Musk is either an incredible visionary, an insane madman, or just an amazing self-promoter. He was on yesterday, and you can find it here. If there's a better, more compelling conversation than Elon Musk's semi-regular visits to Joe Rogan's podcast, I can't imagine what it could possibly be. The physics don’t add up without a healthy dose of fizzy lifting drink. Elon Musk Tells Joe Rogan He's Working on a Hover Car. At the same time, it’s pretty hard to imagine a hover car with Roadster’s planned performance. If we know anything about Musk, it’s certainly within his purview and abilities to come up with something wild that turns out to be a great success. All-wheel drive alone adds hundreds of pounds to a vehicle’s weight, enough to noticeably dent the gasoline mileage of a regular car that, you know, never hovers. Musk has bragged about the upcoming Roadster’s engine specs for years, or even the idea that the car will come standard with all-wheel drive. They might use lighter-than-air hydrogen as a propellant or have bodies made entirely of fiberglass, for example. Hypercars infamously cut weight by removing everything from the second seat to all interior upholstery, but an electric car can’t cut much battery weight the same way a gasoline BMW 7 series can’t take out the gas tank.įor this reason, most VTOLs focus on other means of thrust or have extremely light weight. A loded Tesla S and a loaded current-generation BMW 7 series, comparable full-size luxury cars, both top out at nearly 5,000 pounds. And it brings design challenges shared by all flying vehicles as well as unique ones for electric vehicles.įirst, heavy batteries have always kept Tesla vehicles, well, firmly on the ground-like any giant luxury car. This would make the new Roadster more like a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle instead of-or in addition to-a production car. What Musk has talked about, though, is a rocket thruster form of hovering. Personal and commercial drones use what look more like traditional fan blades, but these are still basically rotors. The classic is obviously the helicopter, whose rotors have cross sections similar to airplane wings and drive the cabin upward by playing with airflow. Plenty of vehicles manage something like hovering. Let’s say we develop a new safety code for regulating hovercars. ![]() How would you safety test something that has features combining rocket science with traditional consumer vehicles? The specialized jet cars that break land speed records, like the one that killed Jessi Combs in 2019, aren’t regulated by any consumer group or safe to drive on regular roads. The idea of a hovercar raises a lot of questions. Musk has promised the new Roadster since 2017, with a missed original goal of 2020. Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.The planned hypercar iteration of Tesla’s original vehicle could have thrusters instead of backseats, Futurism reports. Not saying the next gen Roadster special upgrade package *will* definitely enable it to fly short hops, but maybe …Ĭertainly possible. In the meantime, you can read Musk’s tweets in question below. Consider us intrigued, but we’ll have to wait until 2020 to understand exactly what this all means. Apparently, the car will be outfitted with state-of-the-art “rocket tech”, which Musk confidently claims will revolutionize transportation. Not much is currently known about the Roadster’s potential hover ability, but Musk is certainly not afraid to raise our expectations. If users are willing to upgrade their purchase to a “special option package”, they could be rolling in a flying car. On Monday evening, the tech wizard took to his Twitter account and teased a monumental feature that would be included in the upcoming Roadster model. Tesla’s green sports car may have already been one of the decade’s most anticipated vehicles, but Elon Musk is upping the ante yet again this week. Thankfully, all of the hype seems to be warranted and the car’s pre-orders are already being filled despite its hefty $200,000 price tag. Musk eventually delivered on the promise by rolling out in a slick red supercar to the tune of Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage”. After presenting the Tesla Semi truck to an eager crowd, the company alluded to one more special surprise. In fact, the Roadster’s highlight specs have prompted Tesla to name it the “quickest car in the world”.Ĭompany founder and CEO, Elon Musk, debuted the Roadster at a press event in Hawthorne, California where he set up an epic show in true Tesla fashion. The second generation Roadster was announced earlier this month and is already grabbing headlines for its impressive acceleration and souped up electric engine. ![]() If you’re looking to purchase a brand new vehicle, you may want to wait and save up for the Tesla Roadster.
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