Elon Musk: “U.S. Power usage on average is, is 500 gigawatts.”

“Call it, that's around 250 gigawatts of steady state power paired with batteries. And that's a very big number. That's half of the average power usage in the U.S. right. So U.S. U.S. Power usage on average is, is 500 gigawatts. China, just in solar, just like just in solar, that can provide steady state power and batteries can do half of the US electricity output per year just with solar.” (14:53–14:59)

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