Tesla's new Roadster unveiled by Elon Musk

Are you going to see some crazy stuff tonight

We need an audience to prove that it's not AI or SI

So you guys can tell people you saw it with your eyes. Because what you see with your eyes you will not believe

But you're going to see the results of what happens when you have a collaboration

with the world's best car company and the world's best rocket company

Should we count it down? Four, three, two, one. I'm sorry

I don't know

Well a friend of mine Peter Thiel once said that the future promised us flying cars but instead we got 140 characters Well not anymore Exactly

That's not the last thing you'll see, by the way. To do that, we have a fan suction system on the bottom of the car that can pull up to two Gs in order to make the car go upside down

and then we borrowed some technology from SpaceX to do the rest

Yeah. I mean, this car really sucks. This car could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch

It could suck a tennis ball through a hose pipe. And it could stick upside down

Now, you might say, like, how often do you want to stick upside down in a car

Maybe not that often. But it actually has an actual benefit on the track or just driving where the downforce of the car means you can corner incredibly well

Like you can corner like it looks like you're braking physics because the car sticks to the ground so hard

The car has obviously attitude control thrusters and main thrusters in the rear

So it can basically fly like a rocket. And it could do rolls, it could do like crazy gymnastics, whatever you want really

Now, I should say that this is not necessarily a safety-optimized car, okay

But it takes the fun meter to 11 out of 10. I mean, that was just a little flight

Let's do a longer flight. All right, see what we got set up

I mean I seen a lot of things but I never seen that before Tony Hawk would be proud we call that the kickflip Yeah I think we could have cleared more than our whole fleet

Yeah, we can go further. Like, this will be an actual car that's on the roads

You know, I'm not sure it's necessarily legal in all jurisdictions, but, like, there will be such a car that someone can own

so it's going to be pretty wild that you can have a rocket car

It's using an advanced ultra-high-pressure air tank, so the car can recharge its air tank

so it's not like you need special propellant or anything like that

It literally is just going to puff itself up and be able to do these maneuvers whenever you'd like

So now you get an up-close look at the new roadster. Thank you, Andy and Lamar

Those guys are kicking ass on our engineering team making this all happen. We can see the car

Very clean. It's a nice, clean aesthetic. Like I said, we leaned into a little bit of some of the aerospace aesthetics

It's a two-seater. I'll open it up. As you can see, two guys got out of it

We leaned into lightweight as well, so the seats are molded into the chassis

It's a steer-by-wire system. so we have a steer-by-wire yoke, steer-by-wire brake, steer-by-wire throttle

and as we get to the rear of the car this is where a lot of the action, you can't see it but online

in the diffuser area is where the thrusters are, the fans are and this is kind of the business end

of the car. But the car can transform because we wanted to make a pretty car but also a car that could deliver

amazing downforce. So I'll turn the fans on for you. Sorry, it's a little loud here

But as Elon said, this car is meant to be the best driver's car

And to do that, we wanted to break the laws of physics. We put the fan sucker system on there to give us traction to be able to corner at greater

than two G's and accelerate with all the traction that goes beyond the tires, which is typically

one to 1 G You see here we have two modes We have a high downforce mode and what the car is in now is a low drag mode And the fan system also has two modes

It can suck the car down at low speed to give us traction when we need it. And at high speed, we'll open up the front and rear parts of the suction system to create even more flow underneath the car

So the rear wing has a variable pitch, so it can adjust the downforce dynamically

and we'll do it automatically based on what it calculates you need when you're going around the track

like this goes fast we wanted

All right. One second. Right

You said one second. Elon mentioned the rocket thrusters. You can see the thrust is exiting the back of the four thrusters faster than the speed of sound

So you see the mock diamonds. It actually creates over 80 kilonewtons of thrust

Yeah. I mean, there are cars. and then there's one car that has mock diamonds

I think we broke the system. We didn't do it in 0.17 seconds

Yeah, okay, that's... 0.1 seconds, I think we'd destroy the human if we did that

Ah, there you go, there you go. 0.81 seconds. There we go

Nice work. But yeah, the car can go over 230 miles per hour

Hopefully we can get even faster. Definitely much faster than that. How fast

Well, I think you've got to go at least, you've got to crack halfway to the speed of sound, I think

Okay. Yeah. Mach 0.5, maybe a little higher. We entered production in 2028, actually

Actually, for real. I think we might have one more little thing

Should we do it? Yeah, yeah, sure. Okay. Let's do the last thing