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Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove qualifies for a 30% federal tax credit
“Because this thing has a battery and because that battery is Three kilowatt hours. We get a. 30% tax credit on the product.”
Sam D'Amico: Impulse cooktops achieve 240V performance on standard 120V outlets
“Typical stoves use, like, 60 amps or something like that. We can run on as little as, like, at 240 volts. We can run on as little as a 120 volt outlet. So you can just plug this thing in with, like, your normal, like, AC power cable and get the same stove perf…”
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery delivers 4-5x more power into the pan
“In our case, we can do that in about a minute because we can push order of magnitude Four to five times more power into the pan than pretty much any other stuff. Because the battery is right there able to give us DC power straight to the coils.”
Sam D'Amico: Three to four battery appliances equal a home Tesla Powerwall
“If you have like three or four appliances per home, you've now deployed about a power wall per house. And so once you have a pop, like once you, which is like, let's say, 12 kilowatt hours or something like that, that is like half the energy use of a typical A…”
Sam D'Amico: 8-10 kWh per home drastically cuts grid blackout risks
“If you distributed like over 10 kilowatt hours per home in the U S like. You can ride out pretty major like outages. And the big story with like a heat wave is heat waves are really bad for the grid because essentially everyone's turning their AC on full blast…”
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove is 3x more powerful per heating element
“We've built the world's best stove. And it's three times more powerful per like heating element and more precise than any other stove. And we enable that by embedding a lithium iron phosphate battery into the stove itself.”
Sam D'Amico: Induction stoves account for only 1% of home energy consumption
“The average us house uses something like 20 or 30 kilowatt hour, all electric house is about 20 to 30 kilowatt hours of energy a day. My understanding of if you go look at the energy star standards for induction stoves, An induction stove on average uses like …”
Impulse Labs plans to ship its battery-integrated stove by late 2024
“We are we're shipping the product end of this year.”
Sam D'Amico: Induction stoves run above 24 kHz to stay inaudible
“If you make it like lower than 24 kilohertz you'd hear it or like your pets might hear it or. Your kids might hear it or something, like something like that. So you have to put it just outside the human hearing range, but low enough that it's still efficient.”