What simply happened? Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during a recent earnings call with investors that engineers have finalized the design of the company'southward beginning electric pickup truck. "We'll soon gild the equipment necessary to make the Cybertruck," Musk added. With any luck, the start few deliveries could occur by the end of the year.

Tesla unveiled its futuristic Cybertruck at a flashy outcome in late 2022. The company said the boxy EV would have a range of up to 500 miles on a single accuse and be capable of reaching threescore mph from a stop in less than iii seconds.

Several months later, Musk revealed that Tesla was modifying the blueprint of the Cybertruck for better off-road operation. The pickup would as well exist about 3 percent smaller than the epitome, with lower window sills and a more than level center line.

With the design now finalized, Tesla can movement ahead to production. Musk on Wednesday said they might get lucky and be able to deliver a few Cybertrucks to customers near the end of the year but that volume production is expected to commencement in 2022.

It'southward an ambitious timeline, especially if Tesla hasn't even ordered the components to industry the Cybertruck. Plus, we're still waiting for the visitor to produce the second-gen Roadster and Semi truck it unveiled in 2022.

"Prototypes are like shooting fish in a barrel, scaling product is very hard," Musk noted.