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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

10.30.17 – Guest Discussion with New Tesla Solar Customer

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode:
– Diego joins the show to discuss his new Tesla solar system

2:12 – Background on Diego’s interest in solar
3:10 – Original cost quotes from SolarCity and others
4:00 – Diego’s energy consumption
5:15 – Electrical code requirements
6:38 – Tesla Solar Roof discussion
9:57 – New cost quotes from Tesla/others & sizing the solar system
12:00 – Panel efficiency discussion
13:30 – Budgeting for the system & payback period
14:50 – Tesla price matches local competitor
16:00 – Design process
17:20 – Inverters
28:37 – Net metering
30:38 – Powerwall
33:40 – Energy independence

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Music by Evan Schaeffer

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Monday October 30th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast.

0:12.4

My name is Rob Maurer. Today we have a guest on the show

0:14.5

Diego. He's coming to us from Oregon and Diego recently made the decision to install

0:18.9

solar panels on his house and he went with Tesla so I thought there was some

0:22.1

interesting information that he had to share on that,

0:24.0

which will hop into in a minute.

0:26.0

Tesla stock on Friday closed out a tough week with another tough day, finishing down 1.62% to $320.87,

0:32.0

as compared to the NasdaqDAQ up 2.2.

0:35.0

That was mainly driven by the earnings reports from Amazon and Google being well received.

0:38.9

Amazon stock was up 13% and Google stock was up 4%. On the week Tesla was down 7.54 percent compared to the

0:45.4

NASDAQ up 0.94 percent as we look ahead to earnings this week. As a reminder

0:49.7

those are after the market close on Wednesday. Wednesday morning I will have a preview episode

0:53.8

on things that I'm going to be looking for.

0:55.4

And Thursday I will have a recap episode

0:58.2

to discuss everything that we learn in the earnings report.

1:01.2

Supercharger network update, we are currently at 1,036 supercharging locations

1:05.2

adding two new stations in Belgium and New Zealand. So today we're just going to spend a little bit of time going into

1:10.4

pretty significant detail on Tesla Solar and kind of the installation process

1:14.6

as well as kind of the bidding process that a customer may need to go through when working with

1:18.8

Tesla to install Solar.

1:20.5

This was something I was interested in because I don't know a ton about solar and certainly not about installing it.

1:25.0

So being that solar city is newly integrated to Tesla and Tesla is now starting to manufacture and sell solar panels, I wanted to spend more time digging into it.

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