Earlier this year in April a company best known for its all-electric cars announced a lithium-ion battery solution called Powerwall. Tesla has designed Powerwall in a way that it hooks up to existing solar energy setups and the conventional power grid and stores excess solar power which can then be used during off-peak hours when there’s no sun. Australia is going to be the first country outside of the United States to get the Powerwall battery.
Tesla saw considerable demand for this product, bringing in over 38,000 reservations in the first week alone after its announcement. When people complained that the steady output of 2KW won’t be enough for the average household the company decided to double it for the same price, now it provides 7KW output at peak and 5KW at steady use.
It did this without raising a single penny, Tesla has kept the prices constant at $3,000 for the 7KWh daily cycle version and $3,500 for the 10KWh weekly cycle version.
The company is now launching Tesla Energy in Australia to bring the resident Powerwall to the masses, it will also be providing industrial Powerpack solutions to businesses who are willing to embrace solar energy.
It’s pushing the same 7KWh and 10KWh Powerwalls in Australia aside from the commercial scale Powerpacks which consist of 100KWH battery blocks for setups that go as high as 10MWh.
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