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I signed up for one of these years ago and ultimately replaced my whole roof and got PV cells on the roof before they were ever available to me in the East Bay. Any HNers have experience with honest to god Tesla solar roof tiles?

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Not honest-to-god Tesla tiles, but a friend of mine put up Chinese knock-offs that he's pretty happy with. I think the problem here is "Tesla" rather than "solar roofs"; friend has a non-Tesla solar roof and it looks great, produces great, and has required little maintenance since he put it in 4 years ago.

There's an honest-to-god Tesla solar roof tile house in my South Bay neighborhood. They got them installed 5(+/-) years ago.

They look fine.

I don't know what their power generation is like.

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