Elon Musk now says Tesla could start Cybertruck deliveries in mid-2023
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An upgrade from hopefully next year." | Photo by Sean O'Kane / The Verge Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that the company hopes to start delivering the Cybertruck, its battery-powered electric pickup, in the middle of next year" during a call for investors. This is a more specific timeline than Musk has provided before - in last quarter's earnings call, he said that the truck would be coming hopefully next year."
Tesla originally announced the truck in 2019, with a goal of starting production in late 2021. In August 2021, the company announced a delay until 2022, and Musk pushed that prediction further back until hopefully" next year during the company's Q4 earnings call in January. In the meantime, competitors like Ford and Rivian have launched their own electric pickups, with Ford saying that it plans to...