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This is exactly what the Tesla Tiny House was designed to show Highlanders when it came to town on Thursday, November 23.
Students from Bowral High were invited to view the set up before the public event, and were given group tours through the tiny house, as well as talks about how to harness solar energy to create sustainable homes and cars.
As part of a national tour to help people learn about how to run a fully sustainable house, the set up included Tesla product specialists to explain the technology, as well as local sustainability specialists Matt Simms and Andy Lemann.
Vice captains from Bowral Highschool, Joshua Vinczefi and Ema Kobayakawa, said the event was a great opportunity to learn about the possibilities of reducing their footprint.
“It’s interesting that it’s an option to be almost 100 per cent sustainable,” said Josh. “Especially with the housing crisis at the moment, the tiny house is probably a really idea for [those of us] trying to build a house now.”
Mr Lemann, who lives in a sustainable house he built himself in Mittagong, told the students about how to design a house that uses energy in smarter ways.
“What a lot of people don’t realise is that if you are building a house from the ground up you can design it in such a way so as to minimise the amount of energy you use,” he said.
Mr Simms said the event was also an opportunity for Highlands residents to learn more about how they could reduce their energy costs.
“Solar and batteries are still a bit of an enigma to a lot of people,” he said.
“So the Tesla Tiny House is a really good concept to get people to understand that when the solar is producing power, that power is for free, and when that power isn’t being used, it can be stored in a Tesla Powerwall.”
The Tesla Tiny House is powered by 100 per cent renewable energy through a 2kW solar system and Powerwall.
The house is being towed around the country by a Tesla Model X and built from locally sourced, chemical-free, sustainable timber, also powered by a 2kW, six-panel system backed up by Tesla Powerwall.