All signs indicate that Tesla’s new non-car product that it will unveil at the end of the month will be a home battery, but the company remains tight-lipped. However, Tesla was kind enough to offer us a teaser image of a strange, sleek looking gadget, which the company called a “missing piece.”
Tesla has sent out an official invite to a mystery press event in Hawthorne, Calif. on Thursday night, promising to provide a “missing piece” — and teasing an image of a white four-sided pyramid-like gadget. The image is clearly modeled on Apple’s press event invites — which tend to provide some clue to the product being unveiled. This one might seem more mysterious — if we didn’t already have a number of reports that suggest Tesla’s “missing piece” is a home battery, similar to a Tesla electric car battery, that can store solar panel energy and provide power if the grid goes down. Tesla founder Elon Musk has been teasing the home battery since February, when he announced on an earnings call that the company was working on the device. Mashable will be at Elon Musk’s unveiling live from Hawthorne on Thursday; follow along for the final details, and the full shape of that mystery object.