Tesla mentioned on Monday that it was growing spending by about $1 billion to ramp up its factories, develop new batteries and finance different tasks.
In a securities submitting, Tesla mentioned it anticipated capital expenditures to be $6 billion to $8 billion in 2022, up from an April forecast of $5 billion to $7 billion.
The spending improve was considered one of a number of new disclosures in Tesla’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Alternate Fee. The automaker additionally mentioned that it was below elevated scrutiny from the fee, and that it had misplaced $170 million on its funding in Bitcoin.
Mr. Musk has complained lately of start-up issues at new factories close to Berlin and Austin, Texas, describing them as “cash furnaces” that had been draining assets with out producing sufficient automobiles.
Amid what Mr. Musk described as “provide chain hell,” Tesla’s revenue and deliveries declined within the second quarter from the primary three months of the yr, an uncommon setback for a corporation that dominates the fast-growing marketplace for electrical automobiles. The rise in capital spending means that getting the brand new factories stepping into Germany and Texas has proved costlier than anticipated.
Within the quarterly report, Tesla additionally disclosed that it had obtained a subpoena from the S.E.C. searching for details about the corporate’s compliance with a 2018 settlement to settle accusations of securities fraud.
The subpoena is a twist in a long-running dispute between Mr. Musk and the S.E.C. In 2018, he was accused of deceptive traders by saying, on Twitter, that he had financing in place to purchase the corporate again from shareholders. The transaction by no means occurred.
To settle the accusations of securities fraud, Mr. Musk agreed to run sure social media posts by an organization lawyer. In April, a federal choose in New York rejected an try by Mr. Musk to get out of the settlement.
The submitting additionally revealed that Mr. Musk’s fascination with cryptocurrencies had price Tesla cash. Along with its $170 million loss, the automaker mentioned it had earned $64 million by promoting some Bitcoin, whose worth has fluctuated wildly. Tesla mentioned final week that it had misplaced cash after promoting most of its holdings of Bitcoin.
Mr. Musk mentioned final week that he nonetheless believed in cryptocurrencies and that the choice to promote some “shouldn’t be taken as some verdict on Bitcoin.” Tesla needed the money, he mentioned.
The submitting was made public across the similar time Mr. Musk was defending his private conduct on Twitter. The Wall Avenue Journal reported that the chief executive had an affair with the wife of a Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, which had ruined the 2 males’s friendship. Mr. Musk mentioned the article was incorrect, including that he works a lot that “there simply isn’t a lot time for shenanigans.”
