{"id":31611,"date":"2016-11-02T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/elon-musk-says-teslas-new-solar-tiles-can-defrost-themselves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:18:26","slug":"elon-musk-says-teslas-new-solar-tiles-can-defrost-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/elon-musk-says-teslas-new-solar-tiles-can-defrost-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says Tesla\u2019s New Solar Tiles Can Defrost Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-teslas-new-solar-tiles-can-defrost-themselves.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hold onto your butts solar aficionados, the next generation solar roof is coming, and it looks good. During a brief event Friday night, Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/22951-elon-musk-tesla-solar-city\">presented his plan<\/a> to integrate solar roofs with Powerwall power packs. But that\u2019s not all. On Saturday Musk expanded on his talk by explaining via Twitter that the new solar tiles would come with some pretty sweet features \u2014 more specifically, built-in defrosters.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the solar systems of the past, Tesla\u2019s newly designed roofs will feature aesthetically pleasing, energy efficient glass solar tiles, that will replace a home\u2019s roof rather than sit on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>Harsh weather conditions \u2014 like snow and ice \u2014 are known for wreaking havoc on traditional asphalt shingles, but that\u2019s not the case with Musk\u2019s new design. The solar glass tiles are not only more durable, but are also packing specialized heating elements that work much like the rear defroster does on your car.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/22959-solar-roof-tiles-can-defrost-themselves?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=organic\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/22959-solar-roof-tiles-can-d...gn=organic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold onto your butts solar aficionados, the next generation solar roof is coming, and it looks good. During a brief event Friday night, Elon Musk presented his plan to integrate solar roofs with Powerwall power packs. But that\u2019s not all. On Saturday Musk expanded on his talk by explaining via Twitter that the new solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1497,15,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-energy","category-habitats","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31611\/revisions\/59879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}