---
title: "Elon Musk: SolarCity Will Be Offering Entire Solar Roofs By The End Of 2016"
description: "Elon Musk's SolarCity will be venturing into the roofing industry, offering a roofing-integrated product by the end of the year."
date: "2016-08-13"
modified: "2016-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Jelor Gallego"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jelor-gallego"
url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-solarcity-will-be-offering-entire-solar-roofs-by-the-end-of-2016"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Energy"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Renewable Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
  - "Solar Power"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "solar power"
  - "SolarCity"
---

# Elon Musk: SolarCity Will Be Offering Entire Solar Roofs By The End Of 2016

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/A-AP_Ed-Andrieski.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: AP/Ed Andrieski\</em\>*

After [a controversial merger](<https://futurism.com/tesla-is-buying-solarcity-and-its-costing-them-2-6-billion>) between Elon Musk's companies, Tesla and SolarCity, was announced back in June, SolarCity is in the news again as it announced [a venture into the roofing industry.](<http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-solarcity-will-make-solar-roofs-2016-8?utm_content=buffer02cf3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti>)

During SolarCity's second quarter earnings conference, its CEO, Lyndon Rive, announced the company will be revealing two new products by the end of this year. Elon Musk revealed other details, saying that one of those will be a solar roof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMinT-noxhQ

Musk further clarified that this will not be a module installed on a roof, it will *be* the roof. Rive confirmed these details of a roofing integrated product. Both said this move is aimed at the new roof market, which has at least five million installations every year in the U.S.

Like a Tesla car, this roofing product can be customized, and is then sent to the customer as a kit so that it can be installed.

This new venture into roofing is completely in line with Tesla's ["Master Plan Part Deux"](<https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux>), which specifically indicates creating a "solar-roof-with-battery product that just works."