Tesla Inc. on Friday updated its second-quarter sales report to include the number of vehicles that were in transit at the end of the period—a number that was absent in the report earlier in the week and had triggered questions from analysts.

The Silicon Valley auto maker said about 3,500 cars and sport-utility vehicles were in transit at the end of the second quarter and would be counted in its third-quarter delivery tally. The new figure doesn’t affect the delivery tally for the second quarter that Tesla announced on Monday.

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