A home with tesla roof shingles installed would have both a protective and complete roof and the capacity to generate solar energy but without installing solar panels as well.
Tesla solar roof tiles power output.
Suntegra shingle system and suntegra tile system.
The rest came from the solar roof tiles which produced 394 kwh during the period.
The solar roof tiles cost 2 85 per watt and the inactive shingles cost 5 60 per square foot.
A few months later they installed a brand new 10 59 kw tesla solar roof with 2 of tesla s 13 5 kwh powerwalls in the garage for storage.
How much does a tesla solar roof cost.
That costs around 50 000 once the federal solar investment tax credit is factored in and it produces.
Solar roof is comparable in price to a typical roof with solar panels.
Tesla estimates that a 10kw solar roof will cost a total of 33 950 including incentives.
The inactive shingles act as regular shingles they do not produce any solar power.
The shingle system is built to match with asphalt shingle roofs while the tile system will integrate with concrete roof tiles.
Tesla s solar roof integrates active solar shingle tiles that can produce solar energy with inactive shingles to create a roof that produces solar energy without any actual solar panels.
A pallet of tesla solar roof tiles ready to be installed on.
Tesla s active solar shingles cost 2 85 per watt while the inactive shingles cost 5 60 per square foot.
With the new solar panels which are 10 more powerful according to a source familiar with the matter tesla s medium size solar system outputs now 8 16 kw and it costs just 16 000 before.
Some of the power came directly from the solar installation and the rest went to the powerwall or to the grid.
Tobler bought a roof of around 2 000 square foot with 40 percent of installed tiles solar.
The tesla solar roof is a building integrated photovoltaic bipv product that takes the functionality of solar panels and integrates it into roof shingles.
Purchase solar roof at one of the lowest cost per watt of any national provider and take control of your monthly electricity bill.
If the needed power is produced by standard panels on 1 4 of the roof or solar roof tikes on 1 2 of the roof and those solar tiles cost as much as all other roofing costs combined labor non solar tiles other materials inverters etc hypothetical tiles with 20 efficiency would reduce the total cost by almost 25.