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Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers

(cleantechnica.com)
171 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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i80and ◴[09 Apr 25 13:08 UTC] No.43631627[source]▶
Tesla was pushing solar pretty hard for a time a long time ago. My memories actually line up with the charts here.

Then they kind of just... stopped talking about it at all? In retrospect it was kind of a quiet sea change for the company as a whole.

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mikeyouse ◴[09 Apr 25 13:18 UTC] No.43631732[source]▶
That whole solar city acquisition was a bit of a debacle with Elon buying a very suspect and deeply indebted company that his cousins had founded and controlled for a questionable amount of money… that was probably the first big warning sign that Tesla’s board was out to lunch.
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bayarearefugee ◴[09 Apr 25 13:21 UTC] No.43631763[source]▶
Yeah I don't think Tesla ever really cared about solar, they just had to talk the talk for a bit to help grease a very shady business deal (with strong echoes of the recently announced xAI/X deal).
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1. NickM ◴[09 Apr 25 13:24 UTC] No.43631791[source]▶
I agree the whole thing was shady, but did they really never care about solar? I thought the solar roof was announced well after the SolarCity deal, and it seemed like they were serious about ramping that up for a while (though obviously that never really went anywhere or fulfilled any of the original promises either).