{"id":12047,"date":"2017-09-30T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2017-09-30T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T15:20:44","slug":"market-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/30\/market-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been thinking this would be an opportune moment for <em><strong>Tesla<\/strong><\/em> to make a move &#8211; and \u00a0CEO Elon Musk agrees. <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/09\/28\/tesla-battery-puerto-rico-power\/\">From<\/a> <em><strong>Fortune Magazine<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\" data-reactid=\"224\">Eight days ago,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/09\/20\/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-damages\/\" rel=\"\" data-reactid=\"226\" data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico<\/a>\u00a0as a Category 4 storm causing widespread damage and knocking out electrical power to the entire island of 3.5 million residents. As soon as the storm passed, Tesla began sending hundreds of Powerwall battery systems that can be paired with solar panels to the devastated island in an effort to restore electric power there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\" data-reactid=\"229\">And the shipments of Powerwall battery systems are continuing, a Tesla spokesman confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\" data-reactid=\"232\">The Powerwall, which was first introduced in April 2015, is a battery designed for homes that store the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/01\/04\/tesla-gigafactory-production\/\" rel=\"\" data-reactid=\"234\" data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">energy generated by solar panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\" data-reactid=\"237\">Tesla employees are currently in Puerto Rico working on installations of the battery systems and installing or repairing solar there. The employees are coordinating efforts with local organizations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-reactid=\"237\">And they&#8217;re not advertising it, apparently. They&#8217;re just putting their backs into the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been thinking this would be an opportune moment for Tesla to make a move &#8211; and \u00a0CEO Elon Musk agrees. From Fortune Magazine: Eight days ago,\u00a0Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico\u00a0as a Category 4 storm causing widespread damage and knocking out electrical power to the entire island of 3.5 million \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/30\/market-opportunity\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12048,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}