Less than a week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned that his carmaker is in for a "few rough quarters," the company's executives are spinning up the rumor mill in an apparent effort to distract from its disastrous earnings results.
As Teslarati reports, Tesla senior vice president of powertrain, Lars Moravy, revealed that the carmaker is "gearing up for a super cool demo" of the company's long-awaited next-generation Roadster.
The news comes two weeks after Musk teased a "most epic demo ever by end of year."
"Ever," he added for emphasis at the time.
Tesla's next-gen Roadster has been in the works for at least eight years now. In 2018, Musk revealed a striking design of the company's fastest production car at its electric semi announcement, a sleek and extremely aerodynamic sports car that he said would have a 500-mile range and could go from 0 to 60 mph in a breakneck 1.9 seconds.
But many years of production hell and various spells of Musk sleeping at the firm's factory later, the Roadster has yet to show any real signs of life. Tesla has been quiet about the project, leaving diehard enthusiasts — who shelled out up to a $50,000 deposit — waiting.
The first-generation Roadster, a sports car based on the Lotus Elite chassis, entered production a whopping 17 years ago, so it's basically an antique at this point.
At this point, we can only speculate as to what Musk's "most epic demo" will turn out to be. Moravy remained vague, promising during a recent X livestream that "It’s going to be mind-blowing," as quoted by Teslarati. "We showed Elon some cool demos last week of the tech we’ve been working on, and he got a little excited."
Moravy also promised that the Roadster will be the "last best driver's car" before self-driving tech takes over for good.
One possibility is that we could finally see a glimpse of the Roadster's alleged hovering capabilities.
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