PowerShare with Powerwall UPDATE from Wes!

[hemiarch]

Sorry to get your butterflies all a flutter, hemi.

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[HaulingAss]

New update detected today on Netzero for both Powerwall 3 and 2. Same firmware version.

26.26.0 d2487d0a

Here's hoping....

This looks like it might be a firmware update to allow Powerwall 2 and Powerwall 3 to operate together. Previously all Powerwalls in a system had to be of the same generation.

As for Powershare capability, I think the software update rollout might be phased with region/utility provider based rollouts so Tesla can manage utility specific conflicts one at a time (or at least not everyone at the same time).

 

[mongo]

As for Powershare capability, I think the software update rollout might be phased with region/utility provider based rollouts so Tesla can manage utility specific conflicts one at a time (or at least not everyone at the same time).

Wouldn't that mean Tesla is prioritizing Cybertruck to grid over delivering Cybertruck as home backup during grid failure?

 

[HaulingAss]

Wouldn't that mean Tesla is prioritizing Cybertruck to grid over delivering Cybertruck as home backup during grid failure?

It probably makes sense to roll it out concurrently, all as one package. Tesla succeeds because they know how to deliver value efficiently.

The economic case is much stronger for grid support than emergency backup. Most people can't reasonably afford to pay big bucks for an edge use case that rarely happens, even though I understand why people want it (including myself). Sharing energy with the grid in times of need has huge economic benefits when looked at from a first principles perspective and is the driving force behind making this all work. Delivering it efficiently, all together, helps keep Tesla's human resource requirements low. That is their most valuable asset, their employees. They want to empower the fewest number of employees to do the most good. That's how value is delivered, not by getting mired in deployment strategies that increase overhead and employees required. When teams become too big, everything slows down and grinds to a stop.

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