SpaceX rockets on the new Tesla Roadster?! Seriously!

Elon Musk is again talking about combining two of his companies, SpaceX and Tesla, in a pretty epic way.

Instead of launching more Tesla’s into space, this time he’s talking about putting SpaceX rocket thrusters on their next generation Tesla Roadster…

WHAT?!?!?!? Ok, please please please tell me this is true!!!!

Elon claims by adding around 10 small rocket thrusters they can dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking and cornering….

But can this actually be true? How big of thrusters will a car need to actually make a substantial improvement?

Surely we’re not looking at putting a Merlin engine on a car, right? That definitely wouldn’t jive with Tesla’s green initiatives

What other concerns do we have about a car having small rocket thrusters driving around on the streets? Are we all at risk of having our shin hairs fried off on any random street corner? Or our cars getting blown off the highway any time a Roadster flies by?

Well we’re going to look at some other technologies that are similar, look at the actual cold gas thrusters SpaceX uses for their Falcon 9 rockets, and look at some examples in spaceflight that include using thrusters to increase the downforce of spacecraft.

Then we’re going to look at just how much faster 0-60 we could expect a Roadster to be if we have some reasonable sized thrusters pushing it forward!

To me, this is the definition of Everyday Astronaut. An everyday thing like a car, with rocket technology!!! Hey there’s a reason I call Tesla’s space ships for Earth.

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S02E43 - Rockets in Everyday Places