Elon Musk Offers Another Brazen Prediction After Photo of Cybertruck Goes Viral

The Tesla CEO says the Cybertruck is very close to production.

After having downplayed the rollout of the Tesla  (TSLA) - Get Free Report Cybertruck, CEO Elon Musk has continued to tweet about it.

Cybertruck sightings on public roads have been reported over the last week, and Musk has been popping into the comments of some of these posts on social media.

"Yeah, still many small tweaks to make it better (and the side mirrors are removable by owner), but this is very close to production design," Tesla CEO Musk said in a Feb. 3 tweet. 

In another tweet on Feb. 10, Musk offered a thought about the Cybertruck's impact.

"It will change the look of the roads," wrote @elonmusk.

Musk hasn't committed to a specific timeline on any shipments yet, however.

"We do expect production to start, I don’t know, maybe sometime this summer," Musk said on a January 26 conference call. "But I always like to try to downplay the start of production because the start of production is always very slow. It increases exponentially, but it’s always very slow at first. So I wouldn’t put too much thought into the start of production. It’s kind of when volume production actually happens, and that’s next year."

On Jan. 15, Musk commented about the design of the Cybertruck on the Ride the Lightning podcast with IGN Executive Editor of Previews Ryan McCaffrey.

"You never really have a pencil down kind of thing. We're gonna get a new model and we work consistently through the entire process. We're constantly working on every detail," Musk said. 

"We learn things through the engineering phases and the manufacturing development phases that we can improve on and so we do," he continued. "We have teammates that are actively working to ensure that the development phases as we get into manufacturing that we've gotten it right and if we didn't, we continue to work on it through production to improve it."