TESLA'S FLYING CAR? Musk Says It HOPS, Not Flies — 0.81 Seconds Checked | MeshCast

Every car channel says Tesla's Roadster flies and does 0-60 in 0.81 seconds. Elon Musk says it's "hopping, not sustained flight." We check the 0.81s fine print, the three trims (Rocket is invite-only, not road-legal), nine years late since 2017, and ~$250M in deposits — and why hopping is not flying. Chapters: 00:00 Flying car? 00:54 0.81 seconds 01:50 Three trims, one rocket 02:45 Nine years, $250M 04:00 Hop vs fly 05:10 Checked Sources: Musk "hopping" quote (primary) • Tesla Roadster page / Musk X • Google Trends Tesla Roadster + Porsche Mission S Oct 16-17 • 2017 press kit deposit terms Hashtags: #Tesla #Roadster #ElonMusk #FactCheck #MeshCast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 WE4FREE — FREE MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES → https://orangered-jellyfish-637583.hostingersite.com/resources.html (Also available as an offline app — see GitHub below) 📚 DELIBERATE ENSEMBLE — MY RESEARCH ARCHIVE → https://deliberateensemble.works/ → Published papers on OSF: https://osf.io/n3tya ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE → YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqPGQ-mXub8BV8KfeeQR6sA → TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@we4free → Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61588086602067 → LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-david-ramsingh-2143a63ab/ 💻 CODE / OPEN SOURCE → GitHub (main): https://github.com/vortsghost2025 → WE4Free app source: https://github.com/vortsghost2025/FreeAgent/tree/main/WE4FREE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ — Sean David Ramsingh — HARDWARE & RESOURCES — As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. • Check Today's Tech & Hardware Deals: https://www.amazon.com/?tag=meshcastmedia-20 • Audible 30-Day Free Trial (Audiobooks): https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/mlp/membership/plus?tag=meshcastmedia-20 • Amazon Prime 30-Day Free Trial: https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime?tag=meshcastmedia-20 Hire me — paid services: Landing page in 48 hours ($49+): https://ko-fi.com/meshcast/commissions?commissionAlias=cff1c96f7c 5 Shorts from your long video ($39+): https://ko-fi.com/meshcast/commissions?commissionAlias=0ade19dc87 Fact-checked research brief ($29+): https://ko-fi.com/meshcast/commissions?commissionAlias=892ec5a239 Top-Tier AI Models, Free — The Setup ($25): https://ko-fi.com/meshcast/commissions?commissionAlias=710ac4170b Fire TV Stick 4K Max: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BP9SNVH9?tag=meshcastmedia-20 Fire TV guides: https://firestickmasters.com/ Halloween costumes 2026: https://snugwinterpicks.com/halloween.html Tips keep the research going: https://ko-fi.com/meshcast

Added 18 Oct 2026