Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a call with stockholders about the company’s earnings on Wednesday that the Tesla’s Roadster and Cybertruck will be delayed until next year, according to the company. The Verge website.
These statements confirm previous news that indicated that the electric truck will not be launched on the market this year, as well as the Roadster.
“If we’re going to roll out new vehicles, our total vehicle production will go down,” Musk said during the call. “We won’t be introducing new car models this year,” Musk said during the call.
The Tesla CEO also responded to a question about the launch of an electric car priced at $ 25,000 in the negative, and said, “We are not currently working on a car priced at $ 25,000.”
This comes after a few months of hints that the launch of the electric truck has been delayed, especially when the online truck reservations web page has changed hands, as it has been removed from the site.
Then Musk announced that only a few Cybertruck trucks would reach customers by the end of this year, but that didn’t happen.
The question is: Will future Cyber Turk owners get a better product, due to the delay? As of this writing, the next-generation truck has already undergone changes and modifications, including a new windshield wiper, along with traditional mirrors, and an “invisible” door handle that was leaked in a video.
The chips are the reason
Musk said Tesla has been unable to release any new vehicles this year due to ongoing supply chain issues currently affecting the global economy.
On the call that came after the company’s fourth-quarter 2021 financial statements were released, Musk explained that since parts for Tesla electric cars need computer chips, adding more new vehicles to the production line will reduce vehicle supply.
Meanwhile, more than a million people have booked a Cybertruck electric van, and now they seem to be wondering when they will receive theirs.
Tesla risks not launching an electric Cybertruck this year by ceding a significant portion of the market to Ford, which is gearing up to deliver the all-electric F-150 Lighting in the first half of this year.
Ford also recently announced that it plans to triple production of the Mustang Mach-E, a car likely to rival Tesla’s Model 3 and Y cars, with sales expected to exceed 200,000 units annually. by 2023.
Another potential competitor is GMC, which introduced an electric Hummer EV to customers for the first time in December 2021.