The 2020 Tesla Roadster Will Do 0-60mph In 1.9sec, 1/4-Mile In 8.8
0-60mph in 1.9 seconds is one hell of a figure to open with. It’s the benchmark sprint that Tesla says its new Roadster - which had a surprise appearance at the company’s semi truck unveiling - will be capable of when it arrives in 2020, and it’d make it not just the fastest accelerating electric vehicle, but the fastest accelerating production car. Period.
But that’s just a start. Tesla is also claiming a ‘250mph+’ top speed for the all-wheel drive sports car - unusually high for an EV. 0-100mph will happen in 4.2 seconds, and it’ll be able to run an 8.8 second quarter-mile. Oh, and it’ll have a 620 mile range.
It’s made possible by a 200kWh battery pack, but how Tesla will offset the inevitable high weight of such a thing, we’re not yet sure.
It’ll seat four people, and have a removal glass roof panel that can be stored in the boot. It looks like the rear seats are particularly small, but away from Porsche 911s, few super-fast sports cars have rear chairs of any kind.
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The Tesla Roadster is a car that makes some very hefty claims, so should we be skeptical? At least a little, we’d say - while this is a tantalising look at an electric sports car of the near future, the reality of the present is Tesla isn’t in the best health. It recently reported its biggest ever loss, and Model 3 production is way, way off the firm’s original targets.
Can it manage to sort out Model 3 ‘bottleneck’ issues, build its new semi-truck and put the fastest accelerating road car the world has ever seen into production? We sure hope so.
If all goes to plan, the Roadster will set you back $200,000, or $250,000 for one of the 1000 ‘Founders Series’ cars.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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BUT… can it handle well around corners,
however? That is the $200,000 question…
Everyones face during that 1.9 seconds
Poor Bugatti, first both their records are destroyed and now Tesla is saying that their truck is more aerodynamic than their Chiron.
Poor Bugatti…
I’m guesing the weight is heavy as a muscle car
But… but, it can’t say vroom bruum brap? No thank you. I would rather have an old Miata with some sound than this then.
Let’s all just take a moment to look at that torque figure. 10,000 nm. That torque which it makes to THE WHEELS. Of course it will drop off at high speed just like current Teslas, but the fact that it can deliver that is feat of engineering. I wouldn’t be surprised even with torque drop off if it still made 3000 nm of torque at the LEAST. Meaning this car could potentially break traction all the way to vmax.
But can it lap the Nurburgring without overheating?
How the hell does it manage to put 10,000 NM of torque to the ground?!?
And also RIP to everyone including myself who’s cars are going to get smoked by semi trucks ffs.
1.9 seconds? Only in the official tests. No matter how much torque you have, you can’t get under about 2.5 without racing tyres.
Calling Targa a Roadster is like calling a Peasant a Chicken… there’s a difference between the two. 😛