Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubel & Ira Ehrenpreis at GCEP Symposium 2013

Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubel & Ira Ehrenpreis in a very interesting discussion

JB Straubel | Energy@Stanford & SLAC 2013

Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubel gives a quick speech about Tesla to Standford students




After converting a Porsche 944 and other things, he met Elon Musk and they started Tesla back in 2004, in a garage ....








Presentation slides













Residential and Commercial Energy Storage solutions with SolarCity (back up units for blackouts only)



Power Electronics is KEY because they are used so much : convert PV, charge, discharge, store



"Battery Market growth will be extreme" (!)

Choosing the right batteries ...



Battery chemistry


SuperCharger Network



Energy Storage Unit on SuperCharger Location to smooth the peak load requested by a fast charge