| Title | Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground | |
| Date | Saturday January 12 2019, @09:42AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the how-is-Moller's-Skycar-doing? dept. | ||
Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd
Elon Musk has a knack for tweeting out some real eyebrow-raisers. On Wednesday afternoon, he delivered, once again:
The new Roadster will actually do something like this https://t.co/fIsTAYa4x8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2019
So, is Musk just joking around?
“I’m not,” Musk replied on Twitter TWTR, -0.66% to the delight of his fan base. “Will use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultrahigh pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats.”
Can't help but think Musk is full of crap here - even with the "removal of the rear seats" idea, I doubt that a tank of that size using cold gas only could hover a car for more than a handful of seconds.
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