{"id":14150,"date":"2015-05-01T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2023-08-25T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:34:31","slug":"tesla-unveils-battery-storage-system-for-home-business-and-utility-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/tesla-unveils-battery-storage-system-for-home-business-and-utility-use","title":{"rendered":"Why Tesla Wants to Sell a Battery for Your Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/contributor\/phil-mckenna\/\">Phil McKenna<\/a> \u2014 MIT Technology Review<\/p>\n<p><br \/> Seeking to expand its business beyond electric vehicles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/\" target=\"0\">Tesla Motors<\/a> will sell stationary batteries for residential, commercial, and utility use under a new brand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/presskit\/teslaenergy\" target=\"0\">Tesla Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla is launching the home battery business partly because it\u2019s already making vehicle batteries\u2014and as a result it can benefit from the economies of scale that come from making both. Another reason is that the market for storage is expected to grow in concert with the use of solar power. Tesla needs both electric vehicles and solar power to boom if it hopes to fulfill the projected output from a vast $5 billion battery \u201cgigafactory\u201d it\u2019s building in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2015\/05\/01\/11346\/why-tesla-wants-to-sell-a-battery-for-your-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Phil McKenna \u2014 MIT Technology Review Seeking to expand its business beyond electric vehicles, Tesla Motors will sell stationary batteries for residential, commercial, and utility use under a new brand, Tesla Energy. Tesla is launching the home battery business partly because it\u2019s already making vehicle batteries\u2014and as a result it can benefit from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170483,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions\/170483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}