Powershare Home Backup eligibility email received today 1/29/24

[Puhiniho]

Curious if other have received this email. I just got it today (ordered AWD) and in a way, I read that installation is included. What's your thoughts? And has anyone that have received there CT gone through the site survey/installation?

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[Bkb13]

12/8 cyberbeast order
1/10 PowerShare survey approved response
No VIN yet

 

[TickTock]

Huh, I did NOT think my house would have been eligible for Powershare Home Backup hardware installation; however, I just received the email below saying I was. Once I get my VIN and delivery is scheduled, a Tesla Certified Installer will contact me. My house was built in the 1920s, I'll be parking on the driveway, and the electrical panel is on the other side of the house. Plus, we're pretty much consuming all the possible electricity our current connection can provide without submitting for a higher power connection from the city. But great news regardless! I posted this because I haven't seen too many emails stating this, just the survey emails which I filled out maybe a month ago? We do have a NEMA 14-50 Lvl.2 charger already wired in the driveway for our Pacifica Hybrid so maybe that had something to do with it?

I got this same email. The thing that concerns me is the phrase "we will match you with a Tesla Certified Installer"
If you only get one quote, you can be assured none of the $4k beast FS credit will actually make it to you. I really hope we have the ability to bring in additional installers for competing bids.

 

[Woodrick]

Do a little search, number of threads on the subject.

 

[CyberGus]

I really hope we have the ability to bring in additional installers for competing bids.

For the foreseeable future your choices for installation will be:

- expensive, or
- inexperienced

The former seems a better value proposition.

 

[CyberGus]

I just got it today (ordered AWD) and in a way, I read that installation is included. What's your thoughts? And has anyone that have received there CT gone through the site survey/installation?

The CyberBeast includes up to $4k installation credit, but the AWD includes only the hardware.

Only a handful of chosen Tesla employees have proceeded with the PowerShare install, so I would say this feature is still "in Beta" lol

 

[agordon117]

For the foreseeable future your choices for installation will be:

- expensive, or
- inexperienced

The former seems a better value proposition.

I don't even know if that choice exists. The existing literature suggests a v3 gateway is required, and you can't just buy one of those. I'm guessing you have to be a tesla certified installer to have access to one at all, and probably for the time being, tesla will only send them one for this purpose.
Meaning, if we turn down the installer they connect us with, we probably can't (yet) contact another installer, even if tesla certified, to have the v3 gateway installed. Likely at some point in the future, this will change, but who knows how many months it will take.

I'm so crossing my fingers I can either get my installer to put a pin in this for ~ a year, or I can just get the parts and put them on a shelf. I really don't want to install the gateway where I live now, but I also don't want to give up the parts for supercharging credit.

 

[scottf200]

Aside: created this GIF from the Tesla site today.

 

[Nexus6]

Got our confirmation email yesterday. We lost our home in the SCE/Woolsey Wildfire Fire in 2018 and are still waiting for final rebuild permits from the City to start rebuilding. We are, however, rebuilding with a Tesla Roof and 3 Powerwalls. Hopefully, we can start rebuilding our home before we take delivery of our TriMotor CT.

 

[TickTock]

For the foreseeable future your choices for installation will be:

- expensive, or
- inexperienced

The former seems a better value proposition.

Unless you happen to be an electrical engineer who understands code (and physics) and has already installed several solar systems and EV chargers for yourself and friends. I'll take cheap/inexperienced and fix it once they leave - I just need the hardware. Also, in my experience, expensive does not necessarily mean competent.

 

[CyberGus]

Unless you happen to be an electrical engineer who understands code (and physics) and has already installed several solar systems and EV chargers for yourself and friends. I'll take cheap/inexperienced and fix it once they leave - I just need the hardware. Also, in my experience, expensive does not necessarily mean competent.

Given that Tesla will match you with their installer, you actual choices seem to be:

- take it, or
- leave it

 

[Dazureus]

I'm a 12/28 Cyberbeast configuration in Michigan and just got the Powershare approval email yesterday too. My particular setup should be pretty easy to integrate. We have a separate panel for EV charging since we get a special EV time of use charging rate in Michigan. The panel has 2 breakers, 100A and 50A. Each circuit has another fuse panel in the garage. The 100A is currently connected to a V1 wall adapter and the 50A is just a NEMA 14-50. Currently I charge the model X on the 100A wall charger since it can take 72A and the Model Y on the 14-50/mobile charger.

What I'll probably request is a break out panel in the basement that will turn the 14-50 into the power back up circuit with the house breakers we want on the battery back up. In the garage, I'll have the included wall connecter hooked up to that, but purchase 2 new wall connectors for the 100A circuit for every day charging. Should the power go out, I'll just connect my truck to the 50A wall charger to supply battery power. This should also facilitate future solar and power back up installations. Now I just need to figure out how to get power back up on my geothermal system.

 

[Woodrick]

I'm a 12/28 Cyberbeast configuration in Michigan and just got the Powershare approval email yesterday too. My particular setup should be pretty easy to integrate. We have a separate panel for EV charging since we get a special EV time of use charging rate in Michigan. The panel has 2 breakers, 100A and 50A. Each circuit has another fuse panel in the garage. The 100A is currently connected to a V1 wall adapter and the 50A is just a NEMA 14-50. Currently I charge the model X on the 100A wall charger since it can take 72A and the Model Y on the 14-50/mobile charger.

What I'll probably request is a break out panel in the basement that will turn the 14-50 into the power back up circuit with the house breakers we want on the battery back up. In the garage, I'll have the included wall connecter hooked up to that, but purchase 2 new wall connectors for the 100A circuit for every day charging. Should the power go out, I'll just connect my truck to the 50A wall charger to supply battery power. This should also facilitate future solar and power back up installations. Now I just need to figure out how to get power back up on my geothermal system.

I hate to disagree with you, but it doesn't sound as if you re straight forward. Is your separate EV panel metered differently? Is it disable to cut off for time of day?

If you aren't metered or cut-off on the EV circuits, then the installer is still going to possibly have to isolate a number of circuits to reduce the total load to within the limits of the Cybertruck.

If you keep the Model X, then it, alone, is too much for the Cybertruck.

 

[Dazureus]

I hate to disagree with you, but it doesn't sound as if you re straight forward. Is your separate EV panel metered differently? Is it disable to cut off for time of day?

If you aren't metered or cut-off on the EV circuits, then the installer is still going to possibly have to isolate a number of circuits to reduce the total load to within the limits of the Cybertruck.

If you keep the Model X, then it, alone, is too much for the Cybertruck.

Yes, we have 3 separate meters on our house. Car charging, geothermal, house main. The EV and geothermal are metered at a different rate, but don't disable for time of use. The easy part is that I already have 6 gauge wire for the 50A car charging circuit going from the car charging panel/meter to the 14-50 in the garage. It should be able to be re-wired to a new battery back-up panel, which will contain all the essential house main circuits I want on the power back up. The battery back up wall charger will essentially be on the house main meter, but I probably won't charge from it, I'll just plug it in when there's a power outage.

Since we also have a 100A circuit between the EV meter panel and garage, we can just keep that for EV charging and install 2 new wall chargers, which communicate with each other, for daily charging on the EV TOU plan. The battery back up wall charger will essentially be on the house main meter, but I probably won't charge from it, I'll just plug it in when there's a power outage.

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