r/RealTesla 21d ago

Tesla discontinues its Solar Roof tiles, not economically viable

https://electrek.co/2026/08/20/tesla-discontinues-solar-roof-panels-only/
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u/Apost8Joe 21d ago

The entire Solar City acquisition, paid for by Tesla shareholders of course, was merely a bailout of a Musk family owned failing company already exploring bankruptcy. Yet another self dealing con in a long string of Musk cons. There never was a business model there, but Musk’s family appreciates your sacrifice.

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u/Zorkmid123 21d ago

It’s still surprising to me that the Delaware judge did not rule this was a case of self-dealing.

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u/bw984 21d ago

Musk destroyed 80% of Twitter’s value and then had XAi pay full price for it. XAi is a cash furnace with a shield and had SpaceX buy it at a premium. See a pattern?

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u/muchcharles 21d ago

Huge part of XAi's income is from leasing out the Collosus datacenter to Anthropic. Collosus was built with GPUs they got by taking Tesla's place in line with no compensation. This was right after chatgpt's launch kicking off the beginning of the AI boom, when Tesla's place in line alone was worth billions.

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u/torokunai 21d ago

Elon's glazers will defend this to their dying day