https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/14/twenty-tech-trends-for-2020-tesla-cybertruck-iphone-12-5g-nintendo-vr-ai-amazon > From new gaming consoles to activism at Apple, we predict the things you will – or won’t – see in tech this year > This is an easy prediction to make, because even Tesla isn’t claiming that its eye-catching angular steel beast will be available for sale in 2020. The company’s own pitch is that production won’t even begin until 2021, with owners receiving their first shipments in 2022. But the gap is relevant to Tesla’s future: where the company was once genuinely ahead of the curve, in making beautiful electric cars that people wanted to buy, it has increasingly relied on beating its competitors to announcements, rather than actually shipping. The list of Elon Musk’s as-yet-unfulfilled promises grows every year – but the electric fleets of BMW, Ford, General Motors and others grow faster.