Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Tesla’s super battery Power Wall sweeping the path with competitors – IDG.se

It’s no small task Elon Musk has tackled. To change the world and make households independent of the mains. Last year presented Tesla’s battery system for home, a battery with a capacity of seven kilowatt mounted on the wall. Now, the production rate increased and sales are expected to far exceed the full battery stock market in 2015, writes IDG News.

Tesla is expected this year to sell the 168.5 megawatt hours of energy storage systems for solar city, America’s leading companies for the installation of solar panels housing. It is six times more than they sold last year. And moreover 60 percent larger than the entire market for energy storage in the United States in 2015, according to data from GTM Research.

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sales for the Solar City, where Elon Musk is the chairman, and his cousin Lyndon Rive, CEO, is expected to be increased from 8 million to 44 million this year. An annual growth rate of 450 percent.

“The numbers are even more startling if we include the potential discount units,” said Ravi Manghani analyst GMT Reserch.

Elon Musk has said that the company’s billion complex, factory Gigafactory, will double the supply of lithium-ion batteries for cars and households when it reaches full production strength 2017.

at the same time is also expected to Lockheed Martin to pull up the pace of its production of lithium ion batteries. The company is primarily known for it based fighter but also the production of energy storage. The capacity of their commercial operations are expected to reach 125 kilowatts. Their modular batteries will be able to scale up to the megawatt installations.



Lockheed Martin's lithium ion battery.
Lockheed Martin’s lithium ion battery.


the global market for lithium-ion batteries totaled 2012 to 11.7 billion dollars, and is expected to reach $ 30.6 billion in 2024. the production of commercial battery systems of the type Power Wall is concentrated in a handful of regions. But according to analysts at IHS, allows reduced system costs growth may increase across the market.

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South Korea, Japan and the US will account for 59 percent of global installations of solar panels this year. The average price for lithium-ion batteries decreased by 53 percent from 2012 to 2015 a trend that looks set to continue in

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