--- title: "Elon Musk: Tesla Will Sell Roadster With SpaceX Thrusters in 2020" description: "In a podcast interview this weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed new details about the electric car company's long-awaited hypercar, the Roadster." date: "2019-06-03" modified: "2019-06-03" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-tesla-roadster-spacex-thruster" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Space" - "SpaceX" - "Tesla" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "roadster" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk: Tesla Will Sell Roadster With SpaceX Thrusters in 2020 ![In a podcast interview this weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed new details about the electric car company's long-awaited hypercar, the Roadster.]() *\Image: Tesla/Victor Tangermann\* ## Ride the Lightning In [an interview]() on the *Ride the Lightning* podcast this weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed new details about the electric car company's [long-awaited Roadster](). He claimed that the "SpaceX package" — essentially strapping rocket engine thrusters to the car to make it go really, really fast — could give the Roadster a staggering three Gs of thrust. "If you have three Gs of thrust, you can go in any direction," he said on the podcast, as [quoted by *Electrek*](). "You can go up and accelerate with still more than 2 Gs." ## Doc's DeLorean In January, [Musk teased]() that "the new Roadster will actually do something like this" in a response to a tweet that showed a [hovering DeLorean]() — an apparent nod to the film "Back to the Future." In a later [follow-up tweet](), he added "will use \[a\] SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultra high pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats." ## Rear Window The system will draw energy from the Roadster's massive battery packs and [replace the rear seats](). Musk [first teased]() a Tesla "SpaceX Package" in June 2018. In this weekend's interview, he also said that there will be no more than 10,000 units built per year and that it's likely to roll out next year. **READ MORE:** [Tesla Roadster 2020: Elon Musk tempers expectations on timing, boosts SpaceX package]() \[*Electrek*\] **More on the Roadster:** *[Elon Musk Says An Upcoming Tesla Roadster Will Hover. Is He Joking?]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()