Tesla has pushed the planned public demo of its next-generation Roadster to August or later, according to a report from The Information citing four people with knowledge of the program. It marks yet another delay for the vehicle first unveiled as a prototype nearly nine years ago.
The demo, expected to take place in Texas, is meant to showcase the SpaceX cold gas thruster system that Tesla claims will allow the Roadster to achieve extreme acceleration and even lift off the ground.
The latest in a never-ending string of delays
As we’ve been tracking exhaustively over the past nine years, the Roadster timeline has become a case study in broken promises. CEO Elon Musk said in October 2025 that the company aimed to unveil the new Roadster on April 1, 2026. That date came and went. He then said on X that the event had been pushed to late May or early June. Now, according to The Information’s sources, it’s August or later.
This is the Roadster’s first vehicle event since the Cybercab unveiling in October 2024 — nearly two years ago — and Tesla still can’t nail down a date.
