Tesla electric pick-up truck set for November launch

Tesla electric pick-up truck set for November launch

It’s starting to sound like a broken record now, but Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has once again taken to Twitter to say that its upcoming all-electric pick-up truck is on track for a November launch.

When asked on Twitter if Musk still plans on revealing the pick-up in November, the South African billionaire simply said “no change.” As of now, details of the pick-up is still kept under wraps, but prices are tipped to start at under US$50,000 (RM209k), with Musk saying that it will outperform the industry’s best-selling vehicle, the Ford F series.

He even went as far as to claim that the pick-up will look pretty sci-fi, outperform the Ford F-150 in terms of truck-like functionalities, and be a better sports car than a standard Porsche 911. It doesn’t make sense, but the Tesla pick-up is set to get a dual-motor all-wheel drive system as standard with adjustable suspension.

Other features include power outlets for heavy-duty, 240-volt tools, as well as a large battery pack that offers up to 805 km of driving range, if not more. Lastly, Musk said that the pick-up would have a 300,000-pound (136,078 kg) towing capacity, which again, does not make sense.

Those aside, it seems like the Tesla pick-up is happening for real. Musk did say that he was dying to the pick-up for a long time and has had the core design and engineering elements in his mind for almost five years. So, who here wants one?

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Matthew H Tong

An ardent believer that fun cars need not be fast and fast cars may not always be fun. Matt advocates the purity and simplicity of manually swapping cogs while coping in silence of its impending doom. Matt's not hot. Never hot.

 

Comments

  • Have he solved the production bottleneck first? Or did he just wait for that issue to resolve itself when many prospective buyers cancelled their orders?

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    • AFMGT youtube on Oct 15, 2019 at 11:33 am

      97k per quarter delivered. Ok la. Soon gigafactory shanghai open

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