Sam Altman Seeks Refund for $50,000 Tesla Roadster Deposit as Vehicle Remains Unreleased
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is seeking a refund for his $50,000 deposit on Tesla's Roadster 2.0, which was announced in 2017 with ambitious features like cold gas thrusters and 620-mile range but has never materialized. The article criticizes Tesla's vaporware promises and notes that Altman joins a growing list of customers demanding refunds for the long-delayed electric hypercar.
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· 4 pulled2017 feels like another era these days, but if you cast your mind back that far, you might remember Tesla CEO Elon Musk's vaporware Roadster 2.0.
Full of nonsensical-sounding features that impressed people who know a little bit about rockets but nothing about cars, the $200,000 electric car promised to have a suction fan and 'cold gas thrusters,' plus 620 miles (1,000 km) of range and a whole load of other stuff that's never happening.
Plenty of other electric automakers have introduced electric hypercars in the eight years since Musk debuted the Roadster 2.0 concept.
Altman is just the latest in a string of people to want their money back.
Altman is just the latest in a string of people to want their money back.
