Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubel talks about Energy Storage and it is pretty interesting ...
Keynote presentation given by JB Straubel, Chief Technology Officer, Tesla Motors at the 2014 Silicon Valley/ SEEDZ Energy Storage Symposium. The symposium was hosted by Joint Venture Silicon Valley on May 21 at Microsoft in Mountain View, CA.
The symposium engages key stakeholders in the energy storage marketplace around the latest developments, challenges and opportunities for customer-side storage, and how Silicon Valley is advancing innovation and uptake in this critical emerging market. Held annually since 2010, the symposium features presentations from national and state-level experts, high-profile solution providers, on-site energy storage customers and utility interests.
How Tesla started back in 2004: in a garage
Energy Density has doubled in ten years !
The new GigaFactory will produce the capacity the world is producing right now
Tesla's first Residential Energy Storage Systems
Their Commercial ESS version, on the right
here installed on Highway 5 for the first time at a SuperCharger
does a good job throughout the day when Model S owners are stopping by to charge, shaving the peaks
Fremont plant also has Energy Storage Systems, 5 actually providing 1MW, storing 2MWh !
