A Ford F-150-Rivalling Tesla Pickup Will Happen After The Model Y

A Tesla pickup truck could actually happen, says Elon Musk, but it won’t be quite like the oddball designs that surfaced a month or so ago.

A pickup was briefly mentioned by Tesla at around the same time as the Roadster and semi truck were launched to the press, but in typical Musk mercurial style, plans have already changed.

The initial idea was for it to be ‘a pickup that can carry a pickup’ and was sketched at the time with a Ford F-150 in the load bed. It would be huge, something like a Mercedes-Benz Unimog. But in a new Twitter exchange, it seems Elon Musk has apparently changed his mind and shrunk the designs for a more commercially viable project.

He promised to build a pickup “right after Model Y,” the company’s planned compact crossover to rival the Nissan Qashqai. Musk added that he’s had the core design and engineering elements in mind for five years and is “dying to build it.”

It won’t be carrying any F-150s, mind you. In a further Tweet, Musk said that it would be a similar overall size to an F-150, but could have a mystery ‘game-changing feature’ that the famous engineer wants to add.

It could potentially still have the more flat-fronted design to create more passenger space in the double-cab cabin while still boasting a single-cab-size load bed. Time will tell, and there are many obstacles to overcome before Tesla gets anywhere near that, especially if Model Y production goes the way of the Model 3…