Elon Musk Promises the Tesla Pickup will Actually Happen

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the company will put a pickup truck into production following the arrival of the Model Y crossover.

In a tweet authored Tuesday, Musk said he has had the core engineering of the Tesla pickup in his head for five years, and that he is “dying” to build it. It won’t arrive until after the Model Y small crossover, however, which is tentatively scheduled to enter production in 2019. When asked how large it would be, Musk said it will be a “similar total size,” to a Ford F-150, or  “maybe slightly bigger to account for a really gamechanging [I think] feature I’d like to add.”

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During the debut event of the Tesla Semi, the automaker showed a rendering for a large pickup truck based on the semi that would be able to carry an F-150 in its bed. The real Tesla pickup won’t be this large, of course, but it’s interesting to see Musk exploring a number of ideas when it comes to trucks.

I promise that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y. Have had the core design/engineering elements in my mind for almost 5 years. Am dying to build it.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2017

The Model Y crossover will share a platform with the Model 3 and will likely use the same powertrain, or one derived from the small four-door. Tesla will likely show an early draft for the vehicle sometime next year or in early 2019 before it enters production in mid 2019.

[Source: Twitter]

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