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The announcement of Tesla’s battery factory in Shanghai marked the company’s entry into the Chinese market. Amy Zhang, analyst at InfoLink Consulting, looks at what this move could bring for the US battery storage maker and the broader Chinese market.

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The newly launched BESSential analysis goes deeper than traditional Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), which is performed at the container level. The service evaluates each battery energy storage system pack down to the cell level and detects and corrects thermal, electrical, and capacity imbalance issues.

The company has brought over 1,500 new jobs to the U.S. through contract manufacturing facilities.

pv magazine USA spotlights news of the past week including market trends, project updates, policy changes and more.

pv magazine USA spotlights news of the past week including market trends, project updates, policy changes and more.

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In its latest quarterly press release, traditionally focused on vehicle production, Tesla revealed a significant increase in energy storage deployment, officially reporting revenue for 9.4 GWh of deployed storage products.

Fluence America’s president says stakeholder and first responder engagement is necessary to keep failures from becoming newsworthy events.

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