SolarCity/Tesla powered house Credit: SolarCity

SolarCity/Tesla powered house
Credit: SolarCity

Apparently it wasn’t just empty talk when Elon Musk and his cousin Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity, said that “within 10 years, every SolarCity system will come with batteries from Tesla’s Gigafactory“. Tesla’s new Powerwall home battery has barely been announced that SolarCity is already saying that it will offer it as part of its ‘turnkey’ system, along with solar panels and control systems.

In a blog post, Peter Rive, SolarCity’s CTO, reiterated the vision that storage would soon become a default component of his systems: “Using Tesla’s suite of batteries for homes and businesses, SolarCity’s fully-installed battery and solar system costs are one-third of what they were a year ago. We expect costs to continue to decline as manufacturing scales, and over the next 5-10 years, these cost reductions will make it feasible to deploy a battery by default with all of our solar power systems.”

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