Like many of its experimental products, Tesla’s Solar Roof — a solar panel array engineered to look like discreet roof tiles — has been a stunning failure. Nowhere is that flop more apparent than on the roof of Ambrose Conroy, a California homeowner who’s spent over six years battling with Tesla over the solar installation from hell.

According to Electrek, the whole saga began back in 2020, when Conroy entered an agreement to buy a 13.1 kW photovoltaic system from Tesla. Though the process was supposed to take a few weeks, it ran years late, as compounding errors and logistical disasters threw the project into chaos.

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[–] 10 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

From what I understand their home batteries are well regarded too.

I had solar installed on my house this year, Tesla was never in the running because I don't buy Nazi shit but doing my research there was a lot of positive things said about it.

I went sigenergy instead and it has been amazing.

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    I read a long time ago the Powerwall was made as an afterthought for what to do with old batteries from dead or salvaged teslas. They would strip the packs, test the individual cells and those that pass went into powerwalls.

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