The Dreame rocket car can do 0–60 in 0.9 seconds because you can only say things here

When I first heard that a vacuum company had released a rocket-powered electric car with an unmistakable sound, I immediately thought James Dyson was up to his old tricks again.

Fortunately, I was wrong. This time the home appliance company that is trying to create a supercar is Dreame (pronounced “dream”), a well-known Chinese company that wants to become a global consumer electronics giant. The company held a brand show in San Francisco this week that led to a number of product announcements. And because we live in an economy, and one of the best ways to attract people’s attention is to show yourself off silly looking carDreame is doing the same. Again.

The first time was last January at CES, when Dreame presented a four-door car with four electric motors that can produce 1,399 kW (that’s 1,876 horsepower) and accelerate to a speed of 100km/hour in 1.8 seconds. As you can see, we have already started to make no sense.

Less than five months later, Dreame is back with another car – and this time, they’ve outdone themselves. The company says its Nebula NEXT 01 Jet Edition, equipped with “rocket engines,” can go from 0 to 60 mph. 0.9 seconds.

Not only is it faster than anything else ever made, it’s physically impossible. Modern tires don’t have the strength to handle that kind of speed. As long as driving remains a real problem, no car can achieve this.

Even in all-wheel drive configurations, today’s hypercars are “less”. They may have the horsepower to spin their wheels indefinitely, but the limit is how much power the tires can transfer to the ground before they break and start smoking. To get to 60 mph in less than a second, you have to exert a lot of effort at the same time. Most of your tires would not be able to handle this amount of torque without slipping. Runners can approach using a rubber band and prepare the track. But a good car on good roads is dangerous.

Dreame’s answer to this is a “custom built rocket booster” that goes beyond horsepower. The company claims that its accessories provide up to 100 kilo-Newtons of force. Mathematically, this would be enough power to accelerate the car, but – again – we have to accept the limitations of using this power on the road. If it was running on empty or on an inactive surface, then yes, enjoy your rocket ride. But here in the real world, the laws of physics still apply.

There has been gradual progress towards the 1-second 0-60 acceleration. A few years ago, a group of students at the Academic Motorsports Club Zürich and the Swiss universities of ETH Zürich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. he built the fastest car that did 0.956 secondsbut it weighed about 300lbs and has no roof.

The Autopian sent an engineer to Dreame’s San Francisco show to see Nebula NEXT 01 in the flesh, and his assessment was “sounds like a horse.” He said the rocket boosters appeared to be designed to look like rocket launchers. And apparently there were no air intakes or exhausts, which raises some questions about how this thing should work in the real world.

There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious, and Dreame has said she wants to take over the world. But as we said before, the time 0-60 is a silly metric by which to judge the performance of a project. I think it’s an acceptable way to communicate quickly that most people can understand. But as automakers and startups like Dreame continue to try to fit in the 0-60 leaderboard, things are starting to get messy.

I can’t complain too much about it, though. Dream faces an uphill battle if he wants to become a car manufacturer, his rocket-booster ambitions lie. China’s EV market is contracting rapidly, as a fierce price war is making it increasingly difficult for niche brands to break through.

Of course, Dreame isn’t the only one trying to sell the world on the fantastic promise of rocket-powered power. The next generation Tesla Roadster to have “SpaceX package” and cool rocket thrusters designed for a 1-minute-second 0-60 sprint. Elon Musk promised that the new Roadster would be revealed in April 2026, but surprisingly that month came and went without a Roadster.

Can Dreame beat the world’s richest man into selling his fake rocket-booster technology? If a vaporware car goes 0-60 in under a second and no one can see it, does it exist?