Tesla's Cyber Truck has been delayed and will likely not be produced until next year.

Tesla apparently dodged questions about the truck's production schedule during a recent earnings call when the 2021 release of the Cyber Truck was in question. Furthermore, since we are talking about Tesla, delays are Tesla's bread and butter.

Tesla seems to have avoided a grand announcement that the cybertruck is delayed, and instead quietly updated the cybertruck order page on its website.

Heading over there, we see that Tesla is asking for a $100 deposit today, noting that buyers can complete the truck's configuration closer to production.

Importantly, even the Tri and dual-motor Cyber trucks, which were supposed to start rolling off the assembly line by the end of 2021, this is said to be 2022.

Of course, this could also mean that Tesla has so many pre-orders that they cannot offer a 2021 delivery date. In particular, the truck appears to have over a million pre-orders. But all joking aside, the signs that the Cyber Truck will not meet its ambitious launch date have been fairly obvious for some time.

And not only because of the very high hurdle of fulfilling one million pre-orders by the end of the year.

Elon Musk said on Tesla's Q2 earnings call (via InsideEVs) that if the cybertrucks were built right now, they would "literally cost a million dollars a car."

Obvious exaggerations aside, without the right batteries, electric vehicles cannot be built, and without enough to start mass production, the cost of individual trucks is not feasible. This is also why the Tesla Semi trucks have suffered another delay.

Musk has previously stated that there are challenges in manufacturing cybertrucks. One example is the steel exoskeleton, which apparently required an entirely new manufacturing process. Similarly, Tesla has only recently completed the engineering design of the Cybertruck, making a 2021 launch even less likely.

Meanwhile, Tesla is ramping up construction of the Tesla Model Y at its Texas plant. The company previously confirmed that construction of the Cybertruck will begin after Model Y production begins at the plant. Apparently, this will happen "by the end of the year."

The exact timeline has not yet been determined, but it is a good sign that Tesla will meet that particular deadline, as the Tesla Model Y is already in production at Tesla plants around the world. When that happens, Tesla will finally be able to offer people an electric truck and the 500+ miles of range it is supposed to carry.