The global Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) integrator market has grown increasingly competitive in 2022, with the top five global system integrators accounting for 62% of overall BESS shipments (MWh), according to latest analysis by Wood Mackenzie.
Since the market launch of Tesla's solar roof in 2016, only around 3,000 solar roofs with a good 30 megawatts of output have been installed. Tesla thus falls well short of its declared goal of 1,000 installations per week. This is the result of an estimate by Wood Mackenzie.
The electric vehicle market is booming. Last year 681,000 new electric cars were registered in Germany. That means a more than two-fold increase of EV registrations in Germany.
Series production has started at the new Tesla plant in Grünheide near Berlin. The US manufacturer's first factory in Europe has officially started work.
E-mobility in Germany is racing ahead more rapidly than in any other European country. One in three electric cars newly registered in 2021 drives on German roads. The international mobility industry will meet again in Munich at Power2Drive Europe 2022.
Electric mobility is clearly gaining momentum. The number of electric cars worldwide climbed to 10.9 million in 2020, up by more than three million from the previous year.
Tesla remains the world's most innovative carmaker in pure electric mobility. The Volkswagen Group is well ahead in second place, ahead of the Chinese BYD Group. There are four Chinese carmakers in the top ten.
A panel clamp with electrical bonding, a modular storage system suitable for retrofitting, a solar inverter from a well-known EV company and a bi-directional EV charger. These are our top products of the week:
US-based manufacturer Tesla is now also offering a solar inverter that converts DC power coming from the solar roof to AC to be used in the home itself.
UK insurer Aviva realized a 1 MW solar carport, that combines solar and storage with EV charging at his Scottish headquarters in Perth.
SunRoof, a Swedish start-up that creates 2-in-1 smart roof and innovative facade solutions that generate electricity from the Sun, opens a branch in Germany.
