Blazing acceleration for the Tesla Roadster with gas rockets
Initially presented in 2017, the Tesla Roadster should go into production one day. Not only should it seduce with its exotic lines and performance, but it will also offer some rather unusual gadgets straight out of the imagination of the famous leader of Tesla. Of the batch, a set of rockets “thrusters” which should allow the car to complete the 0 to 100 km / hour faster than any other production vehicle. An artist had fun producing a simulation showing the acceleration of two Tesla Roadsters, one with the rocket motor, the other without. The result is quite impressive.
Artist Slav Popovski created and presented a CGI and 3D simulation on his Instagram account. The rendering is quite revealing. If we could see other simulations demonstrating the capacities of the Tesla Roadster, it is the first time that we can see it racing against itself in versions with and without rockets. We can see the advantage that quickly takes the gray Tesla Roadster equipped with “thrusters” compared to the red.
Not content with those acceleration figures of 1.9 seconds at 0-60 mph (2.1 seconds for 0-100 km / hour) for the standard Roadster, Tesla would offer the package. SpaceX which adds a compressed air tank and 10 rockets (or exhausts) controlled by computer and distributed throughout the car to optimize its performance. One of them should be placed behind the license plate. Like in a James Bond movie, it could unfold and help propel the car into acceleration.
Equipped with the Space-X package, the Tesla Roadster will be able to complete 0-60 mph in just 1.1 seconds, the fastest time for a production vehicle. According to Tesla, the Roadster, which will seat four passengers, will be able to cover a distance of 1,000 kilometers thanks to a set of batteries with a capacity of 200 kilowatt hours. Its base price will be $ 257,000 Canadian; it will cost more than $ 322,000 for the Founders series. As for the SpaceX set including gas rockets, no price has been revealed.
Knowing that this technology is already used in the case of space rockets, in particular to carry out trajectory corrections in space, and that Tesla has the know-how thanks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX program, the arrival of the technology is more than likely, especially since M, Musk has confirmed this on several occasions.
