Tesla FSD Now Live in 13 Countries as EU Vote Nears

AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software is spreading across Europe faster than almost anyone predicted, and a key regulatory meeting this month could clear the way for the continent's largest car markets. The system is now approved in 13 countries and territories worldwide, including five European Union member states, and momentum is building toward a bloc-wide green light.

A Domino Effect Across the EU

The European breakthrough began when the Netherlands' RDW authority granted FSD its first-ever type approval after more than 18 months of testing and 1.6 million kilometers on European roads. Because that approval enables mutual recognition across the EU, other member states can adopt it nationally without full re-testing — and they have moved quickly.

Estonia, Lithuania, Denmark, and Belgium have all followed, with Belgium becoming the fifth EU country to sign off after the Flemish mobility minister approved it following 5,000 kilometers of local testing. The one-day gap between the Danish and Belgian approvals, as detailed in Not a Tesla App's reporting, suggests the bureaucratic logjam that held FSD back in Europe is finally breaking.

The Big Markets Are Next

The five approvals so far cover smaller markets, but the prize is Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Those countries have signaled they would rather wait for a coordinated EU decision than grant national clearances Brussels might later revisit. That makes the upcoming Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) meeting pivotal: member states are expected to discuss a harmonized framework, with a formal vote potentially following later this year.

If the Commission moves toward a single regional approval, the remaining holdouts could come online far faster than the country-by-country path implies. Neighbors like Sweden are already expanding public testing, and the pressure on larger states to keep pace is mounting. This builds directly on the global self-driving framework recently adopted by UN regulators, which gave national authorities a clearer template to work from.

What European Drivers Get

The initial European rollout is exclusive to Hardware 4 vehicles and runs a regional variant of the FSD v14 branch tuned for local roads and laws — the same software family that recently added speed profiles and other refinements in its international rollout. Tesla offers the suite through a monthly subscription of roughly 99 euros or a one-time purchase, and the system remains Level 2, requiring an attentive driver ready to take over.

For Tesla, the European expansion is more than a feature milestone. It validates years of patient regulatory groundwork and opens a market of hundreds of millions of drivers to a product that improves with every mile of data. With a TCMV discussion on the calendar and approvals stacking up, Europe is shifting from Tesla's toughest autonomy market to one of its most promising — and the next few weeks could decide just how fast the rest of the continent comes online.