Tesla's second-generation Roadster will enter production in 2027 or 2028, CEO Elon Musk announced in November 2025—a decade after the car was first revealed and seven years past its original 2020 target.
Musk first showed the Roadster on November 16, 2017, at the Tesla Semi event, projecting availability by 2020 with 10,000 units in the first production run at a $200,000 starting price. Prospective buyers could pre-order by putting down $5,000 toward a $50,000 deposit.
The company claimed the car would accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds, faster than any street-legal production car at the time. Musk promised test drives would begin in late 2019.
Designed by Franz von Holzhausen, the new Roadster succeeds Tesla's 2008 model. Musk had floated the idea as early as 2011, proposing a return to production by 2014. Tesla teased a version in 2014, then referred to it as the Model R. In December 2016, Musk tweeted that a second Roadster was planned but "some years away."
Musk revealed a potential "SpaceX option package" in June 2018, featuring approximately ten cold gas thrusters to improve cornering, acceleration, top speed, and braking. The system would use an electric pump to recharge an air tank supplying compressed air to propulsion nozzles. The tanks—composite overwrapped pressure vessels also used in SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets—would replace the Roadster's back seats.
