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by jkic47 757 days ago
I wonder if there is an easy way to use the unsold cars' batteries to store energy until they are finally sold
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Wouldn't that degrade their chemistry and lower their value?
No, because Musk can say that battery restoration technology is being worked on and will arrive any day now.
lol
Not likely in a way that's worthwile I'd wager. you'd need a lot of cabling (likely easy to pilfer yet valuable due to copper) and labor relative to savings.
Aren't the Teslas themselves a much more attractive and viable theft target? Once you've protected the parking lot from car thieves I doubt copper thieves are a major issue.

I started some envelope math expecting this to be silly but I think the capacity might actually be significant?

In the past six years grid battery storage capacity in California increased about 10,000 MW, or 100,000 Teslas (using a high approximation of .1 MW per Tesla). Tesla has around 50,000 Teslas in inventory worldwide.

Teslas, other than the Cybertruck, don't support bidirectional charging either.