EU delays Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ vote to December at the earliest

This story is about Tesla's self-driving software in Europe, not a home energy upgrade, but it's worth a quick note if you follow EV news alongside your home projects. The EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles won't vote on approving Tesla's "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" system across the bloc on October 6 as Tesla had suggested. The committee's next meeting isn't until December, so that's now the earliest a vote could happen.

The Netherlands approved the system domestically in April and is asking the EU to extend that approval to all member states. So far only six other countries have recognized it, covering about 12% of the EU's population. To pass EU-wide, the request needs support from countries representing 65% of the population. Sweden wants Tesla to remove the ability to set the system above posted speed limits, France has refused to recognize the Dutch approval over speeding and driver-attention concerns, and Germany, Italy, and Spain haven't signed on either. A recent test in Belgium, a country that already approved the system, found it sped in over half of the slow-speed zones checked.

None of this changes anything for home energy planning, but if you're weighing an EV purchase or charging setup, it's a sign that Tesla's self-driving timeline in Europe keeps slipping, with no new date confirmed until at least December.