Saturday 29 October 2016

TESLA ANNOUNCES ITS NEW SOLAR ROOF, AND A SECOND VERSION OF ITS GIANT POWERWALL BATTERY


Tesla finally announced its long-awaited solar roof at an event yesterday evening, along with the successor to the company's Powerwall home battery, the Powerwall 2.
The solar roofing tiles—a product of Tesla and Solar City, which Tesla is in the process of acquiring—are made of glass and are designed to completely replace the shingles that are already on your roof, as opposed to solar panels that are designed to be mounted on top of what's already there. According to Musk, this glass construction means the panels should be particularly long-lived, and he predicts that 50 years is a reasonable expectation as to lifespan.

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