Welcome, everybody. Everyone, welcome to McGregor.
I'm Franz. This is Lars. We hope you enjoyed our little pre-show Raptor static fire over there.
We are here at SpaceX's rocket test and development center in McGregor, Texas. It's 4,000 acres. Thank you for having us. Thank you for hosting us, SpaceX. Thank you for everyone that's here, and thank you for everyone watching online.
We thought we'd just, you know, we're 20 years from when Elon first introduced the Roadster to the world. And it was really a proof of concept that proved EVs were a viable product, fun to drive, could go the distance. They were real cars. And look at how far we've come in those 20 years.
Yeah, I mean, to be honest, the Roadster is the reason I came to Tesla. And I came here and we had a master plan to build an EV that proved that we could do everything that Franz just said, and then make a cheaper EV that people could afford with Model S, and then we built Model 3 and Model Y. But you know, the last time we had Roadster and SpaceX together, we put Elon's into orbit.
And you can see there. And you know, Starman is still out there somewhere. Amazing feat.
But I think we should get Elon out here to talk more about that. What do you think?
Elon, come on out.
All right, you're going to see some crazy stuff tonight. Like, we need an audience to prove that it's not AI or CGI. So, you guys can tell people you saw it with your eyes. Because what you see with your eyes, you will not believe. Yeah. But you're going to see the results of what happens when you have a collaboration with the world's best car company and the world's best rocket company.
And this is the culmination of incredible work by Tesla and SpaceX engineers working closely together to make something that you haven't seen in any movie. That's better than any James Bond car. Better than... Well, I don't know. I've never seen anything like this, so. You know, when I suggested this to the team, I thought, 'Am I crazy?' Maybe a little bit.
Exactly. Am I crazy? Not at all.
100% sane.
So, and then things kind of built upon themselves and we're like, 'Well, maybe we could do a little more of this and a little more of that.' And I think what you'll see here, by the way, success is not guaranteed. So I want to, you know, I mean that. It'll probably work.
But if it doesn't work, we're at a safe distance.
And excitement is 100% guaranteed. So, yes. Let's go. So, let's see.
The future is autonomous, Elon, right?
But this is not an autonomous car. It is the last...
It is technically autonomous for this demo to make sure we don't kill anyone.
So, just in case. But this will actually be long-term the only manually driven car that Tesla makes.
You got to have some fun sometimes.
Yeah.
And so, if you're going to have only one manually driven car, let's take it to the limits and way past the limits.
Elon had this crazy idea. I don't know where it came from. It'd be great to hear it. But we said...
I think an insane fever dream.
All right, you guys, we got 10 seconds.
7, 6.
Yeah. Well, you know, a friend of mine, Peter Thiel, once said that the future promised us flying cars, but instead we got 140 characters. Well, not anymore.
That's not the last thing you'll see, by the way.
To do that, we have a suction fan system on the bottom of the car that can pull up to two G's in order to make the car go upside down, and then we borrowed some technology from SpaceX to do the rest.
Yeah. I mean, this car really sucks, okay? This car could suck the chrome off a hitch.
It could suck a tennis ball through a hose pipe. So, and it could stick upside down. Now, you might say like, how often do you want to stick upside down in a car? Maybe not that often. But, it actually has an actual benefit on the track or just driving where the downforce of the car means you can corner incredibly well. Like you can corner like it looks like you're breaking physics because the car sticks to the ground so hard. So, acceleration, cornering, it's going to crush every track record that has ever existed. So.
Yeah, I think the last time we put Roadster with SpaceX, we had Starman in it. And maybe we should check. Did we put anyone in the car, folks?
Yeah, I think Starman's going to make an appearance. I think he went for a little ride.
No? Come on. Anticipation.
Here he is. He's being coy.
Just to be clear, that it's not a real human.
So, the car has obviously attitude control thrusters and main thrusters in the rear. So, it can basically fly like a rocket. And it could do rolls, it could do like crazy gymnastics. Whatever you want, really. Now, I should, you know, say that this is not necessarily a safety-optimized car.
But it takes the fun meter to 11 out of 10.
But speaking of fun meter...
