Tesla Unveils Next-Gen Roadster with Flight-Mode Demo; Musk Says Flying Cars Are No Longer a Concept
Tesla held a global debut event in California for the next-generation Roadster prototype, demonstrating a short vertical takeoff-and-landing flight mode; Elon Musk declared at the event that flying cars are no longer a concept. The new car integrates a tri-motor drive, more than two thousand horsepower, swappable battery modules, and a vertical takeoff-and-landing assist module, marking the first time Tesla has folded personal flight capability into a passenger-vehicle product line and signaling that consumer-grade electric flying cars are moving out of the startup-experiment phase and into a mainstream automaker’s product roadmap.