The Morning After: Anker gets into the home solar battery game

Anker, which made its name building device batteries and chargers, is now making gear for all of the devices you own. Or at least all of the devices in your home, since it just unveiled its Solix home energy system, which can be bolted onto existing or new domestic solar setups. Like many other home battery companies out there, Solix is scalable, with the smallest unit sized at 5kWh – enough for a few hours backup power – all the way up to 180kWh. It won't arrive until 2024 but, when it does, it'll be paired with an EV charging system Anker is presently cooking up. The company is no stranger to this world, since it already builds small solar and battery sets for off-road types. But it's pleasing to see it also entering the home battery market which, Tesla aside, is full of companies that don't have as big a presence in the consumer space.