ClaimsElon Musk

“I expect volume production to be in 2022.”

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, on earnings call 27 January 2021 Tesla Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript (Motley Fool) archived copy

Promise Their own work or organisation

Tesla expects Cybertruck volume production to begin in 2022.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

The claim is that Cybertruck volume production would begin in calendar 2022. TRUE: Tesla's records (shareholder update, 10-K or quarterly delivery or production reports) show Cybertruck production at volume, meaning sustained series production for customer deliveries rather than prototypes or validation builds, starting on or before 2022-12-31. MOSTLY FALSE: only limited, pilot or validation production happened in 2022, or volume production started after 2022, however soon after. FALSE: Tesla records from after 2022 (for example the Q4 2022 update listing Cybertruck as tooling or in development, or a later announced start date) show no volume production in 2022.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 Tesla Production Sites By Model Assignment, Capacity: October 2022 InsideEVs · 22 October 2022

    “while the Tesla Cybertruck's status switched from "in development" to "tooling" (at the Giga Texas plant).”
  2. E2 Elon Musk explains why the Cybertruck won't begin production until late 2022 Drive Tesla · 8 October 2021

    “Musk went on to say production will “most likely” begin at Giga Texas in late 2022, and reach volume production in 2023, the same timeline he provided during the meeting last month.”

Reasoning

Both evidence items predate the end of 2022: E3 (October 2021) reports a planned volume-production timeline of 2023, and E2 (October 2022) reports a 'tooling' status at Giga Texas. Neither is a record from after 2022 showing whether volume production did or did not take place in 2022, which is what the criteria require to settle the claim.

Cite this claim

Elon Musk, “Tesla expects Cybertruck volume production to begin in 2022.” (said 27 January 2021). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_7ab595bd2a31, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7ab595bd2a31

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