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Tesla's Solar Roof
AzAfshin
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I went by their website. You just enter your address and you get an instant quote. $100K for 50% coverage of my roof. Then they do a sham calculation to show your savings over 30 years. $12K just for 2 batteries (ok, they're big batteries), but says nothing about the fact that LiIon batteries have an at best 400 cycle half-life and you'll need to replace them every 2-3 years. So in 30 years I'd end up spending closer to $150K or more. That's almost $500 a month for 30 years. I pay that much maybe during the hottest month of the year, but half that the rest of the months. Nice little scam.
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Nice little scam.
99.85% of any company "showing" you how you will save money if you purchase their product is a scam.
Merc
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
$100k?! You can buy a MONSTER solar set up that will power your entire house for $25k......
Merc
As they say, a fool and his money...
The funny thing is, they put 50% active panels and 50% inactive panels. The inactive panels won't generate electricity, they're just there for aesthetics. So I played around with the quoting tool and checked to see how much it would cost to cover my roof with inactive panels. $34K So that's $34K for just a new roof that does nothing else than regular roof tiles.
quote:Originally posted by AzAfshin
Nice little scam.
99.85% of any company "showing" you how you will save money if you purchase their product is a scam.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Liked this guys setup using buried shipping containers. Also used "solar tubes" for interior lighting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0oFJ2jbkDI
The most common rooftop solar systems don't have batteries, and don't store power for use at night (or long storms). They provide a constant supply to the house, with any surplus going to the power company. But at night, the home is back on the company's grid. That's where they get ya - they charge phenomenal rates to folks who have solar, especially during evening high-demand hours.
Our Rocky Mountain company recently said it wants to charge solar owners not the usual few pennies per kilowatt hour for evening use, but up to eight DOLLARS a kilowatt hour! People would end up paying more for their monthly bill than those without solar!