California, United States — Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the OEM is “working hard to get [the] Cybertruck into production,” and that the model was a “tough product” to design and build.
The statement was made on Twitter, in reply to a Tesla fan’s 15-second Cybertruck walkaround.
We’re working hard to get Cybertruck into production! This was a tough product to design & even tougher to build.
But it will be great …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2023
Tesla is using a pair of 9,000-ton Gigapresses to create Cybertruck body panels, as reported by Inside EV News in March. A Gigapress, presumably for the electric pickup, was also spotted in Texas in January 2023.
Once production is fully operational, Musk says he expects the Cybertruck to sell between 250,000 and 500,000 units per year.
“I’d say a quarter of a million is a reasonable guess, and it might be 500,000, I don’t know,” he told shareholders during an annual meeting.
The Cybertruck is scheduled to enter production this summer, with mass production beginning in 2024, Musk said during a Q4 2022 earnings call.
