Tesla’s Roadster 2 Is Late—and Entering a Different EV World
Almost nine years ago, a tanned, relatively well-rested-looking CEO named Elon Musk announced that his electric car company would make a new sports car, the Tesla Roadster 2. It would be “the fastest sports car ever made, period,” Musk said on stage in 2017. “The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars.” Lights flashed, and the red prototype did a few speedy laps behind him.
Times have changed. Musk is the leading donor to a political party that last year nixed buying incentives for electric vehicles and last month adjusted fuel-economy standards to make it easier for automakers to skip making EVs altogether. Musk has said he’s not even in the business of making cars anymore, instructing investors to think of Tesla as a robotics and autonomy company. On Thursday night, Tesla will host what it has billed as its last unveiling...
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