this is Tesla engineering we're in the lab and we've been working on some stuff we just
wanted to share it with you we're trying to make some ventilators out of some car parts
so that we can help out the medical industry without taking away from their supply with
everything happening in the world right now Tesla's factories are largely shut down and
not building cars but that doesn't mean that they haven't been using their engineering prowess to
do something productive a lot of what Tesla's been doing lately is building ventilators and
that's a great example of how companies can build products that aren't exactly
what they've traditionally done and recently I've been reading some tweets from Elon that he's been
thinking about building home air conditioning HVAC systems have you thought about creating an air
conditioning system I cannot answer questions about your attempt okay and as crazy as that
sounds I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility and in this video let's talk about
what that might look like and why building an HVAC system for your home isn't the craziest
thing Tesla might actually want to consider doing but as those before we began thank you so much for
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dedicated to the future of Technology energy and transportation i'm ricki and this tuba DaVinci
I think a lot of us look at Elon Musk as our personal iron man our Tony Stark the person
with the kind of resources to do great things in the world and that's kind of what he's done and
I'm not gonna lie I've had some ideas about HVAC systems that I'd want to build if I had billions
of dollars in the bank but until that day comes let's talk about what Elon and Tesla might be
cooking up first the reasons why they're doing this or they might do this number one is that
the HVAC system in your house represents about 40% at least of your energy consumption but I mean you
take your refrigerators and your computers and your TVs and all that stuff and your HVAC the
heating cooling and the furnace and blower that system in your house consumes more energy than
any of those appliances and in the hot summer months that could be even as high as 60 or 70
percent of your bill so clearly if they can make some optimizations or improvements to make these
systems more efficient the end carbon footprint reduction would be huge that's I think one of the
main reasons why I'd be really interested to see what Tesla would come up with HVAC systems also
don't require any batteries and the reason why I bring that up is because power walls have suffered
as a result of being cell and battery starved because of all their cars so if Tesla builds more
power walls they can't build as many cars because again the battery production just isn't there yet
so what's really cool about this is if the new kind of a business and it wouldn't come at the
cost of anything else they can keep doing their power walls in their cars this would be kind of
a standalone business that doesn't really impact anything else also Tesla has a good track record
of bio defense systems and things in their cars and really good hepa filtration and general air
filtration systems so all their lessons learned could potentially translate into something for
the house here in California we had wildfires last year that left people with no power and the air
quality was so bad that people are recommending staying inside but that same air outside makes
its way indoors as well so in the event of some fire or some other emergency situation having a
really good air filtration system could be a huge benefit so rather than buying individual
air filters for each room that you plug in and they you know cycle through a couple of hundred
CFM's of air this would be a whole house air filtration system because the average HVAC
system for your house has a central Inlet that sucks in all the air for the entire house and it
can be as powerful as two to three thousand CFM which means that all the air in your house can
be purified maybe even once or twice an hour and as a result the air quality would be really high
in every room you wouldn't have to go and buy a different air filter for every room and your HVAC
system actually usually has three settings fan which is just the blower and if all you wanted
was the air filtration you leave it on blower and that doesn't use that much electricity and it'll
clean all the air in the house the other two would be heating and air conditioning of course another
reason why they might want to enter this space is because I think there's enough profit margins
for them to be excited about it the average HVAC system can cost between 10 to 20 thousand dollars
installed and if your house is really big maybe even more so as a result entering this business
might potentially make sense because I think if they could build something at scale they
could including install costs they could still sell this for ten or twelve or fifteen thousand
dollars and be highly profitable there's a furnace and blower that sets usually in your garage there
is a compressor for the air conditioning that sits outside of your house using the nest thermostat or
the ecobee there is a control module there's electrical work to be done with your service
panel and there's also ductwork so even if you have ducts already run and you have vents in
every room and all you're doing is changing the furnace and the compressor still Tesla might
have some install cost involved and I'll talk more about that in a little bit another aspect
that Elon has mentioned in his tweets is that the average air-conditioning cycle actually produces
clean water out of the air so the cooling coils cool the air so much that the resulting water in
the air condenses out and most air conditioning systems will pump this out or you know throw it
out into a drain but what Elin was saying is what if we built like a little tap and a five-gallon
water pitcher that we could collect this water from so now your home would not just be heating
and cooling but also generating maybe a gallon or two of pure fresh drinking water every day and in
these uncertain times fresh drinking water is another one of those things that suddenly
becomes really important in fact my good friend Ben Stalin's on his channel recently reviewed a
solar-powered water generator that takes just solar power and it will take the water out of
the air and that's a really cool product that I think would make sense for backup emergency water
and we'll put a link that in the description so now your home isn't just four walls and a ceiling
now if you have solar panels you're making your own energy and with this you'd be heating and
cooling your house plus even making water the next reason why Tesla would have an advantage
in this market is their integration with solar and their cars so imagine on a hot day the sun
is shining you're making electricity with your solar panels and you have extra normally you
would feed to the grid for a credit but if the time of the day or utility company isn't really
giving you that much of a credit at that time imagine if you could instead say hey let's run
the air conditioning keep the house cool at this time because we have the excess solar because our
power walls are charged and everyone's taken care of when we have extra energy teams that's the sort
of integration that can happen when the power wall and the solar and the furnace can all talk
to each other and when it comes to your Tesla car the integration is equally interesting right now
if you pull down on the navigate tube button on your Tesla GPS UI you'll be navigated to home and
imagine when you do that if your HVAC system new okay he's 45 minutes away with traffic it takes
30 minutes to cool the house I'll start cooling the house in 15 minutes that way when he walks in
the door the house is perfectly cool it would all work seamlessly you don't have to tell it anything
you just do your thing and the car would know when you're coming home and can even get smarter
predictively as well the next thing is room by room control right now the reason why furnaces
and HVAC systems are pretty dumb is because they power your entire house meaning they heat or cool
every room whether or not you're in them and some companies have complim solutions for example keen
has a Wi-Fi smart that you install in your house and they're pretty expensive and you install these
in all the different locations and then your room can actor be turned on or off based on if you're
actually occupying it so if you have two guest rooms that no one's in the vent can just close
and no heating and air would be wasted on that that's cool but the problem is these are very
expensive systems they're battery-powered because there's no hardwired power to them they have to
have radios for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or whatever the communication protocol is motion detectors and all
these other smarts and circuits that make these things very expensive the key really is to not
need batteries do you really want to be climbing up and changing batteries in your events every
week or so because again there's a motor to move the flap to open and close them and I don't want
to do that I don't want to go and get a ladder and change the batteries of my events I want something
that's hardwired in and this is where I mentioned when Tesla does the install what they could do
is run a power wire like a low voltage DC line along with all the vents to every room and you
could hardwire in Tesla's version of this where you have a smart vent and you have motors that
open and close it but it's all hardwired in as a result there's no batteries and you can even
have communication happening back and forth so imagine now you have a smart vent that has just
one sensor maybe a motion detector and those were very cheap if you've a motion detector it can tell
when someone walks into a room from there it could report that back over the wire to a central brain
so now you don't have to have individual soces and chips and all this complicated and expensive
machinery and circuitry in every single event instead you can have one brain that has all these
inputs from all the different rooms and handle all that kind of in a seamless and integrated way one
of the great optimizations that have happened in HVAC lately is variable speed blowers maybe you
need full speed ahead because it's a really hot day and every room needs heating or air or maybe
you don't and so I think what Tesla could do is come up with a really good system that has like
a low power medium high very high settings and if it's one person you live by yourself you wake
up and you go into the living room in the day and maybe all that you have to cool is the living room
area and they could even build machine learning to figure out your patterns and predictively heat and
cool areas of your house but if they could do that you wouldn't have to run a huge compressor all day
at 5 kilowatts for example instead maybe you run one or two kilowatt compressor and then you can
run the fans and blowers accordingly but that would be a huge reduction in energy consumption
and people have tackled this piecemeal but the reason why I personally would never recommend the
Keane type smart vent right now is being battery powered they're super expensive and I just don't
want to deal with that hassle I think the first company who installs the system and events and
does all the wiring and does all this as a one complete package will be the winner and I think
Tesla could be the ones to do that the other thing too is Tesla makes really beautiful products their
home chargers the power walls they're all really attractive and kind of a focal point of your
house instead of a eyesore and the average HVAC system today isn't pretty the furnace and blower
isn't pretty mine isn't and the compressor that sits outside isn't pretty but I'm just imagining
what Tesla would come up with I think there's a be gorgeous and here's kind of what I think
it could look like and now instead of being a part of your house that you kind of tuck away
and you never show people it would be a beautiful accent in your garage and the compressor outside
so that's kind of the reasons why I think they should make it now what you need to do this and
to enter this space you have to have some HVAC engineering knowledge the refrigeration cycle
HVAC all those sorts of things and I think Tesla already has them because they have HVAC systems
really efficient really advanced HVAC systems in their cars so I think getting started would be as
simple as Tesla taking their HVAC design teams and putting them to work on a home larger HVAC
system tying in their software people and all their hardware and sensor people to build this
single integrated solution this is pretty much how they built their ventilator designs they had some
parts that they've already had in the past threw them together and their engineers were able to
come up with a design pretty quickly and I think there's that same kind of synergy with this as
they have a lot of the expertise and parts and everything else kind of on hand so now Tesla
would be building solar to power your house they have power walls for power battery backup and now
even HVAC the largest appliance in any house and I think it all kind of makes sense so what
do you guys think would you want to see this from Tesla do you think it's a good allocation of their
resources they have so many things that they're working on and they're one of those companies that
just inspire us right every time we have an idea and we think wouldn't it be cool if I was think
Tesla should do that because I feel like they just might and I gotta say I think this is one of those
things what do you guys think am I crazy here do you agree I'd love to have your inputs as well let
me know what you think what would be a cool add-on or a killer feature that would push you over the
top to want to get this I'm really curious what you guys come up with you guys always have really
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