Did not take long to car manufacturers to understand that the advanced sets of batteries can be used for other purposes, except for the charging of electric cars. Tesla so broke the ice with their batteries intended for households, and now the same product is offered by Mercedes-Benz. The company has established a firm ACCUomotive, which is 100% owned by Daimler and the investment was worth 100 million euros.
Each module has a capacity of 2.5 kWh, whereby it is possible to order the system for energy storage having a capacity up to 8 modules, ie up to 20 kWh.
Technology is constantly perfected, and has already proven itself in approx. 80,000 sold electric and hybrid models from Mercedes-Benz.