[ilaksh]

Maybe you could just use your car as the battery charged by your solar panels, instead of buying a Powerwall? And then run your house off of it. At least on the weekends. Or maybe more often if you don't have to drive every day.

Because the Tesla battery is 60 kW, so its basically like 10 Powerwalls that you can drive around. Instead of storing it on the wall in your garage, it is lying horizontal in the car.

Sort of amazing that people are not making this connection.

[mulcahey]

Elon and JB said in the 2016 Shareholders meeting that they considered this but are not planning to pursue it.

The PowerWall is designed to be cycled daily while the car is expected to be cycled weekly.

There is also a danger of electrocution and regulatory hurdles.

https://youtu.be/vhqe4gMN6Lk?t=2h46m32s

[kbenson]

I suspect a fair portion of people actually use their car to go other places during most of the day, which is when Solar is working. A car makes a poor battery because it's absent when you would want to charge it.