Tesla’s own support page answers the same question two different ways, and which answer you get depends on the country code in the address. The United States version of the Grok page lists the requirement as vehicle software version 2025.26 or later. The United Kingdom version and the German version both list it as 2026.2.6 or later.
That second number has been sitting in the address of this article since February, and it looks like the kind of build tag that goes stale within a month. It has not gone stale. It is the figure Tesla still publishes for European cars today, six months after the update it arrived with, while the American page carries a different one.
So if you run a small fleet in Europe and you check your cars against a guide written from the US page, you are checking against the wrong number. That is the shape of this entire subject. The useful question is not what the assistant can say. It is which cars in your yard are permitted to use it, what it adds to the bill per vehicle per month, and what it will not do for you no matter how well it works.
Three requirements, and the one that changes by country
Tesla lists three conditions for Grok on its United Kingdom support page: an AMD processor, vehicle software 2026.2.6 or later, and Premium Connectivity or a Wi-Fi connection. The German page states the same three. The processor is the hard one, because it is the only item on the list that no software update can fix. A car either shipped with that infotainment computer or it did not.
Tesla publishes the way to check, and it takes about a minute per vehicle from the driver’s seat: on the touchscreen, select Controls, then Software, then Additional Vehicle Information, and read the infotainment processor. That is worth doing across the fleet before any other decision here, because the answer sorts your vehicles into two piles permanently.
One caution on the version numbers, because they are genuinely easy to confuse. The European floor is 2026.2.6, the February build. The summer feature release that carried Grok to the rest of the continent is 2026.26. Those are different releases and the difference is a single period. If you are reading a release note or asking a service center, it is worth saying the digits out loud.
Coverage from the February launch is also now out of date on geography. Grok reached Europe in nine countries: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, Portugal and Spain, according to Teslarati’s report at the time. In July, Tesla’s Europe account announced the assistant was coming to all of Europe as part of the summer release. The nine-country list you will still find in most articles about this update is no longer the constraint. The processor is.
The connectivity line, charged per car
Grok is not included in the connectivity package your vehicles already have. On Tesla’s United Kingdom connectivity page, the feature comparison table lists Grok under AI Companion in the Premium column only. Standard Connectivity comes free with the vehicle for eight years from delivery or first service use, and Grok is not part of it.
Premium Connectivity is a monthly subscription at £9.99 in the United Kingdom, and €9.99 in Germany. That is per vehicle. There is no fleet rate published on either page, so a ten-van operation is looking at roughly one hundred euros a month for the assistant to work while the vans are moving, and a thirty-van operation three times that.
Technically the requirement is Premium Connectivity or a stable Wi-Fi connection, and it is worth being honest about what that alternative is worth. A vehicle parked in your yard on the depot Wi-Fi qualifies. A vehicle on a job at the other end of the country does not. For anything that happens while the vehicle is in use, the Wi-Fi option is not an option.
Two further details matter more to a fleet than to a private owner, and both are on Tesla’s connectivity page. A Premium Connectivity subscription cannot be transferred from one vehicle to another, so a subscription follows the car and not the driver, and rotating a van out of service means canceling one and starting another. And cancellation is not prorated: you keep the features to the end of the billing period and there is no partial refund.
There is a documented route for company vehicles, which is the sort of thing that is easy to miss and annoying to discover late. Tesla’s guidance is that if you are driving a company vehicle you subscribe through the Tesla app, and if the option to subscribe does not appear, you contact your vehicle provider. On a leased or fleet-managed car, the subscription may not be yours to buy from the touchscreen at all.
One more constraint on geography, separate from Grok’s own rollout: Premium Connectivity is only sold in listed markets. Tesla’s European list covers Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom, and it is not sold in markets Tesla classifies as non-core.
What it actually does, and the category it is not in
Tesla describes Grok as an AI companion you talk to hands-free, with a choice of voice and personality, and it is still labeled Beta on every regional page we checked. Beyond conversation, Tesla’s own description covers issuing vehicle commands: setting up navigation for a trip, placing phone calls, searching for and playing music, adjusting the temperature, opening the glovebox. It will also answer questions about the car itself, which is the quietly useful one, because it means a driver can ask what a warning symbol means without pulling over to find the manual.
Now the part a fleet owner needs stated plainly. Nothing in Tesla’s published description of Grok covers dispatch, job scheduling, vehicle tracking, proof of delivery, driver hours, or integration with any fleet management system. It is an in-cabin assistant for the person in the seat. It is not a layer over your operation, and any pitch that presents it as one is describing something Tesla has not documented.
That distinction is also the honest case in its favor. The thing it genuinely improves is the number of tasks a driver can complete without touching a screen while driving. That is a real benefit and it accrues to the driver, not instead of the driver. Nobody’s route planner becomes redundant because the van can queue up a playlist by voice.
The usage limit nobody has budgeted for
This is the detail most likely to cause a support call in month two, and it sits at the bottom of Tesla’s FAQ. Grok has usage limits. If the driver is signed in with a Grok account, usage follows that account’s limits, and on reaching the limit the car prompts them to open the Grok app. If nobody is signed in, usage is limited and the driver is told they need to sign in to continue.
Read that from a fleet perspective. The account that lifts the cap in a company vehicle is a personal one belonging to whoever is driving. Tesla is clear that a Grok account or subscription is not required to enable the feature at this time, and equally clear that account requirements are subject to change. So there is a policy question here that nobody has been forced to answer yet: whether drivers sign personal AI accounts into company vehicles, what happens to that arrangement when the driver leaves, and who is expected to pay if the cap starts to bite.
It is not urgent. It is the kind of thing that is much cheaper to decide once, in advance, than to improvise per driver.
What Tesla says about the conversations
Worth quoting closely rather than paraphrasing loosely, because in-cabin voice tends to attract more speculation than fact. Tesla states that interactions are processed by SpaceXAI in line with that company’s privacy notice, that conversations remain anonymous to Tesla and are not linked to you or your vehicle, that when Grok places a call it reads your phone contacts in the vehicle and those contacts are not sent to SpaceXAI, and that location-related features require you to opt in to the Share precise location setting.
The processing is done by SpaceXAI, not by Tesla, which is a reminder of how concentrated this stack has become: the same consolidation runs through the SpaceX purchase of the coding tool Cursor. For a fleet carrying commercially sensitive conversations, the practical move is not to panic about it but to tell drivers plainly what the microphone is doing, in the same way you would about a dashcam. Owners who want a category of work to stay entirely in-house tend to end up looking at models that run on hardware they own, which is a different decision from this one and does not overlap with it.
Our take
For most small European fleets this is a driver amenity with a per-vehicle price, and it should be judged the way you would judge any other per-vehicle subscription rather than as an AI decision. On a mixed-age fleet the processor requirement will do most of the deciding for you, and the honest answer for the older half is that this is not available and no budget line will change that.
Where it earns the money is a fleet whose drivers spend real hours in the seat and currently do things with a screen that they should not be doing with a screen. Ten pounds or ten euros a month against that is a straightforward trade. Where it does not earn the money is a fleet buying it because the word AI is attached, on vehicles that do short local runs, for drivers who wanted a better phone mount.
The wider point is one we keep running into on subscription pricing this year, which is that the number on the page today comes with a date attached. Tesla says plainly that Grok availability is subject to change or end at any time and that usage limits may change over time. Price a trial on what it does now, not on a roadmap.
If you do one thing after reading this, walk the yard with the touchscreen check and find out how many of your vehicles have the AMD processor. Every other question here is downstream of that count, and it is the only one that no amount of budget can answer later.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does every Tesla in Europe get Grok?
No. The vehicle needs an AMD infotainment processor, vehicle software 2026.2.6 or later, and Premium Connectivity or Wi-Fi. The processor is the requirement that cannot be solved with an update, so an older car without it stays ineligible regardless of software version or subscription.
Do I need Premium Connectivity on every vehicle?
Yes, if you want Grok to work while the vehicle is away from Wi-Fi, which for a working fleet means effectively always. Tesla lists Grok as a Premium-only feature and prices Premium Connectivity at £9.99 a month in the United Kingdom and €9.99 in Germany, charged per vehicle rather than per account.
Can I move a Premium Connectivity subscription to another vehicle?
No. Tesla states that the subscription cannot be transferred between vehicles. You cancel it on one car and start a new one on the other, and cancellations are not prorated, so you keep the features until the end of the billing period you already paid for.
Does Grok do fleet management?
No. Tesla’s published description covers navigation, phone calls, music, climate, the glovebox and questions about the vehicle itself. Dispatch, job scheduling, vehicle tracking and integration with fleet management software are not part of what Tesla documents, so treat it as an assistant for the driver rather than a tool for the operation.
One thing we are curious about, because the answer is not obvious and it is going to come up for somebody this year: if a driver signs their own AI account into a company van to lift the usage cap, whose account is that, and what happens to it on their last day?
