![]() ![]() ![]() Tesla broke down the cost of both its solar tiles and non-solar tiles against traditional roof solutions. It can be removed, but Tesla believes that most people will want to have the home battery pack for backup energy in case of an outage. They are including an installed 14kWh Powerwall 2 in the quotes. Ultimately, Tesla sees that most customers will essentially be paid to have a new roof, when accounting for energy generation and the solar incentive. Here’s an example for a home in Maryland with both 70% solar coverage and 40% solar coverage: They released a calculator directly on their website, which any homeowner in the US can use to get an estimate based on data from Google’s Sunroof project. During a conference call with journalists today, Musk said that in some cases, depending on the roofs, customers will be able to have up to 70% solar tiles, but in most cases, it will be about 40%. The $21.85 per square foot price point was calculated for a roof where 35 percent of the tiles are solar (solar tiles cost more per square foot than non-solar tiles). For the house pictured above, all the tiles are from Tesla, but only some of them have solar cells in them that can generate electricity – though it’s not visible from street view. It depends on the energy needs of the household and shading coming from structural items such as dormers. What is important to understand is that not all tiles on the roof would be solar tiles. The company says that the “typical homeowner can expect to pay $21.85 per square foot for a Solar Roof.” Tesla pretty much delivered on both depending on how you look at it. CEO Elon Musk first hinted that it would be cheaper than a regular roof after accounting for energy savings, and later said that Tesla’s solar roof could cost less than a regular roof – even before energy production. Of course, the most important information that people were waiting for is price. Tesla released today all the information to order its new solar roof tiles products – starting with the smooth black glass tiles and the textured glass tiles, as reported earlier today. ![]()
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