Tesla Practically Killing Themselves To Fight Fossil Fuel

Former President Barrack Obama pronounced the fossil fuel industry as a dying market before he left office, with renewable energy being an inevitable source of power for the future. However, Big Oil and other companies that are peddling dirty energy are not going away without a fight. As a result, the people at Tesla are practically killing themselves by working around the clock in order to save the world, starting with the new Powerpack station in California.

Tesla just introduced California to a new source of energy for the state, providing 80 MWh of electricity to the power grid, Futurism reports. The station was finally inaugurated and the company made some statements with regards to the state of their efforts at creating better, more powerful energy storage units.

On top of providing California’s power grid with considerably more energy, Tesla also announced that it is well on its way to mass producing the Powerpack 2, which has double the energy capacity that the previous energy was able to store. This is a huge feat made even bigger by the fact that making the new generation of Powerpack was done in a little over 90 days, JB Straubel, Tesla’s CTO states.

“It’s sort of hard to comprehend sometimes the speed all this is going at,” Straubel said. “Our storage is growing as fast as we can humanly scale it. There were teams working out there 24 hours a day, living in construction trailers and doing the commissioning work at two in the morning. It feels like the kind of pace that we need to change the world.”

The Powerpack station is in the Mira Loma station, which was recently constructed in Ontario, California. During peak hours, the rows upon rows of first-generation Powerpacks will provide up to 15,000 homes with up to four hours of electricity, Engadget reports. It could also provide over 2,500 homes with enough power to last a full day.