Autopilot Increased in price

[cookielovers]

I was reading a posting in the main tesla site in which members mentioned the price of autopilot had increased by $500 without any mention from Tesla. I thought I would check the tesla uk site an it's true the price has now increased in the uk by £400 to £2600 or £3k if enabled after receipt of the car. On my order placed at the beginning of August it was £2200 so looks like I got the order just in time. I imagine the increase in cost is for the autopilot 2.0 hardware. If anyone has any thoughts let me know.

 

[Rohan]

I didn't notice. Ordered my MS90D mid August to take advantage of preferential financing options. seemed like the price hadn't changed for a while.

 

[cookielovers]

Yeah I not clear what day in August the price went up. I just know it happened in the last week. It's interesting that they kept it quiet. It's not even due to currency rates as the USA had the increase too?

 

[Dan43]

Went up last Thursday, also base price for Model 60 up by £100. New PCP and GMFV 60 uplift Saturday morning, matching July pricing.

 

[Sumon]

Based on the info from Electrek the price increase for autopilot (600 euro) could only be for 2.0 hardware.
Any ideas on the retrofit price ?

 

[Dan43]

Based on the info from Electrek the price increase for autopilot (600 euro) could only be for 2.0 hardware.
Any ideas on the retrofit price ?

This has been discussed widely, no one is that sure a retrofit option will be available, with many suggestions and ideas but naturally no one knows, its a guess at best.
AP 1.0 was not a retrofit then I believe and nothing suggests AP 2.0 will be either, except Model X seems to have extra space for lots and lenses at the front, nothing at the rear.

 

[WannabeOwner]

For threads I have read it seems that AP2.0 is very unlikely to work with current 7.x software, so would need Version 8 ... and thus new hardware could not be released (i.e. fitted to vehicles "before formal announcement") without Version 8.0. Thus seems unlikely that this has anything to do with AP2; people may have advanced orders on 9 month lead time (at old price); people with existing orders without AP, i.e. planning to upgrade after purchase [to save tax], are being told that old AP price will be honoured for them, etc.

I reckon its "just a price increase" representing the market value for the product that Tesla think it will stand.