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Elon Musk To Unveil Solar Roof With Storage, Charger Next Month (bloomberg.com)
Elon Musk plans to unveil Tesla and SolarCity's new solar roof product, which will come integrated with version 2.0 of the Tesla's PowerWall solar storage battery for the home, as well as a Tesla car charger, he said today. Bloomberg adds: Billionaire Elon Musk, the chairman and the largest shareholder of both Tesla and SolarCity Corp., announced his plans to unveil the new product in a message on Twitter Thursday. SolarCity's board agreed to Tesla's offer to buy the biggest U.S. rooftop solar supplier on Aug. 1. The product fits into his long-term vision of helping provide green homes that run on solar energy and use battery storage to help power systems, including charging electric cars, even after sundown. He announced in August that SolarCity is developing a "solar roof," a roofing product that incorporates solar technology without using standard photovoltaic panels.
It's shingles that incorporate PV cells.
So, instead of panels sitting over shingles, it's just the shingles.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Well, it's more for prospective installs where someone says "I can't do solar because my roof is shit, and I can't put panels over a shitty roof."
Now, when you're replacing the shitty roof, you put these on instead. That's the idea here.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
It's shingles that incorporate PV cells.
Here is a better article with a picture of the panels.
No, it is NOT shingles. Those ideas are majorly fucked. This will replace the plywood, tar paper/sheathing, AND shingle/metal/tiles. This will cut the labor costs by 2/3. In addition, it should by stronger than current roof, assuming they build it the way I heard.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Batteries exploding? These aren't some micro batteries pumped off of an assembly line by the millions with little to no testing like a phone or subject to the abuse that road going batteries have to deal with on a daily basis (debris, shock, heat, etc). And even cars have only encountered a handful of fires, most of those appear to have been due to outside sources (mis-wired chargers, debris on the road, crashes, etc).