Since 2008

Roadster

Range up to 244 miles.

Generations

• 2008–2012 Original Roadster

  Tesla's first car, built on a modified Lotus Elise platform; the 2010 update (V2.5) brought styling and comfort revisions.

Specs

Trivia

• It was the first highway-legal, series-production all-electric car to use lithium-ion cells, and the first to exceed 200 miles of range on a charge.

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• The very first production Roadster was delivered in February 2008 to Elon Musk himself.

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• Musk's own Roadster (serial #686) became the first production car launched into space, riding SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to a heliocentric orbit past Mars on February 6, 2018.

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• In October 2009 a Roadster set a production EV distance record of 501 km (311 miles) on one charge during Australia's Global Green Challenge.

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• A Roadster driven by ex-F1 driver Erik Comas won the 2010 Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally -- the first electric vehicle to win an FIA-sanctioned championship.

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• One owner, Hansjoerg von Gemmingen, drove his Roadster 520,000 km (323,000 miles) between 2009 and 2017, an all-electric mileage world record.

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• Only about 2,450 were ever built (2008-2012) -- roughly 1,800 in the US, 575 in Europe, and fewer than 50 right-hand-drive cars for the UK.

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