Tesla unveils a battery to power your home, completely off grid
CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, landed an official message unveiling
the Powerwall, a battery designed to power your home. The message came
at a convention center powered completely by renewable battery power.
The
battery unit itself contains the same batteries present in the Tesla
electric cars. The 7kWh unit will ship for $3,000, while the 10kWh unit
will go for $3,500 (get the big one). They will store electricity from
the grid or from solar and wind generators on site and if the grid goes
down, they will continue to power your home indefinitely This feature
makes them ideal for developing nations that are leap-frogging power
grids completely.
Musk refers to it as changing the "entire energy infrastructure of the world."
