{"id":16625,"date":"2017-01-31T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16625"},"modified":"2017-01-31T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T17:48:00","slug":"teslas-battery-revolution-just-reached-critical-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16625","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But prices for lithium-ion batteries have fallen fast\u2014by almost half\u00a0just since 2014. Electric cars are largely responsible, increasing\u00a0demand and requiring a new scale of manufacturing for the same battery cells used in grid storage.\u00a0California is mandating that its utilities begin testing batteries by adding\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/docs\/fy16osti\/65061.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-web-url=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/docs\/fy16osti\/65061.pdf\">more than 1.32 gigawatts<\/a> by 2020. For context, consider this: In 2016, the global market for storage was less than a gigawatt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-01-30\/tesla-s-battery-revolution-just-reached-critical-mass\">Tesla\u2019s Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But prices for lithium-ion batteries have fallen fast\u2014by almost half\u00a0just since 2014. Electric cars are largely responsible, increasing\u00a0demand and requiring a new scale of manufacturing for the same battery cells used in grid storage.\u00a0California is mandating that its utilities begin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[790,822,1401],"class_list":["post-16625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage","tag-batteries","tag-power","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16626,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625\/revisions\/16626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}