I'm sure at some point he'll deliver a pickup truck, and it will probably be quite popular. But until he actually starts delivering it, it's kind of pointless to plan around.
Elon Musk says a lot of things, I’ll believe that they have a viable pickup when it’s rolling off the assembly lines. I’m also not sure that the market for pickups will care too much about having an EV. All in all it’s a very different market with a different customer base than luxury sedans.
People who actually use their trucks would love them. They would have full tourqe at 0 RPM. It would be awesome for towing. The lack of an engine bay could give it a huge bed, or a frunk to store things out of the weather...
Yea I fully agree. In my experience the truck market is the one that is the most attached to their ICE's. I could be wrong, but Tesla will probably have a lot of trouble taking a solid portion of that market.
There has been market research and this 'attached to ICE' is true as long as people don't see a viable option that the can compare to.
There will surely people who will hold on to ICE but if you can buy a produce that has electric drive train and competes on all metric its is incredibly unlikely that it would not find a market.
Specially if it has features that ICE don't have, like the ability to attach power tools.
I'm sure at some point he'll deliver a pickup truck, and it will probably be quite popular. But until he actually starts delivering it, it's kind of pointless to plan around.