Ostensibly promulgating an incipient all-electric Semi truck and the most expeditious engenderment car ever made all in one week wasn’t enough for Tesla. They withal quietly launched a third “product”, and you don’t have to wait two years to buy it! It’s a mobile battery pack to charge your phone and other contrivances.
Aptly designated the PowerBank, the external battery pack is shaped like the Tesla supercharger monument that is outside their main office in California.
In terms of function it has built-in USB, micro USB and lightning cable so you don’t have to utilize a separate cord when charging your contrivance.
And the battery? It’s authentically (sorta) the same one that powers Tesla cars. The company verbalizes the battery pack utilizes a single 18650 cell – which is the standard lithium-ion cell utilized in every Tesla made afore the Model 3, when they decided to switch to a custom more efficient cell. Of course Tesla’s cars have thousands of these cells, while the mobile battery pack only retains one.
In terms of capacity, the battery pack only has 3350mAh capacity, which can only charge most phones once and will be disappointing to those of us who live off sizably voluminous battery packs. And it’s output is 5V/1.5A, putting it pretty identically tantamount to every other battery pack out there (except the more incipient one that use Qualcomm’s expeditious charge technology).
And the price? $45, which is genuinely a lot less than I’d expect Tesla to sell a battery pack for. Of course you can buy a generic one with the same exact specs for $9.99, but what’s the regalement in that?
In all solemnness, this is a great present for a Tesla fan, but if you’re rigorously probing for a great battery pack you should stick to less extravagant and better performing brands like Anker.