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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 Roadster is one of two formerly crewed vehicles (albeit not a crewed space vehicle) derelict in solar orbit, joining LM-4 Snoopy, Apollo 10's lunar module ascent stage. [33] [34] Also, included was Arch Mission 1.2, which is a crystal disk containing Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of books, on the Tesla Roadster. [35]
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 ...
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It would be accurate to say the car's sound does not travel in space. --Frmorrison 18:13, 8 February 2018 (UTC) Someone else brought up cosmic dust near the speaker. I think it would be safe and accurate to say no human on-board would be able to hear it through the vacuum of space. -- Green C 18:21, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
In 2006, Tesla announced it would sell the Signature 100 Roadster for $100,000, and by the next year it had pre-sold 570 of them. The cars became available in 2008, the year Musk took over as CEO.
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]