Solar Power and Battery Backup: Tesla and SolarCity's Dream Home

[stopcrazypp]

At $10 a month for something you use every few years when you have a power-outage your better off buying a portable generator then at least you can take the generator with you and charge your tesla anywhere..

It's not for a power outage. If you read the post by the commenter, it is used for times when the solar panel doesn't provide power (which is every day during the night). You can run your house "off-grid" for most of the year (except during times when you need to use lots of air con or electrical heat) and pay no money for electricity. That's why $10/month sounds like a really good deal.

[TEG]

Tesla Motors Teams With SolarCity For Off-The-Grid Homes

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Jesse W. Pichel – Jefferies & Co., Inc.
There is a lot of chatter in the media about the Tesla battery pack, showing up in solar projects and do you think that solar could be a driver of your significant driver of your battery cells in the future?
Unidentified Company Representative
I don’t think we want to show a little of our cards right now, but I think there is some interesting potential in that direction may be in partnership with the certain solar company.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/5761...ipt?part=qanda

Is it a backup or a car charging system. http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showt...ght=solar+city

[Citizen-T]

Jesse W. Pichel – Jefferies & Co., Inc.
There is a lot of chatter in the media about the Tesla battery pack, showing up in solar projects and do you think that solar could be a driver of your significant driver of your battery cells in the future?
Unidentified Company Representative
I don’t think we want to show a little of our cards right now, but I think there is some interesting potential in that direction may be in partnership with the certain solar company.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/5761...ipt?part=qanda

Is it a backup or a car charging system. http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showt...ght=solar+city

He definitely sai d "all of our cards right now". Those seekingalpha transcriptions are always a mess.

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Solar City's page on the backup battery: http://www.solarcity.com/residential...y-storage.aspx


Called about it.
Priced at $20,000.

Used to be $40,000
Used to have the $10 a month lease. Those sold out in two days.
CEO has it installed

They really tried to dissuade purchase giving the reason that it won't save you money.

[favo]

So what is the current lease plan?