Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster, an EV Sports Car at Least $200,000

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- Elon Musk’s company and other automakers, like Jaguar and Bentley, are trying to sell very expensive electric cars to people who usually prefer gasoline-fueled luxury and performance.
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- Nine years after its reveal, the overdue Roadster is set to debut on Thursday to an EV market that has grown skeptical of electric hypercars.
- For a car that's supposed to be one of the fastest ever made, the new Tesla Roadster certainly took its sweet-ass time getting here. It's been nearly a decade since Elon Musk made the surprise announcement about plans to build a next-gen Roadster. Now, the Tesla Roadster is finally expected to…
- Elon Musk has been saying the demo might be a literal "banger."
- Elon Musk is set to reintroduce the Roadster sports car, possibly equipped with SpaceX thrusters.
- The new car used thrusters to leap over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 at a demo in Texas.
- The automaker unveiled its next luxury sports car at an event in Texas. It has thrusters on it that can send it airborne.
- Elon Musk promised a flying car. So the Tesla Roadster did exactly that. Tesla demonstrated its next-generation Roadster at an event in Waco, Texas, where the electric supercar drove upside down, briefly flew, and accelerated to 60mph in under a second. It was an impressive demonstration of a car…
- Tesla has finally unveiled the next-generation Roadster.
- Tesla's Roadster event was pretty exciting, to say the least.