{"id":9729,"date":"2017-03-28T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T03:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=9729"},"modified":"2024-01-25T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T23:36:28","slug":"byd-brings-b-box-battery-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/byd-brings-b-box-battery-battleground\/","title":{"rendered":"BYD Brings B-Box To Battery Battleground"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BYD

The BYD B-Box Battery. Is it the perfect B-Boy Beat-Box Battery?<\/p><\/div>\n

BYD<\/a> is the world’s largest manufacturer of rechargeable batteries \u00a0Those three letters stand for Build Your Dreams and apparently their dream was to build a battery box and sell it in Australia because that’s exactly what they’re doing with their B-box battery systems.<\/p>\n

There are 2\u00a0product lines – the High Voltage1<\/a><\/sup> (HV) and Low Voltage (LV) B-Boxes, each in a variety of storage capacities.<\/p>\n

The one most likely to be used for home energy storage is the B-Box LV Residential, which comes in 4 sizes.\u00a0 The smallest being\u00a0the B-Box 2.5<\/strong> with 2.45 kilowatt-hours<\/a> of usable storage and the biggest, the B-Box 10<\/strong> with 9.8 usable kilowatt-hours.<\/p>\n

The B-Box batteries pack more power per kilowatt-hour of storage than almost any other system.\u00a0 Its batteries are lithium iron phosphate, which is the safest lithium chemistry on account of how you have to really screw up big time to set them on fire.<\/p>\n

So far BYD has only confirmed a retail price for the B-Box 10<\/strong> which is $8,734 including GST.\u00a0 Provided its average number of cycles per day is not too low but not more than one, the B-Box 10 will have a warranted cost per kilowatt-hour of 34 cents.<\/p>\n

BYD is huge<\/h2>\n

BYD is a massive Chinese company headquartered in Shenzhen<\/a>, a city of 12 million immediately north of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Many people have not heard of BYD despite it being bigger than Tesla2<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 BYD has around 220,000 employees and a market capitalization of about $22 billion.\u00a0 That’s over $900 per Australian.\u00a0 It’s so much money that if I took it all in $100 notes and laid them end to end they’d reach all the way from Melbourne to the loony bin I’d be locked up in.\u00a0 (Darwin.)<\/p>\n

BYD manufactures batteries, LED lights, solar panels, trains, and monorails.<\/p>\n