Tesla Reportedly Delays Cybertruck by a Year to Late 2022
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Tesla Inc.’s Cybertruck pickup has fallen about a year behind schedule, blog Electrek reported, citing remarks CEO Elon Musk made on a companywide call with employees.
The truck is expected to start production at the end of next year and won’t be made in volume until late 2023, Electrek said, citing unidentified sources who were on the call with Musk.
The CEO told employees that ramping up output will be complicated by the amount of new technology the company will put into the pickup.
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Tesla has dropped several hints that its wedge-shaped pickup will be delayed. In April, Musk said the Cybertruck and the Semi will run on new, larger battery cells that the carmaker is making on a pilot line in California. The CEO cautioned that volume manufacturing of those cells appeared to be 12 to 18 months away. Tesla also recently updated its online configurator, where customers can reserve their pickup to refer to production nearing in 2022 rather than late this year.
Musk first showed the Cybertruck in November 2019. A demonstration of the truck’s supposedly shatterproof “armor glass” famously went awry when Tesla’s design chief smashed the prototype’s driver-side windows with a metal ball.
Tesla shares slipped 0.5% to $728.91 as of 9:55 a.m. Sept. 3 in New York.
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