Tesla v. SimpliPhi: Which Battery is the Best?
John Schaeffer, President and Founder at Real Goods, explains the differences between Tesla and SimpliPhi batteries & why he ended up choosing SimpliPhi. "Now, it’s interesting - there’s been a lot of talk out there these days about the Powerwall and when you look at the Powerwall, yeah it’s an interesting technology, but you’re paying for a lot of the Elon Musk hype about what these batteries are all about. When you look on an objective basis, you’re actually paying .44-.45 cents per kWh for those batteries over time, compared with these SimpliPhi lithium iron phosphate batteries where you’re paying .11 cents. So it’s 1/4 of the price of a Powerwall just to avoid that PR charge you’re getting for buying Elon Musk’s latest product. Now, the SimpliPhi came out better than all the other batteries that we looked at.”