Arash Malek gives us a great close up shot of Tesla’s Solarglass Roof while at a Tesla Service Center in El Cerrito, CA. Tesla’s Solarglass is a unique roofing invention that fuses a roof with solar panel glass in a beautiful and artistic way that provides a cost-competitive alternative to power for your home.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed on Twitter that the company is working to ramp up the production of its solar roof tiles to a rate of 1000 per week by the end of the year. Rollout of the solar roof tiles has been slower than the company expected back when they were first revealed in a 2016 event at the Universal Studios backlot in Southern California.
What did hundreds of thousands of people read on CleanTechnica in the past week? My monologue on Republican policy problems didn’t crack the top 20, but the following stories certainly lit people up:
A Tesla copycat? Certainly not — Exasun was in the solar roof tile business before Tesla. It also has what seems to be a cost-competitive, attractive, high-quality product on offer. I visited the company’s headquarters and factory in Amsterdam last year during a cleantech tour Remco van der Horst arranged for me when I was in town for rEVolution 2017.
Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting on June 6th, 2017, at 2:30pm California time. The meeting included a summary of progress to date as well as a look into the future for the company. The major milestone for the last year and what Tesla kicked the meeting off with was that, with the acquisition of SolarCity, Tesla became the world’s first vertically integrated sustainable energy company.
Forward Labs of Palo Alto says it has a solar roof product that makes more electricity and costs less than the Tesla Solar Roof. Details inside.
Solar3D announced this week that “it will conduct a study of the economics and benefits of integrated Solar3D cells directly into roof tiles.” Solar 3D is a three-dimensional solar cell technology company we’ve written about a few times here on CleanTechnica. It’s been working on preparing “super-efficient” 3-D solar cells for market … [continued]
Interested in re-roofing your house? Or building a home and wondering what roofing system to go with? Check this out… Swedish company SolTech Energy has developed some cool-looking, award-winning solar glass roofing tiles. (Note: these are not active solar tiles but a passive solar roofing option.) The glass tiles can … [continued]
BLUETTI continues to build on its core competency of building slick battery systems with even more features that optimize them for use in the home. They were at CES 2024 in Las Vegas this year showing off their ever-increasing line of modular energy storage systems that were designed to be … [continued]
Peter Leeson, CEO of the Leeson Group, sat down with me yesterday for a video interview from his base in Melbourne, Australia (almost 2000 km away from Brisbane where I sat at my computer). I was excited to hear about their product — the Volt solar roof tile — and … [continued]
