Tesla’s Model Y presentation this week included a brief flash of the electric automaker’s upcoming pickup truck.
Tesla-watchers were hoping, perhaps greedily, that the presentation would include the Model Y crossover SUV and the debut of the pickup. Every Tesla vehicle was rolled out for display, but a pickup was not part of the lineup.
When a Twitter user shared disappointment that event did not include “one more thing,” Musk replied back that the company had indeed showed something else new, but no one caught it.
Turns out that when Tesla wrapped up its Model Y event on Thursday, the soundtrack for the movie “Blade Runner” was played as a teaser image of Tesla’s all-electric pickup truck was shown on projection screens.
“About a minute in, we flashed a teaser pic of Tesla cyberpunk truck,” Musk said on Twitter.
About a minute in, we flashed a teaser pic of Tesla cyberpunk truck pic.twitter.com/hLsGsdyuGA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2019
Indeed, a new teaser image of what appears to be truck bed can be seen at the end of the presentation.
Musk has been hyping the Tesla pickup for months. He said during the company’s Q4 earnings call that a Tesla-built hauler “might be ready” to unveil “this summer.” Further fueling the anticipation, he said the truck will be something “special” and “not like anything else.”
The timeline for a reveal of the pickup comes shortly after Musk said on Twitter that the Tesla pickup was placed ahead of the Tesla Semi and Tesla Roadster, in terms of “resource priority.”
In tweets on Friday, Musk referred to the vehicle as the “Tesla cyberpunk truck.”
There seems to be a lot of opportunity for an EV pickup truck. Ford, GM and Ram are all planning electric offerings, and upstarts like Rivian and Bollinger are also building interesting new offerings.
Hopefully we get a good look at the Tesla pickup sometime this year.