Sounds like the whole thing was just a way for them to extract training costs from roofers.
a musk company doing something scummy?Should be cross posted to Leopards Ate My Face.
Tesla offloaded the hardest, least profitable part of the Solar Roof
Starting to see a pattern here…
Musk claimed that Tesla’s solar roof would be competitive with conventional roofing tiles when factoring in the value of the electricity generated and said the roof could potentially cost less than traditional roofing materials, especially high-end options like slate or clay tiles.
Musk lies about everything and even tells us not to believe our eyes. Never forget he’s an actual Nazi:
“My heart goes out to” those dumb enough to do business with him. Cut from the same cloth as Trumpy
I know that gif really happened, but does that just so happen to be AI generated? Or has compression caused the colors in his jacket to blend into 8bit?
Every time I see this clip and remember the original he’s trying to copy, I can’t help but guffaw at how pathetic an imitation it is. Don’t mistake this for endorsement, by any means, but the original had composure, posture, military , projected control and determination, all the ingredients for the image of strength he wanted to project.
Musk? He has an edgy tryhard teenager’s imitation, biting his lip like he’s trying to look super focused, moving as if he’s trying to put feeling into it or whatever. It’s like the uncanny valley of parody: We know it’s not parody, but it’s also not really the original.
It’s like “How do you do, fellow
kidsNazis” except Buscemi doesn’t deserve being used as analogy for that. Nobody does, really.God, Musk is such a loser and it’s a mystery how he got as influential among young people as he did.
God, Musk is such a loser and it’s a mystery how he got as influential among young people as he did.
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i blame simcity 3000. it made me eco, and he was the only eco guy with a platform targeting teenagers in 2005
We won’t even discuss the fundamental stupidity of putting tiles in the shade, or having a roof system exposed to the elements with hundreds of electrical plugs.
Would be smarter to have non solar tiles in the same style to put in the parts of the roof that are not viable for energy production but I’m not Elon Musk leve genius
The first (Chinese) company that reverse engineers and markets it to the US could win big…
There’s not much to reverse engineer, really.
Let’s see…
1 make promises
2 do a shoddy job of 75%
3 figure out that shit is hard, or maybe impossible, make more promises, trying to con someone else into doing it
4 ???
5 profit!!!
I want China to commit self harm but thats not a factual statement given in almost a decade it only sold 3,000 units.
There are already others selling solar tiles like Tesla, but a bit of a search tells me these tiles are a minority. Existing houses don’t replace their roof but add panels on top of it. New houses seem to go with cheaper large panels that are prettied up to give a tile like effect and build them integrated into the whole of the roof.
Yeah, if you are also going to do a new roof, metal roofs work really well with common panels and last 50 years or more. You can just clamp the panels to the seams, making the solar install very simple.
Solar shingles are an insane 10x premium for aesthetics, at best. They are just an inferior, way more expensive, locked in product at worst.
I’m pretty sure solar shingles or the like were already around… 🤔
Apparently Tesla’s been installing them since like 2018, only ever sold 3,000.
No no, I meant not made by Tesla, you know, real ones.
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The roof tiles was my last Tesla livestream event. Once he was done bragging about how he would fix a nonexistent problem, my suspicions he is a conman were confirmed.
He’s literally a manchild throwing money at things and seeing which grows, just to gain more power and influence so he can one day rule the world like a cartoon villain. He’s mindblowingly simple to read.
about how he would fix a nonexistent problem
Nazi-Musk aside, Its not exactly a non-existent problem. Its just a very very small niche problem that doesn’t justify the tremendous resources poured into creating it. Its also an old problem that doesn’t exist much anymore.
There was a time when solar panels were pretty ugly and expensive. Those two things would deter a certain number of people from installing panels. So the idea of cheap solar panels that matched the traditional look some buyers wanted did exist. Heavy emphasis on some buyers because it was a pretty small pool to begin with. What really made solar shingles largely irrelevant was the dramatic drop in cost of regular panels, the drastic increase in performance of regular panels, and the noticeably improved aesthetics of all-black regular panels. So the prior tiny market for solar shingles shrank even more, and the costs of Tesla solar shingles continued to rise without any performance improvements. It was a tiny market before and its a nearly non-existent market now. Solar shingles are bad business.
Lastly, social attitudes changed and having solar panels on a roof switched largely from being seen as an eyesore to a point of pride for many. This last point isn’t totally solved yet. My own housing community doesn’t allow panels on the side of the house that faces the road…except in some circumstances (making the rule even more stupid).
I’m looking forward to the day when I can slap some panels on the other side of the house for even greater solar generation! I’m still have no interest in solar shingles though.
We had a solar company try to sell us on Tesla panels and we noped out because we didn’t have confidence in the company (this was before the Nazi stuff was more apparent). Glad we decided to forego that! (For many reasons, but this definitely solidifies it)
It sometimes takes a while to cull the herd. All the losers will lose. Evolution at its finest.
I just can’t figure how Musk got so far from his bubble. Money???
well, sometimes the idiot savant strikes it big at the lucky 38.
Temporarily embarrassed millionaires are everywhere. Especially in the US. They’re all pathetic trash.
They’re the sort that think Musk magically knows something simply because he is already rich.
Evolution is measured only by success, it doesn’t care about intelligence or morals.
Evolution does not have a goal or direction, just variables. Winners win and loser lose.
If it works it lives and if it doesn’t work it dies.
The part of evolution that most people miss is TIME. Sometimes a mind numbing amount of time. More than our pitiful lifetimes amount of time.
I can hardly wait.
Fool me a dozen times, shame on you. Fool me 13 or more times, shame on me!
This was a scam from day one. The tiles Musk presented to media were made by an LA prop factory.
I was like “how does a solar roof kill Tesla, and why is it costing installers?” but no lol its saying Tesla discontinued the roof program.
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.
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.
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.
OMG honey the roof is flying away!
I can not fathom a world in which I would risk my money betting on the success of a Musk endeavor.
Too bad US tax dollars are going into exactly that.
That’s one of the myriad of reasons for my statement.
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.
Citynerd recently did another video after he did one about a year ago, and it seems it’s still running.
I hope it burns down.
Good stuff, I hope they keep killing products and slowly disappear into the horizon.
That’s pre-bailouts talk
