Recently, there have been slight changes on the Cybertruck page on the Tesla website. The delivery time for Cybertruck has been explicitly stated as 2022, rather than the “small batch delivery at the end of this year” mentioned by Musk during the Q4 2020 earnings call.
I think it’s going to be an incredible vehicle. If we get lucky, we’ll be able to do a few deliveries toward the end of this year, but I expect volume production to be in 2022.
Previously, some netizens received a short message from a Tesla store and were informed that Cybertruck would be in mass production in 2021.
Also, during the Q4 2020 earnings call, Musk revealed that Cybertruck would require an 8000-ton press to be produced. Although orders have been placed, no evidence has been found in public information that the presses have already been delivered to Tesla’s Austin factory.
From the timeline of introducing Gigapress into the Shanghai factory, it takes roughly three months from the delivery of the equipment to the start of mass production of the Model Y. However, it should be noted that Cybertruck is a completely new architecture, and may even adopt the technology of the CTC cell directly installed in the body. Additionally, the 8000-ton mold locking force also means larger part sizes.
Therefore, it is very likely that Cybertruck will require more time in production process debugging than Model Y, not to mention that the Model Y that has reached production scale is the focus of attention.
As a disruptive, pure electric pickup truck product, what will be the fate of Cybertruck? How similar will its design be after mass production? I believe many people are eagerly awaiting the answers.
🔗Source: Tesla
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