Summary

Almost nine years ago, a tanned, relatively well-rested-looking CEO named Elon Musk announced that his electric car company would make a new sports car , the Tesla Roadster 2. It would be “the fastest sports car ever made, period,” Musk said on stage in 2017. “The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars.” Lights flashed, and the red prototype did a few speedy laps behind him.

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