Tesla Removes Promise of '2022' Production on Cybertruck Website

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Tesla’s Cybertruck website as it appeared in early December 2021, before the year “2022" was purged. Screenshot: Tesla / Internet Archive

Tesla has removed any mention of the year 2022 from the Cybertruck website, a bad sign for anyone hoping to get their hands on the electric truck before the end of the year. Don’t say we didn’t warn you back in 2019.

The removal, first spotted by Mashable, likely happened in mid-December, according to pages archived by the Internet Archive, but this is the first anyone had noticed. Tesla purged any mention of pricing or model information back in October, but this most recent scrub of the electric car company’s website removes the year 2022.

The Cybertruck was first announced in 2019, and hailed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk as something close to the, “armored personnel carrier from the future.” But the vehicle became the subject of ridicule when its “indestructible” windows were obliterated at the unveiling and the prototype’s unwieldy shape caused Musk to hit a traffic pylon after having dinner in Malibu.

 

 

 

Production was supposed to start in 2021, but as recently as August, Tesla announced it was pushing back production on the vehicle until 2022. Now that entire timeline seems to be in question, though Musk has yet to comment on the most recent change. Tesla infamously got rid of its public relations team so there’s no one for Gizmodo to reach out to for comment about the move.