Marques Brownlee got a top-of-the-line Tesla system installed in his home to figure out the costs, benefits, and quirks of it all. He found huge fluctuations season to season, which mostly washed out over the course of the year.
The end result was a very high-tech and nearly cost-free home electricity system... it’s just going to take a while to pay itself off.
An installation proposal in the UK (shared on r/teslamotors) seems to confirm Tesla’s moving up from its 250kW V3 stations to 350kW on the V4. It could technically be even faster.
Current Tesla vehicles only support 250kW max, but 800-volt EVs like the Kia EV6 could take advantage. And those longer cables are certainly helpful. Charging a non-Tesla in Europe is easy and dongle-free.
That’s how Doug Field, former Tesla executive in charge of engineering, recalls the Model 3’s infamous “production hell” that nearly broke the electric car company. Field is among the host of sources at Tesla that were interviewed for episode one of the new podcast series, Land of the Giants: The Tesla Shockwave. New episodes drop each week.
The ratio of wiper size to effectiveness here is so low as to be almost zero.
