Elon Musk & JB Straubel gave more details about the Tesla Energy PowerWall & PowerPack during the Q1 2015 Shareholders Call !
Elon: "The response has been overwhelming, like crazy !" ... "Its has gone super viral"
- 60,000 PW reserved (38,000 customers ordering 1,5-2 per installation)
- 25,000 PP reserved (2,500 customers ordering 10 PP at once !)
=> they are sold out as of now through mid 2016, until GigaFactory can supply their first cells
- 2,500 solar companies requests to install the PowerWall, they can not even answer them for now
=> they are sold out as of now through mid 2016, until GigaFactory can supply their first cells
- 2,500 solar companies requests to install the PowerWall, they can not even answer them for now
- 18650 cells used are generic, but some are optimized for the Daily Cycling version of the PowerWall and some for the Backup version, with different number of cycles :
- 10 kWh Backup Power is for High Power/Energy application and cells are similar to the ones used in car (Nickel Cobalt Aluninum) : 60-70 cycles / year for 1000-1500 cycles
- 7 kWh Daily Cycling: cells are Nickel Manganese Cobalt : 255 cycles / year for 15 years / 5000 cycles
- Daily Cycling PowerWall (several units) is for going Off Grid
- Elon: a DC-DC converter is already included in the PowerWall, and wired to the existing PV it will charge the battery pack directly, the existing DC-AC inverter is used to push to power back into the grid
JB: the PowerWall will act like a solar panel in a way
- GigaFactory could be dedicated to Battery Manufacturing for Stationary Storage
My thoughts on this:
So, from what they said, I understand that the PowerWall will charge directly from the solar PV array, which is a very good thing because it means less loss in converting power from DC to AC with the existing inverter and then AC to DC by the Charger that would be required to charge the battery pack
But, once fully charged, and when it's getting dark, will the PowerWall have the ability to push the right amount of voltage & current in order the satisfy the house loads only ? Or will it push full power into the existing inverter and generate full 2kW if it's a 2kW inverter ? That question remains and I would like to have even more details on that ...
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