Batteries Included
May 05, 2020
3 minutes
TEXT BY Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
ILLUSTRATIONS BY Playmetric
solar panels on his Mayacamas Mountains home in northwestern California two decades ago, going completely off the grid wasn’t a real consideration. He just couldn’t quite abide the banks of ugly leadacid batteries he would have needed to store that amount of excess solar power. Today, it’s a different story. Two sleek Tesla Powerwall lithium-ion batteries hang inconspicuously on a carport wall, ready to supply nearly all the
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