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Re:Tesla Energy by billions on Friday May 01, 2015 @01:43PM (#9473172)
I see this product targeted at current tesla owners. A PowerWall driven supercharger in-house could reduce charge times by 80%. Today's 10 hour charge time is a huge inconvenience compared to a 10 minute gas station run.
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Re:Tesla Energy by rhino369 on Friday May 01, 2015 @02:45PM (#9473641)
Doesn't Telsa already sell a product like that?
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Re:Tesla Energy by parasubvert on Friday May 01, 2015 @07:12PM (#9475094)
The home charger cable is capable of 240V/80A (20 kWh) connections.

Superchargers are around 363V/225A (90 kWh) but supposedly capable of 120 kWh.

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/01/hands-on-with-the-tesla-s...

So you're looking at 3 hours at home vs 45 minutes at a supercharger for a full charge. With the 10 kWh wall charger you might be able to cut 45 min off a home charge.

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Re:Tesla Energy by create123 on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @06:24PM (#9495389)
Not possible. The specs on their site say 2.0kW continuous and 3.3 peak power per power wall.
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