Tesla brings its robotaxi service to San Francisco (sort of) The base price for the Roadster is $200,000, with buyers required to drop $50,000 to join the line. The SpaceX package Musk has also spoken on several occasions of a so-called “SpaceX package” that would see the Roadster equipped with rocket thrusters to enable it to hover above the ground. “I thought, maybe we could make it hover, but not too high,” Musk said during a podcast chat earlier this year. “So maybe it could hover, like, a meter above the ground, or something. So if you plummet, you blow out the suspension but you’re not going to die.” He also mentioned another possible feature “where the license plate flips down, James Bond-style, and there’d be a rocket thruster behind it that gives you three tons of thrust.” It’s safe to say that regulators will ensure the rocket thrusters stay well away from the 2023 Roadster, though if Tesla can find a way to incorporate them into its factory to speed up the production line, its Roadster customers would surely be very happy indeed.