Supply chain shortages are causing a further shift
According to the original announcement, the new Tesla Roadster should have hit the market last year. In the meantime, Tesla boss Elon Musk is openly talking about 2023 as the starting time.
When the new Tesla Roadster was presented in 2017, Elon Musk announced a market launch for 2020. Interested parties have been able to place reservations for the electric sports car since the announcement. In contrast to the Cybertruck, significant amounts must be deposited for a valid reservation for the Roadster.
The Founders version, limited to 1,000 units, is said to cost US $ 250,000 and anyone who wants to reserve one of the vehicles must pay the full amount. Reserving a regular roadster still costs $ 50,000. It goes without saying that the release date of the “fastest production car in the world” according to Elon Musk is of interest to some.
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The waiting period is extended from 3 to 6 years
In a thread about the repeated lawsuits and complaints from Amazons and Blue Origins, which are slowing down SpaceX’s business on several levels, Elon Musk had commented and flippantly announced that Amazon boss Jeff Bezos might be able to miss one or the other laser shock from space .
A member of the South Florida Tesla Club took the opportunity to ask Musk for an updated timeline for the roadster release. He even replied:
2021 was “the year of the crazy supply chain shortage,” said Musk in his unusually long tweet. Tesla could have had “17 new products”, but “none of them could have been delivered”. However, if one assumed that 2022 would not be “a mega-drama”, “the new roadster” could be delivered in 2023.
Extension doesn’t upset anyone
There is practically no criticism under the tweet, although Musk has been quite bluntly describing an extension of the original schedule by at least another three years, and thus twice as much. Apparently, people who put a quarter of a million on the table for a car that doesn’t yet exist are very relaxed – or not on Twitter.
A Twitter user points out, however, that it would probably have been smarter to buy Tesla shares for $ 250,000 in 2017 instead of depositing the money as a deposit for the reservation. Maybe smarter in the sense of more lucrative, but it wouldn’t have led to the goal of being one of the first roadster owners.
