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In March 2017, SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, said that because the launch of the new Falcon Heavy vehicle was risky, it would carry the "silliest thing we can imagine". [9] In June 2017, one of his Twitter followers suggested that the silly thing be a Tesla Model S, to which Musk replied: "Suggestions welcome!" [10] [11] [12] [13]
For 2013, Tesla aimed to quadruple that. Tesla built its 1,000th Model S by October 31, 2012, [220] and delivered 2,650 units by the end of the year. [221] In the first half of the subsequent year, 10,050 units were delivered to customers. [222] The Model S was the first vehicle by Tesla produced at the Fremont facility. [223]
The vehicle will have a 200 kWh battery, twice the capacity of the largest battery in an existing Tesla car (the Tesla Model S or Model X), and much larger than the 123 kWh battery of the Tesla Cybertruck. The Roadster will have a 620 miles (1,000 km) range on a single charge at highway speeds. Tesla said the torque at the wheels was 7,400 lb ...
The 2008 Tesla Roadster hitched a ride Feb. 6, 2018 on a Falcon Heavy launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon ...
A SpaceX static fire test of a single Raptor engine on the Super Heavy Booster 7 at its Starbase site in Boca Chica. ... it still remains to be seen if Tesla will appeal the Delaware judge’s ...
Elon Musk greets U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.
On April 20, 2017, Tesla recalled 53,000 (~70%) of the 76,000 Model S and Model X vehicles it sold in 2016 due to faulty parking brakes. [ 108 ] In October 2017, Tesla issued an 11,000 vehicle recall for a faulty locking cable mechanism in the second-row seats, estimating that about 3% of recalled vehicles may be affected.
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has held up his closely held space transportation company SpaceX as a model for taking his loss-making electric car company private, saying he ...