Catching up with the local competitors. By Stan Schroeder on May 21, 2026.
Tesla has introduced its Full Self-Driving (FSD) suite of driver assistance features to China – or is near doing so. The company announced the news in a tweet on Thursday, listing all the countries where FSD is currently available. Besides China, the list now includes Lithuania, the second European country to get FSD after the Netherlands.
The total list of countries where Tesla FSD is available is now as follows: Australia, Canada, China, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and the United States.
Tesla did not share further details about FSD availability in China. Launching FSD in the large, busy Chinese automotive market would be a success for Tesla, especially since many other local automakers, such as Xpeng and Xiaomi, already have similar 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 available only to select users in a limited form. China Daily, however, claims that the full version of FSD isn’t yet available in China, though “progress is underway,” citing insider sources.
The news comes shortly after Musk, along with several other American businessmen and President Donald Trump, visited Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Tesla customers in China currently have to pay a high price to access the most advanced autonomous driving package the company offers. On Tesla’s Chinese website, the “Intelligent assisted driving” package is priced at a one-time fee of 64,000 yuan or $9,409. In the U.S., FSD is available only as a monthly subscription, costing $99 per month.
Stan Schroeder is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He’s got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.