Unexpected: This Changes the Tesla & SpaceX Timeline ⚡️

Not sure what happened, but for the next like two minutes of this video, my recording got messed up.

So I just have to put in some B-roll for the video.

Elon said, future fun roadster demos will include flying over the Snake River or maybe the Grand Canyon and landing on its wheels and exceeding half the speed of sound.

Half the speed of sound or Mach 0.5 would be in the neighborhood of 380 miles per hour.

I mentioned Evel Knievel on Friday and it was back in 1974 at the Snake River Canyon where he attempted his infamous jump.

And estimates have the size of that canyon gap at about 1400 feet.

So it would likely be the Roadster getting up to speed, going off a ramp, and then relying on the thrusters to get the rest of the way and to land.

And then on the Grand Canyon option, there are some narrow points that are listed at around 600 feet wide, but other portions are miles apart, which would make a jump like that impractical, even with all of the rocket technology on the new Roadster.

So definitely more to come there.

But one narrative I did want to push back on, plenty of people are saying, oh, this is not a big deal.

If any other car had these rocket thrusters on it, it would do the same thing.

But I am confident that is not the case.

I mentioned this briefly on Friday, but I need to make it very clear from out of specs video at the Tesla Roadster event.

Tesla said, the new high voltage battery and drive unit tech used to drive Roadster enables our most powerful and compact rear wheel drive unit yet.

Together, they deliver one megawatt of pure power.

That's one third more power than the Model S Plaid with half the mass.

The result is paradigm shifting acceleration with amazing cornering and precise stopping power.

Said another way, we're talking only about the battery pack and the drive unit.

Those two new pieces of technology alone, completely leaving out the fans and leaving out the thrusters, have, we'll call it, 33% more power than the Model S Plaid with half of the mass.

That is not an incremental update.

That really is a step change or new paradigm, as Tesla said.

And this two motor setup can independently control the rear wheels of the Roadster so they can control how much torque goes to each wheel.

So just do not sleep on this giant leap in Tesla's drivetrain power to weight ratio, which, yes, is paired with new 4680 cells and a new chemistry for better performance with better and more advanced thermal management.

So no, even if you put the Roadster's fan system and thrusters on another car, it would not have comparable performance.

And yes, I'm confident saying at least parts of all of this new technology will trickle down to Tesla's other vehicles in time.