Tesla teases Roadster unveil next month

Elon Musk said on Tesla’s April 22, 2026 earnings call that the new Roadster could be unveiled “in a month or so,” moving the target beyond the late-April window he floated in March. (ir.tesla.com) (electrek.co) That matters because Musk had posted in March that the “New Roadster unveil” was “hopefully next month,” then separately suggested it would “probably” happen in late April 2026. (electrek.co 1) (electrek.co 2) Tesla’s own Roadster page still carries the same core performance promises tied to the second-generation car first shown in November 2017: 0-60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds, 0-100 in 4.2 seconds, an 8.8-second quarter-mile, more than 250 miles per hour, and 620 miles of range. (tesla.com) The page also still shows a $50,000 base reservation for the four-seat, all-wheel-drive car. Tesla has not published a new official reveal date, final production specs, or pricing update on that page. (tesla.com) The Roadster has become one of Tesla’s longest-running unfinished product stories. When Tesla unveiled the prototype in 2017, Musk said production would start in 2020; that deadline slipped repeatedly through 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and now into 2026. (electrek.co) (autoblog.com) Tesla’s latest investor materials do not highlight the Roadster at all. The company’s April 22 first-quarter update focused instead on robotaxi rides in Dallas and Houston, battery production, and preparations for Cybercab, Semi and Optimus. (assets-ir.tesla.com) That leaves the Roadster in a different lane from Tesla’s current business priorities. On April 2, Tesla reported first-quarter deliveries of 358,023 vehicles and production of 408,386, with its mainstream Model 3 and Model Y lines still doing almost all the volume. (ir.tesla.com) Musk also framed the car as an outlier inside Tesla’s future lineup. Coverage of the April 22 call quoted him saying that, over the long term, the new Roadster would be Tesla’s only manually driven car. (teslarati.com) For now, the clearest new fact is narrower than the hype: Tesla’s chief executive moved the Roadster reveal from “late April” to “in a month or so,” and the company still has not issued a formal unveil date. (electrek.co) (tesla.com)