Tesla’s solar roof is currently on the market to order
Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased the launch of the product in a tweet in late March and again this morning. By this afternoon, the Solar Roof portion of the company’s website has been refreshed with much more detailed product specs, together with what many have been eager to know: pricing.To that end, the website begins the ordering process with a tool that uses Google Project Sunroof data to help you calculate how much a solar roof system would cost depending on the location and size of your home and the percentage of solar coverage desired. In addition, it informs you how much value such a system would generate in energy and factors in tax credits and the price of a complementary Tesla Powerwall to show net savings.
A Tesla solar roof system will comprise a mix of active, energy-generating tiles (which comes in at $42 per square foot) and inactive tiles ($11 per square foot), depending on specific needs of the project. As outlined by Electrek, the company claims its inactive tiles are less expensive than regular roof tiles, while its active solar tiles are cheaper compared to the competition when energy generation is taken into account.
“The pricing is better than I expected, better than everyone expected,” said Hugh Bromley, a solar analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, in light of these numbers.
In a followup tweet, Musk stated that the solar roof is going to be offered to “almost any country,” and will be deployed in the U.S. this current year and overseas next year. A $1,000 deposit is needed to order online.
