Tesla has finally put a clock on the next-gen Roadster reveal. Late Monday evening Pacific time, the company's official @Tesla account posted: "Roadster event streaming live this Thursday at 7:55pm CST." That single line answers the two questions our earlier Oct. 12 preview left open — whether the outdoor demo would be broadcast at all, and what time it starts.
When to tune in
Tesla wrote 7:55 p.m. CST. Mid-October in Texas is still on Central Daylight Time, and secondary coverage treating that post as Central Time puts the stream at 5:55 p.m. Pacific and 8:55 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Oct. 15. TeslaNorth, which reported the confirmation the same evening, uses those conversions. A separate Not a Tesla App guide still lists 9:00 p.m. Eastern / 6:00 p.m. Pacific; that does not match Tesla's posted 7:55 Central figure, so treat Tesla's own post as the schedule until the company updates it.
The stream is expected on Tesla's X account, where the announcement landed. Tesla has not published a separate YouTube or Tesla.com player link yet.
What was already locked in
The date itself has been public since late September, when Tesla moved the outdoor-only demo off Oct. 1 because of weather and set Oct. 15. Invitations for the original date pointed near Waco, Texas; Electrek and others still expect SpaceX's McGregor test site. The in-person event remains invite-only for reservation holders, with Not a Tesla App noting a 21-and-over guest rule from those invitations.
What Thursday still has to prove
A livestream confirmation is not a product brief. Tesla has still not said whether Thursday brings a base price, a Founders Series price update, a production start at Giga Texas, or a customer delivery window. The only official performance claims are still the 2017 ones — including a sub-two-second 0–60 mph run and an optional SpaceX cold-gas package. Reports that the car might hover, drive inverted, or use thrusters live remain rumor unless Tesla shows them on camera.
Tesla has also reopened Roadster reservations in some markets with a refundable deposit, per Not a Tesla App, but that line is separate from the reveal schedule. Watching the stream does not require a reservation.
What it means for reservation holders and investors: anyone who put down a deposit years ago finally has a public watch window two nights from now. The useful bar for the stream is narrow: does Tesla name a price and a delivery year, or is it only a spectacle? Until those numbers land, the livestream settles logistics, not the business case.