Tesla CEO Elon Musk, notorious for making grand guarantees and never following by way of on them, introduced Thursday that the corporate could be releasing its monstruous Cybertruck in the course of 2023. Knowing Musk, the date may very well be one thing he simply threw out on the spot. Yet, it may also be true, by which case, could God have mercy on our roads.

In a name with traders on Wednesday, Musk mentioned Tesla was very excited concerning the Cybertruck and declared that it could be the corporate’s “best product ever.” The electrical automobile firm unveiled the truck—which Musk as soon as described as “an armored personnel carrier from the future”—in 2019, delighting Tesla fanboys all over the place. However, precisely when the pickup would attain prospects has by no means been clear, as the corporate has repeatedly changed its expected production dates. As late as January of this yr, the corporate mentioned the Cybertruck could be on the street in 2022. Then it eliminated that date from the Teslas web site.

“We are still expecting to be in production with the Cybertruck in middle of next year,” Musk said on Wednesday. “We’re very excited about that product. It might actually be our best product ever.”

The firm plans to provide the Cybertruck at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, and Musk defined within the name that Tesla has been engaged on making ready it for manufacturing. He mentioned that the truck would profit from what Tesla has realized on elevated effectivity in manufacturing.

“We’ll bring another level of simplicity and manufacturing improvements with Cybertruck and future products that we’re not quite ready to talk about now,” the Tesla CEO mentioned.

Tesla has not publicly introduced what number of reservations it has acquired for the Cybertruck, however a web-based tally managed by followers put the quantity at nearly 1.5 million earlier this yr. Tesla requires prospects to fork over $100, which is totally refundable, to make a reservation to purchase a car.

In May, the corporate stopped taking reservations for the Cybertruck in Europe and Asia and solely at the moment accepts reservations from prospects in North America. At that point, Musk mentioned that Tesla had extra orders of the primary Cybertrucks than it could probably fulfill “for three years after the start of production.”

The tech billionaire’s proclamation on Cybertruck manufacturing is little question a welcome distraction from Tesla’s second quarter outcomes, additionally launched on Wednesday, which revealed that the corporate had seen a decline in income for the primary time in over a yr. Tesla additionally reported changing 75% of its bitcoin into money, including $936 million to its stability sheet, an shocking improvement contemplating Musk’s assist of cryptocurrency.