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Tesla recently build a big battery like this in Adelaide (south australia) to much fanfare. A friend who works reasonably high up in electricity distribution en
by chubs 6y ago
Tesla recently build a big battery like this in Adelaide (south australia) to much fanfare. A friend who works reasonably high up in electricity distribution engineering tells me that you open the doors on the tesla-emblazoned cabinets and it's simply all siemens (IIRC) gear inside. (Not to say that tesla isn't value-adding by organising the sale!)
- ajross 6y agoElectrical distribution is a solved problem though and has been for almost a century. The notable part of that battery facility isn't the Siemens "gear", it's the Tesla batteries.
- gardenfelder 6y agohttps://www.tesla.com/en_AU/powerpack https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/powerpack
- tortarga 6y agoEven the battery cells themselves are made by Panasonic, the packaging of a complete product is the value of the PowerPack.
- lambda_obrien 6y agoIndeed, the Tesla powerpack is years ahead of the competitors, probably because they engineer only the hard parts themselves and use commercial products for the easy stuff.
- raphaelj 6y agoDo you have a source for the “years ahead”. Not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely interested.
- lambda_obrien 6y agoIt's my opinion, mostly, but I've written drivers to control several different models and makes of battery installation, so firsthand experience. The difference is in the control software and reliability: Tesla batteries are way more reliable and have less downtime than anything else I've worked with. It's getting better.
- agumonkey 6y agoheh interesting, although considering Tesla kinda made the whole thing extremely fast, I'm not surprised they rebranded parts already available from other brands.