Musk is back in business: Tesla again asks for $50,000 to pre-order the new Roadster announced 9 years ago

For Tesla, the first-generation Roadster model is iconic because it allowed it to make a statement and define the path of modern electric vehicles. Elon Musk announced the second-generation car back in the fall of 2017, promising to start production in 2020, but the deadline has been changing since then. This does not prevent the company from reopening and accepting an advance payment of $50,000.

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Let us remind you that in 2017, that’s exactly how much everyone who wanted to get a second-generation Roadster over the first generation had to pay upfront. Furthermore, if any customer has $250,000 to spare and is completely impatient, that’s how much Tesla is prepared to accept from customers who want a car from one of the first limited edition Founders Series. Some of the “waiters” finally got fed up with the last nearly nine years and tried to get their money back, which was done with obvious effort and expectation. New applications for the Tesla Roadster have not been accepted for a long time.

As expected, the company has scheduled a reveal of the next phase of the second-generation Tesla Roadster on October 1. Recently explained on Tesla’s official website Elektrekthe Tesla Roadster is once again available for prepayment. Even the base payment amount remains the same: $5,000 can be written off when you submit your application, and the remaining $45,000 can be transferred to Tesla within the next 10 days. By the way, if you reject your application before the second installment of the advance is transferred, the $5,000 will be automatically refunded. Tesla only confirms Tesla Roadster reservations after transferring and receiving $45,000 in excess of the first payment.

Let us remember that in 2017, the second-generation Tesla Roadster impressed people with its promised acceleration time of less than 2 seconds from 100 kilometers per hour, nearly 1000 kilometers of power reserve and a top speed of about 400 kilometers per hour. Then Elon Musk started promising to use nozzles or even a kind of levitation to control thrust vectors and acceleration. Since then, many Chinese competitors have appeared for the Roadster with such potential characteristics, some of which even borrowed the idea of ​​a jet accelerator but never entered the stage of commercial implementation.