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Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Property, Plant and Equipment, Net [Abstract]

Property, Plant and Equipment, net

8. Property, Plant and Equipment, net

Property, plant and equipment as of December 31, 2018 and 2019 consisted of the following:

		December 31,				December 31,
		2018				2019
Buildings		$	23,626,924			$	27,262,301
Machinery and equipment			22,159,752				22,719,932
Office equipment			218,581				204,196
Motor vehicles			204,368				161,980
			46,209,625				50,348,409
Impairment			(1,840,596	)			(4,126,152	)
Accumulated depreciation			(5,460,526	)			(8,044,692	)
Carrying amount		$	38,908,503			$	38,177,565

During the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019, the Company incurred depreciation expense of $2,442,428 and $2,728,224, respectively.

The Company has not yet obtained the property ownership certificates of the buildings in its Dalian manufacturing facilities with a carrying amount of $21,749,145 and $24,671,045 as of December 31, 2018 and 2019, respectively. The Company built its facilities on the land for which it had already obtained the related land use right. The Company has submitted applications to the Chinese government for the ownership certificates on the completed buildings located on these lands. However, the application process takes longer than the Company expected and it has not obtained the certificates as of the date of this report. However, since the Company has obtained the land use right in relation to the land, the management believe the Company has legal title to the buildings thereon albeit the lack of ownership certificates.

During the course of the Company's strategic review of its operations in the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019, the Company assessed the recoverability of the carrying value of certain property, plant and equipment which resulted in impairment losses of approximately $0.9 million and $2.3 million, respectively. The impairment charge represented the excess of carrying amounts of the Company's property, plant and equipment over the estimated fair value of the Company's production facilities in Dalian primarily for the production of high-power lithium batteries.

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The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, accounting policies and methodology, roll forwards, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, including composite depreciation, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, useful lives and method used, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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