Tesla said it is working to launch its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assistance system in the Chinese market as soon as possible.
The US electric vehicle (EV) maker mentioned the plan while releasing its latest first-quarter financial report, marking a rare reference to FSD’s entry into China in recent months, though no specific timeline was provided.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January that he expected China to approve the company’s FSD in February.
That failed to materialize, however. State-owned China Daily quickly denied the plan at the time, citing a Chinese government source.
Tesla has been pushing to introduce its more advanced driver-assistance software to the Chinese market. Currently, the autonomous driving features Tesla offers in China are relatively limited.
On February 25, 2025, Tesla began rolling out Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) features in China similar to the US version of FSD, but there has been little new progress since.
In its home market of North America, Tesla pushed the latest generation FSD V14.3 software update to customers in April.
The optimized and upgraded version reshapes the reinforcement learning phase to help autonomous vehicles better handle various long-tail edge driving scenarios.
Musk said Tesla’s unsupervised FSD is anticipated to begin a phased rollout to the customer fleet in the fourth quarter of 2026.
He expects to roll out FSD V15 between the end of this year and early next year. The version will feature a complete overhaul of the software architecture, further improving safety levels.
To date, the cumulative mileage of Tesla’s FSD has surpassed 9.38 billion miles (15.1 billion kilometers), with more than 3.37 billion miles driven in urban road scenarios.
The company received approval for FSD Supervised in the Netherlands in April, paving the way for potential approvals in other EU markets.
