Tesla continues to prepare for the start of production of the long-awaited all-new Roadster.
Just a week after the company’s Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen reaffirmed that the unveil event is still on track to take place this year, a new job listing confirmed that preparations are underway.
According to its website, and as first noticed by Tesla shareholder and X user Sawyer Merritt, the company is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer for concept development and battery manufacturing.
“In this role you will take large scale manufacturing systems for new battery products and architectures from the early concept development stage through equipment launch, optimization and handover to local operations teams,” the job description says.
Tesla noted that “this is an exciting opportunity to work directly on the central challenges for the all-new Roadster product architecture while still in its early development stages.”
The full-time position is based at Tesla‘s Fremont factory in California.
This Tuesday, the company posted on X that the Fremont facility — opened exactly 15 years ago — has produced 3.6 million vehicles to date and created more than 20,000 jobs in the state.
In last week’s episode of the Ride the Lightning podcast, von Holzhausen revealed that Tesla is “planning on this year” for the unveiling of the model.
According to von Holzhausen, the model will be available “within two years” from now.
The confirmation came a few months after Tesla‘s VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy teased that the Roadster model was under development.
The first generation of the Roaster, Tesla‘s first production vehicle, was launched in 2008 and sold until 2012.
Five years later, as the Roadster neared its ten-year anniversary, Tesla announced plans for a second-generation model.
However, eight years have passed since that announcement, and the vehicle has still not been unveiled.
“I think it comes to those who wait,” the Chief Designer noted, as the company nears the twenty-year mark of the sports car.
In February 2024, Musk had written on X that the company had “radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster. There will never be another car like this, if you could even call it a car,” he wrote.
Musk later added in a reply that the “production design [would be] complete and unveil[ed by] end of year, aiming to ship next year” — which did not happen.
