Between Elon Musk’s promises of supernimble robots and interstellar colonization, the billionaire has spent plenty of time over the last decade hyping up another ambitious effort: the next version of the Roadster, the sporty electric vehicle that first put Tesla on the map. At first, he said he wanted the vehicle to be the fastest production car in the world. Then he said he wanted it to be “crazier than” every fictional James Bond car combined. And he wanted the car to be able to fly. Musk’s shifting directives sent Tesla designers down a rabbit hole that lasted years, delaying the car’s release. The company first showed a prototype design of the vehicle and began accepting reservations for it in 2017. Since then, it has chucked that design completely and come up with a new one, which it hasn’t publicly revealed. That could change soon.
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