Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project in California

Re:Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:56PM (#26651446)

That’s about 2-3 million Teslas of storage.

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Re:Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project... by gok on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:58PM (#26651474)

No, a few thousand. 240 megawatt hours = 240,000 kilowatt hours, a BEV car is around 80 kWh

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Re:Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project... by fastball on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:13PM (#26651691)

To be precise, 4800 if you are conservative and use the battery pack capacity of early production Tesla Model 3s (864,000 MJ / 180 MJ).

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Re:Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:36PM (#26654637)

Thanks! Should have checked, my bad. Buying a few thousand doesn’t seem that newsworthy, Amazon just committed to buying 100,000 EV delivery vehicles...

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