For the second time this yr, Tesla is rising the worth of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) characteristic. On Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted that the upfront price of the driving force help software program would enhance to $15,000 on September fifth. The automaker will honor the present $12,000 value on orders made earlier than that date however will ship these automobiles at a later date. “Note, you can upgrade your existing car to FSD in 2 mins via the Tesla app,” Musk added. He did not say if Tesla would enhance the worth of its FSD subscription plans. Depending on the present Autopilot capabilities of your Tesla, including the software program presently prices as a lot as $199 monthly.     

Tesla has constantly elevated the worth of its Full Self-Driving characteristic over time. When the corporate first started providing FSD as a separate possibility from Autopilot, it price customers $5,000 so as to add the software program throughout configuration and $7,000 post-delivery. At the beginning of the yr, the worth of FSD went from from $10,000 to $12,000. Elon Musk telegraphed Tesla would enhance the worth of FSD but once more again in July when he mentioned the software program was “ridiculously cheap” at $12,000 and {that a} value hike would imply the distinction between Tesla “being worth a lot money or worth basically zero.”