Production Of Electric Pickup, Tesla Cybertruck Delayed To 2022

Despite the mention of the Tesla Cybertruck rolling off an assembly line late this year, the company’s website was recently updated to show that the production of the electric pickup won’t be starting until at least 2022. 

These changes might have been made following the remarks from company executives during Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call in July. 

"The Cybertruck is at a stage where we finished basic engineering of the architecture of the vehicle. With the Cybertruck, we are redefining how a vehicle is being made," vice president of vehicle engineering at Tesla, Lars Moravy said. "As Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, it carries much of the structural pack and large casting design of the Model Y being built in Berlin and Austin. Obviously, those take priority over the Cybertruck, but we are moving into the beta phases of Cybertruck later this year, and we will be looking to ramp up production at Giga Texas after Model Y is up and running," said Moravy. 

Initially, the company was said to begin producing the Cybertruck tri-motor variant this year, followed by the dual- and single-motor variants in 2022.