This particular cargo could play into the hands of SpaceX, which has close ties to EV maker Tesla and has even already flown a car into space ... since all the way back in 2019, the project ...

An EV powering your whole home, or even pushing power back to the grid, is something higher-end EVs might do at some point ...

We've sent a lot of unusual things to space ... it will make its way back to earth. A team at the University of Toronto projected the Roadster's orbit decades into the future.

The February 2018 launch also shot SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster, along with a mannequin named Starman, into space and the cherry-red sports car is still out there in orbit ...