At an event in Las Vegas yesterday, Tesla revealed a brand new utility-scale battery configuration that it claims can considerably decrease building prices for utilities, together with quicker set up. Its new “Megablock” is pre-engineered; extra meeting executed in a manufacturing facility permits for 23 % quicker set up, in accordance with Tesla. That’s speculated to translate to as much as 40 % decrease building prices.
It’s basically speculated to be a plug-and-play platform, incorporating {hardware} and software program companies, to assist utilities shortly meet rising electricity demands from information facilities, electrified houses and automobiles, and manufacturing.
The Megablock incorporates Megapack 3, the most recent iteration of Tesla’s battery storage system that the corporate additionally debuted on the similar occasion. The most recent Megapack has a “drastically simplified” thermal bay with 78 % fewer connections to attenuate failure factors, Tesla mentioned on the occasion and on X, and makes use of “the Tesla Mannequin Y warmth pump basically on steroids.”
The Megapack 3 will likely be manufactured in Houston beginning late subsequent yr, the corporate added. However Tesla nonetheless depends on BYD and CATL to provide battery cells, Electrek notes.
