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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by chubs on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:03PM (#26393410)
Tesla recently build a big battery like this in Adelaide (south australia) to much fanfare. A friend who works reasonably high up in electricity distribution engineering tells me that you open the doors on the tesla-emblazoned cabinets and it's simply all siemens (IIRC) gear inside. (Not to say that tesla isn't value-adding by organising the sale!)
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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by ajross on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:13PM (#26393479)
Electrical distribution is a solved problem though and has been for almost a century. The notable part of that battery facility isn't the Siemens "gear", it's the Tesla batteries.
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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by tortarga on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:51PM (#26393825)
Even the battery cells themselves are made by Panasonic, the packaging of a complete product is the value of the PowerPack.
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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by lambda_obrien on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:03PM (#26393946)
Indeed, the Tesla powerpack is years ahead of the competitors, probably because they engineer only the hard parts themselves and use commercial products for the easy stuff.
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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by raphaelj on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:23PM (#26394659)
Do you have a source for the “years ahead”. Not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely interested.
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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by lambda_obrien on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:31PM (#26395421)
It's my opinion, mostly, but I've written drivers to control several different models and makes of battery installation, so firsthand experience. The difference is in the control software and reliability: Tesla batteries are way more reliable and have less downtime than anything else I've worked with. It's getting better.
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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by gardenfelder on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:15PM (#26393506)
https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/powerpack
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Re:Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas by agumonkey on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:33PM (#26393687)
heh interesting, although considering Tesla kinda made the whole thing extremely fast, I'm not surprised they rebranded parts already available from other brands.
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