---
title: "Mercedes-Benz and Vivint Solar Close in on Tesla’s Home Battery Market"
description: "The race towards lowering home energy footprints has officially begun."
date: "2017-05-18"
modified: "2017-05-18"
authors:
  - name: "Max Goldberg"
    job_title: "Associate Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-goldberg"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/10404/mercedes-benz-and-vivint-solar-close-in-on-teslas-home-battery-market"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Mercedes-Benz"
  - "solar roof"
---

# Mercedes-Benz and Vivint Solar Close in on Tesla’s Home Battery Market

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Mercedes-Benz encroaches on [Tesla territory](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/6911/tesla-plans-to-power-worlds-largest-building-with-worlds-largest-rooftop-solar-farm>) with a home solar panel and battery setup. Back in January, [Mercedes-Benz announced](<https://media.mbusa.com/releases/release-7f69d1102dfb14257075f054c9005866-mercedes-benz-energy-and-vivint-solar-team-up-to-bring-automotive-battery-innovation-to-the-us-residential-solar-market?query=vivant+solar>) it was partnering with [Vivint Solar](<https://www.vivintsolar.com/>) during a press conference at CES and now, that partnership is yielding a product for the United States market, Mercedes announced in a press release Thursday.

Very similar to Elon Musk's home solar panel and battery system, Vivint Solar and Mercedes-Benz has taken technology from the Mercedes-Benz electric fleet and transferred it into a home application. Using automotive grade batteries, Mercedes-Benz has made an customizable solar energy storage system using a network of 2.5 kWh batteries with a maximum of a 20 kWh system.

The advantage of having a customizable and large system is it allows households to store solar energy for peak consumption times or for when suboptimal weather is around. Having a cohesive energy absorption and retention system was brought about by Elon Musk when he [partnered with SolarCity](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/4116/tesla-looking-to-buy-solarcity-elon-musks-solar-power-company>), but now Mercedes is making a large play on the market in California, Musk's home turf. Customers will be able to purchase and finance the system through Vivint Solar starting in Q2.

## Author
Before working at *The Drive*, Max Goldberg raced the streets of Westchester in an ambulance as a licensed Emergency Medical Technician. He has boundless enthusiasm.

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