Tesla Powerwall 2 and 3 - Updated January 2025
Tesla Powerwall 2 (TP2)
Full disclosure:
We, Solar4Ever, a happy family solar business in Perth Western Australia, have never sold a Tesla product.
We started up in 2011, Tesla solar came to Australia with their first Powerwall in 2016, so there's been plenty of time.
It's not like our installation guys didn't install any. Nathan and Jack have installed at least 50 of them...
...for other solar companies.
Initially we didn't sell & install Tesla because there wasn't much demand.
Then there was demand, but the product (Powerwall 2) was a poor fit for the WA rules and regs, especially on 3 phase.
Then Powerwall 3 (PW3) came out mid/late 2024, and we went, "Ok, that's more like it. We can sell that."
We got ourselves accredited by Tesla as authorised retailers.
There was a lot of initial demand for PW3, something like 10 new "I want a PW3 quote please" every day.
The usual delays in CEC/Western Power approvals meant we couldn't sell any straight away.
Then the 2024 USA election happened with Mr Musk and Trump and all that.
Since then we have just one person ask for a Tesla product...and they wanted a second hand Tesla EV charger.
Anyway, you would have to have been living under a rock not to know what's been going on the past couple of months.
It appears to be escalating daily.
You might be fine with it, you might not. We aren't fine with it.
Our enquiry level for Tesla would firmly suggest 'not fine' is in the majority at least here in Perth.
Certainly not going to get into it, but bottom line, we won't be breaking our duck with selling Tesla after all.
or email
This review was written by Andrew MacKeith, Solar4Ever service manager since 2011.
Solar4Ever is located in Morley (Perth), WA 6062
