Aloha all,
I’m going to pipe up here regarding Tesla. I’ve been in the solar field since 1978, am a supervising electrician as well as the RME with the electrical contracting license. My company has been a Tesla certified installer since 2018 here in Hawaii and I’ve had Powerwalls on my home over the past several years and was the first in my company to do so as I wanted to walk our talk before selling and installing them. While they had some issues early on with the roll-out of the Powerwall 2, I have to say that these past years I’ve been quite pleased and impressed with the product and performance and overall back-up from Tesla tech support. (And no, I’m not a shill for the company or anyone else for that matter.) In fact, the mothership lets us know pre-emptively if a Powerwall is not meeting their operating specs and they’re quick with the RMAs. And I’m looking forward to the new Powerwall+ which is now shipping. The PW+ is the combination of the Powerwall 13.5 kWh and a Tesla-designed and branded 7.6 kW inverter with, along with their Gateway, allows for an integrated design with all the important components of a PV system to be Tesla. Which I expect to be an improvement over pairing Powerwall with SolarEdge, Enphase or SMA. As well, we can now offer a 25-year wraparound warranty on Tesla mods, Tesla inverter and Powerwall. Where else are you going to find a 25-year warranty on a battery? Finally, having recently compared pricing with LiFePo battery platforms of similar capacities, Powerwall and Powerwall+ pricing is aggressive. marco From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Clearwater Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 4:21 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] ] Tesla Anywhere Yea Tesla blew it big time with their approach with distributors and installers. Many of us reached out to them early on only to be met with silence and then to find out that some fly-by-night or new start-up received a territory covering big areas including several experienced installers that were ignored. And then the stories starting rolling in of shoddy installs - bad service - long waits - no supply. What they could have had if they just partnered with the existing solar industry instead of the arrogant attitude they knew better . . . Then it became clear perhaps we were better off! Their early embrace of Li-NMC turned out to be not a great option with LFPs coming along - and although we were hopeful they might get solar shingles right - they never overcame the inherent challenges (all those plugs! and no cooling!) - we saw it in the 2000s with (what was it "American Solar Shingles" or some such name). I love that Elon stepped up the game for folks to embrace EVs and Solar - but the execution - super dissapointing and maybe even damaging in the long run for solar. Here's kudos to all high integrity solar providers out there that have served the industry for years! We commend you intent Elon - but next time you might ask those that have been doing it for years to partner with you! best, Jeff
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