Current location of Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster and Starman launched by SpaceX on the Falcon Heavy maiden flight
Tara Francis Chan
shooting founder Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space. The cherry-red sports car is still out there after taking off on Feb. 6, 2018, and even suffered from a recent case of
The interior of the vehicle, like its other Tesla siblings, is described by many as "minimalistic." I'd call it sparse and, in some material choices, cheap for a $100,000 vehicle. Given its size, the interior of the vehicle also feels more like a car than a "truck." Interior of a...
But what's the point of sending a car into space? Is it bound to become just more space junk? We asked spaceflight experts to weigh in. "Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit,"tweetedSpaceX founder, CEO and lead designer Elon Mu...
Tesla held anotherquarterly earnings callWednesday night, in which CEO Elon Musk announced thatthe company made a bunch of moneyand would continue to do so forever — evenwithout an affordable model in its stable. More curiously, though, Musk made another announcement: The Roadster is delayed, ...
Well, there's a chance that we'd be looking at an authentic image of Tesla Roadster. A series of images that seemed too fantastical to be real started making their way around the internet shortly after Elon Musk and his company SpaceXlaunchedthe Falcon Heavy rocket into space from Cape Can...
Muskis the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founder of several other businesses, including the company that is now PayPal and the social media company X, formerly Twitter. Musk joined Tesla as chairman and product architect in 2004 and became CEO in 2008. Tesla introduced the Roadster sports car...
2008: The Tesla Roadster became the first highway-legal serial-production all-electric car to use lithium-ion batteries. 2021: There were over 10 million EVs on the road globally as prices dropped and ranges improved. In summary, EVs have come full circle from early innovation to a resurgence...
The car is not on some scientific voyage. This was a test launch, so SpaceX needed a dummy payload — and Musk previouslysaidhe wanted it to be the “[s]illiest thing we can imagine.” So he picked his own luxurious Tesla roadster. ...