Tesla’s new big-rig truck came with a surprise revelation: a new, super-fast Roadster
Los Angeles/San Francisco — Tesla is resurrecting the Roadster. CEO Elon Musk surprised the crowd gathered on Thursday for the electric-car maker’s debut of its Semi truck with a next-generation version of the company’s first model. The billionaire boasted that the car will be available in 2020 as the fastest production car ever made, getting from zero to 60 miles per hour (96km/h) in 1.9 seconds. "The point of doing this is to just give a hardcore smack-down to gasoline cars," Musk said on stage. The 200kWh battery pack would have almost 1,000km of driving range per charge, he said. "Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche." Tesla produced its original Roadster from 2008 to 2012. Tesla also unveiled, as expected, a prototype electric big-rig truck that it will start producing in 2019, throwing itself into a new market even as it struggles to roll out an affordable sedan on which the company’s future depends. Musk unveiled the big rig...
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