“We do anticipate manufacturing to begin, I don’t know, maybe this summer,” he said. “However, I usually prefer to minimise the start of production since it is always quite sluggish. It grows exponentially, but it’s usually sluggish at first, so I wouldn’t place too much stock in the beginning of production.”
He said that mass production would not begin until 2024, but the company was putting in the necessary equipment — including the world’s biggest press — to build the vehicle, which apparently had more than 200,000 reservations. The Cybertruck series will be manufactured in Gigafactory Texas, which is located just outside of Austin.
Musk, who has frequently said that he doesn’t care whether the Cybertruck is profitable; he just loves it and wants to build it, has been shifting the production “goalposts” in the years since its unveiling in 2019. Rivian, Ford, General Motors, and Lordstown Motors have all started building vans since its introduction.
