Tesla Cybertruck Likely No Earlier than December 2023

• Our source says Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a considerable list of changes he wants made to the Cybertruck before it hits the market.

• Did Tesla roll out the EV pickup concept at the Formula SAE competition at Michigan International Speedway to remind Detroit automakers who rules the EV market?

• Why not cut the Cybertruck from the future product lineup? Because, pride before practicality, particularly when you have all that market cap.
  

Tesla popped into the Formula SAE competition at Michigan International Speedway with a surprise showing of its Cybertruck pickup prototype this past weekend. It was a typical Elon Musk sort of move to remind Ford and General Motors—both an easy, range anxiety-free 65-75 miles away from the tri-oval track in the small town of Brooklyn, Michigan—that Tesla still owns the electric-vehicle market and will soon challenge their Ford F-150 Lightning and Chevrolet Silverado EV with its own pickup truck.

When Musk unveiled the Cybertruck at a Tesla event in 2019, he had promised it would be available by 2021, but no one who has followed the company for the last dozen or so years would be surprised over constantly blown deadlines. To be fair, Tesla is not blaming any product delays over computer chip shortages. In fact, it has avoided the sort of factory shutdowns that have hurt the “legacy” automakers during the pandemic by supplying its own chips.

At the Tesla Cyber Rodeo in Austin, Texas, on April 10, Musk announced, “we’re going to start manufacturing Cybertruck here next year.”

“Next year” is optimistic at best for the Cybertruck’s arrival. Even if you’re one of the earliest customers to plunk down a cash deposit for the origami-style EV pickup, you won’t see it any earlier than December of 2023, an industry competitive analyst says. That indicates most early deliveries will not happen until 2024.