Clearly the problem is aerodynamics, and the solution is to move auto racing to outer space. Someone upgrade the ISS with Rainbow Road.

It’s been decades since anyone seriously tried to push the theoretical maximum limit of unrestricted automobile design. (not counting Supersonic Cars) Sure, you could stick vectored-thrust rocket engines and active control surfaces onto everything, go into turns without slowing down and corner at 9g...

No one is doing…

Why would anyone put 5,000hp into an automobile? It doesn’t have Top Fuel Dragster tires so it’ll never be able to put 5,000hp into the pavement. And if it did, it’d destroy its tires in 4 seconds.

If you’re building the thing just to claim the title of “most stupidly overpowered powertrain ever attached to a car”…

If Big Auto execs actually believe there is a future in hydrogen then they’re unbelievably stupid and are doomed to lose to the Teslas and Lucids of the world.

Unless you live on Jupiter or the Sun (in which case, why are you driving a car?) there’s no such thing as free H2 floating around. You have to use energy to…

I agree with this! The Stratolaunch airplane shouldn’t be viewed as a first stage substitute, it’s not a very good “first stage”.

A subsonic airplane can, with great effort, get to somewhere around 12km and 1,000 kph. A first stage rocket is well over 50km and 6,000kph by the time of MECO.

The air-launch is not there to…

Oh yeah? Well a wooden pallet has a payload capacity of 4,000lbs, and it doesn’t even have any horsepower. On top of that it will -never- run out of fuel!

Big F-n Rocket!

Presumably all capital ships have some level of gravity-well projection to prevent strike craft from hyperspacing into them. After all, if something the size of an X-wing can mount a hyperspace drive, an ICBM-sized weapon could easily hyperspace into a Star Destroyer or Death Star.

The Raddatz was simply massive enough…

When you pre-order a Founders Series Roadster2 for $250,000, you get the option of a $20 million Kickstarter pledge upgrade. Doing so will allow Elon to deliver the Roadster2 to your doorstep* with a Falcon 9 rocket.

* Doorstep must be a properly certified and inspected orbital-class launchpad. Rocket delivery subject…

I just wonder what kind of vespene-dilithium battery Elon is using to pack 200 kWh into a sports car.

200 kWh, even with 2170 cells, should be unbelievably heavy and unbelievably large. But the Roadster2 looks small and lithe, and has enough seats + storage space that it doesn’t look like Elon packed every cubic…

For $70k you could get a used Tesla P85, outrun all of the above, and still have cavernous trunk space.

The dude’s 72 years old. He probably has heart disease and blood thinners and stuff. He doesn’t need prosthetics to bleed at the slightest provocation.

Wake up, Dolores. Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?

The 230+ mile range is useless without charging infrastructure. If I take my Tesla Model S on a roadtrip, I don’t have to worry about charging availability. There are Superchargers everywhere and the car knows where they are. You can’t say the same about a Bolt. So it is stuck in the role of “city car”, which is…

Uh, does anyone seriously believe that an internal “ooh-rah” video from Facebook or Amazon or Apple would be any different? I mean, have you seen/read *any* of Steve Jobs’s biographies?

Self-sacrifice in pursuit of a grandiose futuristic vision is pretty much the common currency behind all technology firms everywhere…

I think they should add the 0-60 and quarter-mile times of a F-18/E Super Hornet and a Falcon 9 orbital rocket.

Because that’s about as unfair as comparing a McLaren P1 to an “average hatchback”.