No More Buying It Forever: Tesla Puts Self-Driving on a Monthly Tab

Tesla has dropped the buy-it-once Full Self-Driving option in Europe and the UK, replacing it with a €99/£99 monthly subscription. Enhanced Autopilot is gone too.

Tesla has changed its approach to Full Self-Driving Supervised in Europe. Buying the package once and keeping it «forever» is no longer possible: the company has moved the system to a monthly subscription.

European buyers used to be able to pay €7,500 for FSD — roughly $8,823. In the UK the price was £6,800, about $9,134. Now Tesla asks for €99 or £99 a month: around $116 in the eurozone or $133 in the UK.

The separate Enhanced Autopilot package has vanished too. It used to cost €3,800 or £3,400 and offered extended features: automatic lane changes, driver-supervised highway driving and summoning the car through the app. Basic Autopilot, which keeps the car in its lane, accelerates and brakes within that lane, stays free.

The main catch is that full FSD Supervised is currently approved only in the Netherlands and Lithuania. In the rest of Europe the buyer is effectively paying for a feature set with limits and the promise of future approvals. On its UK site Tesla states plainly that FSD Supervised is not yet available and depends on development and regulators.

The subscription looks gentler on the wallet: to match the old €7,500 outlay you’d have to pay for more than six years. But for long-time owners the situation stings. Many already handed over thousands of euros for the promise of future autonomy — and now Tesla itself admits that cars with the older HW3 hardware cannot reach the full level of autonomous driving without upgrades. The subscription solves the cost of entry, but not the real question: when the promised feature will finally become reality.