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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[–] 97 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Musk Nazi

Never forget what this man is.

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    That's offensive to criminals and inadequate to Elon. There are plenty of decent folks behind bars. Even the bad ones usually only hurt a small number of people, they didn't threaten the whole country and its future and tear apart its systems of government. Muskrat is way, way worse than the vast majority of them.

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  • [–] 94 points 16 hours ago (24 children)

    It's amazing the cars came out as good as they did. Imagine where we would be with competent people?

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  • [–] 150 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

    The car company pre-dates Elon's Ketamine. Same applies to Space-X.

    Cybertruck? ElonK
    Kick flipping roadster? ElonK
    Starship to Mars? ElonK

    ElonK is what they call a Pigeon CEO. He shows up, shits everywhere, then flies off again until the next time.

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  • [–] 30 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

    Cars are a product of before felon, they had thebdesign and process down. After him are the failure products, cybercuck, power wall, solar etc... Even star link has been a cluster fuck.

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    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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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Model S is still unbeatable. I will continue to drive it till wheels fall off. Good leather, carbon, the alcatara but not matterial i really like, sound is AMAZING, speed and range obviously (105kW pack and 3.5s 0 to 60 is basically as good as I'll ever need). The autopilot is still amazing by comparison, but you know what it also does that literally no other car does well? Fucking ADAS, i have never turned off lane keep assist off, because it works and isn't obnoxious as every other car I've test driven made in the past 6 years.

    It's such a joke, car manufacturers try to make it "as easy to turn off" as they can legally get away with it.... how about you make it fucking work?

    I love EVs, genuinely spend my time looking up reviews, going for test drives and i going to EV in person shows. I have drove +20 EVs and owned several. There's nothing else out there and it sucks. Tesla stopped inventing several years ago and it sucks because everyone else is 10 years behind and they still haven't caught up to where tesla was in 2018.

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  • [–] 39 points 14 hours ago (9 children)

    Can Musk get the Elizabeth Holmes treatment now?

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  • [–] 27 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

    You mean a couple award winning documentaries or the decade plus of jail time?

    Personally, I'm leaning towards the latter

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  • [–] 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    The latter, plus the zeroing out of networth.

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  • [–] 68 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Call me crazy but the headline "Tesla found liable for fraud by judge in court" is both more accurate and better bait than the exhausted bLaStEdDdDD!1 clickbait bullshit.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 hours ago

    I'm sure they are truly "blasted." Call me when they get fined enough to reverse all profits from the fraud.

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  • [–] 24 points 12 hours ago

    Elon is the most successful sleazy car salesman.

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  • Dredd: "Spearmint Lifesavers".

    Lawgiver: "Spearmint Lifesavers are Unavailable, Judge Dredd. Would you like Guava Lifesavers instead?"

    Dredd: "Spearmint. Lifesavers".

    Lawgiver: "Spearmint Lifesavers are Unavailable, Judge Dredd. Would you like some Durian Lifesavers instead?"

    Dredd: "Spearmint!

    Lifesavers!"

    Lawgiver: "Spearmint Lifesavers are Unavailable, Judge Dredd ... ACK! N-no! Don't put me up there!"

    Judge Death: "All crime is committed by the living. Therefore, life itself is a crime! I have come to jud- URK!"

    Lawgiver: (muffled) "Hey! It smells like death in here!"

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  • [–] 12 points 8 hours ago

    Tesla, Fraudulent for Selling Junk.

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  • [–] 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    This seems like a summarized version of this article from Electrek.

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  • [–] 10 points 15 hours ago

    Keep going there's WAY MORE fraud.

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  • [–] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Jeez, we're at the point where I had to read "discreet" twice because I didn't expect it to be correct.

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    Yeah, lol. Call me back when the judge is done "blasting" and starts handing out fines and/or prison sentences.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Back in the day kids would always see signs, and even films, warning them of the dangers of playing with blasting caps, which were presumably lying about all over the place though I somehow never found one. Like this. I guess the judge didn't get the message.

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    Elon Musk should be burried alive.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    Weird, I had the Tesla Solar Roof installed in... 2019? 2020? and it worked great the 5 years I lived in that house.

    You can get a bad product sometimes in a batch of good ones, but you don't accidentally get working solar from a batch of black glass.

    I'm in no way defending or commenting on Elon, but to call the product "junk that doesn't work" is overstating things.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 hours ago

    Read the article and then read the source article from Elektrek. Tesla already admitted liability for breach of contract, warranty and negligence for a $82k contract with a deadline of a few weeks that was dragged over two years and lead to $2.5 million in damages. This isn't some product like a phone that was defective, this is way worse.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 hours ago

    They were so good hardly anyone wanted them and now Tesla has discontinued another one of Musk's genius scams, I mean ideas.. That's great you are happy but mamy other users reported their roofs were constantly underproducing electricity, and in some cases their roof underlayment even melted. Good luck with your discontinued system.

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  • I still think Tesla Solar Roof is pretty cool. I'm surprised there are no other competitors, knowing how whatever Elon touches becomes garbage

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