Elon Musk at the presentation of Tesla Motors showed the public new solar panels “Solar roof”



    Yesterday, on the official website of Tesla Motors, an announcement of a new product for private clients and businesses appeared - Powerwall 2, a backup power system from rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

    The official presentation of the news took place tonight (Moscow time). In the framework of the Solar City project, a business for the production and installation of solar panels, founded by him and his cousins ​​in 2006, Ilon Musk introduced the public to Solar Roof or Solar Roof solar panels. The presentation was held in Los Angeles under the brand name “Tesla” in view of the upcoming merger of Solar City with Tesla Motors.

    Unlike our usual halls with queues and attempts by journalists as soon as possible to take a place closer to the stage, this time the Tesla Motors event was held in the open. And there were reasons for this.

    For Musk, a scene with a screen was assembled, and next to it was a demo object - a whole house equipped with new Solar roof panels.

    From the usual solar panels, the novelty differs in that it is an element of the roof, without violating the composition of the building and its appearance. In fact, Tesla Motors, together with Solar City, created solar panels that successfully masked as roof tiles.


    The entire roof of the house is Musk’s large solar panel,




    showing journalists a separate panel near

    The panel consists of a solar panel and a color film covered with a tempered glass plate.



    During the presentation, a whole house was shown, equipped with a similar “roof”, in which, at first glance, nothing betrayed the solar panels.

    The Tesla official website also presents four different options for the appearance of these solar panels:



    Throughout the presentation, the Mask emphasized that the new solar panels at first glance are inseparable from the usual roof, which distinguishes them from other "green" solutions.

    In addition, a new Tesla development appeared to be in place - the Powerwall 2 energy storage and storage system, due to the optimization of the design of which the company's engineers managed to significantly increase the capacity of the product. Its CEO Tesla Motors suggests using in combination with a new roof for energy storage and the possibility of its effective use in the dark.

    According to the Mask, a roof of this kind built from scratch will cost less than building a classic roof and equipping it with solar panels. So far, no specific figures for the cost of “Solar roof” have been named.

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