See a CGI rendering of the upcoming Tesla Roadster speed to 60 mph with use of 'rocket thrusters'

Kristen Lee

June 23, 2020 6:28 PM

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Elon Musk has said the upcoming Tesla Roadster will have a "SpaceX option package" that would include about "10 small rocket thrusters."
A CGI artist created an animation of what that would look like doing zero to 60 mph.
It's not clear when the Tesla Roadster will officially become available.
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Elon Musk has said some truly wild things about the new and upcoming Tesla Roadster, which still only exists as a concept car.

It's not clear when the Roadster will officially become available but Musk has said that it would have a claimed top speed of 250 mph and a 620-mile range from a 250 kWh battery pack. And he tweeted in June 2018 that it would have a "SpaceX option package" that includes about "10 small rocket thrusters."

What that would look like or how it would be implemented is anyone's guess, but Slav Popovski, a CGI artist and aircraft avionics engineer based in Sydney, Australia, took it upon himself to simulate what a rocket thruster-powered Tesla Roadster would look like accelerating from zero to 60 mph.

First spotted by InsideEVs , Popovski posted his video on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, writing, "This is how fast 1.1 seconds 0 - 60mph take off should look like with Space X package thrusters on the Tesla Roadster. Computer worked out physics and then visualised in a render animation."

You can see it below.

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