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The Snake Like Charger that connects to the Car automatically.
My feeling is that battery supply is no longer constrained for vehicle production (see up thread for reasons) and like many others that "it" will be related to home storage..but likely with a twist in a good sense.
Corollary 1: Production of vehicles might be able to be increased (substantially?) but likely won't be 'in the short run', so the 'excess' battery production rolls out to home storage.
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Corollary 3: The twist 'in a good sense' to home storage is that it will be optimized to buy and store when grid is cheap, replace grid when it is pricey, even sell to grid at best conditions for both grid health AND homeowner 'wealth', as well as the expected storage of PV panel output. Therefore, the wild pricing swings (remember Enron? California does...) diminish, and the 'payback' is even quicker than the nominal output of the PV would suggest. MUCH faster and MUCH more cost effective, so even bigger home installs than normal make for sound financial sense that is provable to lenders. A 'Nest-like' smart app solution that is greater than the sum of the mere parts due to Megadata. Since Tesla is Silicon Valley and not Detroit in outlook, I wouldn't expect anything less. A whole Wild Kingdom forest of interrelated things, and not just a better mousetrap car.
... and building on what others have said, such a home battery solution could - if placed in the right place - speed-up charging a la "homebased supercharger" - granted, not at the speed the commercial ones could do, but still faster than what's currently there and, that's important, working for all supercharger enabled cars.
So depending on the market environment, this solution could - with the right software - do a whole long list of things: "Demand shaping only", "shift power consumption to off-peak times", "buy & sell-back to grid", "black-out proof power supply" as well as "supercharge your car"
OK... it is not a car... but related.
Often I thought that such a DC-charger at home would make sense:
Let the sun fill the PV-Batteries during the day while we are at work and transfer the energy in the evening to our vehicles in SC- fashion (20 - 30 min)
This would allow us having a night out too... no need to stay home, because the car is tied to the grid all night for charging.
(if destination charging is not possible or SC are not near)
Needless to mention the other advantages of stored electricity for the home use (black-outs, power- and energy saving, V2G - balancing etc. etc.)
Assuming that we're looking at stationary storage, Tesla may be approaching this as a way to use battery cells that don't make the grade for cars: factory 'seconds' and cells pulled from damaged or aged Model S batteries. Instead of recycling battery cells, it simply sells them again in a less-demanding application. Pure margin.
Somewhat Certain
- New battery pack for Tesla Model S (and X) of 110kWh
Didn't Solar City and them had to stop their initial pilot program in California because the power companies were intentionally delaying hooking them up or outright refusing to?
Didn't see one posted - so I figure I'd be the first one to start
My Predictions:
Very Certain
- Tesla Home Battery Energy Storage System
Somewhat Certain
- Tesla P85D firmware update announcement to increase acceleration to 60 in 2.8s (Insane+), which somewhat leads to...
- New battery pack for Tesla Model S (and X) of 110kWh
Not Certain
- Announcement of Apple as an investor in the company for continued Gigafactory growth to facilitate Battery Storage business (and Apple gets systems for free, yay!)
- Model X release candidate in full display for everyone to see
Unicorn Status
- Model 3 reveal
Yep.
But change everything below to 'Unicorn'. Clearly you haven't been following Tesla long enough.. or if you have, you haven't learned your lesson.
Not happening until at least late 2015, probably later.- New battery pack for Tesla Model S (and X) of 110kWh
There was another one stating no major update for a year, but I can't find it.Deleted Musk tweet said:Should mention that a battery pack upgrade is not coming soon for the Model S, but it obviously *will* happen long-term
Not a chance.- Announcement of Apple as an investor in the company for continued Gigafactory growth to facilitate Battery Storage business (and Apple gets systems for free, yay!)
- Model X release candidate in full display for everyone to see
Model W announced! Fantastic effort by Mr Musk, seems we all fell for it, hook line and sinker!