Tesla Revives Roadster as Musk Boasts Top Speeds, 620-Mile Range

(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. is resurrecting the Roadster.

Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk surprised the crowd gathered Thursday for the electric-car maker’s debut of its Semi truck with a next-generation version of the company’s first model. The billionaire boasted that the car will be available in 2020 as the fastest production car ever made, getting from zero to 60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds.

“The point of doing this is to just give a hardcore smack-down to gasoline cars,” Musk said on stage. The 200 kilowatt-hour battery pack will have 620 miles of driving range per charge, he said. “Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche.”

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