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Property, Plant, and Equipment
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Property Plant And Equipment [Abstract]  
Property, Plant and Equipment

Note 7 – Property, Plant and Equipment

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

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Machinery, equipment, vehicles and office furniture

 

$

6,584,307

 

 

$

6,328,966

 

Tooling

 

 

1,418,368

 

 

 

1,397,514

 

Leasehold improvements

 

 

987,916

 

 

 

960,971

 

Land and buildings

 

 

2,631,607

 

 

 

4,047,006

 

Computer equipment, hardware and software

 

 

525,138

 

 

 

487,421

 

Construction in progress

 

 

622,180

 

 

 

807,297

 

 

 

 

12,769,516

 

 

 

14,029,175

 

Less: Accumulated depreciation

 

 

(2,918,587

)

 

 

(2,699,098

)

Total

 

$

9,850,929

 

 

$

11,330,077

 

 

As of December 31, 2018, the table above included $1.69 billion of gross build-to-suit lease assets. As a result of the adoption of the new lease standard on January 1, 2019, we have de-recognized all build-to-suit lease assets and have reassessed these leases to be operating lease right-of-use assets within the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2019 (see Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies). This includes construction in progress associated with certain build-to-suit lease costs incurred at our Buffalo manufacturing facility, referred to as Gigafactory 2.

Construction in progress is primarily comprised of tooling and equipment related to the manufacturing of our vehicles and a portion of Gigafactory 1 construction. 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 months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, we capitalized $7.5 million and $18.8 million, respectively, of interest.

Depreciation expense during the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 was $299.4 million and $245.2 million, respectively. Gross property and equipment under finance leases as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 was $1.72 billion and $1.52 billion, respectively. Accumulated depreciation on property and equipment under finance leases as of these dates was $276.8 million and $231.6 million, respectively.

Panasonic has partnered with us on Gigafactory 1 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 these terms convey a finance lease, as defined in ASC 842, Leases, their production equipment, we consider them to be leased assets when production commences. 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 long-term debt and finance leases. For all suppliers and partners for which we plan to purchase the full output from their production equipment located at Gigafactory 1, we have applied similar accounting. As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, we had cumulatively capitalized costs of $1.41 billion and $1.24 billion, respectively, on the consolidated balance sheets in relation to the production equipment under our Panasonic arrangement. We had cumulatively capitalized total costs for Gigafactory 1, including costs under our Panasonic arrangement, of $4.92 billion and $4.62 billion as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.