THE OCTOBER 15 REVEAL / MCGREGOR, TEXAS
FIELD NOTES — 001BEYOND
THE ROAD.
Official Tesla video, displayed through YouTube’s embedded player. Watch at the source ↗
An electric sports car.
An aerospace experiment.
A very different kind of comeback.
Watch the official demonstration in the player above
Company-reported 0–60 mph run
Not independently verifiedVery different configurations
Performance / Thrust / RocketProduction target
A target, not a delivery guaranteeA NEW CHAPTER
The rules
just got rewritten.
On October 15, Tesla brought the Roadster back to the stage at SpaceX’s McGregor facility. This time, the spectacle left the ground.
Controlled thruster-assisted maneuvers, an upside-down ramp demonstration and a claimed sub-second sprint made the headlines. The road to a production car still has open questions.
The 0.81-second figure is Tesla’s reported result. The timing method and whether all footage was live remain unresolved here. Source ↗
Inside the demonstrations ↗See the newly revealed Roadster.
Explore current car imagery at the original publisher. Photographs are not copied into this edition.
Open Tesla’s gallery ↗Reveal images and original credits ↗
WITH AN ESCAPE VECTOR.
CHOOSE YOUR ORBIT
Compare all specs ↗Three ways to
push the limit.
Performance
<1.6s0–60 mph target
Electric performance. Active aero. Suction-assisted downforce.
↗02 / TESLA CLAIMThrust
<0.9s0–60 mph target
Add cold-gas acceleration thrusters to the equation.
↗03 / AIR READYRocket
<0.59s0–60 mph target
A single-seat flight-system concept. Invitation only.
↗All performance figures are Tesla claims, not independent test results. Rocket is not approved for public roads. Source ↗