Reports are published that Tesla Cybertruck production is delayed, but they are in a weak and confusing report.
There is no evidence that the electric truck is on time.
When Tesla introduced the Cybertruck in 2019, Tesla said the electric pickup would hit the market until the end of 2021. As the deadline approached, the automaker showed that production had slipped to 2022.
CEO Elon Musk later said Tesla aims to begin production of the electric pickup truck by “late 2022” at Gigafactory Texas. Cybertruck’s production schedule is also likely to slip.
In March 2022, it showed that Tesla is aiming for full progression of Cybertruck this year for production in 2023, and in June, Musk said Tesla is aiming for production to begin in mid-2023.
In its communications, Tesla has been sticking to a mid-2023 timeline for the past few months, and is starting to get more genuine than just words with the genuine production team arriving at Gigafactory Texas.
Now, a Reuters report on two unnamed resources claimed that Cybertryc will “mass-produce by the end of 2023”:
Nov 1 (Reuters) – Tesla aims to begin mass production of its Cybertruck by the end of 2023, two years after the initial purpose of pickup truck executive Elon Musk was revealed in 2019, two other people familiar with the plans said. Reuters.
The report is confusing and doesn’t introduce new information, but that hasn’t stopped many other publications from claiming that this means Cybertruck’s production has been delayed.
In fact, the report would recommend that Cybertruck production be brought forward because “mass production” doesn’t take place until about a year after production begins.
So, if Reuters claims that “mass production” would be in late 2023 and production is still scheduled to begin in mid-2023, it would mean Tesla would achieve its fastest production ramp with the Cybertruck.
One thing is clear: the Reuters report means that Cybertruck production is delayed.
As for the direction that speeds up the chronology, I wouldn’t bet on that either. Honestly, no one, Tesla adding, knows when mass production will be reached.
Perhaps the report is based on certain suppliers, on the timeline Tesla has given them, which is likely to be more competitive than you expected, to make sure suppliers aren’t the bottleneck.
This makes more sense to me, but ultimately, I think it’s safer to assume that Tesla will possibly not produce significant volumes of cybertrucks in 2023.
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