Into space with Tesla

Tesla has added a new “secret level” to its customer referral programme to “launch a time capsule into space” for a select few owners who achieve a high number of referrals.

The move follows a new round of the referral programme launched earlier this month.

As a new first prize, it included: “Launch your photo into deep space orbit. We’ll laser-etch any image onto glass and send it into deep space orbit for millions of years. Refer more friends while you wait for an alien race to discover your payload.”

Now Tesla is keeping the space theme with a new “secret level” prize for the programme. It describes the prize: “You’ve unlocked the fifth secret level. Refer five more friends to launch a personal time capsule into space.”

It appears to be the latest collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX, which has become common when it comes to the referral programme. The last four “secret levels” are a discount on the next generation Roadster, drive an electric boring machine, watch a SpaceX rocket launch and race the Tesla Semi.

As far as Electrek, a US news site tracking the transition from fossil-fuel transport to electric and clean ecosystems, knows, Tesla has yet to deliver on any of those “secret levels”.

They have been available since last year.