Tesla’s $500 ‘Radio Upgrade’ restores FM and Sirius XM gain entry to

Earlier this year, Tesla started offering owners of older Mannequin S and Mannequin X vehicles the probability to upgrade their infotainment programs for $2,500. Buying it affords them gain entry to to capabilities learned within the more moderen model of the machine, including YouTube, Netflix, Hulu and Twitch streaming by Tesla Theater, as well to Tesla Arcade’s video games. Whereas it obtained’t have an affect on customers’ gain entry to to web radio and song streaming, it gets rid of their gain entry to to AM, FM and Sirius XM radio. As Electrek studies, though, the automaker will give customers the probability to gain their radio support — for another $500, that is.

In its upgrade online page, Tesla acknowledged the modern infotainment machine “is now not appropriate with the customary radio tuner that came equipped on” the older vehicles. Starting within the fourth quarter of 2020, the firm will offer customers a $500 “Radio Upgrade” probability to revive FM radio and Sirius XM radio on their vehicles within the event that they had previously equipped the $2,500 infotainment upgrade. Tesla will install an acceptable radio tuner and antennas on their EVs to develop that happen. The firm says, on the replace hand, that it’ll be very unlikely to revive their gain entry to to AM radio.