EVwire brief: Tesla VP of AI Software Ashok Elluswamy's presentation at CVPR 2026 in Denver revealed an updated list of countries where the company is actively seeking regulatory approval for FSD Supervised. A slide from his presentation also confirmed that 1.3 million Teslas are now running FSD Supervised worldwide.
One of the slides in Elluswamy's presentation showed a world map showing countries where FSD Supervised is approved and where the system is still pending approval. The list of approved countries is short and familiar: the US, Canada, Mexico, China, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the European trio of the Netherlands, Estonia, and Lithuania.
The countries where FSD Supervised is pending approval are where things get interesting. Tesla's map shows pending-approval countries across four continents, from a near wall-to-wall sweep of Europe to Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, India, and, yes, Ethiopia in Africa.
Several of the countries pending regulator approval were very surprising
That sweep reflects how fast Tesla has been moving since the Dutch authority RDW issued the first type-approval in Europe in April. We've tracked the approvals as they've landed, from the Netherlands and Lithuania through to Estonia, the third European country to sign off on May 29.
Details:
FSD (Supervised) status, as shown Ashok Elluswamy's presentation at CVPR 2026:
Shipped to customers:
North America: the United States 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, and Mexico 🇲🇽
Europe: the Netherlands 🇳🇱, Lithuania 🇱🇹, and Estonia 🇪🇪
Asia-Pacific: China 🇨🇳 (partial approval for now), South Korea 🇰🇷, Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿
FSD Supervised’s European rollout is accelerating, with Lithuania and Estonia approving the system just nine days apart
Pending regulatory approval, by region (our read of Ashok’s map):
Europe:
United Kingdom🇬🇧
Ireland 🇮🇪
France 🇫🇷
Spain 🇪🇸
Portugal 🇵🇹
Belgium 🇧🇪
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Germany 🇩🇪
Denmark 🇩🇰
Poland 🇵🇱
Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Austria 🇦🇹
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Italy 🇮🇹
Slovenia 🇸🇮
Croatia 🇭🇷
Hungary 🇭🇺
Romania 🇷🇴
Slovakia 🇸🇰
Latvia 🇱🇻
Iceland 🇮🇸
Sweden 🇸🇪
Finland 🇫🇮
Greece 🇬🇷
Norway 🇳🇴
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Americas:
Colombia 🇨🇴
Chile 🇨🇱
Middle East:
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
Turkey 🇹🇷
Africa:
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Asia-Pacific:
Japan 🇯🇵
Taiwan 🇹🇼
India 🇮🇳
Malaysia 🇲🇾
Thailand 🇹🇭
FSD Supervised has been released to South Korea, though only for Model S and X vehicles
Context:
Why map the whole world now? The breadth is the point. Tesla switched FSD to a subscription-only model in February, ending one-time purchases, so every new country with access becomes a fresh pool of monthly subscribers.
There is a direct line to Musk's pay, as well. His compensation package ties a slice of the reward to reaching 10 million active FSD subscriptions. Against roughly 1.3 million paying customers today, that is a long climb, and it only happens by opening markets.
Tesla doesn’t have an official store in Ethiopia yet, but the company’s vehicles have been imported into the country. Some are now sold through used car platforms like Jiji.
One of the most surprising countries on Tesla's FSD Supervised map is Ethiopia. Despite having no official Tesla sales presence, the country’s EV market is rapidly expanding, with more than 115,000 electric vehicles already on the road and a national target of 500,000 EVs by 2030.
Ethiopia's inclusion is particularly notable because it became the first country in the world to ban imports of new gasoline and diesel vehicles, creating one of the fastest-growing EV markets in Africa. Teslas are not officially sold in the country yet, but some units have been imported into the country over the past years.
Source: Tesla at CVPR and Whole Mars Catalog on X
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