Musk Says Nxt-Gen Tesla Roadster To Use ~10 Small Rocket Thrusters
They will be distributed around the car to facilitate increased acceleration (of course), cornering & braking (biggest departure). How radical would this be on racetracks and how fast banned for non competitiveness? Faster than the old vacuum cleaner Chaparrals, I’d bet. Thinking of those, I wonder if a couple more nossels could be added to give down thrust for better traction and they wouldn’t have the debre issues of the Chaparrals used to ban those?
The rocket engines will be adapted from his successful “configuration using ‘adapted cold gas thrusters’, which SpaceX uses on the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket.”
Holy ****inkus!!!
If it were anybody else, I would be laughing about now instead of in awe.
https://electrek.co/2018/06/09/elon-...ket-thrusters/
In further little reported Tesla news, the company announced large improvements in its battery electricity density and cost per kWh.
https://electrek.co/2018/06/09/tesla...breakthroughs/
Last edited by wacojoe; 06-10-2018 at 12:59 AM.
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