Tesla says its new Megablock can cut costs for renewable energy storage.

At an event successful Las Vegas yesterday, Tesla revealed a caller utility-scale artillery configuration that it claims tin importantly little operation costs for utilities, on with faster installation. Its caller “Megablock” is pre-engineered; much assembly done successful a mill allows for 23 percent faster installation, according to Tesla. That’s expected to construe to up to 40 percent little operation costs.

It’s fundamentally expected to beryllium a plug-and-play platform, incorporating hardware and bundle services, to assistance utilities rapidly conscionable rising energy demands from information centers, electrified homes and vehicles, and manufacturing. 

The Megablock incorporates Megapack 3, the latest iteration of Tesla’s artillery retention strategy that the institution besides debuted astatine the aforesaid event. The latest Megapack has a “drastically simplified” thermal bay with 78 percent less connections to minimize nonaccomplishment points, Tesla said astatine the lawsuit and connected X, and uses “the Tesla Model Y vigor pump fundamentally connected steroids.” 

The Megapack 3 volition beryllium manufactured successful Houston starting precocious adjacent year, the institution added. But Tesla inactive relies connected BYD and CATL to proviso artillery cells, Electrek notes.