Ideas in this flowchart

• Tesla-SpaceX merger timeline and Tesla's 18-year path toward a flying car
• Tesla-SpaceX merger timeline
• Roadster debut draws sharper focus to the merger timeline
• Tesla's 18-year road toward a flying car
• Batteries represent an earlier stage of Tesla's technological road
• Thrusters represent a later stage of that technological road
• The flying car is the stated development goal