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I wonder if there is an easy way to use the unsold cars' batteries to store energy until they are finally sold
by jkic47 2y ago
I wonder if there is an easy way to use the unsold cars' batteries to store energy until they are finally sold
- to11mtm 2y agoNot likely in a way that's worthwile I'd wager. you'd need a lot of cabling (likely easy to pilfer yet valuable due to copper) and labor relative to savings.
- jerlam 2y agoTeslas, other than the Cybertruck, don't support bidirectional charging either.
- iudqnolq 2y agoAren't the Teslas themselves a much more attractive and viable theft target? Once you've protected the parking lot from car thieves I doubt copper thieves are a major issue. I started some envelope math expecting this to be silly but I think the capacity might actually be significant? In the past six years grid battery storage capacity in California increased about 10,000 MW, or 100,000 Teslas (using a high approximation of .1 MW per Tesla). Tesla has around 50,000 Teslas in inventory worldwide.
- solardev 2y agoWouldn't that degrade their chemistry and lower their value?
- kelseyfrog 2y agoNo, because Musk can say that battery restoration technology is being worked on and will arrive any day now.
- solardev 2y agolol