Tesla Launches Battery from $ 3,000 to save power at home – Telegraaf.nl

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Tesla, the manufacturer of slick electric cars, sets up a new branch of the company: Tesla Energy. That part will focus on innovations in the field of energy, and not only for electric cars. The first product of Tesla Energy is the ‘Power Wall Home Battery’, a large battery that allows families and businesses themselves can store electricity for later use

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That made Tesla CEO Elon Musk Thursday (local time) known in Hawthorne, California. Tesla has obviously been working on the development of electric batteries. The producer of electric cars is currently building in Nevada even a battery factory of $ 5 billion.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk during his presentation of the Tesla Power Wall Home Battery Photo: Reuters

The issue with bestaande batteries is … they suck , says Musk. He promises to bring about change. The Power Wall Home Battery must be available from the end of the summer and can be pre-ordered starting today in the US The cheapest model, a battery of 7 kilowatt hours, costs $ 3000. A battery of 10 kWh must be $ 3,500 cost. The lithium-ion battery can be hung on the wall.

Tesla brings to market batteries for industrial applications, with a capacity of 100 kWh Photo: Reuters

There are also batteries with a capacity of 100 kWh for industrial applications. There may be several of these batteries are combined to a capacity of over 10 megawatt hours.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk with a Tesla Model S. Photos Bloomberg

The battery gives consumers and businesses the ability to easily create to store energy generated. So will it be possible to generate electricity with solar panels on the roof of your house, or with its own windmill. That energy you can save with the Power Wall Home Battery for later use, for example at night to refuel your Tesla Model S full. It is also possible to automatically charge the batteries at times when the flow rate is low. If the price of electricity increases, the battery stops charging

To put the capacity of the Power Wall Home Battery in perspective. 10 kWh you about 50 kilometers away. The average Dutch household (2.2 persons) consumes a small 10 kWh per day.

‘Fundamental change’

“Our goal is to fundamentally change the way the world energy used, “Musk said during the presentation. “We are talking about a terawatt scale. The goal is a complete change of the entire energy infrastructure of the world “

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