News Summary

• Germany will push for fast EU-wide approval of Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance system, transport minister Steffen Bilger said on Tuesday.
• Elon Musk thanked him in German on X a day later, as Tesla tries to win over a bloc where it is so far cleared only country by country.
• In those talks, the two sides agreed the system may drive up to 10% above the speed limit, a position Germany will now argue for in Brussels.
• For Tesla, the stakes are both commercial and regulatory.
• The company has called approval key to lifting its European sales, where Chinese rival BYD outsold it in the first months of this year.