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Tesla 2025 Q2 earnings report

2025 Q2 · 2025-06-30Release date 2025-07-23B$ · USD billions

Historical earnings report · Management guidance reflects expectations at the time of the release, not subsequent outcomes. The financial comparison uses the site’s normalized dataset, including comparative figures restated in later filings.

Robotaxi launch coincided with weak earnings/cash capacity in existing operations.

Revenue
22.496 B$
Operating income
0.923 B$
FCF · company definition
0.146 B$

Assessment · Robotaxi launch coincided with weak earnings/cash capacity in existing operations. Reading consolidated margins alongside FCF separates business scale from cash realization. The next assessment depends on the business-specific checks set out below.

01 Business performance and growth drivers

Automotive revenue was 16.661 B$, Energy Generation/Storage 2.789 B$, and Services/Other 3.046 B$. Automotive includes regulatory credits and leasing; storage deployments in GWh are not revenue in B$.

Versus the preceding quarter, consolidated revenue changed by +3.161 B$ and operating profit by +0.524 B$; operating margin changed by +2.0 percentage points. Segment commentary explains the consolidated result. Sequential changes without controlling for acquisitions, seasonality and product transitions are not long-term growth rates.

Evidence · 1 ↗

02 Profit quality and margins

Operating margin was 4.1%; lower credits/deliveries and AI R&D/stock compensation weighed on profit. Quarterly FCF was only about 0.146 B$.

On consolidated revenue of 22.496 B$, operating margin was 4.1% and net margin 5.2%. Net profit differed from operating profit by +0.249 B$, reflecting non-operating items, taxes and related effects. This difference cannot by itself be attributed to product demand or operating competitiveness.

Evidence · 1 ↗

03 Cash flow and financial capacity

Quarterly operating cash flow of 2.540 B$ less capital expenditure of 2.394 B$ gives common-basis FCF of 0.146 B$. Ending cash and cash equivalents were 15.587 B$, versus total liabilities of 50.495 B$. Liabilities are not equivalent to borrowings; cash excludes separately reported short-term investments.

Common-basis FCF was 0.6% of revenue. Both operating cash flow and capital expenditure refer to this quarter, not annual or trailing-twelve-month periods. Working-capital movements and non-cash adjustments mean operating cash flow need not equal net profit.

Evidence · 1 ↗ · 2 ↗ · 3 ↗

04 Management commentary and contemporaneous guidance

The company launched a limited Robotaxi service in Austin in June; investment, regulatory and scaling plans remain contemporaneous forecasts.

Initial affordable-model production began in June, with volume ramp planned for the second half; Semi/Cybercab volume production was planned for 2026.

Evidence · 1 ↗

05 Risks and next checks

A limited initial service launch is not scaled autonomy profit; assess how far existing automotive cash generation funds AI/new vehicles.

Evidence · 1 ↗

Quarterly results · CY-aligned view

Metric · B$2024 full-year total1Q
2024 Q1
2024-03-31
2Q
2024 Q2
2024-06-30
3Q
2024 Q3
2024-09-30
4Q
2024 Q4
2024-12-31
2025 total of 2 included quarters1Q
2025 Q1
2025-03-31
2Q
2025 Q2
2025-06-30
QoQ ΔYoY Δ
Revenue97.69021.30125.50025.18225.70741.83119.33522.4963.161−3.004
Operating income7.0761.1711.6052.7171.5831.3220.3990.9230.524−0.682
Operating margin (%)7.2435.4976.29410.7896.1583.1602.0644.1032.039 pp−2.191 pp
Net income7.0911.3901.4002.1732.1281.5810.4091.1720.763−0.228
FCF · company definition3.584−2.5311.3422.7422.0310.8100.6640.146−0.518−1.196
Operating cash flow · total14.9230.2423.6126.2554.8144.6962.1562.5400.384−1.072
Net cash CapEx · common11.3392.7732.2703.5132.7833.8861.4922.3940.9020.124
Cash CapEx · Chinese company definition——————————
FCF · total calculation3.584−2.5311.3422.7422.0310.8100.6640.146−0.518−1.196
Net cash · liquid assets less borrowings28.68521.98923.35826.25828.68529.82629.75229.8260.0746.468
Liquid assets · including short-term investments36.56326.86330.72033.64836.56336.78236.99636.782−0.2146.062
Borrowings · interest-bearing debt7.8784.8747.3627.3907.8786.9567.2446.956−0.288−0.406
Cash and cash equivalents16.13911.80514.63518.11116.13915.58716.35215.587−0.7650.952
Total liabilities · accounting liabilities48.39044.04645.56949.14248.39050.49549.69350.4950.8024.926

CY denotes the calendar quarter with the greatest overlap with the fiscal period. If the first period has no start date, 89 days before its end is used only for calendar mapping. Financial values are not recalculated into calendar quarters. Incomplete years show totals of included quarters; cash, liabilities, borrowings and net cash use the last period-end balance. QoQ and YoY show absolute changes; margin changes are percentage points. Dashes indicate missing evidence or incomparable periods or definitions. Total liabilities never substitute for borrowings.

Definitions and evidence coverage

A dash means unavailable or undisclosed, not zero. Company-defined FCF may differ from total operating cash flow less common-basis CapEx. Total liabilities are accounting liabilities, not interest-bearing debt.

Management commentary summarizes the contemporaneous official earnings release; this report does not represent a full conference-call Q&A review.

Official source documents

  1. TSLA 2025 06 30 release ↗
  2. Canonical financial data filing reference ↗
  3. Filing source of the existing audited financial series ↗
  4. Filing source of the existing audited financial series ↗
  5. Financial filing · 2024-03-31 ↗
  6. Financial filing · 2024-06-30 ↗
  7. Financial filing · 2024-09-30 ↗
  8. Financial filing · 2024-09-30 ↗
  9. Financial filing · 2024-12-31 ↗
  10. Financial filing · 2024-12-31 ↗
  11. Financial filing · 2025-03-31 ↗