Tesla has discontinued its Solar Roof tiles, a solar panel product designed to resemble roofing tiles, due to financial non-viability. The company will continue to supply conventional solar panels and is focusing on other solar products.
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Here’s Elon Musk showing off the Solar Roof plans back in 2016. | Image: Dieter Bohn / <em>The Verge </em> </figcaption>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles, <a href="https://electrek.co/2026/08/20/tesla-discontinues-solar-roof-panels-only/"><em>Electrek</em></a> reports. Sources "close to the program" told the publication that Tesla has informed its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer available to order, and that only conventional solar panels will be supplied going forward.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While Tesla hasn't officially announced that it's sunsetting the product, it's made several website changes that corroborate the reported discontinuation. The dedicated Solar Roof page (<a href="http://tesla.com/solarroof">tesla.com/solarroof</a>) that launched almost a decade ago now automatically redirects to Tesla's solar <em>panel</em> page inste …</p>
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# Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles
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Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles,[*Electrek*](https://electrek.co/2026/08/20/tesla-discontinues-solar-roof-panels-only/)reports\. Sources “close to the program” told the publication that Tesla has informed its third\-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer available to order, and that only conventional solar panels will be supplied going forward\.
While Tesla hasn’t officially announced that it’s sunsetting the product, it’s made several website changes that corroborate the reported discontinuation\. The dedicated Solar Roof page \([tesla\.com/solarroof](http://tesla.com/solarroof)\) that launched almost a decade ago now automatically redirects to Tesla’s solar*panel*page instead, and the “Solar Roof” option is no longer available under the navigation menu for Tesla Energy products\. The only products currently listed are Solar Panels, Powerwall, and Megapack\.
Tesla first revealed the[Solar Roof project](https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13463236/tesla-solar-roof-battery-new-elon-musk)back in 2016, but only[achieved mass production](https://electrek.co/2020/03/16/tesla-solar-roof-production-1000-week-install/)in March 2020\. It was never a successful venture for Tesla — CEO Elon Musk admitted in 2021 that the company made “[significant mistakes](https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/26/22404639/elon-musk-tesla-solar-roof-mistakes-cost-price-increase)” with Solar Roof that caused over\-expenditure and delays, and a[Wood Mackenzie report](https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/tesla-solar-roof-deployments-miss-expectations/)from 2023 estimated that the solar shingles had only been installed on 3,000 US homes since launch — far fewer than Tesla’s target of 1,000 installations per week\.
*Electrek*reports that Tesla has now concluded that Solar Roof is not financially viable for the company\. It is, however, seeing greater success with its regular solar panels, and is currently planning to build a new[$10 billion factory](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/979289/teslas-planning-to-build-a-10-million-solar-panel-factory-in-texas)near Houston, Texas, to ramp up production\.
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Tesla's Solar Roof has largely failed to meet its ambitious targets, with only about 3,000 installations versus a promised 1,000 per week. The company has quietly pivoted to conventional solar panels, stopped reporting deployment numbers, and shifted to third-party installers, leaving customers with a deprioritized product.
Elon Musk appears to be pivoting away from terrestrial solar power, instead embracing space-based solar and natural gas for AI data centers, as revealed in the SpaceX IPO filing.
Gritt, a startup using AI-controlled robots to install solar panels, exited stealth with $34 million in funding to accelerate solar plant construction.
After two years of declining sales and profits, Tesla reported a 26% increase in revenue and 25% increase in vehicle deliveries in Q2 2026, signaling a recovery despite challenges in its robotaxi operations and FSD safety.