deposits, but it will continue to take your money despite no update from Elon Musk on a production date, full specification, final design or a final price pointed out by carscoops.
If you are angry enough, you can go to the Tesla US Web site, where you will be asked to hand over $ 5,000 of your hard -earned cash to just participate in the reservation list, where another $ 45,000 is required within 10 days to secure a build -castle.
Remember, there is no word about what the final costs will be if the new roadster is ever realized.
But back in 2017, Tesla fanatics went crazy after Musk’s wild promises of amazing acceleration times, honestly ridiculous range goals and a 250+mph top speed.
Serial Tesla-Tweeter, Sawyer Merritt, even suggested that Marque were targeting a sub-1 second 0-60 km / h sprint time, where Elon Musk apparently backed these allegations of X-on despite not explaining how physics would actually work.
What’s more, the divisive CEO then continued to explain that Roadster 2 would contain 10 small rocket rusters to help it achieve these eye -watering acceleration times and even make it fly … yes, fly.
Analysis: Tesla customers are willing to pay for promises
We all know that Tesla is the undisputed king of wild promises, but Roadster 2 can go down in history as one of the most long -term. Eight years later, and we are still not clearer whether it was all just a clear dream or not.
But for some Tesla fans, it has proven to be a nightmare with bulletin boards containing desperate pleas for help with potential legal procedures against the company as they endure to be among the first Roadster 2 customers.
Regardless of your attitude towards Tesla as a company, eight years is an honest ridiculous amount of time to wait for a product, especially one that has cost some people of $ 250,000.
As a Reddit commentator pointed out if the same customers plowed their Roadster deposits in the Tesla share at its value of $ 21 back in 2017, it would now be worth about $ 3 million. A long worth investing.
But this is not the only problem that has Irked Tesla customers, as Tesla’s full self-driving package was originally sold as real “hands-off, eyes” autonomous technology, despite the fact that there was no legal framework to allow such a thing.
Tesla quickly had to customize the wording and refer to its system as full self -driving (monitored), despite continuing to make customers pay for the technology. Its site makes it very clear that it does not offer refund.
It raises the question how much longer is Tesla’s greatest advocates who are willing to bank roll the company’s promised innovations? Especially if it still fails to deliver them.
