Tesla will not be launching output of the Cybertruck EV pickup this year, as it focuses on increasing capacity at current plants in California and China and begins production at new factories in Texas and Germany, CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday.
“We will not be introducing new vehicle models this year,” Musk said on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. “It would not make sense because we’ll still be parts constrained.”
Musk said the company is focused on optimizing a limited supply of computer chips that operate basic vehicle functions such as electric seats and window switches, and that introducing new models and new complexity would actually reduce vehicle output.
Musk said the company continues engineering and planning work and tooling on the Cybertruck, the Tesla Semi cargo truck, the Roadster and the Tesla robot that’s being called Optimus. He said Telsa “could be ready to bring those to production hopefully next year. That is most likely.”
But in terms of production of new products, that would only come when they increase Tesla output rather than limit it. “It will be dependent on [when we] will be able to produce more or fewer,” he said.
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