how many roadsters remain?

[Carl W]

I've been wondering how many roadsters are still alive. Obviously, one was recently sent towards Mars, but I also occasionally read about roadsters destroyed in crashes and I think 3 or so burned up last year along with a Tzero. Anyone have a guess how many remain? I assume that there were roughly 2450 to start. Are we below 2000 remaining yet?

 

[bart513]

That’s a question for TEG

 

[DeedWest]

My guess is there are at LEAST 50-100 that have been completely totaled in the U.S. If all ~1512 (unverified number) of U.S. Roadsters truly existed, the healthiest guess would be that around 1400 remain alive today. As for the rest of the world, I'm not sure.

 

[ecarfan]

Anyone have a guess how many remain?

All we can do is guess. We lack data. My guess is about 2,000 in total are roadworthy. It’s been almost 10 years since the first production Roadster was built. That’s a long time. There have been more than a few crashes since then...

 

[Carl W]

I think there are a couple of levels of the cars not running anymore. There's the totally destroyed level (or flying to Mars or parted out) which will never again be roadworthy. Then there's the cars that might currently be too expensive to fix (maybe some body damage plus a bricked battery), but could be fixed if our cars went up enough in value to justify it. Ecarfan's estimate of total still roadworthy (2000) seems about right to me.

 

[coolVariable]

Are we sure that many are dead? There seem to have been quite a few "resurrect from the dead" threads on this forum alone.

 

[cizUK]

What was total production?

 

[PhilMantel]

I always wondered how many "Sport" edition Roadsters were produced? Have looked everywhere and even asked my Tesla Service Center, but no one seems to know...

 

[bonnie]

@TEG

 

[guillaumef]

There's the totally destroyed level (or flying to Mars or parted out) which will never again be roadworthy.

What makes you say that outer space roadsters wouldn't be able to be roadworthy ? Now if I could just get a BFR to reach this free roadster...

 

[dhrivnak]

What was total production?

Right at 2,500 world wide and about 1800 USA

 

[TEG]

I always wondered how many "Sport" edition Roadsters were produced? Have looked everywhere and even asked my Tesla Service Center, but no one seems to know...

This gives some idea (at least for ones that went to the USA/NorthAmerican market):

So about 522 Sports for North America out of about 953 total North American Roadsters for 2010 & 2011.

(I am not counting any of the 2008 1.5s since there was no Sport variant available back then.)

So I think a little more than half of them were ordered as "Sport" models. I am not sure if the ratio in Europe was the same. Proper European production was always 2.x models with Sport variant always available in 2010/2011/2012.

 

[dhrivnak]

This gives some idea (at least for ones that went to the USA/NorthAmerican market):

So about 522 Sports for North America out of about 953 total North American Roadsters for 2010 & 2011.

(I am not counting any of the 2008 1.5s since there was no Sport variant available back then.)

So I think a little more than half of them were ordered as "Sport" models. I am not sure if the ratio in Europe was the same. Proper European production was always 2.x models with Sport variant always available in 2010/2011/2012.

So TEG with 500 1.5s and your 953 number that means only 1453 USA Roadsters?

 

[TEG]

Pretty close... Here is a special VIN plaque on the last North American Roadster:

You can count it different ways... There was a gap near the end of the 1.5s... They skipped the #485-#499 and went right to #500 for the last 1.5.
But then you can add some back in if you count the VPs, Founders' and other prototypes.
"Approaching 1500".

On the Eurospec Roadsters they were counting up towards 1012 but decided to make the very last one #2500 to add the NorthAmerican + European together.

You could say "Slightly less than 1500 for North America", and "Slightly less than 2500 total".

Some other ambiguities:
Do you count cars that were produced then immediately crash tested without ever being used otherwise?
Do you count prototypes? Only ones that were eventually sold?
So the exact numbers are a little squishy.

 

[TEG]

Last Roadster:

 

[TEG]

Last powertrain for #2500:

 

[smorgasbord]

If we start with the 1453 number, let's go back to the original question: how many still remain at least close to roadworthy?

 

[DanielFriederich]

as for Germany I can tell that 300 should have been sold here and about 2 years ago 138 still had been registered by the DMV. If and how many might have been sold to outside Germany I can't tell. But the guess that about 500 from the 2.500 are meanwhile gone seem reasonable.

 

[Stefan T]

in Sweden there are 13-14 roadsters (13 with sweidsh plates one with norweagan)
I bought mine in Germany but came from Spain from the begining

 

[Timothy]

So in spite of the worries about the Model 3 making 2500 cars a week and needing 500 a week to be financially successful, there were only 2500 Roadsters in 4 years. So they HAVE ramped up productions a bit!!