Tesla Powerwall

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I see these as the SSD version of the battery. It does the same thing as the old batteries, just better.

It's probably dependent on where you live if its cost effective. Electrics still fairly cheap in Texas so the economics aren't there yet.

Yea, but for them to get widespread acceptance, they have to figure out how to make it cheaper everywhere, or make the non-solar more expensive before they make solar power cheaper. They've been working at making solar panels cheaper for years and (granted, I haven't done a ton of research on it) there doesn't seem to be some technological advance to make it really cheap. Powerwalls aren't the technological advance needed to make it have widespread acceptance. The solar panels are the problem.


Powerwalls may be the ultimate solution to storing the energy... now Musk needs to find the solution to getting it cheaper.