{"id":273003,"date":"2019-05-06T05:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273003"},"modified":"2019-05-06T05:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:18:25","slug":"tesla-has-a-plan-to-revive-its-foundering-solar-biz-cut-installation-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tesla-has-a-plan-to-revive-its-foundering-solar-biz-cut-installation-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla has a plan to revive its foundering solar biz: cut installation costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has a new plan to revive its foundering solar business: standardisation.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when most rooftop panel installers offer custom-designed arrays, the automaker is now only offering cookie-cutter systems, sold exclusively online. The cost-cutting strategy will also require customers to photograph meters and circuit breaker boxes, minimising the need for Tesla workers to visit homes. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest pivot for a company that\u2019s lost much of its rooftop-solar market share since acquiring former industry leader SolarCity for $2.6 billion in 2016. The shift comes less than a week after Tesla reported its lowest-ever quarterly installation total, putting it as low as third or even fourth among US installers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has a new plan to revive its foundering solar business: standardisation. At a time when most rooftop panel installers offer custom-designed arrays, the automaker is now only offering cookie-cutter systems, sold exclusively online. The cost-cutting strategy will also require customers to photograph meters and circuit breaker boxes, minimising the need for Tesla workers to visit homes. It\u2019s the latest pivot for a company that\u2019s lost much of its rooftop-solar market share since acquiring former industry leader SolarCity for $2.6 billion in 2016. The shift comes less than a week after Tesla reported its lowest-ever quarterly installation total, putting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}