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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Interim Unaudited Financial Information | Interim Unaudited Financial Information The accompanying interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 31, 2025. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been omitted from this report on Form 10-Q pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Results for the interim periods in this report are not necessarily indicative of future financial results and have not been audited by our independent registered public accounting firm. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include all adjustments necessary to present fairly our interim consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2025, and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. These adjustments are of a normal recurring nature and are consistent with the adjustments recorded to prepare the annual audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2024.
Basis of Presentation | Basis of Presentation The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary. All intercompany accounts, transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. On June 11, 2025, the Company completed a 1-for-8 reverse stock split. All share and per share amounts previously disclosed have been updated to reflect the impact of this reverse split. See Note 11 for further discussion. Per the terms of the 1-for-8 reverse stock split on November 8, 2024, the Company agreed that no fractional shares would be issued in connection with the reverse stock split and that it would issue one full share of the post-reverse stock split common stock to any stockholder who would have been entitled to receive a fractional share as a result of the process. On November 19, 2024, the Company received notice from DTCC on behalf of the brokerage firms that hold the shares of Company common stock held in “street name” that in connection with the foregoing rounding of shares the Company would need to issue 23,617 shares of common stock. The Company did not believe the number of shares being requested was correct based on the historical number of stockholders of its common stock and is aware of similar occurrences in recent months for other companies completing a reverse stock split. As such, the Company made inquiries into the calculations set forth in the request. The Company concluded that the information requested was not going to be provided and therefore on May 5, 2025, these shares were issued (see Note 13 for further discussion of impact to basic and diluted net loss per share).
Digital Assets | Digital Assets The Company accounts for its digital assets, which are composed solely of Bitcoin, including Bitcoin restricted by lenders as collateral for borrowings, as non-current indefinite-lived intangible assets in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (“ASC 350”) and ASU 2023-08. The Company’s digital assets are initially recorded at cost and are measured at fair value as of each reporting period. The Company determines the fair value of its Bitcoin in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, based on quoted (unadjusted) prices on the Gemini exchange, the active exchange that the Company has determined is its principal market for Bitcoin (Level 1 inputs). Changes in fair value are recognized as incurred within “Unrealized loss on digital assets”, within operating expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Operations. Bitcoin restricted by lenders as collateral for borrowing are separately classified from digital assets due to the restrictions imposed on this Bitcoin until the underlying borrowings are repaid.
Concentration Risk | Concentration Risk The Company outsources certain portions of product design and development for its vehicles to third parties. In addition, the Company has outsourced the manufacturing of all of its vehicles to third party manufacturers. On January 8, 2024, the Company notified the manufacturer of the Volcon Youth motorcycles that it was terminating the co-branding and distribution agreement with them due to lower than anticipated sales of these units. In March 2024, the Company agreed to allow the manufacturer to keep all fully paid for units manufactured and held by the manufacturer, cease selling the Volcon Youth motorcycles as of June 30, 2024, and pay cash of $2,070,000 which included a payment of $370,000 in March 2024 and $100,000 monthly for 17 months starting April 2024. All Volcon Youth inventory was written off as of June 30, 2024. The settlement was recorded in the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023. On October 2, 2024, the Company and the manufacturer amended the settlement agreement and the Company agreed to pay the manufacturer $300,000 by October 31, 2024 to fully settle the remaining payments under the March 2024 agreement and to return any remaining spare parts and finished goods held by the Company in its Texas warehouse. The Company recognized a reduction of expense of $700,000 in cost of goods sold in the year ended December 31, 2024 related to this amendment. In June 2024, the Company was notified by the manufacturer of a suspension component for the Stag utility terrain vehicle (“UTV”) that due to the Company’s initial production forecast provided by the third party manufacturer of the Stag, the vendor had acquired raw materials to fulfill several months’ worth of this component needed for the forecast. Although the Company had provided updated forecasts to the third party manufacturer of the Stag, the revised forecasts were not provided timely to this vendor. The Company entered into an agreement to pay for the excess raw materials by making weekly payments of $13,791 through February 2026 and to purchase remaining finished goods. The Company recorded an expense of $1,091,308 in cost of goods sold for the year ended December 31, 2024. The remaining liability as of September 30, 2025 is $282,230, which is classified as short-term on the balance sheet. On December 6, 2024, the Company entered into a Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release (“Agreement”) with the manufacturer of the Stag and Grunt EVO, pursuant to which the Company and the manufacturer agreed to terminate the Supplier Agreement dated March 11, 2022 for the development and engineering of the Volcon Stag vehicle prototypes; the Supplier Agreement dated May 29, 2022 for the manufacturing of the Volcon Grunt EVO motorcycle; and the Supplier Agreement dated August 11, 2022 for the manufacturing of the Volcon Stag vehicle (collectively, the “Supplier Agreements”). Pursuant to the Agreement, among other items, the Company and the manufacturer agreed to indemnify each other with respect to certain outstanding vendor payables and the Company agreed to pay the manufacturer a termination fee of $125,000 per month for a period of twenty-two months. The remaining liability as of September 30, 2025 is $1,422,665 which is classified as short-term on the balance sheet. From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standard Board or other standard setting bodies that the Company adopts as of the specified effective date. The Company does not believe that the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations upon adoption.

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