Like many of its experimental products, Tesla’s Solar Roof — a solar panel array engineered to look like discreet roof tiles — has been a stunning failure. Nowhere is that flop more apparent than on the roof of Ambrose Conroy, a California homeowner who’s spent over six years battling with Tesla over the solar installation from hell.
According to Electrek, the whole saga began back in 2020, when Conroy entered an agreement to buy a 13.1 kW photovoltaic system from Tesla. Though the process was supposed to take a few weeks, it ran years late, as compounding errors and logistical disasters threw the project into chaos.
Weird, I had the Tesla Solar Roof installed in… 2019? 2020? and it worked great the 5 years I lived in that house.
You can get a bad product sometimes in a batch of good ones, but you don’t accidentally get working solar from a batch of black glass.
I’m in no way defending or commenting on Elon, but to call the product “junk that doesn’t work” is overstating things.
Or Tesla knew the product they were sending her was defective and sent it anyway?
Knowing “a product” is defective doesn’t mean “every product”.
They were so good hardly anyone wanted them and now Tesla has discontinued another one of Musk’s genius scams, I mean ideas… That’s great you are happy but mamy other users reported their roofs were constantly underproducing electricity, and in some cases their roof underlayment even melted. Good luck with your discontinued system.