Tesla began offering free two-month trials of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to European owners on Tuesday, doubling the length of the promotions the company has run since the software’s April debut on the continent, according to the emails shared by recipients.
Owners in Denmark and the Netherlands — two of the five markets where the software is approved — posted matching notifications alongside customers in Belgium.
The trial is active immediately and expires on October 3, while the example published by the US outlet carries an October 2 date, indicating expiry varies with each owner’s activation day.
The emails began landing in European inboxes in the early hours of Tuesday local time — Monday evening US Eastern Time — and covered both Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.
The early-October expiry places the end of the promotion days before the next expected session of the European Commission’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles, the body weighing whether the Dutch national approval underpinning Tesla‘s European rollout should be extended across all 27 member states.
Longer Trials
The two-month window marks a step up from the one-month trials Tesla distributed in the Netherlands starting in April, shortly after the software went live there.
Owners who redeemed the earlier offer and now receive the new one will have accumulated three months of free access in total.
Before the software can be engaged, the emails instruct owners to accept a user agreement in the vehicle, watch a mandatory instructional video and pass a short quiz — the stricter onboarding sequence Tesla built for European markets.
Five Markets and a Dutch Certificate
FSD (Supervised) is currently available to customers in five European Union countries.
The Dutch vehicle authority RDW granted the first approval on April 10 after an 18-month review that included 1.6 million kilometers of on-road testing, more than 4,500 closed-track scenarios and over 13,000 customer ride-alongs.
The RDW cleared the software under UN Regulation 171, which governs Driver Control Assistance Systems, alongside an Article 39 exemption under EU Regulation 2018/858 — a provision reserved for technologies that do not fit within existing rules.
Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark and Belgium subsequently recognized the Dutch type approval for their own roads, while larger markets including Germany, France, Italy and Spain have held back in favor of a coordinated EU-level decision.
Denmark’s inclusion in this week’s trial push follows months of groundwork in the country, where Tesla opened free FSD test rides in cities including Aarhus, Odense, Ribe and Køge last December.
Subscription Economics
The trials feed directly into a subscription funnel.
FSD (Supervised) is sold in Europe exclusively through a €99 monthly subscription after Tesla discontinued the one-time purchase option across most of the region on May 21.
Owners who previously bought the Enhanced Autopilot package pay a reduced rate of roughly €49 per month, according to European pricing pages tracked by regional outlets.
The European rollout remains limited to vehicles fitted with Hardware 4 computers, leaving the older Hardware 3 fleet excluded — a constraint the company has begun addressing in the United States with a scaled-down FSD V14 Lite buildthat has not reached Europe.
On its second-quarter earnings call, Tesla said global active FSD subscriptions reached 1.48 million, up from the 1.28 million disclosed earlier in the year, with management crediting European availability for part of the gain.
European customers crossed 50 million cumulative kilometers on the software within roughly three months of launch, and the company’s latest regional safety release claims 65 million kilometers logged and a crash rate 5.2 times better than the human-driver baseline.
The October Vote
The timing of the promotion carries regulatory weight.
The TCMV discussed the Dutch Article 39 file at its 117th meeting on May 5 and again on June 30, but neither session produced a vote, and the next opportunity for a bloc-wide decision is expected in October.
France’s approval authority has declined to clear the software over safety concerns, and Swedish regulators have raised objections of their own.
