The conglomerate is making a comeback. But instead of combining jet engines with, say, broadcast television, the diversification play comes from cryptocurrency. On Monday, a securities filing from Tesla showed the electric vehicle company had purchased $1.5bn worth of bitcoin in January. Chief executive Elon Musk likes to tweet about bitcoin and digital currency Dogecoin, playfully or otherwise. But his company’s fortunes remain tied to ramping up production of vehicles. The $1.5bn investment in bitcoin is less than a tenth of Tesla’s cash balance and well under 1 per cent of its market capitalisation.
集团企业正在回归。但它们的业务多元化不是喷气发动机加上比方说广播电视，而是投资加密货币。周一，特斯拉(Tesla)向证券监管机构提交的文件显示，这家电动汽车制造商在1月购买了价值15亿美元的比特币(Bitcoin)。首席执行官埃隆•马斯克(Elon Musk)喜欢在Twitter上发布有关比特币和数字货币“狗狗币”(Dogecoin)的帖子，有时是开玩笑，有时不是。但特斯拉的命运仍然与扩大汽车生产紧密相关。其15亿美元的比特币投资不足特斯拉现金余额的十分之一，而且远低于其市值的1%。