Tesla on Friday announced its solar shingle and tile roofing line. The nascent solar shingle industry has struggled to catch on, and Tesla's entry may be what's needed to take it mainstream.

CertainTeed's Apollo II solar shingles are all active, so the aesthetic is a low-profile solar panel installation, rather than the is-it-a-roof-or-a-solar-roof aesthetic that Tesla has been going for.

Dr. Peter Quint was eager to install Tesla’s solar shingles on his 4,000-square-foot home in Portland, Ore., until the company raised the price to $112,000, from $75,000, in a terse email.

If Tesla's SolarCity unit can come up with effective solar shingles, it would represent a coup. It would instantly set the company apart from competitors.

Tesla began accepting orders for its smooth glass and textured glass solar shingle options Wednesday afternoon. The company's Tuscan glass and French slate shingles, however, won't be available ...

Tesla’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity is looking worse and worse. And its $1 billion solar gigafactory in Buffalo, New York, which the state built, subsidized, and equipped for SolarCity, seems ...

Tesla's Solar Roof is possibly the sleekest solar solution out there. By integrating shingle-sized solar panels into a roof made of identical shingles, you get all the solar power with none of the ...

Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk presented its new solar roofing shingles Friday night, which will factor in to what he called a 'three-part' energy solution.

Last Friday, Tesla Motors’ TSLA ultimate promise maker, CEO Elon Musk, debuted new solar roof shingles for homes at an event at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. The announcement came as a not ...

Tesla Motors’ solar roof might not be quite so expensive after all. When Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled new solar shingles three weeks ago, the big question that wasn’t answered ...

To get there, we pulled together ballpark pricing for the various roofing materials Tesla's solar shingles mimic, from sources like the Slate Roofing Contractors Association, the Tile Roofing ...

However, interest in shingles really took off in 2016 when Tesla purchased Solar City and launched the Tesla Solar Roof. Several solar manufacturers have since expanded their product catalogs to ...