Elon Musk Promises to Make a Tesla Pickup Truck after the Model Y

Elon Musk's company Tesla might release an electrical pickup truck in the nearly time to come. The news comes from Musk'due south response to a tweet from the Vancouver Seed Depository financial institution.

The tweet in question only said "Need an electrical Option upwardly truck delight", and Musk's response puts forth not just a promise for building the vehicle, just also a rather incredible timeline for it. "I promise that nosotros volition make a pickup truck right later on Model Y. Have had the cadre pattern/engineering elements in my mind for almost v years. Am dying to build information technology," said Musk in his reply.

I hope that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y. Take had the core pattern/engineering elements in my mind for nigh 5 years. Am dying to build it.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2017

Considering that the Model Y is expected to come out onetime in 2019-20, Musk is giving us all promise of seeing an electrical pickup truck sometime around that same time. It's not a timeline we'd expect Tesla to stick to. Afterward all, nosotros were supposed to encounter wide-scale gyre out of the Tesla Model 3 this year and that certainly didn't happen. However, Musk'due south tweet does give abroad a bit of Tesla's roadmap.

Elon Musk Promises to Make a Tesla Pickup Truck Right After the Model Y

Tesla is currently in "production hell" trying to meet orders for the Model 3 as soon as possible, forth with the Tesla Semi Truck, and the new Tesla Roadster 2. Adding a couple more vehicles to that listing volition definitely non be an easy job for the visitor, especially inside the next two-3 years.

Musk is as well promising existing Tesla owners a slew of 'withal-to-come' upgrades for their cars, including things like a 'Disco Style' which Musk said sounded like "good, cheesy fun."

Was gonna say nosotros'll do all merely the last, but that concluding 1 sounds like good, cheesy fun 🙂

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2017

Whether or not Tesla manages to push button equally many features as Musk is promising on Twitter remains to be seen. However, as of now, it does wait like the company has a long listing of promises, both new and old, to evangelize on in the coming year. At the very least, we'd wait the company to make a few more announcements, and begin wide-calibration deliveries for the Tesla Model 3.