Tesla Gives Up on the Solar Roof

Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Two sources with inside knowledge of the program confirmed to Electrek that the company is discontinuing its solar roof tiles ...

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I expect that the Tesla Semi will disappear overnight just like the solar roof panels. Fleet managers will be left holding the bag.

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Lets build the least efficient solar array we can come up with! and make it look like ----!

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#1 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-08 08:02 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

Rcade with the Tesla semi tweet lol. Always a dog. Electric is a poor solution for medium & long distance trucking. Decent for local delivery work.

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-08 02:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Electric is currently a poor solution for medium & long distance trucking

Solar roofs on cars and trucks is a good idea and solar technology/battery technology is improving.

Oil is the reason we've been at war in the Middle East my entire life.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-08 02:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

24 watts per square feet. 450 a

#4 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-08 03:14 PM | Reply

tldr, a 53' trailer roof makes less than 1% of the energy needed, in completely perfect conditions. A miracle breakthrough doubling that gets you to 2%.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-08 03:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Ah, but Mars?

No problem!

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-08 04:34 PM | Reply

Mars is easier than battery long haul trucking. We've landed things on Mars.

#7 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-08 04:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The new elon documentary reportedly shows how his real skill is pumping stocks at any cost.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-08 06:46 PM | Reply

Oil is the reason we've been at war in the Middle East my entire life.

If you are honest with yourself, the real reason is Islam.

#9 | Posted by subliberal at 2026-09-09 09:04 AM | Reply

In WW2 the Allies invaded and conquered Iran for oil and installed a puppet government.

Anywhere you do that it goes badly in the long run regardless of religion.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-09 09:08 AM | Reply

Without the oil we wouldn't care about Islam.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-09-09 09:09 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

and they were officially neutral. They didn't join the Axis. The Islamic Axis forces were.. I'll let everybody else guess where =P

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-09 09:09 AM | Reply

We've landed things on Mars.

Mars is the only planet in the solar system entirely inhabited by robots.

#13 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-09-09 09:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Venus briefly had communist robots. The planet destroyed them before they could spread the communist robot ideology.

#14 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-09 10:03 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Mars is the only planet in the solar system entirely inhabited by robots.

#13 | POSTED BY NIXON

Nice.

THIS is why I come here.

I honestly never thought of it that way.

That a whole sci-Fi novel or several seasons on Netflix right there.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-09 11:20 AM | Reply

"Oil is the reason we've been at war in the Middle East my entire life."

If you are honest with yourself, the real reason is Islam.

#9 | POSTED BY SUBLIBERAL

So you want a religious war (to end all religious wars). Good luck with that Christian.

Governments go to war for resources.

The People fight for the guy in the foxhole next to them.

Semper Fi

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-09 11:25 AM | Reply

Without the oil we wouldn't care about Islam.

#11 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

Or Venezuela.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-09 11:31 AM | Reply

Oil is the reason we've been at war in the Middle East my entire life.

If you are honest with yourself, the real reason is Islam.

#9 | Posted by subliberal

So how come we haven't been at war in Indonesia?

Plenty of Islam...no oil.

You're a moron.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-09 01:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Spot on. For box trucks making local deliveries up to 10,000 pound load, 150 miles, there are worthwhile options. Regional or national, tractor-trailer, 50,000 pound load, 600 mile range, pulling hills and mountains, running reefer, cold weather, we're not there yet. For a logistics planner, there's also the availability of charging stations, service and parts along the operational area to consider. Also keep in mind, due to the battery weight an electric semi is about 5,000 pounds heavier than a standard diesel semi, cutting into the maximum allowable load. I'm sure we'll get there eventually, but we're not there yet.

#19 | Posted by El_Buscador at 2026-09-09 01:41 PM | Reply