Tesla started its rollout of the next big release of FSD Beta on August 20th. And alongside its many improvements, Elon Musk announced that Tesla will be raising the price of FSD to $15,000 - a 20% increase. The price increase will go into effect in North America on September 5, 2022 "after a wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2."
“Current price will be honored for orders made before Sept 5th, but delivered later,” Musk adds.
After wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th.
Current price will be honored for orders made before Sept 5th, but delivered later.
Musk followed up with a tweet that added how easy it was to upgrade your existing vehicle to FSD via the Tesla mobile application.
“Note, you can upgrade your existing car to FSD in 2 mins via the Tesla app,” Musk writes.
FSD Beta’s sudden and large increases in price over the last year has drawn criticism from the Tesla community. After more than 100,000 Tesla owners were added to the FSD Beta program, the software has gotten a lot of hands-on experience from owners who are having some doubts about its hefty price tag.
Tesla owner and YouTuber James Locke (@arctechinc) shared an echoed recommendation via Twitter to Musk. He asked that the license for Tesla be looked into since FSD is in development and is not a finished product yet. He suggested that a “commercial license” be used when owners place their vehicles into the robo-taxi fleet.
“.@elonmusk I humbly recommend it’s time to rethink the way the FSD license works,” Locke writes. "While FSD is still in development and not a finished product you should have a personal use and commercial use license. Personal use should be much cheaper to allow for maximum safety /1."
“When the robo-taxi fleet is a reality you could offer an upgrade to buy into the commercial license which is more expensive and offers higher profits for putting the car into the fleet. Or owners could let Tesla take a great [chunk] of the robo-taxi profit for personal license.”
.@elonmusk I humbly recommend it's time to rethink the way the FSD license works. While FSD is still in development and not a finished product you should have a personal use and commercial use license. Personal use should be much cheaper to allow for maximum safety /1
Locke adds that everyone who purchases a Tesla should have FSD included with their purchase because its features are tantamount to the vehicle’s safety.
“IMHO @elonmusk everyone who buys a Tesla should get FSD included for personal use to ensure the safest cars on the road are affordable to everyone.”
IMHO @elonmusk everyone who buys a Tesla should get FSD included for personal use to ensure the safest cars on the road are affordable to everyone.
If someone wants to put their Tesla into a money making robo-taxi fleet, that's when the cost for a license should be higher. /end
In January of 2022, Tesla raised the price of Full Self-Driving from $10,000 to $12,000. At the time, many were discussing FSD’s price and stating that $10,000 was too much for the software in its current state.
Last year, Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving subscription. Owners could pay $99 per month or $199/month for the FSD subscription, depending on whether their vehicle already has Enhanced Autopilot.
At the time Tesla's FSD package cost $10,000 and you'd have to subscribe for more than four years (at $199) before it made sense to buy the FSD package.
However, with the upcoming price increase, you'd now need to subscribe for more than six years before buying the package outright was the better deal.
There's no word whether Tesla will also increase the monthly subscription, which is starting to look like a better deal for new owners.
A monthly subscription certainly has a lot more flexibility as you can cancel or renew whenever you'd like without any penalties.
It's certainly possible that Tesla is trying to shift users toward a subscription model.
Tesla's FSD monthly subscription has remained the same price since its introduction.
As Full self-driving becomes better with each update and Tesla gains more data, we can anticipate the price of FSD to continue to go up. With the continuous sudden and large price increases, it’s becoming more difficult to justify such a large price tag.
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Yesterday, we reported that Tesla updated their Steam integration on Model S and Model X vehicles. The update was part of their 2024 Holiday Update, but it looks like there may be more to this than a simple update.
Steam, a video game library app, makes it easy for users to buy or launch games on their computers. However, a couple of years ago, Valve, who created Steam, launched their own standalone device, the Steam Deck. The Steam Deck runs a custom OS based on Linux.
Steam Launch
When Tesla launched the redesigned Model S and Model X, Tesla introduced a dedicated gaming GPU with 16GB of RAM and touted the ability to play top-tier PC games in Tesla vehicles.
In 2022, Tesla finally launched the Steam app for the Model S and Model X as part of its 2022 Holiday Update. The Steam app runs Steam OS, the same OS as the Steam Deck in a virtual environment.
However, earlier this year, Tesla stopped including the GPU and Steam (Beta) in their vehicles, and we haven’t seen any updates to the Steam in quite some time. In fact, we thought Tesla was axing their gaming-on-the-go dreams.
SteamOS Update
The Steam app, which is still in Beta, is getting an interesting update for the Model S and Model X vehicles with the discrete GPU.
Those vehicles received an update to SteamOS 3.6 - the same version of SteamOS that runs on the Steam Deck. While nothing has visually changed, there’s a long list of performance optimizations under the hood to get things running smoother.
Comparing Steam Deck to Tesla Vehicles
Let’s take a look at the Steam Deck - according to Valve, its onboard Zen4 CPU and GPU combined push a total of 2 TFlops of data, which is fairly respectable, but much lower than today’s home consoles. The Steam Deck is capable of 720p gaming fairly seamlessly on low-to-medium settings on the go and is also built on the AMD platform.
AMD-equipped Teslas, including the Model 3 and Model Y, are packing an older Zen+ (Zen 1.5) APU (processor with a combined CPU and GPU). AMD claims that the V1000 - the same embedded chip as on AMD Tesla vehicles (YE1807C3T4MFB), brings up to 3.6 TFLops of processing power with it, including 4K encoding and decoding with the integrated GPU on board.
While that’s not enough for 4K gaming or comparable to a full-blown console or desktop GPU, that’s enough raw horsepower for light gaming and is currently more powerful than the Steam Deck.
The Model S and Model X’s GPU brings that up to about 10TFlops of power - comparable to modern consoles like the Xbox Series X at 12 TFlops.
Steam Gaming for All Vehicles?
The fact that Tesla is updating SteamOS even though the feature is no longer available in any new vehicles could indicate that Tesla is not only bringing Steam back to Teslas but that it’s going to play a much bigger role.
While SteamOS is run in a virtual environment on top of Tesla’s own OS, we could see Tesla bring SteamOS to all of its current vehicles, including the Model 3, Model Y, and Cybertruck. Steam in these vehicles would likely support any game that’s capable of running on the Steam Deck.
We think this Steam update, which includes performance improvements and a variety of fixes, has quietly passed under most people’s radars. This could be a very exciting update for those who enjoy gaming, especially for those who love to do it in their Tesla.
As part of Tesla’s 2024 Holiday Update, Tesla included two awesome new features - Weather at Destination and the long-awaited Weather Radar Overlay. These two features are big upgrades built upon the weather feature that was added in update 2024.26. The original weather feature added an hourly forecast, as well as the chance of precipitation, UV index, Air Quality Index, and other data.
However, this update also added some smaller weather touches, such as the vehicle alerting you if the weather at the destination will be drastically different from the current weather.
Not a Tesla App
Weather At Destination
When you’re navigating to a destination and viewing the full navigation direction list, the text under the arrival time will show you the expected weather next to your destination. You can also tap this, and the full weather pop-up will show up, showing your destination's full set of weather information.
Note the weather under the arrival time
Not a Tesla App
You can also tap the weather icon at the top of the interface at any time and tap Destination to switch between the weather at your current location and the weather at your destination.
You’re probably considering that the weather at your destination doesn’t matter when you’re three hours away - but that’s all taken into account by the trip planner. It will add in both charge time and travel time and show you the weather at your destination at your expected arrival time.
And if the weather is drastically different or inclement, such as rain or snow, while you’ve got sunshine and rainbows - the weather will be shown above the destination ETA for a few moments before it tucks itself away.
Tesla also recently introduced a new voice command. Asking, “What’s the weather?” or something similar will now bring up Tesla’s weather popup.
The weather pop-up above the ETA
Not a Tesla App
One limitation, though—if you’re planning a long road trip that is more than a day of driving, the weather at destination feature won’t be available until you get closer.
Weather Radar Overlay
As part of the improvements to weather, Tesla has also added a radar overlay for precipitation. You can access the new radar overlay by tapping the map and then tapping the weather icon on the right side of the map. It’ll bring up a radar overlay centered on your vehicle. It’ll animate through the radar data over the last 3 hours so that you can see the direction of the storm, but you can also pause it at any point.
You’re able to scroll around in this view and see the weather anywhere, even if you zoom out. It also works while you’re driving, although it can be a little confusing if you’re trying to pay attention to the navigation system. If you like to have Points of Interest enabled on your map, the weather overlay will hide POIs except for Charging POIs.
Requirements / Data
Unfortunately, you’ll need Premium Connectivity for any of the weather features to work, and being on WiFi or using a hotspot will not be enough to get the data to show up. The data, including the weather radar, is provided by The Weather Channel.
As for supported models, weather and weather at destination are available on all vehicles except for the 2012-2020 Model S and Model X. The weather radar has more strict requirements and requires the newer AMD Ryzen-powered infotainment center available on the 2021+ Model S and Model X and more recent Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.
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