Off for Mercedes home batteries: Daimler fails to save on Tesla and Co.

05/02/2018

Off for Mercedes home batteries Daimler fails to save on Tesla and Co.

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Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, Mercedes energy storage

Daimler gives up the production of home batteries: Just two years after the carmaker attacked Tesla, Sun, Varta and other manufacturers in this segment announced, the group is reinstating the distribution of self-developed devices, confirmed a Daimler spokeswoman to manager-magazin.de. First, the industry service “Greentechmedia” about it reported,

The company evaluated the segment and decided not to produce home storage in the future. Therefore, it does not seem worthwhile for the company to use batteries, which are actually designed for electric cars, as cellar batteries.

“They are technically overloaded,” said the spokeswoman. “There’s no need to have an electric car battery in the basement, it will not move there and it will not freeze there.”

It is true that various synergy effects can be identified between the automotive and stationary battery systems. But even in the medium and long term “the economics of home energy storage based on automotive battery systems will not be,” left Daimler Show stock market chart manager-magazin.de know.

Originally, Daimler had planned in his Saxon battery module factory depending on demand alternately to produce car and house batteries. The intensified price war around Heimspeicher makes the group but apparently a line through the bill.

Other manufacturers like Sonnen or Solarwatt have been drawing conclusions for quite some time that stationary storage systems have different requirements than car batteries. They have optimized the cell chemistry and configuration to ensure uniform loading and unloading processes, thereby reducing production costs.

Also Tesla had initially set strong synergies with electric car batteries and thus shipwrecked, But the company led by Elon Musk turned around and put a lot of money in a largely separate home storage production in the Gigafactory. Daimler now shies away from this effort, after the company only a year ago had blown to attack Tesla,

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homeowners Batteries are increasingly in the cellarFor example, to save power from your own solar system. Then you can use it at night and in cloudy weather.

This saves money in many cases: because electricity from new photovoltaic systems costs the equivalent of often only about 10-12 cents per kilowatt hour. Utilities require at least 25 cents. The bill tends to be more frequent, as batteries become cheaper and electricity gets lost with some devices for under 10 cents per kilowatt hour can save.

According to the spokeswoman, Daimler does not want to say goodbye to the store business. The company will, however, only develop and build storage systems that support power grids and, for example, rely on discarded electric car batteries.

In addition, Daimler wants to distribute home storage of cooperation partners. However, the company spokeswoman left open which makes it.

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