Tesla's Elon Musk: On Creating A 'Cool' Battery System For Home Energy Storage

by: Ucilia Wang - 5/07/2014 @ 8:32PM

Tesla Motors TSLA +1.05%, which plans to build a giant lithium-ion battery factory, is keenly interested in the emerging energy storage market, where home and businesses owners might want to buy battery systems for backup power or for managing solar electricity generation and use.

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“We are trying to figure out what would be a cool stationary (battery) pack,” Musk said. “Some will be like the Model S pack: something flat, 5 inches off the wall, wall mounted, with a beautiful cover, an integrated bi-directional inverter, and plug and play.”

Musk said he will give more details about the home battery system design toward the end of this year or early next year.

Selling its battery packs into the energy storage market would seem a good fit for Tesla, which counts designing battery packs and developing battery management system as part of its core expertise. The battery management system includes sensors and software to manage the charging and discharging of the batteries and to make sure they don’t overheat....

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2014/05/07/teslas-elon-musk-on-creating-a-cool-battery-system-with-a-beautiful-cover-for-home-energy-storage/