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Musk claimed that Tesla's solar roof would be competitive with conventional roofing tiles when factoring in the value of the electricity generated and said the roof could potentially cost less than traditional roofing materials, especially high-end options like slate or clay tiles.
Musk lies about everything and even tells us not to believe our eyes. Never forget he's an actual Nazi:
"My heart goes out to" those dumb enough to do business with him. Cut from the same cloth as Trumpy
Every time I see this clip and remember the original he's trying to copy, I can't help but guffaw at how pathetic an imitation it is. Don't mistake this for endorsement, by any means, but the original had composure, posture, military , projected control and determination, all the ingredients for the image of strength he wanted to project.
Musk? He has an edgy tryhard teenager's imitation, biting his lip like he's trying to look super focused, moving as if he's trying to put feeling into it or whatever. It's like the uncanny valley of parody: We know it's not parody, but it's also not really the original.
It's like "How do you do, fellow ~~kids~~ Nazis" except Buscemi doesn't deserve being used as analogy for that. Nobody does, really.
God, Musk is such a loser and it's a mystery how he got as influential among young people as he did.
i blame simcity 3000. it made me eco, and he was the only eco guy with a platform targeting teenagers in 2005
Musk's pattern:
- Overpromise
- Reap investment dollars
- Talk big talk
- Before being called on to deliver, move on to the next thing to overpromise
- Underdeliver, or just completely fail to deliver
If you were to try that, you would end up in prison for fraud before you have your second chance. But of course, Muskie boie isn't and never was part of the "poor peasants".
Tesla offloaded the hardest, least profitable part of the Solar Roof — the physical install and the customer relationship — onto small local companies, let them absorb the training and tooling costs, and then pulled the product out from under them. Tesla keeps a manageable warranty liability on 3,000 roofs. The installers keep the stranded investment, the abandoned pipelines, and the awkward job of servicing a discontinued product for the next two decades.
And now all these goons will turn around and buy fleets of his scamtaxis and own all the risk, depreciation and liability when they start to mow down families
How are you Americans still giving him money? 😂🤣
Funny that you think it's only Americans.
I'm not directly giving him shit. But I'm sure the people that manage the mutual funds that I own are eating his shit up.
a musk company doing something scummy?
Does Vegas still have that stupid fucking tunnel that could have just been a train?
Citynerd recently did another video after he did one about a year ago, and it seems it's still running.
I hope it burns down.
they expanded it. of course they did.
But unlike a train tunnel, it has no safety measures so when the first car blows up it will be a huge rocket stove.
This was a scam from day one. The tiles Musk presented to media were made by an LA prop factory.
Tesla offloaded the hardest, least profitable part of the Solar Roof
Starting to see a pattern here...
I can not fathom a world in which I would risk my money betting on the success of a Musk endeavor.
Good stuff, I hope they keep killing products and slowly disappear into the horizon.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
If your story starts with "I believed in Musk's vision" or "I voted for Trump" or some other asinine bullshit that everyone with a brain stem was telling you was stupid 10 years ago, you can take your sympathy fishing with you all the way to bankruptcy court.
I hope your kids watch and internalize what a loser their parent is.
I believed in Musk's vision
The idea has it's pros and that's why there's a market. Autarq, paXos, SolteQ und Nelskamp are the competition.
Sadly, in our case (scenic protected village core) they count still as solar, which isn't allowed. They would make the most sense there. Our administration should get an update.
And even if they all have gone bust at the end of their lifetime (~30 years), you'll still have a roof.
The IDEA is great. The man who sold it to them is a known con-artist and liar and they had no shortage of warning before they got in bed with him.
Should be cross posted to Leopards Ate My Face.
I liked the idea. It just couldn't compete with much cheaper traditional panels. People weren't willing to pay a premium for vanity. Also, I think people want to show off the panels, not hide them. I mean you can't gloat about solar panels if no one can tell you have solar panels.
It's weird that you think nearly everyone wants to gloat about their solar panels.
I want it to look good and I don't give a shit whether anyone else knows they're up there or not
I'm pretty sure solar shingles or the like were already around... 🤔
Apparently Tesla's been installing them since like 2018, only ever sold 3,000.
No no, I meant not made by Tesla, you know, real ones.
The first (Chinese) company that reverse engineers and markets it to the US could win big...
There are already others selling solar tiles like Tesla, but a bit of a search tells me these tiles are a minority. Existing houses don't replace their roof but add panels on top of it. New houses seem to go with cheaper large panels that are prettied up to give a tile like effect and build them integrated into the whole of the roof.
There's not much to reverse engineer, really.
Let’s see…
1 make promises
2 do a shoddy job of 75%
3 figure out that shit is hard, or maybe impossible, make more promises, trying to con someone else into doing it
4 ??????
5 profit!!!
Sounds like the whole thing was just a way for them to extract training costs from roofers.