Years in the making, the USAP-approved, limited-edition collab nobody saw coming drops today and comes packed with a slew of new tech and features
If you thought your 2025 pickleball paddle budget was maxed out, we've got bad news for you: Selkirk and Tesla just teamed up for a collab paddle nobody saw coming – but many are likely to want (us very much included).
That's right: the Tesla Plaid Pickleball Paddle by Selkirk is a very real thing – and it's not designed to sit on a shelf and collect dust; it features new-age tech tested in a wind-tunnel to bring advanced aerodynamics and precision performance to a court near you.
The limited-edition paddle is only available on the Tesla Shop website.
How this collaboration came to be At the 2023 USAP National Championships, Selkirk Director of R&D Tom Barnes first encountered Tesla’s engineering team. Inspired by their meeting, Tom created a batch of custom black-and-white Tesla paddles to deliver to Tesla staff.
It wasn't until March of 2024 that Tom and a handful of Tesla designers, including Tesla’s Director of Product Design Javier Verdura, started discussing how aerodynamics used in Tesla vehicle development could be applied to a pickleball paddle.
A series of shared design sessions led to early prototypes producedin Selkirk's Idaho-based lab, where both companies then conducted repeated rounds of performance testing.
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