Income Taxes (Additional Information) (Details) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Provision for income taxes	$ 699,000,000	$ 292,000,000	$ 110,000,000
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance	9,074,000,000	2,930,000,000
Deferred tax assets, net	2,006,000,000	2,018,000,000
Research and development credits	923,000,000	624,000,000
Undistributed Earnings Of Foreign Subsidiaries	161,000,000
Deferred tax liability	0
Unrecognized tax benefits, that would not affect effective tax rate	473,000,000
Two Thousand And Twelve CEO Performance Award [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Tax deduction	23,450,000
Solar City [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Increase (Decrease) in valuation on deferred taxes	$ 6,140,000,000	$ 974,000,000	$ 150,000,000
Shanghai, China [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Corporate income tax rate to certain enterprises	15.00%
Corporate income tax rate	25.00%
Beneficial income tax rate	15.00%
Federal [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Research and development credits	$ 738,000,000
Operating loss carry-forwards	$ 31,200,000,000
Research and development tax credits, federal carry-forwards expiration date	2024
General business tax credit	$ 186,000,000
General business tax credits, beginning to expire in the year	2033
Federal [Member] | Maximum [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Income tax examination, years	2019
Federal [Member] | Minimum [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Income tax examination, years	2004
Foreign jurisdictions [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Deferred tax assets, net	$ 417,000,000
State [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Research and development credits	584,000,000
Operating loss carry-forwards	$ 21,600,000,000
California [Member] | Minimum [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Income tax examination, years	2004
U.S. and foreign jurisdictions [Member] | Maximum [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Income tax examination, years	2020
U.S. and foreign jurisdictions [Member] | Minimum [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Income tax examination, years	2008
IRS [Member] | Maximum [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Income tax examination, years	2018
IRS [Member] | Minimum [Member]
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Income tax examination, years	2015