ItsNotAboutTheMoney
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LOL, and you are overcomplicating things. The only true benefit is charging even when the grid goes down which is nice. It would suck to be driving cross country and then be stuck due to a local power outage. Still, it's a nice thing but not a show stopper. Which is why they won't be available day one.
The benefit occurs when havig the batteries there makes Tesla more money.. As I pointed out in my list there are a number of factors involved in that calculation and simply saying feed in and draw out without any more information is ridiculous. Having batteries would allow Solar City to increase income from electricity fed to the grid and to lower the cost of electricity drawn from the grid. Now, you give me the numbers that show me why those gains and the "Supercharge from solar"PR wouldn't outweigh the cost of the batteries and I'll then accept your statement as fact.