A Ford F-150-Rivalling Tesla Pickup Will Happen After The Model Y
A Tesla pickup truck could actually happen, says Elon Musk, but it won’t be quite like the oddball designs that surfaced a month or so ago.
A pickup was briefly mentioned by Tesla at around the same time as the Roadster and semi truck were launched to the press, but in typical Musk mercurial style, plans have already changed.
The initial idea was for it to be ‘a pickup that can carry a pickup’ and was sketched at the time with a Ford F-150 in the load bed. It would be huge, something like a Mercedes-Benz Unimog. But in a new Twitter exchange, it seems Elon Musk has apparently changed his mind and shrunk the designs for a more commercially viable project.
He promised to build a pickup “right after Model Y,” the company’s planned compact crossover to rival the Nissan Qashqai. Musk added that he’s had the core design and engineering elements in mind for five years and is “dying to build it.”
It won’t be carrying any F-150s, mind you. In a further Tweet, Musk said that it would be a similar overall size to an F-150, but could have a mystery ‘game-changing feature’ that the famous engineer wants to add.
It could potentially still have the more flat-fronted design to create more passenger space in the double-cab cabin while still boasting a single-cab-size load bed. Time will tell, and there are many obstacles to overcome before Tesla gets anywhere near that, especially if Model Y production goes the way of the Model 3…
Comments
“A pick-up that can carry a pick-up”
Ute-ception
Tesla is like game developers
Selling unfinished product and then fixing it/charging more for the stuff you need from the start
And let’s not forget, starting projects before the previous one is finished
coughEAcough
Oh my god 🙄 let them imagine concepts for Christ’s sake. People barking at the slightest drawing Tesla puts out smh. They’re not pouring the entirety of their funds into one drawing of a pickup you know
Didn’t another American company already design a RX electric pickup utility truck? With like an 800mile range, for a national electric company or postal service contract. Tesla doing some brilliant things, but can Elon be described as an engineer? Or is he just a bit of a con man?
Like they guy that started the pet rock thing, except if pet rocks started to kill off real pets and simultaneously begin to murder the pet industry altogether
Looks like a freaking unimog
Tesla really go to some weird places in search of design inspiration…
Is that a Daihatsu?
It looks like a deformed duck!
Or a beanbag
It will need pickup truck features. Not talking emojis and rental scaners if it wants to compete. The instant torque will be a game changer but the hybrid f-150 is coming soon
Maybe Tesla should focus on producing the back ordered Model 3 before they run off designing all these new vehicles.
welp
Did you seriously describe Musk as an engineer? Have you seen the build quality of any Tesla?
A bad engineer is still an engineer, you know! (Not calling him bad, although he might be bad but that is not what I am saying).