Tesla Cybertruck reportedly delayed until 2023 — here's why

Tesla Cybertruck reportedly delayed until 2023 — here'due south why

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Update: Information technology'southward official, the Cybertruck won't be arriving until 2023 at the absolute earliest — and ongoing supply concatenation issues are to arraign

The Tesla Cybertruck is shaping up to be the most unique vehicle Tesla has ever produced. But there'due south yet ane thing the electric truck has in mutual with other Tesla cars: perpetual delays.

Originally slated for production in belatedly 2022, Tesla has seemingly pushed dorsum the truck'south launch at least twice. So when volition the Cybertruck striking the production lines? One report claims it may not happen until early 2023.

That's according to sources speaking to Reuters, who merits the automaker won't begin production on the Cybertruck until Q1 2023. That would explain why Tesla pulled the 2022 launch estimates from the Cybertruck's order page, a move that had enough of people speculating almost another filibuster.

According to the sources, Tesla is expected to start with limited Cybertruck product in Q1 2023 and will increase output some time after that.

Following the Cybertruck's original delay , CEO Elon Musk claimed that, while initial production would begin in 2022, volume production wouldn't commence until the following yr. He later confirmed that Cybertrucks built in the initial production run would have 4 motors, rather than the previously-appear three.

Tesla hasn't commented on the status of the Cybertruck, and Elon Musk hasn't tweeted anything nearly it. So the truthful status of the truck is notwithstanding unknown, and nosotros may not get firm answers until Tesla's Q4 2022 earnings call on Jan 26.

You may be wondering why the Cybertruck is delayed, when other automakers, like Rivian and Ford, seem to have no bug producing electrical trucks of their own.

From the sounds of things in that location are a lot of factors that play into the Cybertruck's tiresome development, including the demand to develop more powerful casting machines for the truck's unique steel frame. Musk has also pinned some problems on Tesla's inability to produce enough 4680 bombardment cells, something that Musk claims would cause each truck to cost "a one thousand thousand dollars" if production had begun terminal year.

Tesla has also fabricated information technology very clear that information technology wasn't going to begin production of the Cybertruck until the Texas gigafactory had been prepare upward producing the Tesla Model Y. Sadly, Texan Model Y product hasn't started still, and until information technology does the Cybertruck seemingly remains in limbo.

Hopefully, we'll exist hearing more most the Cybertruck from Tesla within the coming weeks.

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