Tesla FSD Supervised Now Live in Lithuania (May 2026): €99/Month, Hardware 4 Only

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is now live in Lithuania. The rollout began on May 20, 2026, one day after Tesla and the Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration (LTSA) jointly announced the approval. Lithuania becomes the second European country to receive FSD, following the Netherlands — which received its approval in April 2026 after more than 18 months of testing by the Dutch vehicle authority RDW.

This guide breaks down exactly what changed, who can use it, what it costs, and what Lithuanian Tesla owners should know before subscribing.

TL;DR: FSD (Supervised) launched in Lithuania on May 20, 2026. Hardware 4 (AI4) vehicles only at launch. Subscription is €99/month standard or €49/month for owners with Enhanced Autopilot. It's Level 2 — hands available, full driver attention required. HW3 owners get an "FSD v14 Lite" build later this summer.

What Just Happened

On May 19, 2026, the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications, together with the LTSA, announced they would recognize the temporary EU-type approval issued by the Dutch RDW. The next day, May 20, Tesla pushed FSD (Supervised) availability to eligible Lithuanian accounts.

The path was unusual in how fast it moved. Lithuania did not run its own independent testing of FSD. Instead, the LTSA used the EU's mutual recognition mechanism: under EU rules, when one member state grants a type approval for a vehicle technology, other member states can recognize that approval rather than starting from scratch. The Netherlands ran the heavy 18-month RDW assessment under UN Regulation R-171 (Driver Control Assistance Systems). Lithuania accepted the result.

The practical upshot: Lithuanian Tesla owners got FSD roughly five weeks after the Netherlands did, instead of waiting another year-plus for parallel testing. This pathway is also what Greece and Belgium are reportedly pursuing, and what Tesla is publicly relying on for "rapid" European expansion in the second half of 2026.

Hardware: Will Your Tesla Actually Run FSD?

This is the most important section for any Lithuanian owner — because at launch, only Hardware 4 (AI4) vehicles are supported.

Hardware 4 (AI4) — Supported now:

• Model 3 Highland (late 2023 and newer Model 3 builds)
• Model Y Juniper (2024+ refresh)
• Model S and Model X built from approximately mid-2023 onward
• Cybertruck (all)

Hardware 3 (HW3) — Not supported at launch:

• Pre-Highland Model 3 (2017 – mid-2023)
• Pre-Juniper Model Y (2020 – mid-2024)
• Older Model S / Model X

Tesla has indicated that an "FSD v14 Lite" build is being prepared for HW3 cars, designed to fit within the limited compute and sensor suite of older vehicles. Reporting suggests this rollout is targeted for late June 2026, but Tesla has not committed to a firm public date for the European HW3 release specifically.

If you're not sure which hardware version your car has, two ways to check:

1. In-car software — Controls > Software > Additional Vehicle Information. The line listing "Autopilot Computer" shows your hardware generation (HW3 or HW4/AI4).
2. VIN-based verification — a VIN check service like VINTESLA shows the original factory configuration including the FSD computer version, which is the authoritative answer for buyers and verifiers. This matters most if you're considering buying a used Tesla in Lithuania specifically to get FSD access — you want to confirm the HW4 spec before you commit.

Pricing in Lithuania: €99/Month (€49 with Enhanced Autopilot)

Tesla's European FSD pricing model is subscription-only — there is currently no one-time purchase option in Lithuania (or anywhere else in Europe at launch).

A few important points on the EAP discount:

• EAP must be already owned. You cannot retroactively "add EAP" to your account to qualify for the €49 rate. The discount is a grandfather benefit for existing EAP owners only.
• EAP is no longer sold separately in Europe. Tesla phased out new EAP purchases in most European markets some time ago. If you didn't buy EAP when it was offered, you won't be eligible for the €49 tier.
• Subscription pauses are allowed. You can cancel and resubscribe month-to-month. Some Lithuanian owners are likely to use FSD just for summer road trips through the Baltics or longer continental drives, rather than year-round.

At €99/month, a full year of FSD costs €1,188 — comparable to a serious road trip-worth of fuel-and-EV-charging savings in many European driving patterns. Whether the value justifies the price for daily Vilnius city driving is something each owner will have to judge after the first month or two.

How to Enable FSD on Your Lithuanian Tesla

The activation flow is the standard Tesla European subscription path:

1. Open the Tesla app on your phone, signed in with the account that owns the vehicle.
2. Navigate to your vehicle > Upgrades.
3. If your car is HW4 and eligible, Full Self-Driving (Supervised) will appear as a subscribable option.
4. Choose Subscribe and confirm the payment method.
5. The subscription activates almost immediately. The new functionality appears in the car after the next software push — usually within hours, sometimes requiring a vehicle reboot.

If the upgrade option does not appear, the most common reasons are: (a) your car is HW3 (waiting for FSD v14 Lite), (b) your account is registered to a non-Lithuanian Tesla region (FSD availability is keyed to the registration country, not just the SIM card location), or (c) Tesla hasn't fully rolled out to your specific account yet — staggered rollouts are normal for the first 1–2 weeks of a country launch.

What FSD Supervised Actually Does — and What It Doesn't

For Lithuanian owners, the system operates as a Level 2 driver-assistance feature under UN Regulation R-171. Continuous driver attention is required; the system handles steering, accelerating, braking, and lane changes on most roads — but the human in the driver's seat retains full legal responsibility.

What FSD Supervised will do (most of the time, on most Lithuanian roads):

• Navigate from address to address with minimal input
• Handle highway driving including A1 (Vilnius–Klaipėda) and A2 (Vilnius–Panevėžys) with lane changes and exit-taking
• Stop at traffic lights, stop signs, and yield signs
• Negotiate roundabouts (a particular challenge given Lithuania's heavy roundabout density)
• Detect and respond to pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles in city traffic

What FSD will not do (or will struggle with):

• Replace the driver. Hands must be available; the cabin-facing camera monitors attentiveness, and ignoring it will lock the system out.
• Handle complex Vilnius Old Town navigation without driver intervention — narrow, cobblestoned, irregular streets are exactly the conditions where Level 2 systems show their limits.
• Operate in heavy snow or icy conditions with full reliability. Lithuanian winters can degrade camera-based perception; expect FSD to disengage or downgrade more often in December–March.
• Make legally-binding decisions for you. If FSD makes a mistake, the driver is legally and financially responsible, full stop.

What's Next: HW3 Rollout and Other EU Countries

For HW3 owners in Lithuania: Tesla's planned "FSD v14 Lite" build is the only path to FSD access on older hardware. Public statements have pointed at a late-summer 2026 rollout, but no firm date is locked. HW3 owners should NOT assume their car will get FSD on day one of the v14 Lite release — the European-specific build may stagger separately from the US release.

For other EU countries: Greece and Belgium are publicly known to be pursuing the same RDW-recognition pathway. Once one of them adopts it, the same approval can be used to push to additional countries. Tesla has publicly indicated that FSD expansion across the EU will be substantially faster in the second half of 2026 because the regulatory groundwork is now in place — country-by-country mutual recognition is much faster than the original 18-month RDW assessment.

For Lithuanian owners specifically, the more interesting question may be when FSD becomes available in neighbouring countries — Latvia, Estonia, Poland — since cross-border driving is common and FSD currently only operates within approved jurisdictions. A road trip that crosses out of Lithuania may force you to disengage FSD at the border.

What This Means If You're Buying a Used Tesla in Lithuania

If you're shopping for a used Tesla in Vilnius, Kaunas, or anywhere in Lithuania right now, the hardware-version question just got significantly more important. A 2022 Model Y (HW3) and a 2024 Model Y Juniper (HW4) may look almost identical in a listing, but only one of them can use FSD. That's a real economic gap.

Things to check before buying:

• Hardware version (HW3 vs HW4 / AI4)
• Whether the previous owner had a current FSD subscription (transfers vary; some don't carry over)
• EAP entitlement on the account (the €49 discount tier — sometimes the EAP was bought by a prior owner and may or may not transfer)
• Production date (Highland and Juniper refreshes are the clearest HW4 markers, but some pre-refresh builds also have HW4)

For these questions, the build sheet and original factory configuration tell the full story. The car's display only shows current hardware; a VIN-based factory report shows what the car was actually built with, what options were originally installed, and what software entitlements came with it.

Related Guides

If you're new to Tesla in Lithuania, or just preparing for FSD-era driving, a few related guides on this site:

• Tesla Autopilot Camera Calibration — FSD relies on the same camera array; miscalibrated cameras are the most common cause of FSD disengaging
• Tesla Autopilot Unavailable: Common Fixes — what to check if FSD won't enable after subscription
• Tesla Vision vs Radar vs Lidar Explained — how Tesla's camera-only approach differs from competitors
• Tesla Used Buying Inspection Guide — what to check before buying a used Tesla
• Tesla Phantom Braking Fix — FSD will be more aggressive than basic Autopilot, including with phantom-brake events
• Tesla Maintenance Schedule — keep cameras and sensors in spec for FSD reliability

A note on this article: All facts cited are drawn from official Tesla announcements (May 19–20, 2026), the Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration (LTSA), the Dutch RDW, and contemporary reporting from Electrek, TechCrunch, TeslaNorth, and Drive Tesla Canada. Pricing figures are accurate as of May 21, 2026; subscription prices and HW3 timelines can change — verify the current offer on your Tesla account before subscribing.