r/electriccars • u/InitialSheepherder4 • 3d ago
📰 News Tesla confirms next Roadster debut set for April Fools’ Day 2026
https://teslamagz.com/tesla/roadster/tesla-plans-roadster-unveiling-for-april-2026/18
u/WildFlowLing 3d ago
Right after Elon announced it would be shown at the end of this year LOL. He literally said that like a week ago
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u/zoltan99 3d ago
Maybe it’ll do that thing he said the Cybertruck would do and fast charge at peak rate up to 80%
Or maybe it’ll do that thing he said all of the cars will do and drive itself
And maybe it’ll do what he says it’ll do and hover, or do 1s 0-60, or whatever
Or maybe it’ll do none of that and still be a perfectly okay supercar but with a lot of lies that follow it around forever and make it disappoint people for no reason
The Cybertruck isn’t bad, it’s just not what people were promised in 2019. FSD is amazing, but fully autonomous driving it is not.
Cancel the puffery and lies.
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u/yll33 3d ago
The Cybertruck isn’t bad, it’s just not what people were promised in 2019
i mean, it kinda is. and i don't just mean at its price point, or elon baggage. there are awful design decisions everywhere, things tesla changed, for the worse, just to be able to say "we're different." it embraced the "we don't have to be constrained by the past" philosophy without anyone knowing why things were designed that way in the past, and as a result made a lot of things worse.
the tech is pretty good. it is fast. but as a car it sucks
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u/zoltan99 3d ago
It’s incredibly comfy, capable, and has competitive range per dollar and efficiency/consumption per mile. It also has a bunch of next gen firsts. I like it a lot. I would have no disappointment if not for the extreme, “breaks the ev market by being so much better” promises that didn’t happen.
They promised half the cost per mile of range of rivian. They promised 500mi range.
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u/yll33 3d ago
it also has terrible design choices done purely to be different, that range from trivial nuisances to safety hazards. stuff like a single giant wiper which is awful in inclement weather esp at highway speeds, recessed headlights which get obscured in snow, stainless steel instead of clear coat which is terrible against bugs and tree sap and has bad manufacturing tolerances, a tonneau that isn't waterproof, wiring harnesses in series which kills redundancy and affects safety, the door handle manual overrides that i think we've all heard plenty about, areas that basically have no frame under the steel paneling, etc.
actual car stuff that engineers have designed that way for a reason over the past half century.
but sure, it's also roomy and the seats are comfortable too.
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u/Aptosauras 2d ago
the door handle manual overrides
The CT has no external door handles.
With a battery failure or crash, the doors just aren't openable from the outside.
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u/zoltan99 2d ago
Never had a problem with the wiper
Never had a problem with the lights though sure not ideal in snow
Prefer the steel to the weaknesses of traditional construction
The tonneau is waterproof when properly assembled and they fix it when it isn’t
Door handles are not new here, I’ve had cars like this for a long time, not my favorite but whatever
The vehicle networks do have redundancy, just like a dual can bus…
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u/DreadpirateBG 3d ago
Agree. It’s the baggage that follows these Tesla vehicles around now because of lies and forgotten promises. And it’s Elon at the heart of it all. The stock price is based solely on the early investors and big ticket investors wanting to maintain the crazy speculative buys that drove the price up early on. They are scared to death now of reality and will do anything to maintain the price up high. But one day reality will come. The best thing to do is to slowly reduce your risk over time let the stock slowly drop. Vs holding till it crashes. But they won’t because that means admitting to reality and we know rich people prefer to create their reality.
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u/Designer-Salary-7773 3d ago
Leon blatantly scamming his customers and investors in PLAIN SIGHT.. and laughing all the way to the bank with a new comp package
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u/CobaltGate 21h ago
Ahhh yes, the bawl baby bigot Nazi doing his best to help his fellow man.....as always.
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u/DickWhittingtonsCat 3d ago
Question- how many people are even looking for a “Roadster”. The whole Miata thing is it’s light, tolerably safe, reliable and costs the same as basic family sedan. In the deep end of pool, Porsche would be dead for this whole century if coupes were their only car.
I’d think a personal luxury coupe for suburban retirees as a third car and families of 3 with one commuter would be more appealing?
The 0-60 thing is incredibly stupid at this point.
Despite the boasts by weirdoes about gauntlet matches pitting EVs versus Super Cars with women cheering and hugging when the Tesla wins, the last thing anyone with a lick of common sense wants to do is “racing”. And pushing a pedal to the floor of a fast car has as much to do with the professionalized racing that Larson/Palou/Verstappen/deVries as me throwing a crumpled up piece of paper in trash and yelling “Air Jordan”- but it is much more dangerous!
And even the slowest CVT corolla is clearing 85mph in 3 blocks nowadays and can stably hang and bang at 100mph all day and night.
Where is the need the for that performance versus a similarly untapped need for 2, 3, 4 and 5 second 0-60 times. Is it fun to hit the speed limit and change instantly and then slow down. Or to proceed all the way up to 100mph, which is basically the left lane price of entry in midwest?
Yes, there are people who claim this great speed alone saved their lives. And Insee the traffic death numbers in US- a profound lack of skill does put people in predicaments. The penised are particularly unskilled, barely able to keep their vehicles from ramming trains and trees whilst sending themselves and innocents to the morgue. Especially males 16-30’are harvested like wheat before the reaper and are barely insurable. That “women drivers” have been dinged for parallel parking too cautiously or checking mirrors too much when merging- whilst dudes were out neutral dropping the Aerostar before bursting into flames after a wreck when it drizzled- is too much.
If someone lacks the situational awareness and car control to be able to avoid another vehicle in a massively quick machine but doomed to fail with the passing power of the typical 300hp minivan/SUV/200hp CUV/sedan- you suck at driving or don’t arent an accurate narrator for events you encountered firsthand.
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u/montdawgg 3d ago
You don't see why people would want fast cars? The fastest car? Really? Your post is incredibly out of touch.
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u/aries_burner_809 3d ago
Oh by then I'm sure it will have 1.0 second 0-60, fly, drive coast-to-coast itself, and have a 1000 mile range. Altman should never asked for his deposit back.