Recent content by montreid

Stopped by today. 12 stalls all upstairs. Hardware not in yet.

Interesting to see upstairs. At least better than the old one Paseo location. Going to make it harder parking for the gym

We're definitely consumers with two EVs and a pool with two active pumps. Still able to be net generators for pk and most off peak so most usage is super off peak -- just a lot of it. Nonbypassable charges really do us in and something that's new since we had NEM 1.0 prior to our move to new...

Are most on EV-TOU-5? Works really nicely when coupled with our PV+PW2 array.

Right. My neighbor got over 600 for his pw2. Wondering if tesla is doing better, doesn't sound like it as we have both options

Curious -- what are people's 2023 payout and if Tesla does a 1099-misc with it or not. debating to join VPP or not.

Been kicking around the idea of buying resale EVs. The rate of depreciation due to the falling new sale prices has been incredible where EVs used to hold their resale value at the tops of cars. We have an aging 3rd vehicle that we would be interested in replacing with Y or X. Do you think...

Ty for the explanation. So the pw2 inverter is not used at all while there's an inverter on the CT which is not on other Teslas at this time?

The setup states two components: Gateway and the connector. My understanding is the connector simply is a conduit that supports both AC and DC currents from point A-B The key is the GATEWAY - which is the switch AND Inverter for Tesla Powerwall and doing the heavy lifting. In the case...

Utilities should have plenty of information on VPP on how it stabilizes the grid reliably with set energy. It's interesting how VPP hours last 3 while most PW2 will only last 2-2.5 hours at full discharge. The real question lies in this: is VPP economically comparable to the utilities AND...

Have had PW+ since last year and doing well. No issues after initial shakedown then.... Nov 3 suddenly goes from 100 to 0. Since then nada. -- PW slow fading green bar Did reset Did full shutdown and disconnect for 10min Tried connecting to both gateway and backup gateway -- unable to...

I would submit that most consumer purchase decisions come with options available; not warranty considerations at 7 years. From the company side decision it's also sales potential of one product vs another within own product line vs external competition. To date, Tesla is had NO incentive to...

Our 3 has 63k miles on it and 90% still at 4 years. Our Y has 37k miles with still charging to original miles on it. If one daisy chains onto an existing PW2 -- it limits 5kw discharge per hour. Even if one uses this for 3 hours after PW2 exhausted, 15kw is not a significant deep draw...

This is my point. There's been this 'void your warranty' scare that EV batteries will suffer being leveraged to support V2G/V2H solutions -- it's quite the opposite where EV batteries will have a walk-in-the-park level stress compared to a regular daily commute usage. It's a BUSINESS...

Never verified and highly doubt Tesla would go to older tech and using higher cost materials. EV cells perform quite well and under significantly more stressful environments then the PW. In the case of daisy chaining an EV to PW, you're capping draw a 5KW per hour. That's sipping a...