No more huge check for European owners.
The one-time buy for Full Self-Driving is gone. In its place is a monthly subscription.
It costs 99 euros. Or British pounds. Depending on where you are. Before this week you paid a flat €7,500 for the privilege of having a robot driver. That era has closed.
Even the Enhanced Autopilot option has vanished from the shelf. Used to cost €3.8k up front. Now you can’t get it new.
But if you bought into the older package?
You get a deal.
Down to €49 a month for the full FSD experience.
Here is what you actually get for the money. Navigating city streets. Respecting traffic lights. Automatic parking. The kind of things that feel like sci-fi until your neighbor does it in the driveway. The old Enhanced package was lighter on features—automatic lane changes on motorways, navigation aid, and that same parking. Now everyone pushes for the big tier.
It launches where it already could drive. The Netherlands and Lithuania have seen this live. But check your software update.
The option shows up in other markets too. Even if the feature isn’t officially launched yet in those regions.
There is a catch. A hardware one.
You don’t need the latest HW4 chip. Old HW3 cars work. Sort of.
Elon Musk has been clear about this. HW3 cannot run FSD at its full theoretical potential. At least not without an expensive upgrade to the guts of the car. You can subscribe. You can drive. You might hit a wall on what the computer can actually perceive.
Is it worth the risk to pay monthly for a partially upgraded experience?
The hardware limit remains even if the price tag changes.
Prices drop. Subscriptions rise. The car still learns on the road.
Your dashboard glows blue. You let go of the wheel for a second. Then a third.
