Tesla has stopped taking new orders for Solar Roof, the shingle-style solar tile product it has sold since 2016. The company confirmed to third-party installers that solar roof tiles are “no longer available to order,” and will supply only its conventional solar panels going forward.
What Tesla told installers
Tesla’s decision was first reported by Electrek on August 20, 2026, which cited communication to certified installers stating the tile product “is not financially viable.” The economics never scaled: Solar Roof tiles require far more labor to install than standard panels, and shading or roof-shape limitations made the product a workable option mainly for larger, more expensive homes.
Evidence the wind-down was already underway
The discontinuation wasn’t a sudden announcement so much as the confirmation of a trend. Tesla’s own Solar Roof page now redirects visitors to its standard solar panels page, and “Solar Roof” has been removed from the Energy section of Tesla’s site navigation. Tesla also quietly stopped breaking out Solar Roof installation numbers in its quarterly shareholder reports starting in early 2024. Since its 2016 debut, tied to Tesla’s $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity, the tile roof reportedly reached only around 3,000 U.S. installations in seven years — a small fraction of Tesla’s overall solar business.
What this means if you’re considering solar for your Tesla
If home solar was part of your plan for charging a Tesla more cheaply, this doesn’t take options off the table — it narrows them. Tesla still sells and installs standard solar panels, and its home battery, Powerwall, remains available and is what actually stores solar power for charging overnight or during an outage. If you were specifically drawn to the tile aesthetic of Solar Roof, that path now runs through other manufacturers rather than Tesla. Anyone with an existing Solar Roof system isn’t affected by this change in the way a new buyer would be; Tesla’s announcement was about future orders, not currently installed systems.
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