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Property, Plant and Equipment, Net
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2021
Property Plant And Equipment [Abstract]  
Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

Note 7 – Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

Our property, plant and equipment, net, consisted of the following (in millions):

 

June 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

Machinery, equipment, vehicles and office furniture  

 

$

9,156

 

 

$

8,493

 

Tooling

 

2,038

 

 

 

1,811

 

Leasehold improvements

 

1,596

 

 

 

1,421

 

Land and buildings

 

3,725

 

 

 

3,662

 

Computer equipment, hardware and software

 

1,148

 

 

 

856

 

Construction in progress

 

3,826

 

 

 

1,621

 

 

 

21,489

 

 

 

17,864

 

Less: Accumulated depreciation

 

(5,824

)

 

 

(5,117

)

Total

 

$

15,665

 

 

$

12,747

 

 

Construction in progress is primarily comprised of construction of Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas, expansion of Gigafactory Shanghai and equipment and tooling related to the manufacturing of our products. We are currently constructing Gigafactory Berlin under conditional permits in anticipation of being granted final permits. Completed assets are transferred to their respective asset classes, and depreciation begins when an asset is ready for its intended use. Interest on outstanding debt is capitalized during periods of significant capital asset construction and amortized over the useful lives of the related assets. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, we capitalized $23 million and $38 million, respectively, of interest. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, we capitalized $10 million and $20 million, respectively, of interest.

Depreciation expense during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 was $461 million and $885 million, respectively. Depreciation expense during the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 was $356 million and $727 million, respectively. Gross property, plant and equipment under finance leases as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 was $2.43 billion and $2.28 billion, respectively, with accumulated depreciation of $1.01 billion and $816 million, respectively.

Panasonic has partnered with us on Gigafactory Nevada with investments in the production equipment that it uses to manufacture and supply us with battery cells. Under our arrangement with Panasonic, we plan to purchase the full output from their production equipment at negotiated prices. As the terms of the arrangement convey a finance lease under ASC 842, Leases, we account for their production equipment as leased assets when production commences. We account for each lease and any non-lease components associated with that lease as a single lease component for all asset classes, except production equipment classes embedded in supply agreements. This results in us recording the cost of their production equipment within Property, plant and equipment, net, on the consolidated balance sheets with a corresponding liability recorded to debt and finance leases. Depreciation on Panasonic production equipment is computed using the units-of-production method whereby capitalized costs are amortized over the total estimated productive life of the respective assets. As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had cumulatively capitalized costs of $1.79 billion and $1.77 billion, respectively, on the consolidated balance sheets in relation to the production equipment under our Panasonic arrangement.