The Real Reason Tesla Energy Will Dominate 2022!

The Real Reason Tesla Energy Will Dominate 2022! We all know Elon Musk and Tesla make electric cars, but few look at Tesla as an energy company... let's review all the news and updates around Tesla energy. Reviewing how Tesla is transitioning the use of sustainable energy through solar, battery storage, and grid scale replacements for traditional power plants.

Last video: The 2022 SpaceX Update Is Here..

►You can use my referral link to get 1,500 free Supercharger km on a new Tesla:

🚘 Tesla 🚀 SpaceX 👽 Elon Musk

Welcome to the Tesla Space, where we share the latest news, rumors, and insights into all things Tesla, Space X, Elon Musk, and the future! We'll be showing you all of the new details around the Tesla Model 3 2021, Tesla Model Y 2021, along with the Tesla Cybertruck when it finally arrives, it's already ordered!

You can use my referral link to get 1,500 free Supercharger km on a new Tesla:

#Tesla #TheTeslaSpace #Energy

[marcbatway]

Just finished a roof replacement project in SW Fla. 12.5Kw roof production, (only took 45% of roof surface on 1750 sq ft house to achieve), with three PowerWalls. Awesome system! Contractor has numerous growing pains and FP&L is a big obstacle but finally finished and producing. Fuel for Tesla Model 3, (and of course the house electricity), now produced by the roof and stored in PowerWalls! With fuel for EV's factored in, break even point is less than seven years, AND...No more hurricane power outages.

[stevedowler]

Absolutely, Tesla's energy projects are a hidden gem that will become massive in say 2023. I have traditional solar PV with micro-inverters and want to add a Powerwall to that system in the near future.

[thefoss]

Love the updates and I hope these two types of energy systems grow rapidly, the world will need a lot more of these packs and solar

Merry Christmas brothers and sisters!

[DGaryGrady]

As a couple of other people have noted, a megawatt is a unit of power, *not energy*. Power is the rate at which energy is produced or consumed. A Megapack has three megawatt-HOURS of (absolute maximum) capacity. I'm not sure what the maximum rate of energy delivery is (i.e., the maximum wattage), but the Tesla website suggests it could, at least in theory, supply 500 megawatts of electric power for six hours. Or it could keep a 1000-watt space heater going for 125 days. The practical capacity is probably a bit less.

This doesn't affect the main economic point of your video, but it's something that you might as well get right. For reference, a joule is the basic unit of energy in the metric system, and a watt is defined to be a joule per second. Hence a watt-hour is 3600 joules. And of course a mega-whatever is a million whatevers.

[Elonics]

Have Tesla, 8.1 kw solar and 4 power walls…love it, home in Az…Geo

[keithstie]

Power walls are great! But I was under sold with one and over sold on panels, by SunRun. Should have used two power walls!

[ChaJ]

There are actually several things going on to better understand why LFP is good for stationary battery systems:
1. Don't need rare materials mined with child labor coming out of unstable parts of the world. Iron is plentiful and can be gotten anywhere. Lithium can actually be had from a number of different sources when done right and be plentiful. While there are other ingredients, nothing too special with LFP, unlike more traditional Lithium-Ion batteries. Another way to look at this is if Tesla wants to scale this up to having Megapacks all around the world en mass, they can get the raw materials easily and ethically enough to pull it off. They just can't reach this goal with traditional Lithium-Ion batteries unfortunately. The Li-ion deal early on seemed to be more of what technologies they had access to and ready to go at the time instead of a long term plan.

2. LFP is cheaper. You mention this.

3. LFP tends to have a much better cycle life. At this it has a different charge curve where it gets steep at that very end and is rather flat through most of the charge curve. It is pretty easy to have a wide charge window, have a constant charge / discharge rate at almost any charge level, and to have many charge - discharge cycles, potentially going on for decades. These batteries, at least when done right, last a long time. So while you can go on about them being heavier, which doesn't really matter in a stationary setup, it is not really that much of a disadvantage even in a mobile application, and the life of these batteries makes it a very good thing to invest in. I have an LFP battery from a cheap Chinese outfit (pouch battery cells taped together and I had to redo some of the wiring because it was done so poorly) that is 11 years old and it is still kicking strong with nothing special done to it besides just keeping the cells from either getting over or under charged. For me to get much improved life out of Lithium-Ion batteries, I have had to pamper them more and limit their charge range more, granted with Li-ion limiting the charge window made a huge difference in pack life.

4. LFP batteries don't catch on fire. I once dropped an LFP battery pack and broke it. It just smoked for a while and I made some jokes about not being able to have kids after inhaling some of those fumes due to the strong chemical odor, but it did not catch fire. You mention the Megapack battery fire in this video and LFP will make that a thing of the past.

5. When considering the C rates of LFP batteries, in the stationary setup you are really shooting for something that can handle a C/4 rate consistently without degradation. This is as in it can completely charge or discharge in 4 hours. This is well within the capability of LFP batteries without any optimizations for higher C rates. In other words for stationary applications, the batteries are not going to get stressed out by high loads, but instead be nice, cool running, efficient batteries that last a long time.

6. Something that may also be overlooked when talking about pampering batteries is LFP batteries can operate in a larger temperature range than Li-ion batteries. Less need to keep the batteries in a constrained operating temperature range is less parasitic energy draw to manage the batteries.

[xohdis]

you kept showing nuclear power plants when talking about peaker plants, nuclear are baseline.

[ssing]

I’m thinking it will take 4 years for them to ramp. They don’t have battery supply for everything… they do have to push cars for FSD. Insurance. Robo taxi. Upgrades….free advertising rolling on road. Coming starlink who knows how they will bundle. Also fighting competition for future. Among others.

Yea mega packs are amazing. And all of their products are and they have battery supply issues along with needing more facilities

[davidbarnes]

We are planning to build a new home is Texas, our major concern is finding installers that are in our area. I know of one is Dallas. I hope that by our build year 2023 there will be more installers available.

[seth]

Wins? dominate?
are those the right words for a better world?
wow...

[Slebonson]

In 2020 I got a power roof from very happy with it as solar and as a roof.

[barbarawalker]

I can’t wait to try this new electricity out thank it’s the answer to a better future future

[florenciovela]

i love your show, We love spacex & we just got our S dual motor fsd while the tri/4? motor fsd cybertruck gets here. i'm all in TSLA & i love all Elon Musk does & will keep doing..we've drove from California to Boca Chica to see the Star Ship & it was so awesome to see it getting built in person!! we have LOTS of SOLAR & backup battery system to charge them both at home

[MozartificeR]

A solar panel that imitates metal sheets should be the next step. I reckon they need to think of it not in terms of solar panel technology, but manufacturing technology. :)

You could take photos of your roof. Download to server. And have custom manufacturing. (They could even rig starlink with powerful cameras).

[jerrybarnes]

It’s going to be a wonderful day once Tesla ramps up their energy business where they are making billions per quarter.

[emoney]

I'm buying 10 more shares of Tesla in January 2022

[dominicspagnuolo]

power wall - yes one day - but they only do single phase, i have 3 phase... to buy 3 powerwalls - make it very expensive at this point...

[ssing]

Powerwall is not good unless only running lights and fridge. U can’t run AC or pool or high loads….. most houses need these in summer…. I’m just saying as I have one. I wish I would have got 4 of them. Oh well live and learn. Hopefully they come out with mini mega packs for owners (4-8x density of a powerwall )

[centerrightproudamerican]

The video stated that the Grid Batteries have been able to replace speaker plants. Unfortunately, the politicians demanded shutting down peaker plants faster than the batteries have been deployed. That means there are times where the peaker plants are needed and not and that is why CA is getting rolling black-outs.