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By TechPulse USA Staff Nine years, five-figure deposits, and roughly half a dozen broken promises later, Elon Musk finally did what he said he would do: he made a Tesla fly. For about five seconds. Upside down. Over a ramp in Texas. And then came the punchline nobody in that crowd paid $50,000 to hear — you still can't buy one until 2028. The reveal, livestreamed from SpaceX's rocket test facility in McGregor, Texas on Thursday night, was classic Musk: a genuine engineering feat by a man whose relationship with delivery dates remains purely decorative. The Roadster drove up a wall, clung to the ceiling, let go, flipped, and landed. Whether any of it ends up street-legal — or ever leaves Texas — is a question Tesla conspicuously declined to answer. File photo: the red Roadster prototype Tesla unveiled in November 2017. The car revealed on Oct 15, 2026 has a sharply restyled design. Photo: via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). A car drove on the ceiling. Then it let go T...

By TechPulse USA News Desk | 14 October 2026 Nine years, zero cars, and one more Thursday night. That is the ledger Tesla carries into its Roadster event this week, and it is why the livestream matters more than the car itself. After a decade of promises, what Tesla now has to prove is not that it can build a fast electric car. It has to prove that this one is real. Tesla will stream an outdoor demonstration of its next-generation Roadster from Texas at 7:55pm Central on Thursday 15 October, two weeks after weather forced it to abandon the first attempt. The announcement came late on Monday night US time, in a post from Tesla’s official X account, and it ended a fortnight of silence that had left reservation holders guessing whether the event would happen at all. Nothing about Thursday is routine. The venue is outdoors because the show, whatever it turns out to be, reportedly cannot be held anywhere else. And the car at the centre of it has been “coming soon” for longer than some of...