Tesla CEO Elon Musk said last night that the automaker’s long-awaited second-generation Roadster will be able to accelerate like no other producti

Elon Musk Says Deluxe Tesla Will Use SpaceX Thrusters for Spine-Crushing Acceleration

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2021-05-24 03:00:07

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said last night that the automaker’s long-awaited second-generation Roadster will be able to accelerate like no other production car before it, thanks to a specially designed “SpaceX package.”

Cold gas thrusters will allow the hypercar to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 1.1 seconds, Musk confirmed in a Thursday tweet — a truly astounding figure considering that contemporary sports cars have only recently cracked the two second mark.

“It will be safe, but very intense,” Musk wrote in the tweet. “Probably not wise for those with a medical condition — same as a hardcore roller coaster.”

Whether we’ll ever see the Roadster go into production, though, remains to be seen. The car was first announced almost four long years ago.

If it does, it’ll be a wild ride. According to our back-of-the-envelope calculations, such an acceleration would exert just shy of 2.5 Gs on the driver. In other words, it truly won’t be for the faint of heart.