12/29/2023 0 Comments Tesla roadster![]() Someone ended up listing a very early 2008 Roadster VIN013 with extremely low mileage on the odometer, at just 840 miles. Gruber said that one Roadster went for $190,000 recently, a new record, but the record didn’t last long. The company has a portal to list Roadsters for sale and he says that they sold six in the last three months alone. Tesla is taking reservations now at 50,000 a piece. Roadster sells for over $250,000Įlectrek talked to Pete Gruber of Gruber Motor Company this week and he said that Roadster sales are picking up. Although previously scheduled for a release in 2019, the Tesla Roadster 2.0 has been pushed back a year to 2020. It’s hard to determine how many Tesla Roadsters are left out there, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s fewer than 2,000 units. Gruber themselves unintentionally contributed to the scarcity as the company was the victim of two fires that destroyed many Roadsters.Ī fire in 2017 destroyed at least five Roadsters and another more recent incident in October 2021 resulted in the loss of 31 Roadsters. Tesla’s Roadster follows the unveiling of its 1000bhp Tesla Model S Plaid and Model X Plaid saloons that arrived mid-last year, with the updated cars delivering better performance thanks to a. Of course, several were lost to crashes, but Tesla also bought back several cars for parts to service other vehicles. As previously reported, Tesla only produced about 2,400 of them, but there are far fewer on the road today. Caterham has a target price of less than 80,000, equivalent to 103k in US greenbacks (by comparison, the Tesla Roadster’s base price was 109k, without adjusting for inflation). It is also increasing as the vehicle is becoming more scarce. The value seems to increase as the EV revolution is taking hold and more people realize the Roadster’s place in it. It seems to indicate that the original Roadster is gaining value. ![]() Last year, we were starting to see a change in Roadster prices with Gruber Motor Company, an EV shop specializing in Tesla Roadsters, reporting some vehicles selling at auctions for $120,000 to $182,000. However, we also reported at the time that the original Roadster didn’t appear to be gaining in value based on listings, which were showing a price range of $50,000 to $70,000 – about half the original price of the car. In 2020, we reported on some people testing the market with a Tesla Roadster going to sell for $1.5 million. Tesla Roadster valueĭue to its place in EV history, some people in the industry have speculated that the original Tesla Roadster could become a popular collector’s car and increase in value. In the future, when all new cars are electric, we will likely look back at the Tesla Roadster as the vehicle that sparked the automotive industry’s electric revolution. With three electric motors – one for road use, the others driving twin props – it could muster 120kph on land, 6kph on the water’s surface and 3kph beneath the waves.With an EPA range of 393 kilometers (244 miles) with the first Li-ion battery pack in a production car, a 0 to 60 mph acceleration in 3.7 seconds, and a top speed of 201 km/h (125 mph), it redefined electric vehicles as more than a glorified golf cart. Surely the maddest of all, this Swiss creation was inspired by The Spy Who Loved Me and went from the 2008 Geneva Salon to 10m below the surface as a sports-car-cum-mini submarine. ![]()
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