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08-11-2016, 02:20 AM
Elon Musk wants SolarCity to build "solar roofs" as Tesla CEO eyes takeover
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Picture a rooftop gleaming with dark blue rectangles. It isn’t covered with solar panels — instead it’s made from solar shingles that both protect the home and produce clean power all at once.
SolarCity, the California solar installer backed by Elon Musk, unveiled a plan this week to make and sell these “solar roof” modules at its $750 million manufacturing plant in Buffalo, New York.*
“It’s **t a thing on the roof. It is the roof,” Musk explained during SolarCity’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday. “I think people are going to be really excited about what they see.”
SEE ALSO: How Elon Musk plans to make Tesla Motors a clean energy powerhouse (http://mashable.com/2016/07/23/elon-musk-tesla-cleanenergy-powerhouse/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/elon-musk-solar-roofs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Picture a rooftop gleaming with dark blue rectangles. It isn’t covered with solar panels — instead it’s made from solar shingles that both protect the home and produce clean power all at once.
SolarCity, the California solar installer backed by Elon Musk, unveiled a plan this week to make and sell these “solar roof” modules at its $750 million manufacturing plant in Buffalo, New York.*
“It’s **t a thing on the roof. It is the roof,” Musk explained during SolarCity’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday. “I think people are going to be really excited about what they see.”
SEE ALSO: How Elon Musk plans to make Tesla Motors a clean energy powerhouse (http://mashable.com/2016/07/23/elon-musk-tesla-cleanenergy-powerhouse/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/elon-musk-solar-roofs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Solar Roofs (http://mashable.com/category/solar-roofs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Rooftop Solar (http://mashable.com/category/rooftop-solar/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Solar Panels (http://mashable.com/category/solar-panels/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tesla Motors (http://mashable.com/category/tesla-motors/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Solarcity (http://mashable.com/category/solarcity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/1nW96pjzqT0