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Wouldn't you say that the original iPhone was also form over function? Blackberries had e-mail, a browser and a built in camera, didn't they? People do care abo

Wouldn't you say that the original iPhone was also form over function? Blackberries had e-mail, a browser and a built in camera, didn't they? People do care about looks, and personally, if people buy a solar roof because they think it looks cool, I'm glad to see more people buying solar. The fact that Tesla can also sell them battery technology is great as well. I don't think that all solar vendors can sell you a compelling energy storage solution.

dragontamer 8y ago
iPhone didn't go from 30%+ US American solar panel marketshare (SolarCity circa 2015) to 9% marketshare. Tesla is being a very, very poor steward of SolarCity's business. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sunrun-beats-out-solarcity-on-residential-system-installations https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sunrun-beats-ou... Sunrun is now the #1 solar company in America, because its offering better tech these days. Also, SolarCity lost its deal with HomeDepot, and the Gigafactory2 (Solar Panel Gigafactory) is idling / wasting money. All in all, Tesla is running SolarCity very poorly, by any measurement. You can only buy SolarCity products from Tesla stores, and those few Tesla stores are closing down (or maybe not, depending on the mood of the company...) > People do care about looks, and personally, if people buy a solar roof because they think it looks cool, I'm glad to see more people buying solar. Virtually no one is buying Solar Roof. Last time I checked, the number of installations was under 1000, maybe under 100. There's no market for $100,000+ Solar Panels that fail to generate electricity. EDIT: Looking into it more: the Solar Roof does generate electricity decently. But to make it fit and look more like a normal roof, almost 60% of the tiles do NOT generate electricity. Any tile that needs to be cut to size is a pure-glass tile without any solar panels inside of them. This means that you get far less solar at far higher costs than a typical installation.

dragontamer 8y ago

iPhone didn't go from 30%+ US American solar panel marketshare (SolarCity circa 2015) to 9% marketshare. Tesla is being a very, very poor steward of SolarCity's business. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sunrun-beats-out-solarcity-on-residential-system-installations https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sunrun-beats-ou... Sunrun is now the #1 solar company in America, because its offering better tech these days. Also, SolarCity lost its deal with HomeDepot, and the Gigafactory2 (Solar Panel Gigafactory) is idling / wasting money. All in all, Tesla is running SolarCity very poorly, by any measurement. You can only buy SolarCity products from Tesla stores, and those few Tesla stores are closing down (or maybe not, depending on the mood of the company...) > People do care about looks, and personally, if people buy a solar roof because they think it looks cool, I'm glad to see more people buying solar. Virtually no one is buying Solar Roof. Last time I checked, the number of installations was under 1000, maybe under 100. There's no market for $100,000+ Solar Panels that fail to generate electricity. EDIT: Looking into it more: the Solar Roof does generate electricity decently. But to make it fit and look more like a normal roof, almost 60% of the tiles do NOT generate electricity. Any tile that needs to be cut to size is a pure-glass tile without any solar panels inside of them. This means that you get far less solar at far higher costs than a typical installation.