Seven Years Later, the Tesla Roadster Still Doesn't Exist
In November 2017, Elon Musk rolled a shiny red wedge onto a stage in Hawthorne, California, next to the Tesla Semi, and told the world the new Roadster would do 0-60 in 1.9 seconds, hit 250 mph, and go 620 miles on a charge. The crowd lost its mind. Men in fleece vests wept. Somewhere, a guy named Chad put down a $50,000 deposit on the spot using money he definitely had.
That was 2,900 days ago. Since then we have had a global pandemic, four presidential elections' worth of chaos, a crypto boom and bust, and approximately 11,000 tweets from the
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