Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Tesla is April 30 with battery for whole house – AD.nl

By: editors
22-4-15 – 17:50 source: ANP / BuzzT
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Car manufacturer Tesla Motors will be in the US on April 30 reveal a battery that can store power for a whole house. Bloomberg managed to intercept a letter of investors about this.



Elon Musk. © Reuters.

The idea is that with technology used it becomes possible to temporarily store current of, for example, solar panels. The battery could be charged with cheaper electricity at night, so that this energy can be properly used in the daytime. Households would thus greatly save costs.

Mega Factory
Nevada is currently working on a mega factory where made from 2020 batteries for half a million Tesla’s per years. The company is also heavily in the production of their own batteries and thus also for Tesla’s own electric cars. About 5 billion has been invested in the plant.

On 30 March, CEO Elon Musk already twittered that Tesla would reveal a large, new product ‘. It would not be a car. “We will unveil the Tesla battery at home, the consumer battery that people can use at home or at work,” said Musk.

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