Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather
Article excerpt
Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from
Tesla is pushing back the reveal of its redesigned, second-generation Roadster once again, this time due to a forecast of severe weather. Originally slated for October 1 in Waco, Texas, the event is being pushed to October 15, Tesla said. "We've been tracking the weather closely with local meteorologists, but given the severe conditions predicted & because this event can only be held outdoors, we've made the difficult decision to reschedule," the company wrote in a post on X. The event presumably needs to be held outdoors because Tesla has been working on integrating cold gas thrusters from SpaceX that are supposed to make the Roadster fly in some capacity. This reveal has been delayed many times before, and Musk has pushed it for months altogether before this scheduled date. At one point, Musk even planned to hold the event on April Fools' day of this year. He said during Tesla's annual meeting in 2025 - the same one where he was awarded a $1 trillion pay package - that an April Fools' day event would offer him "some deniability" if it got delayed again. "Like, I could say I was just kidding," he said at the time. Tesla first showed off its concept of a second-generation Roadster in 2017 at an event where it debuted the Semi, the company's electric big rig. The new-look roadster was supposed to be the first supercar the company designed from the ground up, as the original...
Keep reading with a free account
The rest of this article, and every signal for Tesla, is in your free account.
