Tesla Roadster could be crazy fast — Musk claims 0-60 in 1.1 seconds

Tesla Roadster could exist crazy fast — Musk claims 0-sixty in ane.one seconds

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The Tesla Roadster 2022 is shaping upward to be one of Tesla's well-nigh impressive cars to date. But the latest word is it may be a piffling besides impressive to believe, with claims the electric automobile may be able to striking 0-sixty mph in 1.ane seconds.

This is according to Elon Musk, who was asked almost this particular rumor on Twitter, and claimed that aye, the Roadster can hitting 60mph in 1.one seconds. That's provided you have the "SpaceX rocket thruster package" beginning.

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Without the SpaceX rocket thruster parcel, the second gen Roadster is looking at a 0-60 fourth dimension of 1.nine seconds. That's roughly the same as the Tesla Model S Plaid, which is now expected to arrive in June.

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Information technology all sounds pretty unbelievable. 1.1 seconds is basically nothing, and the comparisons to a rollercoaster are probably pretty apt. Though somehow we doubt that Elon will have been allowed to add together rockets to the new Roadster, something he claims to have thought about in the past.

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I can't imagine any earth governments volition let Musk let his cars "wing curt hops" or power themselves with literal rockets. Clearly that was a joke, or just another case of Elon forgetting Twitter isn't really a tool for brainstorming crazy ideas.

In any case it's worth noting that the 0-sixty in 1.1 seconds wouldn't really exist 0-60 in that short space of fourth dimension. Not if Tesla is measuring that speed the same way it measures acceleration on its current line-up. Instead of dispatch from the starting betoken, Tesla measures dispatch after the get-go foot of travel — a organisation besides used in elevate racing.

Information technology fifty-fifty says as much on the Tesla website, and Engineering Explained has a video breaking this system downward. But, in simple terms, if the Roadster manages to reach 6 miles per hour in a single foot, Tesla ends up measuring the vi-lx acceleration time.

Screengrab from Tesla website about Model S Plaid and Plaid+ acceleration — (Image credit: Tesla)

That'due south not to say doing that in one.i seconds isn't impressive, just not as impressive every bit actually striking that speed from a consummate stop.

Production on the Tesla Roadster is fix to begin in early 2022, and is tipped to be able to attain upwards to 620 miles of range on a single charge. Summit speed is expected to exist around the region of 250 mph.

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