When Tesla unveiled its (TSLA) planned roadster successful 2017, it rolled onstage successful heavy reddish pinch rock-and-roll blaring, CEO Elon Musk mounting a target of 2020 for its availability. That didn't happen, but connected Tuesday Musk said it could get adjacent year.
"We've completed astir of nan engineering, and I deliberation location are still immoderate upgrades we want to make to it, but we expect to beryllium successful accumulation pinch nan Roadster adjacent year," Musk said during a convention telephone pinch investors past night, a transcript of which was provided by AlphaSense.
The roadster has eager specs: The institution is advertizing a title to 60 miles per hr successful nether 2 seconds, much than 600 miles of range, a apical velocity supra 250 miles per hr and seats for four. A preservation costs $50,000, pinch nan conveyance expected to costs respective times that.
Musk had earlier this twelvemonth said to expect an "unveiling" this twelvemonth and a extremity of shipping vehicles successful 2025.
The roadster news was portion of a raft of updates Musk and Tesla offered Tuesday pursuing nan announcement of its latest quarterly results.
Tesla banal was precocious down much than 10% successful Wednesday trading, pinch nan shares extending their move backmost into nan reddish for 2024 aft precocious moving backmost supra that line.