Tesla has been crushing a few of its Powerwall manufacturing and deployment targets in current months, and the corporate has simply introduced doubling a current file at its Gigafactory Nevada.
On Tuesday, Tesla’s Vitality account on X introduced that Giga Nevada produced 1,000 Powerwall items in a single day, surpassing a record-breaking day in August when it celebrated surpassing 500 items in a single shift. The house battery has been deploying in substantial numbers all through many world markets, approaching the heels of Tesla’s launch of the latest-generation Powerwall 3 all through this yr.
Musk additionally responded to the information in a publish on X, highlighting the use case for Powerwalls:
Congratulations Tesla Powerwall group!
These will make a giant distinction world wide. With a Powerwall, your house or enterprise has assured steady energy throughout utility blackouts or brownouts.
Add photo voltaic to your roof and/or close by floor and you may function off grid.… https://t.co/DB7vTnNwl6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2024
The state of Tesla Vitality heading into the top of 2024
The information comes as Tesla has been quickly increasing its power enterprise all through this yr, after Elon Musk predicted that the sector’s gross sales progress would outpace its automotive enterprise in 2024. Musk additionally mentioned he anticipated the power division to turn out to be the corporate’s highest margin enterprise this yr, and there was no scarcity of manufacturing or deployment of the corporate’s Powerwalls and grid-scale Megapack batteries over the past a number of months.
In Q3, Tesla’s Vitality division reached a file gross revenue margin of 30.5 %, together with the corporate highlighting that it has deployed over 750,000 Powerwall items worldwide. Of these, Tesla says that over 100,000 Powerwall items world wide have been enrolled into one of many firm’s Digital Energy Plant (VPP) applications, which basically creates a large, distributed battery throughout giant areas throughout occasions of peak demand.
Tesla has additionally unveiled its Powerwall 3 batteries in markets together with the U.S., Canada, Germany, the UK, and Western Australia, with the remainder of the world nonetheless solely getting access to the Powerwall 2 in the intervening time. Final month, the corporate additionally launched growth items for the Powerwall within the U.S., providing decreased set up time with elevated stacked capability.
Along with the home- and commercial-scale Powerwall, Tesla additionally provides the grid-scale Megapack, which has been reaching related data and deploying simply as rapidly. Tesla’s so-called “Megafactory” in Lathrop, California constructed its 10,000th Megapack earlier this month, and it’s ultimately anticipated to succeed in an annual manufacturing capability of 10,000 items, or 40GWh.
Together with the Lathrop Megafactory, Tesla has practically accomplished a second Megafactory in Shanghai, China, which can also be anticipated to ultimately attain a quantity manufacturing of 10,000 items per yr. At the moment, the Shanghai Megafactory goals to start delivery items within the first quarter of 2025.
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