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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spacesuit , dubbed "Starman", occupies the driver's seat.
The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sports car, that is based on the Lotus Elise chassis, and was produced by Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) from 2008 to 2012.The Roadster was the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge. [7]
The Tesla Roadster is an upcoming battery electric four-seater sports car to be built by Tesla, Inc. The company said it will be capable of accelerating from 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds, [1] [2] [3] which would be quicker than any street legal production car to date at its announcement in November 2017. [4]
Tesla Roadster may refer to: Tesla Roadster (first generation), an electric sports car produced by Tesla Motors between 2008 and 2012 Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, a first generation Tesla Roadster that was launched into space in February 2018; Tesla Roadster (second generation), an upcoming sports car in development by Tesla, Inc.
Tesla says the Roadster will accelerate to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds and to 100 mph in 4.2 seconds. It also says the triple-motor, all-wheel-drive car will complete a quarter-mile sprint in 8.8 ...
The dummy payload for this test flight was a sports car, Tesla Roadster, owned by Elon Musk. SpaceX stated that the payload had to be "something fun and without irreplaceable sentimental value". [1] Sitting in the driver's seat of the Roadster is "Starman", a dummy astronaut clad in a SpaceX spacesuit. [25]
The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sportscar with 244 miles (393 km) (EPA) range. On November 30, 2007, Tesla released a press release titled "Martin Eberhard, Co-founder of Tesla Motors, to Transition to Advisory Board." [15] Fortune magazine reported in December 2007 that chairman Elon Musk had asked Eberhard to leave.
The insignia of Tesla Motors as seen on a Tesla Roadster Sport. Musk consistently maintained that Tesla's long-term strategic goal was to create affordable mass market electric vehicles. [18] Tesla's goal was to start with a premium sports car aimed at early adopters and then moving into more mainstream vehicles, including sedans and affordable ...