{"id":245460,"date":"2026-10-16T01:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/tesla-reveals-spacex-powered-roadster-that-flies-and-falls-with-style"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:04:20","slug":"tesla-reveals-spacex-powered-roadster-that-flies-and-falls-with-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/tesla-reveals-spacex-powered-roadster-that-flies-and-falls-with-style","title":{"rendered":"Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies and falls with style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-reveals-spacex-powered-roadster-that-flies-and-falls-with-style.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla just revealed its redesigned second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters, a vehicle CEO Elon Musk has called \u2018the best of the last of the human-driven cars.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Musk showed off the car at an event outside Waco, Texas, with a demonstration that saw the car use a mixture of high-powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and ease itself to a landing on the pavement below. The car also used the thrusters to lift itself over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 while in motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018This will be the actual car that\u2019s on the roads,\u2019\u201d Musk said of the car, which Tesla showed accelerating 0 to 60 miles per hour in one second. \u2018It literally is just going to puff itself up, and uh, and be able to do this, these maneuvers whenever you\u2019d like.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The new car used thrusters to leap over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 at a demo in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla just revealed its redesigned second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters, a vehicle CEO Elon Musk has called \u2018the best of the last of the human-driven cars.\u2019 Musk showed off the car at an event outside Waco, Texas, with a demonstration that saw the car use a mixture of high-powered fans and thrusters to drive up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}