Tesla’s Solar Factory Is Exporting Most of Its Cells: Document

Tesla’s Solar Factory Is Exporting Most of Its Cells: Document
Robots assemble a Tesla Model S at their factory in Fremont, Calif., on June 22, 2012. AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File
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The “great majority” of solar cells being produced at Tesla Inc.’s factory in upstate New York are being sold overseas instead of being used in the company’s trademark “Solar Roof” as originally intended, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

The exporting underscores the depth of Tesla’s troubles in the U.S. solar business, which the electric car maker entered in 2016 with its controversial $2.6 billion purchase of SolarCity.