*Awesome solar panels accessory for the electric **Generater.Systems** lightweight easy to carry and set up love it love the set up thank you very satisfied*
I love that you’re learning as much as we are when you go down these rabbit holes. And you’re having as much fun as us viewers. Love it. Keep doing you Ellie!!!
@@sewasewa6585 and there was something I always wanted to ask a UK Tesla owner, since in the US they call the storage space in the front of the car a Frunk , and since a storage space is called a boot in UK, is the one in the front a Froot!?
He looks like a roofer's assistant or a plumber and not an IT guy or a Tesla enthusiast or investor. That is not an insult but a complement. He is so mild mannered you would be tempted to leave him your kid. He is not the usual know it all Tesla enthusiast which can be annoying to say the least. He is humble and unassuming. If he said to meet that I should buy a Tesla, I would because he has an honest face and demeanor. Good advert for anything.
IT guys inhabit high income worlds where it pays to be offbeat & creative, public interface requirements are not the same as the sales management stiffs in suits, and hair length is nobody's business. I wish I could save $200/yr on haircuts.
I had my roof installed in December 2021 and so far I've been generating almost 100% more power than I use. I've got an 8.5Kw system with 2x powerwalls.
@Rick. Heads up for chiming in. Can you provide a summary of your system? Was yours a retrofit like Ellie’s guest or a new house built ? Would be interesting to analyze $ outlays much like the cost of Tesla’s that are built from the ground up EV’s vs Legacy Autos that are retrofits.
@@victortomas2391 Mine was replacing an old roof on a house that was built in the 1940s. When I was doing the pricing for replacing my roof, which was needed, it was old, leaking, and defiantly needed to be stripped down all the way, I was going to go with a shingle replacement and then have a natural gas 200A whole home generator for backup power. During my research, I discovered that Tesla was starting to do installs in Oregon and looked at that. Given that replacing/fixing my roof with shingles/generator was going to be around 30k for the roof and about 12k for the generator vs. 56k for the 8.5Kw roof and 2x powerwalls.
@@RickHowell89 Givens in your case are as follows: 1. Roof retrofit only; 2. Exterior walls and Insulation are as-is, old and not retrofitted; 3. Your house roof and building orientation relative to the sun path are as is/not optimized; 4. Your location is Pacific Northwest (I’m fr Seattle) with minimal annual sunny days; and 5. Likely vegetated with evergreen trees that limit your roof/solar surface and yet you sound happy with your new Tesla roof performance. This indicates a sound investment even though it is likened to a Legacy Auto EV. Would be great to hear from someone with a newly built house with a Tesla roof.
Here in California, I had the Tesla roof installed two years ago. I am now part of an experimental program with the local power company (PG&E). With Tesla’s software, all the owners of Tesla roofs, in this part of the state, are interconnected and a “virtual power plant” has been created. This virtual power plant has been instrumental in preventing blackouts this last month, during record heat waves.
The question is is do you create enough power to run your own house? I don't think you do and I don't think you have enough to feed the grid if anything you're feeding the grid and yourself and running your shit right down the drain quick versus getting off the grid and just running yourself I hate that you have to hook up to the grid by law but man I'd rather live off grid even in a city and get rid of that bill and what it would do is force you wish that's what you all need is to be forced to downgrade you can wash your clothes you can dry them all in a nice tub by yourself swinging left into the right with your hands it ain't going to kill you you people are so damn lazy this doesn't make you skinny again make you work. That's what's wrong with everybody nobody wants to work that's why you're all getting fat. I don't like these roofs I don't think they're working I don't think they create enough power I know people that have 16 to 18 panels they say it feeds the grid I'm like bullshit you ain't feeding nothing you're barely creating enough power to charge your damn batteries and keep running your house I don't like it if you're doing anything you're feeding the grid during the day and not charging your batteries one of the two I don't know about all this stuff I think all these people are still brain dead of what's really going on
Are you being paid for it? Id imagine giving the power company to ability to cycle on/off your batteries constantly will only cause the batteries/inverters to fail sooner. Is the amount paid to you enough to offset the early failure period?
@@LincolnLog , yes, I have received a couple of checks but for me it’s more about creating a solution. Cycling of Tesla batteries has more to do with degradation or loss of capacity. I have a Model 3 with 100,000 miles that has had harder cycling and has very low degradation.
Good point on cutting some more trees down to generate more power - might want to consider that and maybe plant a few trees further away from the house Great Job Ellie and really appreciate the first hand information that your guess provided!!! I have been looking into installing on my next house - very interesting.
You're teaching us new stuff all the time & this is something I'd never even heard of before today. Thanks for another great informative video & literally making me laugh so hard it hurt. Your fascination with cicadas on this trip has been fun to see. Someone should have given you a skeleton of one to bring back home (from when they molt). :)
Great job Ellie! I see a number of questions on cost. It was a 10yr loan from Tesla at 2.9%* interest. After tax incentives it is around $50k. 10.3kw in solar shingles and 2 powerwalls. *Updated with the correct interest rate
WOW, what am I doing wrong here, Bob_Outdoors???? No loan and $164,400!!!! Travel costs.....equipment rental costs.....really????? Powerwalls are $16,000 each???? I have an 82 year payback period based on my Tesla Roof quote from Tesla. Estimated cost savings is $2,000/year. Home is six years old, 100% electric with geothermal heat pumps and radiant heating. No tree canopies and ideal home for solar. HOA will not allow anything but full solar roof. Interesting how EV's and solar roof prices go up proportionally as the tax credit percentage increases. Solar Roof + Backup Energy Storage • Customer Estimate System Information Roof Area 4,293 sq ft Customer Annual Energy Usage 19,636 kWh Energy Usage Offset 100.00% System Size 15.7 kW Solar roof PV Price* $28,253 Roof Price $85,860 Solar roof Subtotal $114,113 *ITC Eligible PV cost Estimated Installation Services Labor Cost $9,660 Tear Off $3,650 Travel Cost $525 Electrical Install (does not include ugrades) $1,200 Rental Cost $3,220 Powerwall+ Backup Energy Storage (x2)* $32,000 Installation Services Subtotal $50,255 *ITC Eligible Backup Energy Storage cost Total Cost $164,368
How big an area for the roof. I got a new roof for a 2200 sqft house ( 14 squares) for $11k US. My monthly power bill averages $125 month over a year. So I’m no genius but it would take me 26 years to break even. Not exactly a bargain in my view.
Fantastic interview! Great to hear some first hand experience. I wish I could do this here in Australia. It is insane how little solar there is here. One of the hottest, driest and highest solar radiation places on Earth. I hope you had a great time making this. btw, sorry about my comment on your video last week, I was in a jovial mood and said something I shouldn't have...
Tesla did a couple of solar power storage battery systems in a province out there. They also outfitted some houses as test units. U may have to talk with your utility corporate management or your province's government power utility guru.
@@arthurhamilton5222 Tesla's first Megapack install was at the Hornsdale Wind Farm in South Australia in 2017. It cost AUD90million (USD70mill) for 129MWh, and makes near AUD150mill back PER YEAR! in savings to the grid regulators. No wonder the demand for Megapacks and Distributed Grid Storage has outstripped the Supply! It was also the subject of one of Elon's famous "jokes" about "We'll build it in 100 days or it's free". They were up and running after 63 days!
@@brunopadovani7347 It is a renter thing. If I was a home owner, it would all be subsidised and a types of payment plans that come straight out of my electricity bill and so on, but as a renter, there are very few rights and even less opportunity. I probably could have worded my initial statement better.
You really got to spend more time in the south. Cicadas are the music 🎶 for when the sun goes down. My childhood was sitting outside looking up at sky and seeing orange and pink skies and hearing Cicadas.
I'm an IT pro like you, but have the panels I have a lot of equipment that requires uptime and before I got solar, I ran my equipment 24/7 for 1 month in the summer and my bill was $1200! once the panels were on and everything adjusted, my bill was $10 per month and my yearly payback to the utility was $350 per year.
Living across from one of these, I can tell you they can be a total nightmare! During the summer, it reflects onto our house, turning it into an oven. Thankfully, we only get it in the morning, while our neighbors get it during the middle of the day on. The homeowner who had it installed, contacted Tesla as soon as it was brought to his attention, and his project manager told him "there's nothing that can be done". Tesla even took down the message board that was devoted to this sort of complaint.
Every product has inherent tradeoffs, being reflective is necessary for this type of product and in the very few instances where it could pose an issue, it isnt on Tesla to do anything.
@@matthewp1682 Tesla had to know this was I would be a problem in tract housing, yet ignored it in the name of sales & profit. The neighbor gets the benefit, and we are saddled with the extra maintenance, cooling cost and loss of value in our home. I wonder how you would feel if this was across from you.
@@1SandAnimal Take it up with that homeowner not tesla. If someone has a ford truck and the sun shines in in the mirror and reflects onto your home and annoys you, you would take it up with your neighbor not ford! Lol
@@matthewp1682 I have spoken with the homeowner, who spoke with his Tesla Project Manager. He was told "There is nothing that can be done". As for your Ford analogy; the truck would be very simple to move or fold in the mirror. Now if the horn blared for hours on end with no way of stopping it, and this was a common problem with that type of Ford truck, who should be responsible?
We are looking at the Tesla system, so thanks for asking some of the questions we would not otherwise have the opportunity to ask an owner who has some experience with the system and process.
cant help but notice the timing of this video with the obvious need for new roofs in the SWFL and central FL areas after Hurricane Ian. Prayers for all in FL.
Very good information. Like him I have a Tesla, current shareholder and Tesla solar panels. Getting ready to change our shingles next year, will definitely look into solar roof. BTW the solar panels work amazing also living in phoenix makes a difference. Thanks for the video ❤
So.. just when I was judging him based on owning a Tesla, long hair, shirt etc thinking tree hugger. He gives logical, thought out answers. Turns out I'm probably wrong. Good interview. I also live in FL. Never heard of anyone with this roof and will need a roof in the next 5 years or so. Thanks
Probably still is a tree hugger but had to chop down trees for his roof. Which is hypocritical but that's nothing new either. It takes fossil fuel to make all that solar sh*t and that Tesla. But over $50 thousand for that size roof and only for 25 yrs? I really didn't see much of an advantage. Not to mention the insurance cost!
Put in our Tesla Solar Roof and Powerwalls in 2021 in MD. We were the first in our county. Love the ease of system use and making more power than we use. Will know more after the first full year of use and we have Net Metering 1.0. So far well above NREL predictions for the system size at our location.
I was two weeks away from getting solar shingles and three powerwalls. I got financing. They came out and confirmed all was good. Two weeks before work started, however, they jacked the price up by 25% and wouldn't say why. I have a simple roof. Anyway, I'm trying again, this time with panels and 4 powerwalls.
This was great. His energy usage is quite high, 146kWh in a day is a lot. I use around 30 on a normal day, it maybe the Florida climate, the AC probably works overtime lol.
I just dropped a load for Amazon on Apollo beach 🏖️ fl, swam, now rolling out in my Semi truck 🚛. I’ve never heard of Tesla paneled roof. Wow. I definitely want this roof and the EV life although I’m diesel life right now. Thanks.
But, it seems like the price differential between a standard roof and the solar roof is very high. The premium for the solar panels vs. the power savings makes the panels a very low yielding investment.
Great information! So the true cost savings should be based over the 25 year lifetime, according to your guest. As he mentioned, more research, by the homeowner to know exactly what the best options for their particular application.
Tesla's solar tile is around 1.8 USD/W. The price looks so attractive. but they must go with their expensive non-solar tile, which is insanely expensive. a decent priced metal tile costs around 10 USD/sqft including installtion, while Tesla's non-PV tile cost more than 24 USD/sqm. That's their makting scheme....... make the solar tile as cheap as possible but make the accessory products insanely expensive, and non-transparent at all. If you take this difference in price of the non-PV tile into consideration, you'll actually end up with a solar tile more than 4.5 USD/W.
Ellie your videos educate people on advances that are coming and ones that are already here. Plus you do it with a wonderful smile. Keep America educated and moving forward with your informative videos!
Wow, this guy lives in Titusville. I lived 20 years in Cocoa which is right down the road. If I still lived there, I would have installed a Tesla roof on my house I owned. But, like a dumbass I packed up and left when my job went away at the Space Center.
Know how to switch back to full grid. When the gateway fails or basically an inverter...it kills your main grid power. Also installers like to remove your pvents and say it can vent under the tiles...and remove attic vents. Customer service cannot keep up with the amount of calls so it can take weeks to have a problem resolved.
I had been told these would cost me $50,000 over a traditional roof, so we went traditional. At the time I had one in college and two in the wings. I still kick myself for going that route. Love the cicada! What a serenade! Ellie you are so awesome!
Nice video. How much was the roof and everything? How large was his roof? How many kwh system or whatever it is called? How much was each battery pack?
People wouldn't think that central Florida would get slammed by hurricanes being so far inland, but not too many years ago Hurricane Irma reminded everyone what mother nature can do. Also cicadas. Yeah, we usually just start speaking louder/shouting.
I got a Tesla live in SF and got 20 enphase panels. I generate on a good day 34 kwh but average 16 kwh on a overcast day. So far I pay no electric and only $11.32 for use of the power line.
We are happy with our 12.75 Kw Solarroof and Powerwalls. They have eliminated our electric bill and kept the house powered on multi-day outages. The cost was about the same as we were quoted for replacement of our aging tile roof plus panels and Powerwalls.
After running the numbers at $55k advertised for 2k sq. ft. roof at 11.28 kw it doesn't look like much if any savings to this. Cost of maintenance and most homes have a higher demand than this example produces so you're still committed to the grid.
We live in Florida and have a Tesla solar shingle roof with 2 power walls. Our electric bill runs around $25/month now. We not only power our house, pretty much all day/night, but charge our Model Y! This has been with a summer that has 75 days with 90+ degree temperatures.
@@VinhTran-yp4ym we paid approximately $77K for the new roof but there are several things to consider: we needed a new roof, the tax credit which you can take over multiple years which ends up bringing down the cost significantly, we were able to have a whole house generator which is very nice to have during hurricane season or one of the frequent power outages we experience, and we have an electric car that we can charge using solar. We have calculated that our payback will be eight years.
that part about the inspection being such a bore seems a bit counterproductive to the encouragement of solar power. I live in Nederland and had a Pannel system and new fuse box fitted last year. It was a one-day job and was active when the fitters left all the paperwork gets done upfront. Admitted it was a Pannel on roof job, not a full roof replacement so maybe that was why it took so long.
On the other hand, then you might need a little bit more electricity to cool the house in the summer. I wonder how close it might come to canceling out.
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I love that you’re learning as much as we are when you go down these rabbit holes. And you’re having as much fun as us viewers. Love it. Keep doing you Ellie!!!
Wow, you had the sound on? I wasn't watching for the solar info.
@@davidater9 Ellie uses her panels to generate more views.. they're at the right angle too.
Never heard the lines "Wanna see in my trunk?" and "Come home with me and check out my shingles." Apparently they worked!
Whats in the frunk?
Gee, I’m going to write that one down. It will either work or I’ll get slapped.
I don't know about anywhere else but in the U.K. when you got shingles then you go to the doctors. ;)
That dude's wishing he could hit that.
@@sewasewa6585 and there was something I always wanted to ask a UK Tesla owner, since in the US they call the storage space in the front of the car a Frunk , and since a storage space is called a boot in UK, is the one in the front a Froot!?
Only clicked because of the thumbnail... ;)
Simple design roof so ideal for solar; the solar roof is the way to go.
Trees possibly doesn't help...
He looks like a roofer's assistant or a plumber and not an IT guy or a Tesla enthusiast or investor. That is not an insult but a complement. He is so mild mannered you would be tempted to leave him your kid. He is not the usual know it all Tesla enthusiast which can be annoying to say the least. He is humble and unassuming. If he said to meet that I should buy a Tesla, I would because he has an honest face and demeanor. Good advert for anything.
IT guys inhabit high income worlds where it pays to be offbeat & creative, public interface requirements are not the same as the sales management stiffs in suits, and hair length is nobody's business. I wish I could save $200/yr on haircuts.
@@islandpalm148
Boom
We IT guys look alike.
Been hearing that noise all my life good ol cicadas you'll get used to it😂
Great job Ellie I’ve always wanted to learn more and see upfront a tesla roof. This is the best info I’ve seen. ty Ellie Bob
I had my roof installed in December 2021 and so far I've been generating almost 100% more power than I use. I've got an 8.5Kw system with 2x powerwalls.
@Rick. Heads up for chiming in. Can you provide a summary of your system? Was yours a retrofit like Ellie’s guest or a new house built ? Would be interesting to analyze $ outlays much like the cost of Tesla’s that are built from the ground up EV’s vs Legacy Autos that are retrofits.
@@victortomas2391 Mine was replacing an old roof on a house that was built in the 1940s.
When I was doing the pricing for replacing my roof, which was needed, it was old, leaking, and defiantly needed to be stripped down all the way, I was going to go with a shingle replacement and then have a natural gas 200A whole home generator for backup power. During my research, I discovered that Tesla was starting to do installs in Oregon and looked at that. Given that replacing/fixing my roof with shingles/generator was going to be around 30k for the roof and about 12k for the generator vs. 56k for the 8.5Kw roof and 2x powerwalls.
@@RickHowell89 Givens in your case are as follows:
1. Roof retrofit only;
2. Exterior walls and Insulation are as-is, old and not retrofitted;
3. Your house roof and building orientation relative to the sun path are as is/not optimized;
4. Your location is Pacific Northwest (I’m fr Seattle)
with minimal annual sunny days; and
5. Likely vegetated with evergreen trees that limit your roof/solar surface
and yet you sound happy with your new Tesla roof performance. This indicates a sound investment even though it is likened to a Legacy Auto EV.
Would be great to hear from someone with a newly built house with a Tesla roof.
@@RickHowell89wow i might contact tesla solar/ roof company that did a quote on my roof / solar install came up with 70k
Ellie, you're the best!
9:20 Class "A" Ladder Rating
🤣😳
Always 😮
I see you noticed her appropriate work clothes as well.
Here in California, I had the Tesla roof installed two years ago. I am now part of an experimental program with the local power company (PG&E). With Tesla’s software, all the owners of Tesla roofs, in this part of the state, are interconnected and a “virtual power plant” has been created. This virtual power plant has been instrumental in preventing blackouts this last month, during record heat waves.
The question is is do you create enough power to run your own house? I don't think you do and I don't think you have enough to feed the grid if anything you're feeding the grid and yourself and running your shit right down the drain quick versus getting off the grid and just running yourself I hate that you have to hook up to the grid by law but man I'd rather live off grid even in a city and get rid of that bill and what it would do is force you wish that's what you all need is to be forced to downgrade you can wash your clothes you can dry them all in a nice tub by yourself swinging left into the right with your hands it ain't going to kill you you people are so damn lazy this doesn't make you skinny again make you work. That's what's wrong with everybody nobody wants to work that's why you're all getting fat. I don't like these roofs I don't think they're working I don't think they create enough power I know people that have 16 to 18 panels they say it feeds the grid I'm like bullshit you ain't feeding nothing you're barely creating enough power to charge your damn batteries and keep running your house I don't like it if you're doing anything you're feeding the grid during the day and not charging your batteries one of the two I don't know about all this stuff I think all these people are still brain dead of what's really going on
Are you being paid for it? Id imagine giving the power company to ability to cycle on/off your batteries constantly will only cause the batteries/inverters to fail sooner. Is the amount paid to you enough to offset the early failure period?
@@LincolnLog , yes, I have received a couple of checks but for me it’s more about creating a solution. Cycling of Tesla batteries has more to do with degradation or loss of capacity. I have a Model 3 with 100,000 miles that has had harder cycling and has very low degradation.
I've had mine for over a year and so glad I got it. It looks so much better than panels and really cut down on my electric bill.
Full solar roof?
@@cases2939 they are not all active shingles, but i do have active shingles on all sides of the roof because I am able to get sun all day long.
25 year warranty sounds nice 👌🏻
Good point on cutting some more trees down to generate more power - might want to consider that and maybe plant a few trees further away from the house Great Job Ellie and really appreciate the first hand information that your guess provided!!! I have been looking into installing on my next house - very interesting.
You're teaching us new stuff all the time & this is something I'd never even heard of before today. Thanks for another great informative video & literally making me laugh so hard it hurt.
Your fascination with cicadas on this trip has been fun to see. Someone should have given you a skeleton of one to bring back home (from when they molt). :)
Great video! We live near Boca Chica and have fallen in love with all the Tesla solar roofs there. We really want one, too!
Great job Ellie! I see a number of questions on cost. It was a 10yr loan from Tesla at 2.9%* interest. After tax incentives it is around $50k. 10.3kw in solar shingles and 2 powerwalls. *Updated with the correct interest rate
That's a good price.
WOW, what am I doing wrong here, Bob_Outdoors???? No loan and $164,400!!!! Travel costs.....equipment rental costs.....really????? Powerwalls are $16,000 each????
I have an 82 year payback period based on my Tesla Roof quote from Tesla. Estimated cost savings is $2,000/year. Home is six years old, 100% electric with geothermal heat pumps and radiant heating. No tree canopies and ideal home for solar. HOA will not allow anything but full solar roof.
Interesting how EV's and solar roof prices go up proportionally as the tax credit percentage increases.
Solar Roof + Backup Energy Storage • Customer Estimate
System Information
Roof Area 4,293 sq ft
Customer Annual Energy Usage 19,636 kWh
Energy Usage Offset 100.00%
System Size 15.7 kW
Solar roof
PV Price* $28,253
Roof Price $85,860
Solar roof Subtotal $114,113
*ITC Eligible PV cost
Estimated Installation Services
Labor Cost $9,660
Tear Off $3,650
Travel Cost $525
Electrical Install (does not include ugrades) $1,200
Rental Cost $3,220
Powerwall+ Backup Energy Storage (x2)* $32,000
Installation Services Subtotal $50,255
*ITC Eligible Backup Energy Storage cost
Total Cost $164,368
How big an area for the roof. I got a new roof for a 2200 sqft house ( 14 squares) for $11k US. My monthly power bill averages $125 month over a year. So I’m no genius but it would take me 26 years to break even. Not exactly a bargain in my view.
@@TomBTerrific You forgot the inflation your power bill is going to be double and triple and quadruple of that over next year
Fantastic interview! Great to hear some first hand experience. I wish I could do this here in Australia. It is insane how little solar there is here. One of the hottest, driest and highest solar radiation places on Earth. I hope you had a great time making this. btw, sorry about my comment on your video last week, I was in a jovial mood and said something I shouldn't have...
Tesla did a couple of solar power storage battery systems in a province out there. They also outfitted some houses as test units. U may have to talk with your utility corporate management or your province's government power utility guru.
Australia has the world’s highest rate of home solar uptake!
@@arthurhamilton5222 Tesla's first Megapack install was at the Hornsdale Wind Farm in South Australia in 2017. It cost AUD90million (USD70mill) for 129MWh, and makes near AUD150mill back PER YEAR! in savings to the grid regulators. No wonder the demand for Megapacks and Distributed Grid Storage has outstripped the Supply!
It was also the subject of one of Elon's famous "jokes" about "We'll build it in 100 days or it's free". They were up and running after 63 days!
Why can't you get it in Australia? Seems like the perfect place for solar.
@@brunopadovani7347 It is a renter thing. If I was a home owner, it would all be subsidised and a types of payment plans that come straight out of my electricity bill and so on, but as a renter, there are very few rights and even less opportunity. I probably could have worded my initial statement better.
Thanks for another great interview. You're a powerhouse Ellie, will go far blazing your own trail in the new world(s). 😍👌👍
You really got to spend more time in the south. Cicadas are the music 🎶 for when the sun goes down. My childhood was sitting outside looking up at sky and seeing orange and pink skies and hearing Cicadas.
well, I am already going back to Florida next month so...!!! And they do sound really cool :-)
Thanks Ellie. Another great interview. Very interesting!
"Most replayed" 9:20
My sides. I cant stop laughing
I'm an IT pro like you, but have the panels I have a lot of equipment that requires uptime and before I got solar, I ran my equipment 24/7 for 1 month in the summer and my bill was $1200! once the panels were on and everything adjusted, my bill was $10 per month and my yearly payback to the utility was $350 per year.
Living across from one of these, I can tell you they can be a total nightmare! During the summer, it reflects onto our house, turning it into an oven. Thankfully, we only get it in the morning, while our neighbors get it during the middle of the day on. The homeowner who had it installed, contacted Tesla as soon as it was brought to his attention, and his project manager told him "there's nothing that can be done". Tesla even took down the message board that was devoted to this sort of complaint.
Every product has inherent tradeoffs, being reflective is necessary for this type of product and in the very few instances where it could pose an issue, it isnt on Tesla to do anything.
@@matthewp1682 Tesla had to know this was I would be a problem in tract housing, yet ignored it in the name of sales & profit. The neighbor gets the benefit, and we are saddled with the extra maintenance, cooling cost and loss of value in our home. I wonder how you would feel if this was across from you.
@@1SandAnimal Take it up with that homeowner not tesla. If someone has a ford truck and the sun shines in in the mirror and reflects onto your home and annoys you, you would take it up with your neighbor not ford! Lol
@@matthewp1682 I have spoken with the homeowner, who spoke with his Tesla Project Manager. He was told "There is nothing that can be done". As for your Ford analogy; the truck would be very simple to move or fold in the mirror. Now if the horn blared for hours on end with no way of stopping it, and this was a common problem with that type of Ford truck, who should be responsible?
@@1SandAnimal tesla installed their product as they should, take it up with the homeowner since there is no fault in the product.
Definitely swap out your heat pump - I swapped mine out a few years ago and my power bill dropped in half.
Do you mean for a newer more efficient unit or a different system?
Your so cool Ellie, I love how you go in dept on topics or products. Good job girl.
1:36 You should plan more trees around the house to protect the solar panel from the elements.
And stop the sun reaching the panels 🤷🤦
🤣🤣🤣
We are looking at the Tesla system, so thanks for asking some of the questions we would not otherwise have the opportunity to ask an owner who has some experience with the system and process.
Loved the horrible noise as the trunk opened 😂
Great information and insights Ellie. This information is truly useful for someone thinking about a Tesla Solar Roof.
Very informative. A $1M policy on a home is not expensive. It is recommended for those that have a swimming pool.
Umbrella ☂ policies for the $1m are not that expensive.
What's it worth to help humanity some, priceless.😇
My roof took 2 weeks it a huge system Installed in August of 2020 14.9 kwh system. Makes 65 to 70kwh per day.
I have never heard about the meter issue glad to know
cant help but notice the timing of this video with the obvious need for new roofs in the SWFL and central FL areas after Hurricane Ian. Prayers for all in FL.
Should probably turn the light off outside the garage when it’s daytime. That might help
A lil.
Wow I'm SOLD. Too bad I dont have a house or live in the USA
Another home run for Tesla!
Very good information. Like him I have a Tesla, current shareholder and Tesla solar panels. Getting ready to change our shingles next year, will definitely look into solar roof. BTW the solar panels work amazing also living in phoenix makes a difference. Thanks for the video ❤
I've had a Tesla Solar Roof for over a year, it's the best roof you can buy and it's beautiful
So.. just when I was judging him based on owning a Tesla, long hair, shirt etc thinking tree hugger. He gives logical, thought out answers. Turns out I'm probably wrong. Good interview. I also live in FL. Never heard of anyone with this roof and will need a roof in the next 5 years or so. Thanks
Probably still is a tree hugger but had to chop down trees for his roof. Which is hypocritical but that's nothing new either. It takes fossil fuel to make all that solar sh*t and that Tesla. But over $50 thousand for that size roof and only for 25 yrs? I really didn't see much of an advantage. Not to mention the insurance cost!
@@billmonroe8826 lol. Yes a lot of environmental damage goes into making these batteries that people don't consider
Pretty damn cool Ellie. Get the word out. There’s not enough information on this subject available.
I want this. Charging my TM3LR at home using sunlight is the goal.
Great job Ellie!
Great video!
Great journalism! Grazie
I clicked solely because of the thumbnail
lol at the cicada reaction. Great video...thanks.
That thumbnail got my attention more than the solar roof 👀
Put in our Tesla Solar Roof and Powerwalls in 2021 in MD. We were the first in our county. Love the ease of system use and making more power than we use. Will know more after the first full year of use and we have Net Metering 1.0. So far well above NREL predictions for the system size at our location.
I was two weeks away from getting solar shingles and three powerwalls. I got financing. They came out and confirmed all was good. Two weeks before work started, however, they jacked the price up by 25% and wouldn't say why. I have a simple roof. Anyway, I'm trying again, this time with panels and 4 powerwalls.
Got a Tesla solar roof myself in st Petersburg FL 15kw system. So glad to get prior to price increase!
This was great. His energy usage is quite high, 146kWh in a day is a lot. I use around 30 on a normal day, it maybe the Florida climate, the AC probably works overtime lol.
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I just dropped a load for Amazon on Apollo beach 🏖️ fl, swam, now rolling out in my Semi truck 🚛. I’ve never heard of Tesla paneled roof. Wow. I definitely want this roof and the EV life although I’m diesel life right now. Thanks.
Love the cheers at 1:02.
But, it seems like the price differential between a standard roof and the solar roof is very high. The premium for the solar panels vs. the power savings makes the panels a very low yielding investment.
Glad you talked about hail. That’s a concern where I live.
Looks like there were 2 teslas in the driveway, i wonder if he charges both of those at night and how much that draws from the system.?
Excellent point. Is he powering a full house plus 2 cars? That's a lot of power.
Could one of them be hers?
Thanks Ellie for the video. Interesting that TESLA employees installed the solar roof and powerwalls.
Great information!
So the true cost savings should be based over the 25 year lifetime, according to your guest.
As he mentioned, more research, by the homeowner to know exactly what the best options for their particular application.
On it! ✅ ☀️ Useful info. Thx 😊
Thanks for mentioning the insurance policy for more than 10kWh panels.
If this was actually available in Europe, I would certainly have bought it. Only recently replaced my roof.
Tesla's solar tile is around 1.8 USD/W. The price looks so attractive.
but they must go with their expensive non-solar tile, which is insanely expensive. a decent priced metal tile costs around 10 USD/sqft including installtion, while Tesla's non-PV tile cost more than 24 USD/sqm. That's their makting scheme....... make the solar tile as cheap as possible but make the accessory products insanely expensive, and non-transparent at all. If you take this difference in price of the non-PV tile into consideration, you'll actually end up with a solar tile more than 4.5 USD/W.
Ellie your videos educate people on advances that are coming and ones that are already here. Plus you do it with a wonderful smile. Keep America educated and moving forward with your informative videos!
Thank you Elianna, that seemed to be a very nice young man and my takeaway is "he supports Tesla" .
Great info thank you
Wow, this guy lives in Titusville. I lived 20 years in Cocoa which is right down the road. If I still lived there, I would have installed a Tesla roof on my house I owned. But, like a dumbass I packed up and left when my job went away at the Space Center.
Know how to switch back to full grid. When the gateway fails or basically an inverter...it kills your main grid power. Also installers like to remove your pvents and say it can vent under the tiles...and remove attic vents. Customer service cannot keep up with the amount of calls so it can take weeks to have a problem resolved.
It would have been nice to know how much it cost and how many years to break even with electrical savings.
You have a wonderful smile ellie.
I most definitely want one of these roof solar power systems!!!
OK. Besides the critter noise. Excellent video. Thanks
I would do away with the overhanging tree more sunlight for the system
9:23 that's some impressive equipment all right!
I had been told these would cost me $50,000 over a traditional roof, so we went traditional. At the time I had one in college and two in the wings. I still kick myself for going that route.
Love the cicada! What a serenade!
Ellie you are so awesome!
Nice video. How much was the roof and everything? How large was his roof? How many kwh system or whatever it is called? How much was each battery pack?
There are 2 of them in Pittsburgh PA.....
People wouldn't think that central Florida would get slammed by hurricanes being so far inland, but not too many years ago Hurricane Irma reminded everyone what mother nature can do. Also cicadas. Yeah, we usually just start speaking louder/shouting.
I know that Florida get overran by hurricanes and tropical storms.
Thumbnail is a little bit creepy, 0:15 looks way better
it was the solar panels that got me here.
Ooo so that was real, i remember them selling the shingles but thought it was a joke because of a fb ad a couple yrs back
If there ever was a time and need to listen 2X
If ever there was a time for having 3x! I kept looking, no dice!
It sure does have a class f wind rating. I noticed also a pair of class d wind ratings there also myself.
Wow Ellie! Looking great!
Thank you, I stopped wearing makeup
@@ellieinspace It works for me! I especially like starting at 9:23 :)
I've been thumbnailed.
I got a Tesla live in SF and got 20 enphase panels. I generate on a good day 34 kwh but average 16 kwh on a overcast day. So far I pay no electric and only $11.32 for use of the power line.
Thanks for sharing !
Save with Bob’s referral:
www.tesla.com/referral/robert99253
Ellie, you're the best!
@@toenyabliss964 Okay you beat me to it. I click and here it is.
I thought it would be in the TOC. Well done.
Why do you need a million-dollar policy if you generate 11+ kilowatts of energy?
@@FM-nm4ngFear, I mean chance of Fire? Maybe... good question....Ellie??))
Thanks for Sharing Bob, & Ellie! It's BEAUTIFUL 😍
We are happy with our 12.75 Kw Solarroof and Powerwalls. They have eliminated our electric bill and kept the house powered on multi-day outages. The cost was about the same as we were quoted for replacement of our aging tile roof plus panels and Powerwalls.
Curious how much did it cost
So hopefully his roof is fine after the hurricane! 😩
Getting solar roof must be cool, but it is so expensive. However, with electricity prices going up, it must look more appealing now
After running the numbers at $55k advertised for 2k sq. ft. roof at 11.28 kw it doesn't look like much if any savings to this. Cost of maintenance and most homes have a higher demand than this example produces so you're still committed to the grid.
Great report ! Thank you.
We live in Florida and have a Tesla solar shingle roof with 2 power walls. Our electric bill runs around $25/month now. We not only power our house, pretty much all day/night, but charge our Model Y! This has been with a summer that has 75 days with 90+ degree temperatures.
I'm in FL too. What size system and how much did it cost?
@@VinhTran-yp4ym we paid approximately $77K for the new roof but there are several things to consider: we needed a new roof, the tax credit which you can take over multiple years which ends up bringing down the cost significantly, we were able to have a whole house generator which is very nice to have during hurricane season or one of the frequent power outages we experience, and we have an electric car that we can charge using solar. We have calculated that our payback will be eight years.
Great interview and thanks for Bob for patiently explaining most important details.
My question is how would they handle a hail storm? High winds?
Hey, it’s my cousin!
Very interesting.
that part about the inspection being such a bore seems a bit counterproductive to the encouragement of solar power. I live in Nederland and had a Pannel system and new fuse box fitted last year. It was a one-day job and was active when the fitters left all the paperwork gets done upfront. Admitted it was a Pannel on roof job, not a full roof replacement so maybe that was why it took so long.
GAF solar Shingles with a 25 year solar production warranty is the way to go and less costly.
One energy optimization would be to remove that tree that shadows the roof
On the other hand, then you might need a little bit more electricity to cool the house in the summer. I wonder how close it might come to canceling out.