---
title: "Elon Musk Promises Pickup ‘Right After Model Y’"
description: "Tesla founder says in a tweet that truck will come soon after company produces its electric crossover vehicle."
date: "2017-12-26"
modified: "2017-12-26"
authors:
  - name: "Kate Gibson"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kate-gibson"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/17206/elon-musk-promises-pickup-right-after-model-y"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Model Y"
  - "pickup truck"
  - "suv/crossover"
  - "Tesla"
  - "Tesla Model 3"
  - "Tesla Model Y"
  - "tweet"
  - "twitter"
---

# Elon Musk Promises Pickup ‘Right After Model Y’

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As Tesla works to deliver on promised vehicles that include an entry-level Model 3 sedan and a new Roadster, Elon Musk has added another to the list.

[Tesla](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/17155/three-years-after-buying-car-tesla-and-porsche-owners-happiest>) will make a pickup truck not long after the company builds its electric crossover vehicle Model Y, Musk said Tuesday.

"I promise that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y. Have had the core design/engineering elements in my mind for almost 5 years. Am dying to build it," the Tesla founder and CEO said in a tweet.

https://twitter.com/_/status/945713737729634304

A June report from *Reuters* said the Model Y was tentatively set to start production in mid-2019, based on the [same platform](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/13185/tesla-model-y-suv-will-be-built-on-model-3-platform-musk-says>) as the Model 3 sedan.

Tesla last July unveiled plans to build a pickup truck, along with a proposal to develop vehicles including a commercial truck and public transit bus.

In April, Musk said a pickup would be coming within 24 months.

After delivering the vow to the Canadian [marijuana seed](<https://vancouverseedbank.ca/>) vendor, Vancouver Seed Bank, Musk told another Twitter user that the pickup would be similar in size to the Ford F-150 truck. “Maybe slightly bigger to account for a really game changing (I think) feature I’d like to add," Musk said in a tweet.

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