---
title: "Elon Musk: The Next Generation Tesla Roadster May Achieve 60 MPH in Under 2 Seconds"
description: "CEO Elon Musk hinted at a possible target for the next generation of Tesla Roadsters expected to launch by 2019, and it's going to be the fastest one yet."
date: "2017-06-15"
modified: "2017-06-15"
authors:
  - name: "Christianna Reedy"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/christianna"
url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-the-next-generation-tesla-roadster-may-achieve-60-mph-in-under-2-seconds"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Tesla"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "electric vehicles"
  - "elon musk"
  - "tesla"
  - "tesla roadster"
---

# Elon Musk: The Next Generation Tesla Roadster May Achieve 60 MPH in Under 2 Seconds

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From 2008 and 2012, Tesla actually had a line of electric sports cars called the "Tesla Roadster," which was the first-ever highway legal serial production of an all-electric car powered by lithium-ion batteries. Tesla has since [discontinued its production](<https://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=16&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjWmvfU773UAhUKvo8KHYarDKkQFghhMA8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roadandtrack.com%2Fnew-cars%2Fnews%2Fa29378%2Felon-musk-admits-to-shareholders-that-the-tesla-roadster-was-a-disaster%2F&usg=AFQjCNGaW2nVk05eNYs7ayVytWsonHoREQ>), but it was announced three years ago that [a second generation roadster](<https://futurism.com/elon-musk-says-tesla-building-next-gen-roadster>) is coming.

CEO Elon Musk plans for this Tesla Roadster 4.0, so to speak, to outdo the first version. It will be capable of a "Maximum Plaid" performance mode, as Musk would call it in reference to the [movie *Spaceballs*](<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/>). In a recent tweet, Musk hinted at just how fast this Maximum Plaid would be.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/874539511815954433

If the first generation, had a "Ludicrous mode" capable of 0 to 97 km/h (60 mph) acceleration in just 2.5 seconds, the Tesla Roadster 4.0 might just hit 97 km/h (60 mph) in under two seconds. "That would \[be\] an interesting target," [Musk said in a tweet](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/874539511815954433>), replying to a question about the new roadster.

"Would, of course, only count if capable of doing so right off the production line with street legal tires," Musk added, which *[Electrek's](<https://electrek.co/2017/06/13/tesla-roadster-next-gen-elon-musk-maximum-plaid/>)*[ Fred Lambert considers](<https://electrek.co/2017/06/13/tesla-roadster-next-gen-elon-musk-maximum-plaid/>) a possibility for the roadster to be faster with aftermarket components.

However, because [Tesla is still busy](<https://futurism.com/5-heres-what-elon-musk-talked-about-at-tuesdays-shareholders-meeting>) with [launching the Model 3](<https://futurism.com/tesla-confirms-that-model-3-progress-is-right-on-track>) and perhaps [working on the Model Y](<https://futurism.com/heres-what-you-can-expect-from-teslas-secretive-model-y>), and not to mention the highly-anticipated [all-electric semi](<https://futurism.com/get-ready-a-working-prototype-of-teslas-electric-semi-is-coming-in-september>), the roadster is still "a few years away" — supposedly in 2019. But the Roadster still gives Tesla fans who love sports cars something to look forward to.