Tesla Premiering ‘Futuristic’ Pickup Truck Later This Year


Shortly after confirming that the Tesla Model Y will premiere on March 14, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has announced that the firm’s long-awaited pickup truck will debut later this year.

Musk has spoken about the Tesla pickup truck on a number of occasions in recent months and has been unable to control his excitement for the vehicle. He reiterated this excitement in a Twitter post.

“Personally, I’m most excited by the Tesla Truck. Maybe it will be too futuristic for most people, but I love it,” he wrote.

Tesla has only ever released a single teaser image of its upcoming pickup. The image was released back in late 2017 when the car manufacturer unveiled the Tesla Semi and second-generation Tesla Roadster. This teaser depicted a truly massive Tesla pickup that could actually fit a Ford F-Series pickup in its bed. It remains to be seen if the road-going model will be this big.

Knowing Tesla like we do, the Tesla Truck it launches later this year won’t be a production-spec model and instead a ‘prototype’. The exterior and interior styling of the prototype should be largely identical to the production model but it’s possible that a few changes will be made before Tesla starts building pickups for its loyal customers.

The Tesla Truck won’t sell in the numbers of the Tesla Model Y but that doesn’t concern Musk. In fact, he revealed to Recode in November last year that he wasn’t really bothered if the vehicle didn’t sell well.

“I’m personally super-excited by this pickup truck. It’s something I’ve been wanting to make for a long time. And I’ve been iterating sort of designs with Franz… It’s like I really wanted something that’s like super-futuristic cyberpunk.

“If there’s only a small number of people that like that truck, I guess we’ll make a more conventional truck in the future. But it’s the thing that I am personally most fired up about. It’s gonna have a lot of titanium,” he said.

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