Cole Ashman

founder+ceo @PilaEnergy

[Pila @PilaEnergy]

NYC is heating up this week 🥵

stay cool, stay hydrated, and check in on your neighbors

here's to keeping the lights on when you need them most 🔋⚡️

[Pila @PilaEnergy]

truck's loaded 📦

one by one, Pila batteries are making their way to new homes 🏠⚡️

thanks to everyone who's been following along and supporting us

more shipments on the way!

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

Full video on YouTube: https://t.co/pWIVUlNOyz

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

A great, balanced and optimistic take from Matt @UndecidedTech, as always!

Check out his video deep-diving @PilaEnergy working alongside his home solar.

+25% more storage capacity to his home. No rewiring. No permit. No panel upgrade.

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

https://t.co/n1V2TTi4aF

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

In <2 years, @PilaEnergy has gone from launching the plug-in battery concept to being the first to deliver this new product category to market.

Anyone who's shipped hardware of this nature knows how rare that pace is – I'm incredibly proud of this team.

This began as a vision to create a smart battery that works for 100% of homes. Realizing that vision has taken serious execution: countless design reviews, prototyping, certification testing to some of the toughest safety standards in the industry, firmware and software innovation....

Home batteries will be a default appliance in every home before this decade is out. We're not sitting back predicting that future -- we're shipping it.

The modular Pila battery node is just step one. We're just getting started 🚀

(Shoutout to the @TELOtrucks crew for the delivery collab to some of our earliest customers in SF!)

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

@James_McGinniss gets it. Plug-in storage is the biggest inflection for energy optimization in 20 years.

60M renters/condos + 30M US small businesses have been left out in the traditional battery product model. And even for homeowners, soft costs for hardwired home battery installs are insane – $10k of the $20k total price tag.

In the next decade, every home & business will have a battery or battery appliance. They will plug-in and coordinate locally across the building. It's faster, easier, cheaper, and works everywhere.

Goodbye outages. Goodbye rising utility bills.

[James McGinniss @James_McGinniss]

https://t.co/SwLy2VXk4f

[Jeff St. John @jeffsaintjohn]

Want a home battery that doesn't cost $10,000's to install, but can still serve as a smart home and grid resource? Pila Energy's briefcase-sized battery was designed for that middle ground — and the startup has just raised $4M to bring it to market:
https://t.co/UlIUVPhlwE

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

@PilaEnergy Thanks @CanaryMediaInc and @jeffsaintjohn for diving in and unpacking the Pila Mission!

https://t.co/jlND2La6WD

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

@PilaEnergy is upgrading the Energy OS for buildings.

We just announced our $4M Seed to accelerate a future where every home and business can power itself, protect its occupants & support the grid at scale.

The old model (permission-heavy, centralized, slow) can’t meet the moment on its own. Outages are growing. Costs are rising. Reliability is not evenly distributed.

So we’re building a new layer for the built world:

🔌 Plug-in batteries that install in minutes
📶 Mesh coordination across rooms + loads
⚡ Storage + sensing + edge compute
🌐 A bottom-up network that strengthens the grid

Resilient buildings. Empowered occupants. A flexible grid built from millions of distributed nodes.... Oh and we're hiring.

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

@DER_Task_Force, once again absolutely nailed it this year with DERVOS. We had a blast showing off what we've been building @PilaEnergy! Grateful for this community and fired up for what’s ahead.

Can't wait for #DERVOS2026!

[Matt Candler @mcandler]

https://t.co/a9UpqkcSAU invests in people putting batteries in clever places.

So yeah, this #DERVOS @DER_Task_Force panel is my jam:

https://t.co/HanXIZ3aa7
https://t.co/FsJbAN6QzC
https://t.co/KgYCptnhvV
https://t.co/Vq9PUeLuYQ

HT @duncancampbell @ColeHAshman @rocket_bala

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

The grid is breaking into a billion intelligent nodes -- Pila’s making sure they all work together.

We’re at the intersection of four radical shifts: edge AI, distributed batteries, demand for energy resilience, and real-time grid services. Pila is the connective tissue.

--> https://t.co/2wo5JWixpi

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

@teslaenergy Reminds me how Tesla was (and probably still is) benchmarking "fasteners/kWh" across Powerwall and the whole energy product suite

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

Megablock = latest example of Tesla way ahead of the pack on system-level innovation

"Reduced internal connections by 78%" – This is how you accelerate the energy transition. Forget marginal datasheet gains. Make it simpler &amp; faster to deploy.

Kudos to the @teslaenergy team

[Tesla @Tesla]

Megablock

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

@JoelWish @span_io @pstraub Happy to chat sometime @JoelWish -- shoot me a message!

[Cole Ashman @ColeHAshman]

@apoorv_bh89 @apoorv_bh89
did you know the design was inspired by electric eels??
https://t.co/tIZenlsvPk