---
title: "Elon Musk: 2019 Will Be “the Year of the Solar Roof”"
description: "During the unveiling of Tesla's highly anticipated Model Y, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company would focus on its Solar Roof and Powerwall in 2019."
date: "2019-03-15"
modified: "2019-03-15"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-2019-year-solar-roof"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Energy"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Renewable Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
  - "Solar Power"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "solar roof"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Elon Musk: 2019 Will Be “the Year of the Solar Roof”

![During the unveiling of Tesla's highly anticipated Model Y, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company would focus on its Solar Roof and Powerwall in 2019.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/elon-musk-2019-year-solar-roof.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Tesla\</em\>*

## Looking Up

During [the unveiling](<https://futurism.com/tesla-model-y-announcement>) of Tesla's highly anticipated Model Y Thursday night, CEO Elon Musk shared his vision for his company's immediate future — and it had little to do with cars.

"This is definitely going to be the year of the Solar Roof and Powerwall," he told the audience, [according to *Inverse*](<https://www.inverse.com/article/54085-tesla-solar-roof-elon-musk-declares-2019-will-be-the-year-of-the-roof>) — a sign that Tesla is shifting its focus from the road to the home, with the ultimate goal of creating a fully sustainable future.

## Pretty Picture

In August 2017, Tesla gave the world its [first glimpse](<https://futurism.com/spacex-helped-tesla-speed-up-their-car-production-elon-musk-revealed>) of an installed [Solar Roof](<https://www.tesla.com/solarroof>), and it looked, well, a lot like any other roof. But that was the point — Tesla's solar tiles didn't have the jarring appearance of many home solar panels.

That aesthetically pleasing design — combined with the tiles' [affordability](<https://futurism.com/category/climate-change-energy>) and "infinity warranty" — had solar energy expert Senthil Balasubramanian predicting Tesla would be a "[game changer" for clean energy](<https://futurism.com/solar-expert-predicts-tesla-will-be-a-game-changer-for-clean-energy>).

With the exception of the occasional [massive battery project](<https://futurism.com/tesla-solar-plant-australia>), though, we haven't heard much about Tesla's home energy products since then. The company spent much of 2017 and 2018 focused on getting through the Model 3's "[production hell](<https://futurism.com/musk-next-six-months-will-be-production-hell-for-tesla>)" and dealing with the fallout from Musk's latest [public misstep](<https://futurism.com/sec-musk-subpoena-tesla-tweets>).

## Under One Roof

But now that Model 3 production is [humming along](<https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker//>), Tesla has the bandwidth to shift some of its engineering focus back to its Solar Roof and home batteries, according to Musk — and that should go a long way toward helping the company meet its ambitious goal of a more sustainable energy system.

"Solar plus battery plus electric vehicles, we have a fully sustainable future," Musk told the audience Thursday. "That’s a future you can feel really excited and optimistic about. I think that really matters."

**READ MORE:** [Tesla Solar Roof: Elon Musk Declares 2019 Will Be the Year of the Roof](<https://www.inverse.com/article/54085-tesla-solar-roof-elon-musk-declares-2019-will-be-the-year-of-the-roof>) \[*Inverse*\]

**More on Tesla:** *[Solar Expert Predicts Tesla Will Be a “Game-Changer” for Clean Energy](<https://futurism.com/solar-expert-predicts-tesla-will-be-a-game-changer-for-clean-energy>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)