Like many of its experimental products, Tesla’s Solar Roof — a solar panel array engineered to look like discreet roof tiles — has been a stunning failure. Nowhere is that flop more apparent than on the roof of Ambrose Conroy, a California homeowner who’s spent over six years battling with Tesla over the solar installation from hell.

According to Electrek, the whole saga began back in 2020, when Conroy entered an agreement to buy a 13.1 kW photovoltaic system from Tesla. Though the process was supposed to take a few weeks, it ran years late, as compounding errors and logistical disasters threw the project into chaos.

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    3 hours ago

    Read the article and then read the source article from Elektrek. Tesla already admitted liability for breach of contract, warranty and negligence for a $82k contract with a deadline of a few weeks that was dragged over two years and lead to $2.5 million in damages. This isn’t some product like a phone that was defective, this is way worse.