I think it had more to do with the reality of the market. Solar panels have become incredibly cheap and that's because they are mass produced and standardized. Everything in the manufacturing process has been optimized. Now it is technically of course possible to make them other form factors, but artisinal solar panels are simply so much more expensive and cannot compete in any meaningful way with regular panels.
What a ridiculous statement. People get all sorts of roofs with all sorts of trade offs. Looks is absolutely one of them. Also, any product that gets popular eventually gets highly optimized manufacturing pipelines bringing the cost down.
It doesn't need to compete with normal panels on only one metric. People will accept longer payoff times for aesthetics or durability if the ratio is right. Also, who really cares about Tesla at this point? Other companies are now producing these panels.
Like everything Musk, it died because of his poor business practices and his politics. The only thing he seems to excel at these days is extracting government money.
It was a bad idea from the beginning, technically and economically it sucked, the only possible utility was areas with strict heritage constraints which forbade normal rooftop PV.
I think it had more to do with the reality of the market. Solar panels have become incredibly cheap and that's because they are mass produced and standardized. Everything in the manufacturing process has been optimized. Now it is technically of course possible to make them other form factors, but artisinal solar panels are simply so much more expensive and cannot compete in any meaningful way with regular panels.
A bad idea ruined by poor business practices. Like, it's very hard to see how it could ever compete economically with normal solar panels.
What a ridiculous statement. People get all sorts of roofs with all sorts of trade offs. Looks is absolutely one of them. Also, any product that gets popular eventually gets highly optimized manufacturing pipelines bringing the cost down.
It doesn't need to compete with normal panels on only one metric. People will accept longer payoff times for aesthetics or durability if the ratio is right. Also, who really cares about Tesla at this point? Other companies are now producing these panels.
Like everything Musk, it died because of his poor business practices and his politics. The only thing he seems to excel at these days is extracting government money.
It was a bad idea from the beginning, technically and economically it sucked, the only possible utility was areas with strict heritage constraints which forbade normal rooftop PV.