In October final 12 months, Elon Musk unveiled the third technology of their Tesla Solar Roof tiles.
Designed for brand new or substitute roofs, Musk stated the Solar Roof appears like standard high-quality roof tiles and is cheaper than a brand new roof and a separate roof-mounted photo voltaic system. It featured improved energy density, which means 50% fewer photo voltaic tiles are wanted, which helps deliver down the associated fee.
Private installations of the brand new Solar Roof as lastly began, and Austin Flack has simply posted one of many first opinions of the procurement and set up course of.
Austin notes that at $33,749 the Tesla Solar Roof was solely about $3000 costlier than a brand new roof (which he wanted) and an appropriately sized Tesla photo voltaic panel system, and nonetheless featured a 25-year guarantee and set up backed by Tesla.
Tesla has ambitions to put in 1000 models per week, however I believe they’re nonetheless fairly a bit off from that.
If you’re planning a brand new roof you may get in line by beginning an order now.
