Tesla launches betteries for homes, businesses, and utilities

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Originally Posted by hachi-roku_fan

I wish I could give the LADWP the good boot but I feel they wouldn't like me selling them electricity at their rates. Hell, they lagged on installing solar panels on houses, so I can't imagine how pissed they'd be if I got this along with solar panels to store any energy I don't need/use and make while I'm at work.

Better than SoCal Edison though. A few years ago SoCal Edison had a rate increase, and they actually had the b***s to admit that the ONLY reason for the rate increase was for pension funding! If I still lived within their coverage area, I would have been so ticked I would have been tempted to move just barely out of their reach. I'm too much of a fiscal conservative to be happy as a resident of '2010 and beyond' California (I picked 2010 re 3rd term for Moonbeam ...yeah, I know some people think he's being fiscally conservative...but some of it as smoke and mirrors {things no longer officially 'counted'...but funding not cut)}. It is a good thing that I am no longer a resident.

Toyotas reasoning about electric cars not working is because they feel the infrastructure to support everyone driving electric cars isn't up to par. We'd overload the grid basically.

Within the last day or two, I read a newspaper article about the new Hyundai Tucson for the U.S. It will be electric, and also hydrogen fuel cell. You will have to lease it (no purchases allowed), and the fuel and maintenance will be included. IIRC, it will have a range of 265 miles.