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Apple recently announced that it wants to build a solar farm in California. Batteries will be used to store the energy generated. However, it has not commented on which batteries will be used. It has now been confirmed that Tesla's Megapack batteries will be used.
Like The Verge reported, the 240-megawatt-hour facility was approved by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors. 85 Tesla lithium-ion megapacks will store the energy that will ultimately power Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. The Monterey County planning chief confirmed the use of Tesla batteries in an email, according to the report. The said megapack batteries were announced back in 2019. At the time, Tesla described the whole thing as follows: advertised:
Tesla: The Apple of Electric Cars
Megapack significantly reduces the complexity of large-scale battery storage and offers a simple installation and connection process. Each Megapack leaves the factory fully assembled with up to 3 megawatt hours (MWhs) of storage and 1.5 MW of inverter power, and builds on Powerpack's technology with an AC interface and 60% higher energy density to deliver significant cost and time savings compared to other battery systems and traditional fossil fuel power plants. Megapack will enable Tesla to build a zero-emission 250 MW, 1 GWh power plant on a three-hectare site in less than three months - four times faster than a traditional fossil fuel power plant of this size. Megapack can also be connected directly to solar power, creating seamless renewable energy systems.
Tesla is often referred to as the Apple of electric cars. But the two companies differ in many important ways. Not least the way their CEOs act on Twitter! (Image: Apple)
