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\"powerwall

The Tesla Powerwall 2 is now $800 cheaper in Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tesla appears to be unsure about how much to charge Australians for the Powerwall 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or maybe they are sure, but\u00a0confused about how the Australian dollarydoo works.<\/p>\n

Perhaps they’ve been confusing it with the New Zealand doubloon or the Fijian guilder?<\/p>\n

I know I often do.<\/p>\n

\""Crikey!

“Crikey! 900 dollarydoos to the New Zealand doubloon and 6 centaroos to the Fijian guilder!”<\/p><\/div>\n

My opinion may not be worth much, but my two centaroos is they simply launched before they had all the details worked out.<\/p>\n

Some people think the price of a product is an important detail that should be worked out in advance.\u00a0 And they are correct – provided you want to do things the boring way.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to run a company:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The boring way, where you waste time making sure people who work for you know important details in advance.<\/li>\n
  2. The exciting way, where you make announcements that catch people in your own company unaware and force them to scramble to catch up and try to fill in the details in a mad rush.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But whatever the reason, so far Tesla has given three different prices for the Powerwall 2 in Australia.\u00a0 Or at least, three I know about.\u00a0 There could have been a few I missed.\u00a0 But the good news is the current one is cheaper than the last one.<\/p>\n

    Tesla now says the Powerwall 2<\/a> will cost\u00a0$8,000 dollars including GST.\u00a0 This is a 9.09% price drop1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

    And “Installation and supporting hardware starts at $2,150”.<\/p>\n

    So their estimate of the installed cost of a system starts at $10,150.\u00a0 This is all shown in the screen capture I took today:<\/p>\n

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    A screenshot taken from Tesla’s Australian website on the 6th of Decemberydoo, 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n

    They say the price includes an estimate of $950 GST, but if its total cost is $10,150 then surely GST should come to $923?\u00a0 Maybe we’ll get a fourth price out of Tesla in the future fixing this discrepancy, or maybe they’ll just go, “Meh, close enough.”<\/p>\n

    The Evolution Of A Price<\/h2>\n

    Anyone who’s played Pokemon Go knows what evolution is.\u00a0 And just as fluffy animals in apps\u00a0must sometimes be tortured to grow stronger, sometimes prices and specs\u00a0must be tortured for a company to grow in strength and customers to grow in confusion.<\/p>\n

    \"Pikachu

    The Tesla 3 electric car will come with a 56 kilowatt-hour Pikachu.<\/p><\/div>\n

    The First Price<\/h2>\n

    On the very first day Tesla announced the existence of the Powerwall 2, the Australian Tesla website put up the following:<\/p>\n

    \"A<\/p>\n

    While I didn’t understand why it needed one, I thought it was nice that it came with a $900 vat.\u00a0 It would be especially useful in South Australia because we could use it for wine making.\u00a0 But then it was explained to me that VAT was actually Value Added Tax<\/a>,\u00a0a double sized GST in the UK, a country formally known as EU.<\/p>\n

    It appears that Tesla couldn’t tell the difference between Australia and the UK.\u00a0 But that’s understandable.\u00a0 After all, if you add a few kangaroos to Britain and sprinkle a few spotted dicks around Australia the two places basically become indistinguishable.<\/p>\n

    \"spotted_dick-640x480\"<\/p>\n

    The Second Price<\/h2>\n

    But regardless of what Tesla called the GST, their estimate of the total installed cost of $9,450 was impressive.\u00a0 Unfortunately it didn’t last.\u00a0 It only took Tesla two days to contact us and say they had made a mistake and the $9,450 estimate actually didn’t include GST or VAT.\u00a0 This meant their estimated installed price was really $10,395.\u00a0 While not as good as we were first told, this was still much better than the competition.<\/p>\n

    But I have to admit, I wasn’t surprised the price got bumped up.\u00a0 Not after what happened with the original Powerwall<\/a>.\u00a0 Tesla has never given me the impression they are a “set in stone” kind of a company.\u00a0 They’d have to work at it for me to regard them as a “penciled in on a post-it note” company.<\/p>\n

    The Third Price<\/h2>\n

    Tesla now has a third price up on their Australian site.\u00a0 It’s been the same for at least a couple of days now, so who knows?\u00a0 It could even be their final price!\u00a0 But I wouldn’t bet on it.<\/p>\n

    \"Goku

    Elon Musk: “This isn’t even my final form!”<\/p><\/div>\n

    The third price drops the cost of the Powerwall 2 by a big honking $800 from the previous one by including GST in its $8,000 price.<\/p>\n

    However, the starting price for “installation and supporting hardware” has increased by 23% from $1,755 to $2,150<\/p>\n

    Overall\u00a0the total installed cost is 2.4% cheaper than it was.\u00a0 While not a huge improvement, it’s a change in a direction I like.<\/p>\n

    Australians Aren’t Getting Screwed!<\/h2>\n

    The third price means, at current exchange rates, we will be paying about the same for a Powerwall 2 as people in the United States.<\/p>\n

    Actually, at today’s exchange rate2<\/a><\/sup> we’d be paying 1% less. \u00a0It makes a pleasant change from companies that shaft us on price when they come to Australia.<\/p>\n

    Not only are we getting a 1% discount but we’re also getting free shipping!<\/p>\n

    Of course, it’s not possible to know what will happen to exchange rates between now and when the first Powerwall 2s get installed here.\u00a0 Perhaps Elon Musk expects the demand for gold to build giant Presidential statues will push up the Australian dollar?<\/p>\n

    \"A

    Donald Trump: “This is my final form!”<\/p><\/div>\n

    Arrival Date<\/h2>\n

    At least Tesla are\u00a0consistent about the release date. They are standing by their statement that they will start installing the Powerwall 2 in February. Personally, I’ve put down 20 cents on March as the month of the first installation in the local Powerwall 2 sweepstakes.\u00a0 And that’s only because I’m an optimist.\u00a0 To me they seem a little too disorganized to be ready by February.\u00a0 For example, just above the new price they describe the Powerwall 2 as a 14 kilowatt-hour<\/a> battery, but in their technical specifications they state it can provide 13.5 kilowatt-hours with a 100% depth of discharge.\u00a0 They can’t both be right.<\/p>\n

    Cost Per Warranted Kilowatt-Hour<\/h2>\n

    At $8,000 for an uninstalled Powerwall 2 its warranted cost per kilowatt-hour is only 21 cents, which is well ahead of anyone else.\u00a0 The increase in the installation estimate means the installed warranted cost per kilowatt-hour doesn’t improve by much, but it’s still quite impressive at 27 cents.\u00a0 Of course, just as with the original Powerwall, we’ll have to wait until they actually start being installed to see how good they really are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tesla appears to be unsure about how much to charge Australians for the Powerwall 2. Or maybe they are sure, but\u00a0confused about how the Australian dollarydoo works. Perhaps they’ve been confusing it with the New Zealand doubloon or the Fijian guilder? I know I often do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[578,552],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-storage","tag-powerwall","tag-tesla","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCost of Powerwall 2 in Australia. 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