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Tesla Powerpacks spotted at EA charger in San Clemente

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I noticed these Tesla Cabinets in the Avenida Pico WalMart parking lot near the Electrify America chargers. It looks like we will be getting yet another SC in San Clemente.

Anyone have any details on this one?

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Is it my imagination, or is EA installing more power packs at charging stations than Tesla is?
So far, yes they have been. But Tesla is starting to put storage at superchargers a bit more often now. There are at least 3 or 4 recent ones that have or will have a megapack battery with them. So far we've only seen them doing it in CA though. The problem for Tesla is that their calculus on whether adding storage to a site is financially worth it or not is more complicated than EA's. Tesla has to consider the cost/benefit of self consuming batteries vs. selling them to other buyers or using the cells (or cell production capacity) in the vehicle division, etc. If they had a lot of excess battery production capability, this wouldn't be an issue. But as they don't, this is much less straightforward than doing a relatively simple calculation on expected savings and ROI.