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Tesla's Next Gen Roadster is One Step Closer; Speculation of September Announcement

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 13 2017, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the semi-news dept.

Open4D writes:

Tesla has been in the news a lot in the last week, with their Model 3 going into production, and their announcement of the world's largest lithium-ion battery storage project in South Australia.

The latest news is unofficial, but from generally reliable sources. A website called Teslarati has published screenshots from Kim of the Like Tesla YouTube channel, which seem to indicate that she and other top referrers are now being offered discounts on "a Founder's Series next gen Roadster" as part of Tesla's referral program. If true this would seem to indicate Tesla formally taking a step forward in the level of their commitment to actually going ahead with this vehicle. They stopped producing their original Roadster in 2012, the same year they started delivering their Model S to customers.

There is also speculation online that the Next Gen Roadster will be one of the "few other things" to be mentioned at the unveiling of the Tesla Semi in late September, as alluded to by Elon Musk (Tesla's CEO) at a shareholder meeting last month.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:11PM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:11PM (#538765)

    Let's start speculating and get free press about a product which may or may not ever exist!
    I guess a new Tesla Roadster speculation is better than Apple, which gets all of that buzz for incremental unimaginative yearly updates of their products...

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  • (Score: 2) by n1 on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:43PM (2 children)

    by n1 (993) on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:43PM (#538828) Journal

    One important difference.... Apple never got their hype machine working for the iPhone 6 before the iPhone 4 was released. Tesla has the already hype for their equivalent V4, 5, 6 and 7 before V3 of their core product offering even reaches a single customer.

    • (Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Thursday July 13 2017, @08:15PM (1 child)

      by SanityCheck (5190) on Thursday July 13 2017, @08:15PM (#538845)

      That is very true. You don't want people to go: eh I'll wait for the next one. Though at the same time if I was looking to purchase a vehicle, I would be looking at 3 seriously. I doubt they can meet the demand though, and I won't pay premium. So maybe witht he demand so high, they want to deflate it by getting people who would wait to wait.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @02:31AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @02:31AM (#538946)

        the Osborne effect [wikipedia.org]