Tesla is about to release NEW Powerwall batteries with better chemistry

many of you have been waiting to get a Tesla power wall this huge demand not enough of them to go around and to be honest they're kind of expensive but that's all about to change for One Good Reason hello my friends welcome to the channel on the electric Viking great to see you welcome to the new subscribers really good to have you guys welcome back everyone else really good to have you too thank you for subscribing thanks for your support this year it's been an amazing year been a bit of a roller coaster ride for a number of different reasons out of some of you who watch the channel more often would be aware yeah it's been some ups and downs it's been some great times there's been some tough times but overall it's really been a great year Tesla they make the power wall the power wall is kind of like a battery you can put on the side of your house your business or wherever you want and you can power your house or your business with it it's like a battery pack which you're going to link up you can put extra battery packs you can say have I know someone personally who has five power walls on their house they've got a big house and they're totally off-grid so they use no grid power at all not connected to the Grid at all they only use Tesla's power walls to power their very big seven-bedroom house seven bedrooms big house expensive right one of the challenges of batteries is longevity right what do you buy a power wall you want to hope it's going to last you for what 20 plus years right you don't have to replace those battery packs after say five years well lfp batteries are one of the solutions to this challenge of battery cycle limitations in modern batteries lfp battery packs generally last for around three times as many cycles as lithium ternary packs finally Elon Musk has made the call and Tesla's power walls will shift to lithium-ion phosphate Battery Technology that's one of the big changes being made at Tesla well one of the great things about lfp batteries is not just the fact that yes you can do a lot more Cycles less battery degradation they last longer it's also the fact fact is much more Supply at least of lfp batteries to Tesla and that is the key reason why Tesla are about to ramp up their deliveries massively of power walls supply and demand has been a problem demand hasn't been the problem for Tesla but supply has been and it's one of the key reasons why Tesla Service around this area is pretty pathetic people complain that when they call Tesla to order power walls or get it organized or find out questions Tesla's customer service sucks one of the problems here is Tesla's understaffed in this area and they just don't have enough battery packs to go around that's all about to change Elon Musk is saying that Tesla is ramping up power wall production and will finally increase availability of the battery pack Tesla has been production constrained with the power wall for a very long time the demand has been strong in a number of markets like the US and Australia but production hasn't been able to catch up despite significant ramp UPS now why are power walls so popular in Australia well the biggest reason is solar we have solar here it's everywhere why is it everywhere it's very very cheap on average we pay around 40 to 50 percent of the cost for solar that you guys in the US do this is thanks to generous incentives and various other reasons but all in all this accounts to a situation where Aussies are becoming independent of the grid like there's so many smart people out there right now that have basically Switched Off from the grid that are just using power walls or some type of batteries you can get battery packs from byd a number of other companies as well they're connecting those to their very very affordable solar systems and paying off that system within a matter of a few years and just being totally energy independent in addition they're able to charge their electric cars from their solar as well and getting back to Power walls it took Tesla about five years to deploy their first 100 000 power walls then it deployed 100 and more home battery packs in 2020 alone despite the ramp up Tesla couldn't catch up to the demand they faced and it had to Tire power walls to solar systems and stop taking orders for their packs so basically Tesla was like well we don't have enough of these to go around so what we'll do is we'll bundle them together with our solar system if you want a power wall you have to buy solar then they actually stopped taking audits because they just had so many orders that they felt like they were disappointing customers by taking too long to deliver the power wall within the last 24 hours musk shared the power wall page and he suggested that people should order for blackout protection and people think that the reason he tweeted this was the electricity issues that California is currently having and the brownouts that some are experiencing the other thing is Right Tesla now has their virtual power plant in California so if you buy a power wall you can connect to the power plant and you can make money through Tesla's basically their metering of the plants so what that system does is it sends your power out out into the grid it sells it when prices of electricity are high and it brings power back in to your battery pack when prices are low now obviously you can also charge your pack using solar so you can basically make money out of nothing and this is the genius of Tesla's virtual power plant and it's one of the key reasons why Tesla plans on becoming one of the world's largest energy Distributors over the next 10 to 15 years however right now in the US you still can't order just the power pack you have to order both a power wall and Tesla solar panels however musk said that Tesla might open up orders for powerwall by itself by the end of the year for now Supply is too low but ordering a power wall by itself should be possible by the end of the year what does all this come down to why are they doing this how is this possible it comes down to one thing Tesla is transitioning it's power walls it's changing from lithium ternary power or NCA batteries to lfp batteries it's a big Advantage it's an advantage in Supply menu you'll be able to buy a power wall if you're in the US and Australia and it's an advantage on longevity the batteries will definitely last a lot longer there's a big big Plus in my view I recently made a video talking about Tesla's transition of their big battery packs their commercial packs and their smaller packs from ternary batteries to lfp chemistry batteries now those batteries obviously predominantly come from the largest battery manufacturer in the world catl but Tesla does now also get batteries from byd who have become the second largest battery company in the world within the past few weeks when only a year ago there were the fifth largest being an absolutely historic rise in to be one of the world's dominant battery producers so clearly the solution here all along for Tesla was using lfp in their battery packs their commercial and residential packs that's what's happening and in my view this is really really good news now right now we don't know exactly how long Tesla's backlog of power walls is about this time last year it was 80 000 could be double that now no one really knows so if you want to get a power wall my tip is put in your order as soon as you can refresh the page refresh it refresh it refresh it or just stay tuned to this Channel and I'll let you guys know as soon as those orders become possible for you guys in the US what I've made possible I mean as soon as it's possible for you to order just the pack and not the paddles because I'm going to guess that most people already have solar panels and they're just waiting for the battery packs to become available thank you for watching have a great day bye

Channel: The Electric Viking

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Keywords: electricvehicles, evs, #electriccars, electricfuture

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 08 2022