Elon Musk has tentatively confirmed that Tesla plans two new electric cars, including a compact electric car, to come after Cybertruck.
After unveiling the Cybertruck, Musk said the electric van is Tesla’s latest new product for “a while.”
However, Tesla has recently given some indications that other electric vehicles are being planned in the coming years.
Earlier this year, Musk said Tesla will design an electric car in China for the global market and released a design drawing that showed a compact car.
Additionally, a California official behind a new transit project said Tesla is making a 12-passenger electric van for the Boring Company.
Now the CEO made new comments in line with those two new electric vehicle programs.
In a conference call after the release of Tesla’s second-quarter 2020 financial results, Musk answered a question about future Tesla vehicles by mentioning a compact electric car and a higher-capacity vehicle:
“I don’t think we can comment on our detailed roadmap beyond what was announced because we want to reserve that for product launches. But it would be reasonable to assume that we would make a compact vehicle of some type and probably a higher capacity vehicle of some type. These are probable things at some point. But I do think there is a long way to go with Model 3 and Model Y, and with Cybertruck and Semi. Long way to go with those. I think we will do the obvious things.
While the CEO is obviously being tentative in his comments, he also points to specific new types of vehicles on Tesla’s product roadmap.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if those new vehicle programs are more advanced than Elon is leading us to believe with his comments.
For the compact car, Tesla has begun to publicly accept design submissions.
As for the “larger capacity vehicle,” beyond the mention of the California official working with the Boring Company, Elon first mentioned that Tesla built an electric truck in its “Part Deux ‘Master Plan in 2016.
Additionally, Tesla plans to bring the Cybertruck to market in late 2021.
Based on recent comments, the new Tesla Roadster should appear at the same time.
So it would make sense for Tesla to launch new vehicles to the market in 2022-2023, and if that’s the plan, it wouldn’t be surprising if they’re already working on them.
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