1/31/2024 0 Comments Tesla roofsTesla gives no information on how much their solar roof will cost in Australia. This is not rocket science, Elon! Tesla Provides US Prices With Their Online Calculator But then he goes and brings the same sloppiness into solar roof pricing and instead of coming in at the same or cheaper than normal roofs as promised, they are 4 times more expensive. When he brings the reusable stages of his space rockets back to earth and lands them on a floating platform in the ocean, they can afford to be off by a good 3 or 4 meters in any direction and still be fine. “Would you like a roof that looks better than a normal roof, last twice as long, cost less and by the way generates electricity?”Įlon Musk is clearly a very sloppy guy. “The apples-to-apples comparison compared to a regular roof will be at least at, and we believe slightly below the cost of a regular roof, and the electricity is just a bonus.” Tesla has me wondering if their habit of asking for deposits long before they can deliver is a sales tool to find people who are bad with money. Any company that takes deposits without providing clear details on what the customer is buying, a firm delivery date, an estimate of the cost in this country, and whether it is permitted to actually be installed here, sets off my shoddy business practices alarm. It’s important to aim for the stars, even if you sometimes fall short and hit London.īut when you start taking people’s money you are no longer working in the field of dreams. It’s fine to have dreams and aspirations that you can’t quite meet. I would say I’m disappointed, but higher than promised prices and inadequate information is exactly what I’ve learned to expect from Tesla. We don’t even know if inverters are included in the price. We also still have no information on how the solar tiles will be wired up or what kind of inverters they use. There is also no mention if they meet Australian standards, either as tiles 1 or as a solar system 2. In Australia Monier has provided a 50 year warranty for their tile roofs since 1997.Īmericans build roofs very differently from Australians and their tiles are quite different from ours, but the Australian Tesla site makes no mention of how they’ll be installed in this country. A 30 year warranty for resisting weather is not exceptional. Their actual warranty when it comes to providing power or preventing a down pour from becoming an in pour is 30 years. Its actual cost is 4 times as much as a regular Australian tile roof and 2 to 3 times as much if the regular roof has a conventional rooftop solar system of similar capacity.Įlon Musk also said the solar tiles will have an “infinity” warranty for the life of the house or forever, but this only applies to the glass that the individual tiles are made from and not their ability to produce electricity or function as a roof. Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, said he expected a Tesla solar roof to cost around the same or less than a regular roof. Connoisseurs of the finest bovine fecal material will be pleased to hear the tradition continues with their solar tiles. I don’t really see how that’s an advantage, but I’m sure it will appeal to people such as Coalition politicians ( but not Malcolm), coal company CEOs, and those who simply think their roof would look better without solar panels.īecause Tesla over hyped the original Powerwall, has delayed installations of the Powerwall 2 and cancelled the DC version, and hugely exaggerated the the return a Powerwall 2 can give, they have developed quite a reputation for bullshit. Tesla’s solar tiles generate electricity like solar panels but are indistinguishable from normal tiles, so it will look as though your roof isn’t doing a damn thing about global warming. Just so long as they don’t get cancelled like the DC Powerwall 2. Tesla says they will be available here in 2018 and, given their record of meeting their own self-imposed deadlines, they should definitely arrive before the heat death of the universe. Installations of these solar roofs will start in the United States in June and you can go to Tesla’s Australian site and slap down a $1,310 deposit to reserve one. In October last year, Tesla announced they were making tiles with built-in solar cells that would allow a roof to generate electricity without the need for solar panels.
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