Tesla's Powerwall home battery is coming to Australia in 2015

The Powerwall, a rechargeable lithium ion home battery from the makers of the Tesla Model S car, will be on sale in Australia by the end of the year.

Powerwall will be available in Australia in late 2015 through a variety of Tesla Energy partners who are yet to be announced, Business Insider reported.

The Powerwall, launched in May by Tesla founder Elon Musk, is basically a storage system for energy that aims to allow users to be less dependent on the electrical grid. "Our goal is to fundamentally change the way the world uses energy," Musk said at the time. "It sounds crazy, but we want to change the entire energy infrastructure of the world to zero carbon." Read more...