Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather

特斯拉因恶劣天气再次推迟 Roadster 2 发布会

Tesla is pushing back the reveal of its redesigned, second-generation Roadster once again, this time due to a forecast of severe weather. Originally slated for October 1 in Waco, Texas, the event is being pushed to October 15, Tesla said. “We’ve been tracking the weather closely with local meteorologists, but given the severe conditions predicted & because this event can only be held outdoors, we’ve made the difficult decision to reschedule,” the company wrote in a post on X.

特斯拉再次推迟了其重新设计的第二代 Roadster 的发布，这次的原因是预报有恶劣天气。特斯拉表示，原定于 10 月 1 日在德克萨斯州韦科市举行的活动现已推迟至 10 月 15 日。“我们一直与当地气象学家密切关注天气情况，但鉴于预报的恶劣条件，且该活动只能在户外举行，我们做出了推迟的艰难决定，”该公司在 X 上发帖称。

The event presumably needs to be held outdoors because Tesla has been working on integrating cold gas thrusters from SpaceX that are supposed to make the Roadster fly in some capacity. This reveal has been delayed many times before, and Musk has pushed it for months altogether before this scheduled date. At one point, Musk even planned to hold the event on April Fools’ Day of this year. He said during Tesla’s annual meeting in 2025 — the same one where he was awarded a $1 trillion pay package — that an April Fools’ Day event would offer him “some deniability” if it got delayed again. “Like, I could say I was just kidding,” he said at the time.

该活动之所以必须在户外举行，推测是因为特斯拉一直在致力于整合 SpaceX 的冷气推进器，旨在让 Roadster 在某种程度上实现“飞行”。此次发布会此前已多次推迟，在这次预定日期之前，马斯克已经将其推迟了数月之久。马斯克甚至曾计划在今年的愚人节举行发布会。他在 2025 年特斯拉年度股东大会上（即他获得 1 万亿美元薪酬方案的那次会议）表示，愚人节活动能让他如果再次延期时拥有“一定的否认空间”。“比如，我可以说是开个玩笑，”他当时说道。

Tesla first showed off its concept of a second-generation Roadster in 2017 at an event where it debuted the Semi, the company’s electric big rig. The new-look roadster was supposed to be the first supercar the company designed from the ground up, as the original Roadster, which got the company its start in the early 2010s, was largely based on the Lotus Elise. At the time, Tesla promised the new Roadster was just a few years away. It collected $50,000 deposits from prospective customers of the car, which had an estimated base price of around $200,000. Some people even paid the company $250,000 to reserve one of 1,000 “Founders Series” versions of the supercar.

特斯拉于 2017 年首次展示了第二代 Roadster 的概念车，当时该公司还发布了电动重卡 Semi。这款新外观的 Roadster 本应是该公司从零开始设计的第一款超级跑车，因为在 2010 年代初帮助公司起步的第一代 Roadster 在很大程度上是基于莲花 Elise 改装的。当时，特斯拉承诺新一代 Roadster 只需几年即可面世。该公司向潜在客户收取了 5 万美元的定金，该车的预估起售价约为 20 万美元。有些人甚至支付了 25 万美元，以预订 1,000 辆“创始人系列”超级跑车中的一辆。

The project languished for years, until Musk reportedly tasked the Tesla team with redesigning the second-generation Roadster and committed to the idea of using the SpaceX thrusters. The promise of something outrageous like a flying car hasn’t been enough to tame critics of Musk and Tesla. Last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on X that “7.5 years has felt like a long time to wait” for his own new Roadster, though Musk claimed Altman had gotten a refund. Much like the Roadster will be at this event, the ship date for the vehicle is up in the air. Musk has said he expects it to take a year or more before the new Roadster goes into production after it is finally revealed.

该项目搁置多年，直到据报道马斯克要求特斯拉团队重新设计第二代 Roadster，并承诺采用 SpaceX 推进器的构想。这种类似飞行汽车的惊人承诺并未能平息马斯克和特斯拉批评者的声音。去年，OpenAI 首席执行官山姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）在 X 上写道，等待他自己的新 Roadster “7.5 年感觉太漫长了”，尽管马斯克声称奥特曼已经获得了退款。就像 Roadster 在这次活动中的状态一样，该车的交付日期依然悬而未决。马斯克曾表示，预计新 Roadster 在最终发布后，还需要一年或更长时间才能投入生产。