Tesla offloaded the hardest, least profitable part of the Solar Roof — the physical install and the customer relationship — onto small local companies, let them absorb the training and tooling costs, and then pulled the product out from under them. Tesla keeps a manageable warranty liability on 3,000 roofs. The installers keep the stranded investment, the abandoned pipelines, and the awkward job of servicing a discontinued product for the next two decades.
And now all these goons will turn around and buy fleets of his scamtaxis and own all the risk, depreciation and liability when they start to mow down families
This was a scam from day one. The tiles Musk presented to media were made by an LA prop factory.
Does Vegas still have that stupid fucking tunnel that could have just been a train?
they expanded it. of course they did.
But unlike a train tunnel, it has no safety measures so when the first car blows up it will be a huge rocket stove.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
If your story starts with “I believed in Musk’s vision” or “I voted for Trump” or some other asinine bullshit that everyone with a brain stem was telling you was stupid 10 years ago, you can take your sympathy fishing with you all the way to bankruptcy court.
I hope your kids watch and internalize what a loser their parent is.
I liked the idea. It just couldn’t compete with much cheaper traditional panels. People weren’t willing to pay a premium for vanity. Also, I think people want to show off the panels, not hide them. I mean you can’t gloat about solar panels if no one can tell you have solar panels.
It’s weird that you think nearly everyone wants to gloat about their solar panels.
I want it to look good and I don’t give a shit whether anyone else knows they’re up there or not
I want to gloat about them because I want everyone who can get them to do so. With 2026 technology the majority of residential energy should be produced on site.
The people that’d pay a premium for vanity just don’t get solar panels. The only people I could see going for this are tech bros. There’s lots of huge houses in my area that have regular solar panels. There’s lots of homebuyers here that don’t want to see panels or don’t want panels at all. And then there’s desparate people signing predatory solar panel leases. These tiles don’t fit it anywhere near me. I guess an alternate category would be people who must use a visible roof panel to get decent solar production, but plan to sell in a relatively short term. But still, their best option is inaction, not expensive solar. Especially if your electric supplier caps your output.
The first (Chinese) company that reverse engineers and markets it to the US could win big…
There’s not much to reverse engineer, really.
Sounds like the whole thing was just a way for them to extract training costs from roofers.
OMG honey the roof is flying away!
