Earlier today, Tesla had its fourth-quarter earnings call where the company’s CEO Elon Musk said that the Cybertruck won’t be seeing full volume production until 2024. As many of you may remember, Tesla unveiled the futuristic Cybertruck back in November 2019 and subsequently opened bookings for the pickup truck.
To date, potential customers have reserved more than 1.5 million Cybertracks, however, even one of them it yet to make it to a customer. During the call, Musk was questioned about if the upcoming car would fulfill a manufacturing goal that was established in Q2 of last year for the middle of 2023. Musk reluctantly acknowledged that Cybertruck production would begin “sometime this summer,” but came to the conclusion that the truck won’t go into mass production until the following year. “I always attempt to minimize the beginning of manufacturing,” Musk added. “It increases exponentially, but it is very slow at first.”
This is the latest in a line of multiple delays. Pre-production was initially planned to begin in late 2021, but the COVID-19 epidemic caused this to change. Then, it was projected to happen sometime in 2023, a year ago.
This time, however, it looks like Tesla is finally readying up for mass production as the company revealed that it has started installing the production equipment needed for the Cybertruck’s assembly, including the castings that will produce the electric pickup’s body.
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