Elon Musk Says Cybercab ‘Hopefully Soon in Europe Too'

Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he hopes the Cybercab will come to Europe 'soon,' the first time he has tied Tesla's driverless two-seater to the continent as a service rather than as a product Giga Berlin might one day build. 'Hopefully soon in Europe too,' Musk wrote on X, quoting a post by a German rider who had taken a Cybercab in Austin and written: 'Hope it's not gonna take years until this is possible in Germany. Come on EU.' Tesla has announced no European launch, date, city or approval route for the Cybercab, and Musk's last substantive answer on the subject, on the April 22 earnings call, was a deferral. 'We're probably jumping the gun here on Robotaxi in Europe since it took us an immense amount of time just to get Supervised Full Self-Driving approved in Europe,' he told analysts then. 'We don't control the regulators, we push as hard as we can but it's ultimately up to the governments in Europe and the EU to decide what to do.' On unsupervised driving or robotaxi service in Europe: 'I actually don't know what the time frame for that is, and would be somewhat at the mercy of the regulators.' Where Tesla Stands in Europe Tesla is still working through the approval class below the one the Cybercab needs. FSD Supervised, the driver-assistance product, was approved in the Netherlands in April and has since been recognised in Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark and Belgium, with more than 50 million kilometres driven in Europe by the second-quarter call. Slovenia joined the list on Monday. France refused to back an EU-wide approval in July, Germany's KBA opened its own review and Czechia declined to join the consensus. [Tesla released FSD safety evidence on September 1 ahead of an EU-wide vote scheduled for October 6](LINK: Tesla Releases FSD Safety Evidence Ahead of October 6 EU-Wide Vote). A car with no steering wheel is a different matter. The EU has no self-certification, which is the route Tesla took in the United States and which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is now auditing, as EV reported on September 4. In Europe a technical service tests the car and an approval authority signs it off. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1426 set the technical rules for automated driving systems in 2022, and the small-series annex to the type-approval regulation has allowed fully automated vehicles since then at 1,500 per type per year across the bloc. A further implementing regulation adopted on March 3 amended the rules for fully automated vehicles. Whether it lifts the cap is disputed between the two analyses on file, and Tesla has not said which route it would use. Waymo has chosen Munich for Europe's first driverless taxi service, targeted for the end of 2027. Momenta obtained Level 4 testing approval in Germany in July. What Musk Has Said Before The only Europe-specific statement about the vehicle itself came at Giga Berlin on February 25–27, when Musk said the Cybercab was 'most likely' the plant's next major product and that Tesla would expand the site 'assuming that the authorities are supportive and the people are supportive,' a condition Handelsblatt read as a reference to the works-council election. Tesla has since added special shifts at Berlin to reach 7,500 Model Ys a week. No Berlin Cybercab production has been confirmed. Tesla displayed Cybercab prototypes in London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Oslo in late 2024 and in Brussels in January 2025, with no service date. On the January 2025 earnings call Musk called Europe 'a layer cake of regulations and bureaucracy,' a remark about FSD approval that has since been attached to the Cybercab. The Cybercab The Cybercab has been carrying paying passengers in parts of Austin since September 4, with 45 registered in Texas, as EV reported at the launch. In its first four days riders have surfaced a concealed charging port and the absence of an onboard AC charger and, twice, the manual-drive joystick interface meant for technicians. The Cybercab goes on display in Beijing and Shanghai from mid-September with no sales or service attached. For Europe the practical obstacles are the ones Musk listed in April, and one he did not: the Cybercab cannot take AC charging, so a European service would depend on Tesla's Supercharger network or on wireless pads the company has not deployed.