Photo: wk057 Tesla Motors Club
Hinting at new products on Twitter has become some sort of a habit for Elon Musk, and that is precisely what Tesla Motors’s CEO did recently. It appears his tweet was in fact meant to announce the already famous home battery, a system that might allow customers to go off the grid. Now, pictures with the battery belonging to one of the householders who have been testing the Tesla Stationary Battery leaked online.
Update: As one of our readers pointed out, this truly looks like a Tesla Model S battery. What we were trying to point out was that the new Tesla Home Battery might as well take a similar shape and construction to what the actual EV is currently using. Thanks for the heads up Philip.
By now you probably heard that Elon Musk’s plans to fit a battery in your home has been keeping a lot of energy CEOs awake at night. After all with it Tesla is looking to break the energy-storage market for houses. This is why the billionaire’s announcement on Twitter only worsens things.
Here we are though looking at the first pictures with the battery, and if the reports are true it has been in some people’s houses for a while now. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry has recently revealed that Tesla is ready to launch an in-home battery that involves solar energy.
According to him, there are about 230 households in California, who currently have Tesla Stationary Battery installed in their homes while about 100 others live outside California. He claims the battery has to be installed 1.5 feet (45 cm) above the ground, and should have an open space of 1 ft (30.5 cm) on all sides.
About 3 ft (91.5 cm) tall and 2.5 ft (76 cm) wide, it doesn’t make any noise, does not need any maintenance and has no drippings. Chowdhry believes that Tesla’s commercial-grade batteries are rated at more than 400 kWh, while the price could be close to $13,000 with a 50 percent rebate from PG&E Corporation.
Moreover, it would seem that one of the persons who got their hands on one, took it apart, and detailed everything on a post he recently listed on the Tesla Motors Club owners forum.
Since none of this information was confirmed by now, we’re going to leave you guys be the judge of it.
By now you probably heard that Elon Musk’s plans to fit a battery in your home has been keeping a lot of energy CEOs awake at night. After all with it Tesla is looking to break the energy-storage market for houses. This is why the billionaire’s announcement on Twitter only worsens things.
Here we are though looking at the first pictures with the battery, and if the reports are true it has been in some people’s houses for a while now. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry has recently revealed that Tesla is ready to launch an in-home battery that involves solar energy.
According to him, there are about 230 households in California, who currently have Tesla Stationary Battery installed in their homes while about 100 others live outside California. He claims the battery has to be installed 1.5 feet (45 cm) above the ground, and should have an open space of 1 ft (30.5 cm) on all sides.
About 3 ft (91.5 cm) tall and 2.5 ft (76 cm) wide, it doesn’t make any noise, does not need any maintenance and has no drippings. Chowdhry believes that Tesla’s commercial-grade batteries are rated at more than 400 kWh, while the price could be close to $13,000 with a 50 percent rebate from PG&E Corporation.
Moreover, it would seem that one of the persons who got their hands on one, took it apart, and detailed everything on a post he recently listed on the Tesla Motors Club owners forum.
Since none of this information was confirmed by now, we’re going to leave you guys be the judge of it.
Google News