page_title: Tesla Roadster (2020)
section_title: Performance
hierarchical_section_title: Tesla Roadster (2020) / Performance
caption_attribution_description: At Tesla HQ today
context_page_description: The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric battery-powered four-seater sports car made by Tesla, Inc. Tesla has said it will be capable of 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds, which is faster than any street legal production car to date at its announcement in November 2017. The Roadster is the successor to Tesla's first production car, which was the 2008 Roadster.
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Roadster sales will begin after the release of the revised Model S, which Elon Musk has tweeted should enter production in late 2020. Musk joked in a tweet that higher-performance trim levels will be available beyond the base specifications, including a SpaceX package which would "include ~10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around car" which would supposedly allow the car dramatic improvements in "acceleration, top speed, braking & cornering", and even the ability to fly.
context_section_description: The following claims have been made by Musk for the prototype Roadster's acceleration:
  0–100 km/h (0–62 mph) in 1.9 seconds (without specifying if this includes a 1-foot rollout or not, or whether thrusters are used or not)
  0–100 km/h (0–62 mph) in 2.1 seconds for the base model before adding rocket thruster option (without specifying if this includes a 1-foot rollout or not)
  Its claimed 0 to 400 m (0 to ¹⁄₄ mile) time will be under 9 seconds, with a top speed above 400 km/h (250 mph). If the production Roadster achieves these performance numbers, it will outperform the supercars of 2019 and would set new production car records, none of which had yet done better than 0–100 km/h (0–62 mph) in 2.0 seconds or 9.0 seconds in the 1/4 mile. Referring to the performance, Musk stated, "this is what we are achieving in the prototype"; he also indicated the performance may improve in the production model and that the stated numbers refer to the anticipated "base model."
caption: Second generation Tesla Roadster (2019)
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