Tesla says its Full Self-Driving package is now available in China
Tesla has introduced its Full Self-Driving (FSD) suite of driver assistance features to China – or at least it’s about to.
The company announced the news in a tweet on Thursday, listing all the countries in which FSD is currently available. Besides China, Lithuania is also new on this list, the second European country to benefit from FSD after the Netherlands.
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The total list of countries where Tesla FSD is now available is: Australia, Canada, China, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and the United States.
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Tesla has not shared any further details about FSD availability in China. Launching FSD in the large and dynamic auto market that is China would surely be a win for Tesla, especially since many other local automakers, such as Xpeng and Xiaomi, already have a similar suite of semi-autonomous driving features in the country.
As CNBC pointed out, Tesla previously offered its Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot suites of driver assistance features in China, while FSD was only available to select users, and on a limited basis. China Daily, however, claims that the full version of FSD is not yet available in China, although “progress is being made”, citing internal sources.
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The news comes shortly after Musk, alongside several other American businessmen and President Donald Trump, visited Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Tesla customers in China currently have to pay a premium price to access the most advanced self-driving package the company has to offer. As presented on Tesla’s Chinese website, the “Intelligent Assisted Driving” package costs a one-time sum of 64,000 yuan, or $9,409. In the United States, FSD is only available as a monthly subscription, priced at $99 per month.
