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.
集團企業正在回歸。但它們的業務多元化不是噴氣發動機加上比方說廣播電視，而是投資加密貨幣。周一，特斯拉(Tesla)向證券監管機構提交的文件顯示，這家電動汽車制造商在1月購買了價值15億美元的比特幣(Bitcoin)。首席執行官埃隆?馬斯克(Elon Musk)喜歡在Twitter上發布有關比特幣和數字貨幣“狗狗幣”(Dogecoin)的帖子，有時是開玩笑，有時不是。但特斯拉的命運仍然與擴大汽車生產緊密相關。其15億美元的比特幣投資不足特斯拉現金余額的十分之一，而且遠低于其市值的1%。