NewsThe one-time FSD purchase ended in the UK on 22 May 2026
On 22 May 2026 Tesla withdrew the one-time Full Self-Driving purchase across Europe and the UK, leaving a £99 per month subscription in its place. In North America the same step, taken on 14 February 2026, re-priced the referral benefit outright, because there the benefit is an FSD trial. In the UK it does something narrower and more interesting.
What it does not change
The UK referral benefit. It remains roughly 650 free Supercharging miles on a new Model 3 or Model Y — charging distance, not software. A pricing change to FSD does not alter a reward denominated in miles.
What it does change
It sets a price on the thing a future UK referral benefit might one day be. If the UK reward were ever restructured into a software trial, as North America's was, three months of it would now be priced at three times £99. That is a hypothetical, and this dispatch flags it as one — but it is the reason a UK referral desk reads FSD pricing news at all.
The regulatory question underneath
A subscription price is not the same as availability, and the UK's position on supervised self-driving has been the subject of an ongoing approval process rather than a settled one. That distinction is precisely why the UK referral benefit is still Supercharging miles: approval, not pricing, is the gate. Anyone reading a North American referral page promising free FSD to a UK buyer is reading about a different market with a different regulatory position.
What subscription-only changed where the benefit *is* FSD
Worth understanding even from the UK, because it explains why North American referral pages read so differently. There, three free months stopped being a sample of something purchasable and became a free trial of a recurring bill: doing nothing at the end of month three starts a monthly charge rather than returning the owner to neutral. It also fixed the benefit's cash value at three times the monthly rate, and created a second, lower valuation for owners on a discounted tier. None of that applies to a UK order — the UK benefit is charging distance, with no renewal to forget and no subscription to cancel.
The mainland comparison
Mainland Europe took the same pricing step on the same date and also kept charging distance as its referral benefit — doubled to roughly 2,000 km in April 2026. An EU-level discussion at the end of June 2026 was discussion-only, with the next window in October 2026 and EU-wide approval possibly slipping into 2027. So across three markets: North America has the trial, mainland Europe has 2,000 km, and the UK has 650 miles.
What a UK buyer should take from it
Nothing changes about how you claim your benefit, and that is worth saying because pricing news generates unnecessary anxiety. Open the referral link before configuring, read the order summary before paying, and note the Grant Date when the miles appear — they run on a six-month clock rather than the twelve months most pages quote.
The read
File this as context rather than as a change to your order. The useful UK habit is to distrust any referral page that describes the benefit as free FSD, and to check whether the page knows which market it is writing about — that single test filters out most of the inaccurate UK referral content in circulation.
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Click Open at Tesla first, then configure your car — the benefit is applied automatically before you pay.