Nov 5, 2026 | Home Electrification, Renewable Energy
For a home with a heat pump, the cheapest storage on the property is the hot-water tank, not the battery — and Tesla has just conceded as much. Its new Heat Pump Optimisation lets a Powerwall 3 tell the heat pump to overheat its tank on spare solar: 300 litres lifted...
Oct 16, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles
Tesla’s new Roadster can, according to Tesla, hop over a moving Cybertruck, spin in mid-air and drive upside down along a ceiling-style ramp. It also promises to hit 60 mph in about a second. The unveiling on 15 October, outside Waco, Texas, was built to be...
Oct 4, 2026 | Battery Technology
Almost every lithium battery takes one of three shapes: a cylindrical metal tube, a flat laminated pouch, or a rigid rectangular can called a prismatic cell. The choice is not cosmetic. It decides how tightly the cells pack into a battery, how they are cooled, how...
Aug 21, 2026 | Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A behind-the-meter battery sits on the customer’s side of the electricity meter; a front-of-meter battery sits on the grid’s side. That is the entire distinction, and it decides everything that matters about a battery: who owns it, who tells it when to...
Jul 30, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
American battery-electric sales fell for the third consecutive quarter between April and June, but the rate of decline has almost halved since the market’s post-subsidy trough. The more consequential number sits one row down the spreadsheet: hybrids sold 592,018...
