It looks like Tesla has released a very interesting video showing how to use the Powerwall as a mobile power station after sending them to Ukraine.
As we recently reported, Tesla has taken several steps to help Ukraine, which is currently under attack from the Russian invasion.
The automaker began by offering free Supercharging at select stations across Ukraine for electric vehicle owners leaving the country.
The program was later expanded to all stations in Poland and Slovakia as more refugees began to arrive in those countries.
Elon Musk’s other company, SpaceX, also quickly helped the situation by activating its Starlink satellite internet service in the country as Russia targeted Ukraine’s infrastructure.
We later learned that Tesla helped with this with the Gigafactory Berlin team, who packaged the Starlink terminals shipped to Ukraine and added the Powerwall:
“In addition, the Energy team has complemented the Starlink deployment with a Powerwall park. The system included PV inverters provided by our network of certified installers, prefabricated DC cables provided by one of our blower installation partners, and AC cables made from Giga Berlin scrap metal. All this has been put together by a team of (40+) volunteers from across the EMEA organization, committed to doing their best to support.”
The Starlink satellite internet constellation is of little use if you can’t power ground terminals – hence the Powerwalls.
Now we’ve been sent a video that appears to have been created by Tesla to show the Ukrainians receiving these Powerwalls how to use them as mobile power stations:
The Tesla Powerwall is designed to be used as a grid-connected home battery and/or rooftop solar panel for backup power. But this is not very useful for the country under attack.
As described above, Tesla shipped these Powerwalls with plug and play connectors so they can work outside of the sled they come on.
The Tesla Powerwall has almost 14kWh of energy, which should power the Starlink terminal for days, but as shown in the video, you can also connect it to an inverter and a row of solar panels to keep it running longer.
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