Tesla’s cybertruck will not ship

This is an easy prediction to make, because even Tesla isn’t claiming that its eye-catching
angular steel beast will be available for sale in 2020. The company’s own pitch is that production
won’t even begin until 2021, with owners receiving their first shipments in 2022. But the gap is
relevant to Tesla’s future: where the company was once genuinely ahead of the curve, in making
beautiful electric cars that people wanted to buy, it has increasingly relied on beating its
competitors to announcements, rather than actually shipping. The list of Elon Musk’s as-yet-
unfulfilled promises grows every year – but the electric fleets of BMW, Ford, General Motors
and others grow faster.