If you’ve been waiting for another Tesla truck, Elon Musk just promised they will begin building a new one “right after Model Y.”
TeslaTesla’s got another big bruiser coming — and this one won’t just be for businesses.
The company will move on to build a pickup truck “right after” it’s done with the Model Y, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Wednesday, adding that he’s “dying” to make it.
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
That’s still some time away given Musk said the Model Y should go into production “aspirationally in late 2019.” In April, he also promised the pickup truck will be unveiled in “18 to 24 months.”
In a separate tweet, Musk added the truck should be “slightly bigger” than an F150 to accommodate a supposedly game-changing feature, although he didn’t elaborate on what that will be.
Similar total size. Maybe slightly bigger to account for a really gamechanging (I think) feature I’d like to add.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2017
Musk’s tweet comes a little more than a month after Tesla unveiled its all-electric commercial Semi truck. This has drawn attention from the likes of logistics and transportation firms such as DHL, Titanium and UPS.
The Tesla Semi comes with just a few moving parts, burns no gas and theoretically won’t ever need its brakes replacing. It can cover 500 miles on a charge while carrying a load, and features an advanced version of Tesla’s Autopilot, which makes it one of the smartest trucks on the road.
CNET has reached out to Tesla for a comment.
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