Elon Musk on twitter revealed Tesla will be raising the price of the “full self-driving” version of its Autopilot driver assistance system by around $1,000. The price rise will take effect starting August 16th.
The higher-tier package currently costs $6,000 if customers choose the option when buying a car, but Tesla charges $8,000 if they decide to upgrade after taking delivery.
These are raised prices which Tesla raised first on May 1st, adding $1,000 to its then $5,000 price tagged autonomous driving feature. Now, the company chief has revealed on Twitter that Tesla will add another $1,000 to the add-on’s price tag starting on August 16th.
Cost of Tesla full self-driving option increasing by ~$1000 on August 16
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2019
Musk reached out on twitter as some sort of a warning or heads-up to interested customers which the move should motivate them to make a decision before August 16th. He also revealed that the company also expects to make Enhanced Summon widely available at around the same time.
Agreed. That’s approximately date when we expect Enhanced Summon to be in wide release. It will be magical. Lot of hard work by Autopilot team.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2019
While Tesla dubbs the package “full self-driving,” though it should be noted that Tesla’s cars still cannot operate autonomously. The “full self-driving” package doesn’t give its vehicles level 5 autonomy at this point in time. Musk has said the company will make that possible by the end of 2019.