1) Very flammable/explosive things have no place in the home, if you put them there, better secure it accrding to industrial standards

Seems opposite of "off the grid"

To be fair, those of us who‘d attach a giant battery to the wall would probably have a permanent, high-bandwidth connection to the internet.

It’s so Tesla can send the battery a self-destruct order the day after the warranty expires.

I thought we could use it to provide off-grid power. And many places where we need this may not have good internet connectivity.

Honestly, continued functionality while offline is all I'm asking.

Yeah it would make more sense to just hook up a modem as needed when they mail you an alert via the postal service

We're not arguing that, we're arguing that it's an IoT device in the first place. Putting it on the internet makes it a target.

Waiting for the inevitable worm that attempts to turn these into fire-starting devices.

gonna be great when hackers can blow up thousands of lithium ion batteries at once by fucking with your powerwall