Lopez: Base Core eliminates wiring and conduit work with quick connects
Justin Lopas · Inside the Factory Behind Base Power's $1B Series D · Aug 3, 2026 · at 4:52
Justin Lopez is the co-founder and COO of Base Power. He demonstrates the newly launched Base Core residential battery hardware and explains its simplified installation mechanism.
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“And so this actually has a quick connect on that disco inside and a quick connect here. So you don't have to do any wiring. You don't have to like cut and strip wire or fish it through conduit. All these things that like require a lot of skill sets and take a lot of time and are very expensive. We don't do any of that. It's almost like plugging in an EV. And so they stack up the modules inside and the inverter, and then they just plug everything in.”
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