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The Buffalo plant was originally begun by Silevo, a solar panel startup, on the site of an old steel mill. "This is an interim milestone that we're pretty proud of." "By the end of this year we will have the ramp-up of solar roof modules started in a substantial way," Straubel told The Associated Press Thursday. Tesla's Chief Technical Officer, JB Straubel, says the company now has several hundred workers and machinery installed in its 1.2 million-square-foot factory in Buffalo. But until now, it has been making them on a small scale near its vehicle factory in Fremont, California. The company has already begun installing its solar roofs, which look like regular roofs but are made of glass tiles. is starting production of the cells for its solar roof tiles at its factory in Buffalo, New York. Hopefully, v3.5 is the boost that the solar roof needs to become the important solar product that Tesla told people it would be.DETROIT - Tesla Inc. The good news is that Tesla is now going back to doing pretty well with its solar panel business and as it works on the solar roof product, it can shift its installation crews to installing solar panels. Solar Roof is certainly one of those products that have never delivered on the level of hype that Tesla and especially Elon Musk put behind it. It’s not clear when Tesla plans to officially launch the new solar roof v3.5, but it’s possible that we will learn more about the product tomorrow during Tesla’s Cyber Roundup Electrek’s Take If testing goes well, Tesla is expected to introduce the new version of the Solar Roof when it restarts installation toward the end of the year. Now sources familiar with the matter told Electrek that Tesla is working on Solar Roof v3.5, and it is currently deploying the updated solar product at employee homes for testing.Īt this point, it’s unclear what is new with the updated version, but Tesla has been putting a focus on durability and ease of installation when it comes to the solar roof lately. The company also added a new solar tile with more power and higher efficiency last year.

Now we learn that Tesla is aiming for its own solar roof installation to continue in the fourth quarter, and it is working on a new version in the meantime.ĭuring its many delays, the solar roof went through many different iterations with Tesla Solar Roof v3 launching back in 2019.

T hird-party roofing and solar companies are able to continue installations. Furthermore, we also reported that Tesla had paused scheduling of solar roof installations in virtually all markets in the US, which is the only country where Tesla is installing solar roofs. Last month, Electrek obtained solar roof installations for the first time and confirmed that T esla deployed 2.5 MW of solar roofs during the second quarter of 2022, or about 23 roofs per week. The company never released data on its solar roof installations and always included them with its solar panel retrofits, which represent the vast majority of its solar power deployment. It was always clear that Tesla was far behind on that goal, but we didn’t know by how much until earlier this month. He said that he aimed for Tesla to produce 1,000 new solar roofs per week by the end of 2019. When launching the solar roof, CEO Elon Musk presented it as a critical product to accelerate solar power deployment, as it opens up the market to people needing a new roof in the near future, all while delivering a compelling new product. Tesla has come up with a new version of its Solar Roof, version 3.5, and it is now testing it on employee’s homes ahead of a wider launch.