{"id":1022963,"date":"2026-07-23T10:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022963"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:05:11","slug":"elon-musks-tesla-posts-cash-burn-as-capex-surges-on-ai-robotaxi-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/23\/elon-musks-tesla-posts-cash-burn-as-capex-surges-on-ai-robotaxi-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Tesla posts cash burn as capex surges on AI, robotaxi push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla reported negative free cash flow in the second quarter for the first time in more than two years as the Elon Musk-led EV maker accelerated spending on AI infrastructure, battery capacity, robotaxis and next-generation manufacturing. <\/p>\n<p>Tesla reported negative free cash flow of $1.1 billion, compared with analysts&#8217; expectation for cash burn of $3.3 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, above Wall Street expectations and up from 384,122 vehicles a year earlier. The company produced 451,758 vehicles, meaning deliveries outpaced production by \u200cmore than 28,000 vehicles during \u2060the \u2060quarter, reversing the inventory build seen earlier in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla reported negative free cash flow in the second quarter for the first time in more than two years as the Elon Musk-led EV maker accelerated spending on AI infrastructure, battery capacity, robotaxis and next-generation manufacturing. Tesla reported negative free cash flow of $1.1 billion, compared with analysts&#8217; expectation for cash burn of $3.3 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, above Wall Street expectations and up from 384,122 vehicles a year earlier. The company produced 451,758 vehicles, meaning deliveries outpaced production by \u200cmore than 28,000 vehicles during \u2060the \u2060quarter, reversing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022988,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022963\/revisions\/1022988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}