Elon Musk appears to be opening a new front in the European battle for electric car supremacy: the power behind the wheel.
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Tesla is seen at a branch office in Bern, Switzerland March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
Tesla already sells solar panels and the Powerwall battery storage system for homes, but now appears to be looking at selling electricity directly to customers and using the home storage systems to provide services to the grid. This could allow it to coincide charging with cheap electricity rates during off peak hours, consultants and industry executives said.
Tesla’s Gigafactory 4 in Brandenburg will on its own require 100 megawatts of power and up to 400 MW if battery cell production is also launched, according to transmission grid operator 50Hertz.
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