Tesla Solar Glass Roof is About to TAKE OFF!

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I have an older house with a complicated, unhelpful roof. I built a solar porch with 30' x 16' of panels. It's only 6kW - but with 14kWh of batteries, it's enough for 9 months of the year. I'm surprised more people don't do similar. You get a nice shaded porch & deck out of it too. Total cost of the groundworks, steelwork, panels, battery & inverter was about $30k. It will take 6 years to pay for itself - but like you said, the most important thing it gives us is independence from the grid.

Calling a 4000+ sq ft single family home environmentally friendly is pretty funny. I would put it more in the "prepper" category, but still pretty cool.

The promise of the Tesla roof when it was launched was that you could replace your existing roof with a solar roof and get a better product for about the cost of a new roof plus separate solar panels. That clearly hasn’t worked out. In this guys’ case he could have just as easily put regular panels on top of the metal roof on that same building. Especially because no one can see that roof the aesthetic value is basically wasted.

Clickbait title..Glad to see more about the system, but the title is bad. The owner seems.very happy, so that is not an epic failure. All new technology is expensive until it gets redesigned and cheaper.

There's another problem for people who live in snow country: avalanche! If you live where you can get 1 to 2 feet of snow in a storm, be warned that when the sun comes out the next day it warms the snowpack to the point that the entire load cuts lose at once due to the slick surface (asphalt shingle holds it in place for normal melting). Someone below can get hit with hundreds or thousands of pounds of falling snow. Not an issue in San Diego or Texas but a design factor to consider in Colorado and other places.

All new homes need large 2 to 3 foot roof overhangs. This will help protect the doors, windows and siding from rain and water damage. Water intrusion is a buildings enemy and causes much damage every year.

A lot of people here are pointing out the video title is clickbait. I'd have to agree somewhat, especially since Ricky did not do a good job connecting his content to the title (or vice versa). Most people have a problem with the word EPIC, myself included, but be that as it may, I don't have a problem with "failure," you just have to read between the lines of Ricky's video. .... My take away is that if the roof is not simple, flat, no protrusion roof like the one of the Texas home, the cost of putting on a Tesla solar becomes way too cost prohibitive because of all the extra time (and probably material that gets wasted) from having to make all those special angle cuts when there multiple roof planes that meet up and not a full solar roof panel can be used. I believe that's the failure Ricky poorly explained / tied in with the title. ... Still have not seen any update from @Two Bit da Vinci (Ricky) which is IMHO would go a long way in assuaging those who have complained about the title and the intent of what was meant to be conveyed in the video. ... I'll be darn. Just as I'm finishing writing this up, Ricky puts out an update. Haven't read it yet so this should be interesting. ... Nope, unfortunately nothing useful ,,, yet! ;)

Thanks Ricky for making this video! I've always clenched when saw those intricate roofs, thinking, how on earth will you put solar on them? Therefor, when it came to designing my home I told the architect to just design the simplest roof, maximizing the area I'll be able to put solar on.

While I'm enthusiastic about adopting solar energy, the current costs pose a significant barrier, especially considering my power consumption. A $150k solar solution seems excessively expensive, far surpassing the grid cost by a considerable margin. Both times I've consulted with solar contractors in my area to install a grid tie system, they have discouraged solar installation as a cost-saving measure. I hope in the future, we'll witness a significant decrease in the cost of solar solutions, making them more accessible to a broader audience. I'd love to be a customer

“Us Texans value our independence “ I was living in Texas when everything froze over and people were dying. The way the grid is built “independently “ in Texas guarantees that Texans are on their own in an emergency. Politicians left us high and dry too

Obvious clickbait title but I knew it would be good. From what I’ve seen lately, Tesla Solar roof has mainly been going on very expensive homes. It’s very expensive so I think they’re using the same approach as far as starting with the high end then eventually driving the cost lower. I don’t like cookie cutter style homes but it would be so much faster, easier and less expensive if all the roofs were the same in a neighborhood. Still, Solar roof is awesome.

I find the topics you pick for your show really interesting and relevant. On solar roofs, it seems that house design needs to change. The focus needs to change from curb appeal to practicality. Subdivisions need to be oriented in such a way that the predominant roof needs to face south for use with solar panels or solar roofs. This is a municipal requirement issue. It may take a private developer to jump start this type of development.

I can't believe that solar is so expensive in US, I'm from Croatia (EU), mostly everything is cheaper in US then EU, especially in Cro. We dont have yet Tesla panels what i know, but i worked on houses with regular solars and its about 1000e per 1kw. Worked on 20kw solar power plant it cost 20000e but firm that sale it they do all documents, permits and even apply to EU subvention witch go to 80%, other then solar panels in same subventions go, heating pumps, batteries etc.

3:20 ya basically if youre a multimillionaire you too can have this setup, plan out a couple years while you live in your other mansion. Maybe next time Rick can bring himself down from the clouds and focus on a solar setup practical for the lower middle class and rheir under 160,000 home in or near the Ohio/Tennessee Valley.

Tesla needs to have partnerships with new home and subdivision builders. It is more cost effective to put solar roof panels and a new roof and not have to spend labor to tear off and prep and old roof. Designing the home for solar make solar more cost effective.

My 11kw system in New Jersey cost me $33k installed with the electrical panel upgrade. I didn't do batteries because NJ does net metering and gives you credits if you grid-connect. Also at $10k per battery, adding batteries really extends the break-even date on solar installations. With tax credits, my system will pay itself off in 6 years. One battery would push that breakeven point to 9-10 years. I will hold out for a solid state battery if I'm going to put it on my house.

I agree with you that house design should enable solar. Unfortunately, with 80% of new developments ending up under the control of the 2-bit dictator system known as the "Homeowners Association", whose first and foremost goal is to prevent any possible non-traditional use of your property from occurring, you can forget this from ever happening.

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. Remember that this pricing is prior to the 30% tax credit which makes it more affordable than a luxury roof of the same size. Also this product will eventually pay itself off and basically turn a profit on energy savings from then on. No other roofing products cover your energy cost, back up your home, or pay themselves off.

Good video, it's a shame to see how much more it costs to retro fit an existing roof. You talk about roof does that include Tesla panels too.