Tesla's super plant will greatly reduce the cost of car batteries

Editor's note: Tesla's Super factory will be able to greatly reduce the cost of car batteries, electric cars may be popular, supposedly, this is a good thing for the grid industry. But why are the traditional power grid industries in a bit of a panic in cheers? This is

Editor's note: Tesla's "Super Factory" will be built to greatly reduce the cost of car batteries, electric cars may be popular, supposedly, this is a good thing for the grid industry. But why are the traditional power grid industries in a bit of a panic in cheers? This is because, Musk this super factory is not only the production of batteries, it will fundamentally subvert the entire power industry Foundation. The traditional power plant that understands the situation has already begun to cooperate with Tesla ...

The Tesla Super plant ended up in Nevada, and Elon Musk expects the plant to cost $5 billion for completion by the end of 2016. In his blueprint, this would be a key step in making EV prices more populist, ending oil dependence and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

It seems to be a good thing for the power industry, which is worried about tightening.

In fact, however, Musk's super factory will fundamentally subvert the entire power industry. The Super Factory is capable of producing a large number of stationary batteries that can be used to store electricity with rooftop solar panels. In addition, another company in Musk, SolarCity, can provide electricity to residents throughout California and companies including Wal-Mart.

The traditional power industry is a big emitter of carbon dioxide

In Germany, clean energy, which enjoys tax subsidies, has grown rapidly, weakening the bargaining power and profitability of oil and gas plants. Eon SE, Germany's biggest power company, said it would spin off the fossil-energy business and focus on renewable energy because "the new clean-power competitor has siege".

In fact, the business model of the traditional power industry has become the spitting point, but also because the United Nations climate talks held in Lima on December 1 again mentioned energy and environmental issues. Representatives of the Global Environment organization at the meeting led to a draft resolution calling for a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate warming. The big emitters of carbon dioxide are the traditional power industries.

We need to solve the traffic first.

40% of America's electric cars are sold to California, and half of the car owners use solar power to recharge their cars. To count, California's 100,000 electric cars are less than 1% of America's car sales. In addition, the average household and business use of solar energy or backup batteries rarely solved, clean energy in addition to places like California and Hawaii, there is little market, Hawaii, because the electricity is too high to make solar energy is competitive.

However, the Edison Electric Association (EEI) recently said its members would spend 50 million of dollars a year to buy electric trucks and invest in electric vehicle charging technologies to promote the use of electric vehicles. EEI President Thomas Kuhn said very directly, "the development of electric transport technology is the industry's priority to solve." ”

"And then the traditional power industry."

Tesla, SolarCity and other green energy companies are aggressively invading traditional industry sites. Currently, Tesla has installed 135 super charge piles in the North American market, providing free charging service for the past Model S. NRG Energy, an American power producer, also built a public charging network in major U.S. cities, where owners could charge for a per-month or monthly knot, which would cost about 15 dollars.

They're going to take the land and the families. Morgan Stanley said that in the United States and Europe, Tesla provided the family and corporate energy storage products will bring the traditional power industry "subversive" damage, people simply "retreat", so no pay the electricity bill.

"People are not really aware of Tesla's achievements in reducing the cost of energy storage, nor are they aware of the extent to which the ' super factory ' once built will reduce costs," he said. Said Morgan Stanley analyst.

Tesla itself is well aware of its grand vision-not just to reduce the emissions of truck trucks, but also to have a social dimension. "If we only do the transport level, it will ignore the entire power industry, so we are missing half our mission," he said. "Tesla Drive business development director Mateo Jaramillo said.

Tesla and Texas's largest grid enterprise, Oncor Tepco IBuySpy, are negotiating a $2 billion trillion investment in the development of stationary energy-storage batteries to address the instability of wind and solar power output.

Smart homes are also related to the power industry

As for the future of the smart family, maybe we can look at a model sample of Davis, California. There, Honda has developed a "smart home" solution that generates surplus power while recharging electric vehicles. The package was developed by Honda in conjunction with SolarCity, Pacific Gas and Power (Pg&e Corp.) and UC Davis to show people the value of renewable energy-saving technologies.

SolarCity's rival, SunPower, which provides solar power and energy storage systems for electric car buyers, also works with developers in KB home to install solar systems for California's properties. SunPower's CEO, Tom Werner, joked that residents were charging electric cars, and that there was a surplus of solar energy stored on the roof that was no longer "unthinkable, and could be achieved in a few years '."

SolarCity and SunPower say their goal is not to keep people from getting electricity out of the grid, but to help them reduce their reliance on the grid. "The power grid is the ' Holy grail ' for storing unstable renewable energy sources. ”

But for the power companies, the Holy Grail is not a good idea.

In June this year, EEI released a report saying it was urgent to train people to switch from fuel cars to electric cars. The country's biggest power companies are also sizing up their own grids to provide services for more electric cars, and working with carmakers and governments to ensure that the power industry can benefit from this change with consumers.

The concurrence of new and old forces

"I read a lot about Elon Musk and the traditional power industry confrontation, but I think the truth is not the case, there is a natural relationship between them." "This is the view of John Shipman, head of the electric vehicle project at the United Edison Electric Company in New York.

California has the highest penetration rate in the United States, and California's current governor, Jerry Brown, has set the target of launching 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles in 2025, in which the traditional power industry is present.

"The role of the grid will become more important in the coming years because solar panels, batteries and charging stations all need to be connected to this platform," he said. Solar panels do not connect to the grid like computers are not connected to the Internet. pg& E spokesman Ellen Hayes said.

Southern California Edison and Sempra Energy's San Diego Power Industry Association (SDG&E) has now invested 500 million of dollars in building electric-vehicle charging stations. At the same time, they also signed a proposal with Pg&e to loosen control of the traditional power grid's self-built charging station.

Power grid Upgrades

But there is another question, can traditional power plants carry such a large demand?

"Electric cars can be either the best thing in the car industry or the worst thing," he said. "said James Avery, senior vice president of Sdg&e.

Avery foresaw that a large influx of electric cars would overload the grid. Sdg&e plans to invest 3.2 billion dollars to upgrade the grid, which has lowered its toll rate to encourage car owners to charge at the lowest power demand overnight.

The Southern California Edison Company also plans to devote 9.2 billion of billions of dollars to grid construction by 2017. "Of course we are fully committed to the power traffic," said Edison International CEO Ted Craver. ”

Makeover

There is always nothing wrong with the trend, traditional power stations should learn from Elon Musk, an outstanding entrepreneur and innovator, who is creating a new form of the power industry, where traditional power stations should find ways to benefit rather than find guilt.