At an event in Las Vegas yesterday, Tesla revealed a brand new utility-scale battery configuration that it claims can considerably decrease development prices for utilities, together with sooner set up. Its new “Megablock” is pre-engineered; extra meeting executed in a manufacturing facility permits for 23 p.c sooner set up, based on Tesla. That’s presupposed to translate to as much as 40 p.c decrease development prices.
It’s basically presupposed to be a plug-and-play platform, incorporating {hardware} and software program companies, to assist utilities rapidly meet rising electricity demands from information facilities, electrified houses and autos, and manufacturing.
The Megablock incorporates Megapack 3, the newest iteration of Tesla’s battery storage system that the corporate additionally debuted on the similar occasion. The newest Megapack has a “drastically simplified” thermal bay with 78 p.c fewer connections to reduce 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 shall be manufactured in Houston beginning late subsequent yr, the corporate added. However Tesla nonetheless depends on BYD and CATL to produce battery cells, Electrek notes.
