Tesla cuts Full Self-Driving subscription prices in U.S., Canada

Elon Musk’s Tesla stated on Friday it has lower costs of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) subscriptions in the USA and Canada, because it seeks to drive adoption amid softening demand and worth competitors.

The subscriptions might be priced at US$99 per thirty days within the U.S. and C$99 in Canada, the electrical car maker stated in a publish on X.

Musk has lengthy touted the FSD expertise as a possible money cow for the corporate, however has did not preserve his promise of a completely autonomous driving expertise, amid stiff regulatory and authorized scrutiny of Tesla’s security and advertising.

The software program, which Tesla says doesn’t make its automobiles autonomous and requires lively driver supervision, had earlier been supplied at a subscription of $199 a month.

Final month, Tesla stated it would give a one-month trial of the driver-assist expertise to present and new clients within the U.S.

(Reporting by Utkarsh Shetti in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)