Nearly nine years of waiting, delays and promises — and now the Tesla Roadster finally has a concrete date. The company has scheduled a new showing of the electric sports car for October 1, 2026, publishing a teaser that reads “Go for launch” and shows the date “10.01”. At the same time, Tesla updated the model’s page. After endless promises of “soon”, this finally sounds much more serious.
Published invitations sent to Roadster reservation holders add another layer of intrigue: the event is expected to take place in Waco, Texas. And the car itself was first shown back in November 2017. Production was originally promised much earlier, but the Roadster has turned into one of Tesla’s most delayed premieres.
And this is where things get really interesting. The biggest mystery surrounds the so-called SpaceX Package. Elon Musk has repeatedly talked about additional cold-gas thrusters, while the “ready for launch” wording in the new teaser clearly plays on that idea. Coincidence? Maybe. But Tesla has not confirmed that the car shown on October 1 will be a production model equipped with such a system. So talk of a “flying Roadster” remains an expectation, not a specification of a finished car.
Tesla’s official Roadster pages still list 0–100 km/h in about 2.1 seconds, a top speed above 400 km/h and roughly 1000 km of range. Those numbers remain spectacular even years later. But there is an important caveat: they were published long before the upcoming presentation, so the final Roadster could arrive with different specifications.
The price is even murkier. Figures announced after the 2017 debut can no longer be treated automatically as the price of the future production car. Tesla’s current U.S. Roadster page does not list a price. That means October 1 will have to reveal more than just the car — almost nine years of unanswered questions have piled up around it.
