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SOLAR ROOF AVALANCH PROBLEM: For those of you mourning the loss of your now horribly overpriced Solar Roof (like me), this tidbit may console you. I live in Pennsylvania. A neighbor of mine had solar roof v3 installed over the winter. I won't get into the details of the install but suffice...

Business insider has picked up the story. See below. Hopefully other media outlets will pick this up as well and Tesla will reverse course on this awful treatment of customers. Tesla is hiking the prices on its solar roof tiles for existing customers by as much as 70%.

By the way, perhaps to soften the blow of the massive price increase, my Tesla Energy project manager told me that some customers are planning (supposedly on the advice of their accountants) to apply the federal tax credit to the entire cost of their solar roof project, not just the solar...

I sent a news tip about this fiasco to Buzzfeed as well. Feel free to contribute your story to them too.

I am also an M3 owner and have previously been a big fan of Tesla, but Tesla Energy's treatment of its solar roof customers is just atrocious. I submitted a "tip" to the NY Times tipline about this situation. Hopefully, they will have interest in the story given Tesla's high profile. Feel...

I never spoke directly with PECO about the solar system size limitation so I don't the details of their policy. Suffice it to say, the originally proposed 21 kW system was over their limit. I am not sure if the 15 kW maximum is specific to my house (and its location within the PECO grid) or...

I have been considering a purchase Tesla Solar Roof since February of 2018 when I put in an order for Solar Roof V1. The eventual price estimate (which I did not receive until April of 2019) was laughable-$184,041 for a 23 kW system with 1 Powerwall. I cancelled my reservation and waited. Fast...