Pacific / 9 p.m. Eastern on tesla.com, per AOL's MotorTrend report.

The event was originally set for October 1 but was scrapped due to weather and pushed to the new date.

WIRED frames tonight as what Tesla bills as its last unveiling event for a human-driven vehicle, with deliveries slated to begin next year — nearly nine years after Elon Musk promised 'the fastest sports car ever made, period' on stage in 2017.

The eye-catching claim is that the Roadster may leave the ground.

MotorTrend reports that the FAA issued a Temporary Flight Restriction (NOTAM FDC 6/3825 ZFW TX) over the McGregor facility for the original launch window — a 1.5-nautical-mile radius extending up to 10,000 feet — and says a video circulating on X appears to show the Roadster completing a hover test that gains significant altitude.

Under the FAA's "Any Inch Off the Ground" rule, a hovering vehicle counts as an aircraft, so MotorTrend cautions that "flying" is a relative term: the Roadster is far more likely to hover and hop than to soar over traffic.

The hardware behind the claims is a set of cold-gas thrusters (CGTs) — rocket engines that don't burn fuel, expelling ultra-pressurized gas instead.

MotorTrend notes these are the same thrusters SpaceX uses to orient Falcon 9 boosters and Starship prototypes during unpowered flight, and reports that Musk has suggested on X that up to 10 small rocket thrusters could be mounted throughout the car, added via the optional SpaceX package for the $50,000-deposit reservation holders.

Tesla's vice president of engineering, Lars Moravy, teased the car with a 9-second video at the Tesla Semi keynote, per AOL, showing the familiar white lightbar and 'Roadster' in a new blue font.

WIRED points out the Roadster arrives nine years late into a sharply changed market: US shoppers had 15 EVs to choose from in 2017 and nearly 90 today, EV sales are shrinking after federal incentives were scrapped, and Musk now tells investors to see Tesla as a robotics and autonomy company.

AutoPacific's Ed Kim tells WIRED that in the hypercar space, EVs have to "wow the shopper with a lot more than practical things" — which is exactly the bet the thrusters represent.

MotorTrend reports Tesla plans a "base mode" Roadster without CGTs that can reportedly sprint to 60 mph in under two seconds — which would make it one of the quickest cars the magazine has ever tested — while the SpaceX package could make it the quickest car of all time.

Beyond straight-line speed, the thrusters may assist acceleration, braking and cornering, and Musk has even suggested the car's computer could spin the wheels and motors to orient the Roadster mid-air.

Whether buyers ever legally get to fly it remains an open question, since newer FAA rules require such vehicles to fly pre-approved corridors away from traffic.