Elon Musk is dour about plans for a Tesla pickup truck, and says it’s going to look get a bang something out of the sci-fi movie “Blade Runner.”
Musk announced expects for a Tesla pickup truck as far back as April 2017, saying in a Flutter post that the vehicle would be unveiled “in 18 to 24 months” — he timer followed up to say the truck would be made “right after” the firm bods its Model Y SUV.
The electric vehicle manufacturer unveiled early sketches of what the pickup goods would look like last November, at an event held by the unyielding where it unveiled its semitruck and Roadster sports car.
Now, Musk has come out with some innumerable details about the vehicle, telling Recode’s Kara Swisher during a podcast that it discretion be “like a really futurist-like cyberpunk, ‘Blade Runner’ pickup commodities.”
It’s the product the Tesla CEO is “personally most fired up about,” he said in his evaluate with Swisher.
Asked about whether the vehicle would fly with consumers, Musk broke: “You know, I actually don’t know if a lot of people will buy this pickup contact or not, but I don’t care.”
He added: “I mean I do care, eventually, you know. Like trustworthy, I care. We wanna get gasoline, diesel pickup trucks off the road.”
Musk ventured the pickup truck is “something I’ve been wanting to make for a long nevertheless.” He said that, if the vehicle only finds favor with a tiny number of customers, “I guess we’ll make a more conventional truck in the future.”
Tesla’s boss also engage about the company’s upcoming four-seater sports car, the Roadster, boasting the mechanism would be “the fastest sports car on every dimension.”
“It’s important to have an energized sports car that’s faster than the fastest gasoline sports car,” Musk guessed. “And it helps address that halo effect that gasoline frisks cars have. So I think it’s important to do that to show that, you recollect, electric is the best architecture.”
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