Vedanta CEO Anil Agarwal reveals flying car on Elon Musk: ‘We’ve seen it in sci-fi movies and books’ | Today’s news
Vedanta Resources Chairman Anil Agarwal has expressed his admiration for the rapid pace of technological innovation following Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s latest demonstration of advanced robotics and flying vehicles.
Musk’s redesigned Tesla Roadster, developed in collaboration with SpaceX, showcased an electric sports car that performs aerial maneuvers using rocket thrusters.
Tesla unveiled the redesigned Roadster on Thursday, showing the white two-seater performing a series of dramatic maneuvers, including spinning in the air and leaping over other vehicles.
The vehicle, developed in collaboration with Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, features rocket-style thrusters that were demonstrated during the event.
“I’ve seen it in sci-fi movies and books”
At X, the billionaire industrialist highlighted how rapid advances in mobility and artificial intelligence are bringing futuristic concepts into the mainstream.
“Flying cars and running robots! Recently seen in sci-fi movies and books. Today they are real,” Agarwal wrote in response to the tech billionaire’s latest display.
For Agarwal, whose own conglomerate operates in the traditional, capital-intensive mining and metals sectors, the leap in autonomous and futuristic technologies represented a broader triumph of business innovation.
He praised the synergy between scientific development and bold business leadership, adding: “What an amazing time we live in. When risky business and cutting-edge science come together, they change the world.”
Tesla Roadster: Production Timeline, Speed and Range
Tesla said production of the redesigned Roadster will begin in 2028, more than a decade after the company first unveiled a prototype of the next-generation electric sports car.
Tesla head of vehicle design Lars Moravy said the Roadster can accelerate from zero to 97 km/h in less than one second and reach a top speed of more than 370 km/h.
“Definitely much faster than that,” Musk said, adding, “I think you have to get to half the speed of sound.”
The vehicle is also expected to offer a range of more than 300 miles (480 km) on a single charge. That’s less than half the range Musk promised in 2017, when Tesla first revealed a prototype of the second-generation Roadster and said deliveries would begin in 2020.
Tesla did not specify a target price for the redesigned model at the latest event. Almost a decade ago, the company quoted a base price of $200,000 per vehicle.
Launched in 2008 and sold until 2012, the original Roadster was Tesla’s first electric car and used the Lotus Elise chassis. The model helped solidify the company’s early experience in electric sports cars before expanding its lineup to include the Model S and Model 3 sedans and the Model X and Model Y SUVs.
