Delivered · Late
Cybertruck production late 2021
“The company anticipates that production of the lower-priced Cybertrucks should begin in late 2021 with the …”
goalposts: 2021 → 2022 → late 2022 → 2023 · moved 3×
“Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019”
— Elon Musk · Feb 20, 2019 · Musk tweet, Feb 19 2019 (the SEC-contempt tweet) ↗
The fine print
Clarified to mean annualized rate, actual ~367,500
The Progression
Feb 20, 2019
The promise: “Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019” · Musk tweet, Feb 19 2019 (the SEC-contempt tweet) ↗
Dec 31, 2019
Deadline passed.
Today · Jun 12, 2026
Status: Missed · 2,355 days past due. Never happened.
In a February 2019 tweet — the one that prompted an SEC contempt filing — Musk wrote that Tesla 'made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019.' He corrected it hours later to mean an annualized production rate of about 500,000 by year-end, with deliveries around 400,000. Actual 2019 production came to roughly 367,500 vehicles, and the prediction was missed.
Receipts
LAST CHECKED 2026-06-11- [TWEET] Musk tweet, Feb 19 2019 (the SEC-contempt tweet)
- [REPORT] bloomberg.com
- [TWEET] Musk correction tweet ~4h later: 'Meant to say annualized production rate at end of 2019 probably around 500k, ie 10k cars/week. Deliveries for year still estimated to be about 400k.'
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goalposts: 2022 → 2023 → late 2023 · moved 2×
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