Ashis Parida January 13, 2018Tesla has shared that it began mass production of its new solar roof tiles at its facility in Buffalo, New York, last month. Surveys of the homes of deposit holders are now underway.
Initial installations at the homes of those who put down $1,000 deposits in 2017 will begin sometime over the next few months, reportedly.
Tesla Solar Roof
This news follows the beginning of conventional solar photovoltaic cell production at the Buffalo manufacturing plant a few weeks beforehand.
It also follows on comments back in November from Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the product was being put through a half-year testing program before full deployment, and that “it just takes a little while to get this behemoth rolling.”
Sollar Roof from SolarCity
Reuters provides more: “More than a dozen Tesla employees, including Musk and Chief Technical Officer JB Straubel, had the solar roofs installed on their homes last year as part of an initial pilot program.
