Tesla killed its Solar Roof and told certified installers it will ship only panels. Contractors tell Electrek they sank six figures into the program.
  • microfiche [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    On the one hand that really does suck for the employees of these shops. OTOH, if they’ve only been installing 20-30 a week, are the employees getting less than 40 hrs a week now if nationally, they were installing less than 30 systems a week? I guess it depends on it they travelled or were central to some locale, and other stuff I’m not going to list specifically in a shitpost.

    On the one hand, I get it. You put up a bunch of time, energy, money, sweat equity, to get this thing up and running. OTOH, you hitched your wagon to Elong Musk.

    Given his track record for most bullshit spewed per second how the fuck could anyone actually think Eling was in it to win it?

  • chgxvjh [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    That’s really not a lot of installations. What happened? Is it just because Elon alienated the libs and the chuds don’t care for solar? I thought there would be plenty people in the US who would spent a bit more for a more aesthetic solar installation.l, especially for new construction.

    Are other building-integrated PVs popular in the US?

    • cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Solar is really expensive in the US and not too many people bother with it. Compared to other countries most of the cost seems to be from permitting hell. I really wonder how much of the permitting issues are incompetence vs lobbying efforts at the local level by utility and fossil fuel companies.