Mercedes-Benz Copies Tesla, Plans To Offer Home Energy Storage

cartechboy writes: It's like a game of follow the leader. First, Tesla announced its Powerwall Batteries, and now Mercedes-Benz plans to follow suit by entering the energy-storage business as well. A division of parent company Daimler has been testing battery packs that can power houses, and plans to launch commercially in September. Supposedly a battery pack for "light industrial, commercial, and private" use is being tested with sizes ranging from 2.5 kWh to 5.9 kWh. While Tesla's building a massive Gigafactory to make all its batteries for its Powerwall and electric cars, it's unclear exactly how Daimler plans to produce its batteries in a larger-scale energy-storage operation.

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Copies Tesla???

[antiperimetaparalogo]

Mercedes-Benz Copies Tesla

Let's not make it "Europe against USA" but Mercedes (Daimler) was in the energy-storage (battery-pack) business (think industrial and defence sectors, plus -much more limited- residential storage - with the same technology as Tesla) looong before Tesla even existed - i don't mean that it is better than Tesla, but please... not "Copies Tesla"!

Re:Can u say bubble?

[Captain Splendid]

I love all you Americans crowing about the uselessness of the coming distributed energy age. Y'all might be correct as far as the US goes (and for now), but for billions of us in the rest of the world, shit like this has either been cost-effective for years or one of the few methods to get any kind of electricity when you don't the massive capital for the old-school way.