Tesla Cybertruck delay pushes pickup to late 2022, Elon Musk reportedly says

The Tesla Cybertruck delay was already a identified reality, however CEO Elon Musk’s newest reported feedback add a number of extra particulars to the image. Citing sources accustomed to the assembly, Electrek reported Thursday Musk held a company-wide name and mentioned the Cybertruck needs to be prepared for manufacturing in late 2022.

This follows unique feedback from Lars Moravy, vice chairman of auto engineering, who mainly did his finest to tip-toe round a delay back in July. 

“[The] Cybertruck is at a stage the place we completed fundamental engineering of the structure of the automobile. With the Cybertruck, we’re redefining how a automobile is being made,” Moravy mentioned. “As [Tesla CEO Elon Musk] mentioned, it carries a lot of the structural pack and huge casting design of the Mannequin Y being inbuilt Berlin and Austin. Clearly, these take precedence over the Cybertruck, however we’re transferring into the beta phases of Cybertruck later this 12 months and we shall be trying to ramp up manufacturing at Giga Texas after Mannequin Y is up and operating.”

If the corporate plans for beta vans later this 12 months, there was nowhere close to sufficient time to begin precise manufacturing in late 2021.

Following his feedback, Tesla formally up to date the Cybertruck’s reservation page to notice manufacturing will hearth up in 2022. Although, in keeping with Musk, we’re not early 2022 or something like that. And as we suspected, the CEO underscored the electrical truck’s quantity fashions might not be prepared till someday in 2023. If Tesla follows this timeline, we’ll get the priciest tri-motor model in 2022, then a dual-motor and single-motor truck in 2023. 

Tesla doesn’t function a public relations division to area requests for remark, so we’ll must take the manufacturing information with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, it would not appear far fetched within the slightest. Musk simply this week confirmed one other new automobile, the Roadster, can be subject to another delay. The electrical sports activities automotive was meant to start manufacturing subsequent 12 months, however he mentioned 2023 is the automotive’s new goal manufacturing date.

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