Elon Musk casually reveals that Tesla Model S is also a boat
Following the news that a Tesla Model S owner successfully drove the car through a flooded tunnel in Kazakhstan, Elon Musk revealed on Twitter that the Model S actually floats "well enough to turn it into a boat."
While Musk does not recommend anyone actually trying this out, he says it would work for "short periods of time," with wheel rotation providing the necessary thrust.
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Don't believe it? Just check the video (below) of the Model S driver in Kazakhstan, unearthed by Electrek over the weekend. You can see the Model S easily glide through the flooded tunnel, leaving gas-powered cars behind.
To make things even more interesting, Musk followed up with a tweet claiming that building a "sports sub car that can drive on roads" is something he plans to do, despite such a project's "limited market potential."
We disagree -- every evil overlord worth his salt needs his own sports submarine that's also a car.
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.
