Tesla s vice president of technology drew baglino said on a call with press and others that the new solar roof uses.
Glass roofing tile.
With version 3 of its solar roof tiles now called tesla solarglass roof tesla has created a lot of interest in its new solar product.
With a 25 year warranty solar roof lasts longer than an average roof and protects your home for decades to come.
A manually cut glass roof tile with individual tile mounting blocks and drains in the background.
The company claims to make what it calls solar roof panels long skinny monocrystalline silicon solar panels that in the case of forward s metal roof offering have optically enhanced glass fronts to camouflage into the roof or in the case of forward s tile roof offering have individual glass tiles over top that concentrate the.
Twitter had a tweet about glass roof tiles available from sweden asking what would you do with all that free heat the obvious answer is overheat.
But your roof was overheating already despite the opaque tiles.
Tesla started selling version 3 of its glass solar roof tiles on friday.
Solar roof tiles are more than three times stronger than standard roofing tiles and are engineered for all weather protection.
So in the minds of zch the roof is now all glazing and so the roof will overheat as well as the rooms below.
Here s where tesla plans to first install the new solar.
The sun provides more than enough energy in just one hour to supply our planet s energy needs for an entire year.