logoalt Hacker News

Gigachadyesterday at 10:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Wasn’t the solar panels thing just some financial fraud scheme?


Replies

oskarkkyesterday at 11:40 PM

Not exactly, it was a normal solar panel business started by Elon's cousins (SolarCity), but it wasn't going well, and in the end it was bought by Tesla for much bigger money than it was worth (let's say it was a bailout for Elon). Today Tesla solar panels are maybe 0.1%-1% of the business, they stopped giving any data on it years ago.

grosswaittoday at 12:02 AM

If so, they are still going https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels so I guess not