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Subj: Flying Roadster?
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If Elon Musk is joking about Tesla’s plans to create a hoveringRoadster, he still isn’t ready to come clean about it.For more than a year, Musk has been touting plans to add an optional“SpaceX packageö to an upcoming version of Tesla’s Roadster. Thispackage would replace the vehicle’s backseats with cold air thrusters to“dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking & cornering,öMusk tweeted in June 2018. He added that “Maybe they will even allow aTesla to fly…öOn Thursday, Electrek Editor-in-Chief Fred Lambert took to Twitter toask Musk about the possibility of a Tesla Roadster hover test.Musk’s response: “Maybe end of next year.öThat’s likely a bittersweet answer for anyone dying to wrap their handsaround the steering wheel of a hovering Roadster.As Electrek pointed out, if Tesla isn’t even planning to test the systemfor another ~18 months, it likely wouldn’t go into production until 2021at the earliest. And even if the tests do happen next year, there’s achance they’ll bring nothing but bad news, revealing that such a systemsimply isn’t feasible.On the other hand, the fact that Musk still has some sort of expectationof moving forward with his hovering Roadster means the dream lives on —or at least the joke does, anyways.
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