when is the new tesla roadster coming out
2020
title: Tesla Roadster (2020) text: Tesla Roadster (2020) The Tesla Roadster is an upcoming all-electric battery-powered four-seater sports car made by Tesla, Inc. Tesla has said it will be capable of in 1.9 seconds, quicker 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 indicates that Roadster sales will begin in 2020, although not before the Tesla Model Y goes on sale. Elon Musk has said that higher-performance trim levels will be available beyond the base specifications. In 2011, at the end of the title: Tesla, Inc. text: November 16, 2017, Tesla unveiled the 2020 Roadster. Musk said that the new model will have a range of on the 200 kWh battery pack and will achieve 0–60 mph in 1.9 seconds; it also will achieve 0–100 mph in 4.2 seconds, and the top speed will be over . The vehicle will have three electric motors allowing for all-wheel drive, and torque vectoring during cornering. At the time, the base price was set at while the first 1,000 units, the Founder's series, would sell for . Reservations required a deposit of , and those who ordered the Founder's series title: Tesla Roadster (2008) text: modifications, but featured sporting atomic red paint, a duo of dark silver stripes on its hood and rear clamshell, and exclusive anthracite aluminum wheels. The Roadster is powered by a 3-phase, 4-pole, induction electric motor with a maximum output power of . Its maximum torque of is immediately available and remains constant from 0 to 6,000 rpm; nearly instantaneous torque is a characteristic of electric motors and offers one of the biggest performance differences from internal combustion engines. The motor is air-cooled and does not need a liquid cooling system. The Sport model introduced during the Jan 2009 Detroit Auto title: Tesla Roadster (2020) text: production run of the original Tesla Roadster, Elon Musk suggested that a new version of the Roadster, without the Lotus chassis, would return to production by 2014. The new Roadster was first teased in 2014. In 2015, Musk suggested a new Roadster in 2019, capable of faster acceleration. A tweet by Elon Musk in December 2016 reconfirmed a second Roadster was in the works, but still "some years away". The second Roadster was designed by Franz von Holzhausen. The 2020 version of the Roadster was shown in a surprise moment at the end of the Tesla Semi event on November title: Tesla Roadster (2020) text: roadster with a removable glass roof. It was designed by Franz von Holzhausen, who formerly worked at Mazda and Volkswagen. The Roadster has a 2+2 seating arrangements, with smaller rear seats for two passengers. The Roadster has three electric motors, one in front and two at the rear, allowing for all-wheel drive, and torque vectoring during cornering. Tesla said that the vehicle had a battery, twice the capacity of the Tesla Model S P100D, and giving a range on one charge at highway speeds. Tesla stated that the torque at wheels was . The rear wheels are larger than the