{"id":86652,"date":"2015-05-06T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86652"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:37:15","slug":"tesla-home-battery-coming-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/86652\/tesla-home-battery-coming-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla home battery coming to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tesla Powerwall home battery will be available worldwide \u2013 including in South Africa \u2013 by the end of 2016, a spokesperson for the company told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/125406-powerwall-tesla-battery-system-to-power-your-home.html\"><strong>recent unveiling<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the new battery system from Tesla CEO and South African-born technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, who also revealed at the time\u00a0that customers in North America and Europe could already\u00a0pre-order the product.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Powerwall is a home battery that charges using electricity generated from solar panels and powers your home when the sun goes down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tesla&#8217;s new product is available\u00a0as\u00a0a 7kWh unit for $3,000, and a 10kWh unit for $3,500 \u2013 excluding inverters and installation \u2013 and will deliver to pre-order customers by \u201clate summer\u201d (July\u00a0\u2013 September 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Tesla explained its approach to the roll-out of the new product to countries like South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the Powerwall is available through solar installers, utilities, and energy companies, who can offer Powerwall with installation, which allows for rapid deployment around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We work closely with partners to make sure they are qualified and able to install and service the technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Tesla<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/79838\/bad-news-for-tesla-fans-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bad news for Tesla fans in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tesla Powerwall home battery will be available worldwide \u2013 including in South Africa \u2013 by the end of 2016, a spokesperson for the company told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":86654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874,1],"tags":[26,6118],"class_list":["post-86652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86660,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86652\/revisions\/86660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}