Tesla just built its first Cybertruck at its Austin, Texas plant

2023-07-16 12:05:15

Tesla built its first Cybertruck at the electric vehicle marker’s plant in Austin, Texas, the company said in a tweet on Saturday, after two years of delays.

Tesla founder Elon Musk unveiled the pickup in a 2019 reveal where the vehicle’s designer smashed the vehicle’s supposedly unbreakable “armor glass” windows.

The company has pushed back the production schedule ever since, and Musk last year cited shortages in component supplies as the reason for delaying the Cybertruck launch until 2023.

At a May shareholder meeting, Musk said that depending on demand, Tesla would like to produce a quarter million Cybertrucks a year.

The launch of Cybertruck will give Tesla an EV player in one of the most profitable segments of the US market and a competitor to electric pickup trucks from Ford and Rivian, which have released models in still limited numbers.