Billionaire Elon Musk has created a stir more than once by suggesting his company, Tesla, will enter the residential HVAC market. Musk’s claim is the company will upsize the equipment it uses in its electric cars for home use. While less ambitious than his plans to colonize Mars, and lacking in almost any details, the idea has drawn considerable interest from the public and those in the HVAC industry.
But is Tesla’s HVAC system really that innovative? Is it even that good? According to the latest Auto Reliability Survey findings from Consumer Reports, the answer to that second question is not really.