Pila Update July 2025
The Pila team celebrated independence day one day early on July 3, with the arrival of our latest revision of battery design! We’re hard at work getting ready to ship units to our first customers later this year.
Here’s a peek behind the curtain of building this category-defining battery system…
🛠️ Build Update
Our wonderful engineering team is deep in the weeds testing everything. From mechanical, electrical, firmware and software, they’re making sure every part of Pila is bulletproof as part of our rigorous product safety standard testing.
That includes abuse tests. Yep – we’ve been dropping the Pila Battery from extreme heights onto concrete to ensure durability and safety under any condition. Great news – we passed!
This month, our Software team has made strides in development of our first-of-a-kind Mesh communication layer, with Beta testing underway.
And finally, after weeks of early user testing, the team is excitedly refreshing the Pila App with more features and an easier-to-use interface. You’re going to love it!
📣 Getting the Word Out
Cole stopped by the DER Task Force offices in NYC last month for a lively and wide-ranging podcast interview about distributed energy. They discussed the overlooked importance of good design, why energy resilience shouldn’t be a luxury – and how Pila empowers customers to tap into “permissionless” (but safe) backup power.
We also sat down with the folks at CleanTechies this month to discuss the state of building a deeptech startup in 2025, and how Pila is borrowing best practices when it comes to building our team.
🔌 Coming Up: Meet the Team at Electrify Expo
Planning to attend the Electrify Expo in Alameda, CA on August 23? We will be there talking about Why the Grid’s Backup Plan is … You!
We’ll be covering the future of vehicle-to-home (V2H) backup how distributed power benefits consumers and utilities alike.
Pila’s engineering team will be in the crowd and eager to nerd out on energy independence with our followers. Come say hello!
💬 Excerpts from the Pila Blog
Network vs. grid resilience
by Niko Dunkel
“We believe the intelligence layer should be just as resilient as the physical grid itself.”
Harnessing Inflection Points: Why Pila Exists
by Cole Ashman
“The grid is breaking into a billion intelligent nodes. Pila’s making sure they all work together.”