Bugatti CEO responds to Elon Musk's claim that the Tesla Roadster will be able to do 0 to 60 mph in under a second

• The new Tesla Roadster will be able to go from 0 to 60 mph in record time, Elon Musk said.

• That's possible, Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac said, but there might be design compromises.

• The Rimac Nevera owns the current 0-to-60 acceleration record for production-line vehicles.

Elon Musk's ambitious new promises for the long-awaited Tesla Roadster have raised eyebrows — including the Bugatti CEO's.

Last week, Musk announced on X, formerly Twitter, that Tesla had "radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster." Among the new benchmarks: acceleration from 0 to 60 mph in less than one second — which would be a world record.

Those numbers, while eye-popping, are feasible, Mate Rimac, the CEO of Bugatti Rimac, said.

Rimac's own electric sports car, the Nevera, set the current 0-to-60 acceleration record — 1.71 seconds — last year, according to Road & Track.

"It is possible with thrusters," Rimac said in a response to a Facebook comment under a photo of the engine for Bugatti's new Chiron sports car. "We did the simulation."

However, the Croatian auto executive added that there may be some drawbacks to accelerating that fast.