Connected Vehicle Field Test 5.0

A Field Study with a focus on the new EU Data Act that gives car owners the right to request and share data from their car.

CARUSO’s initiative is supported by:

On September 12, 2025, the EU Data Act has come into force.

For Connected Cars, this regulation strengthens the rights of data subjects (e.g., vehicle owners and drivers) to access and share the data generated by their vehicles. From this date onwards, every vehicle owner has the legal right to request their data from the vehicle manufacturer (VM) and transfer it to a third party (e.g., service providers).

Key questions of the connected vehicle field test include:

How does the implementation of the EU Data Act materialize for Connected Cars?
What kind of data is made available by vehicle manufacturers under the EU Data Act? What kind of data do the vehicle manufacturer consider raw data and pre-processed data being in scope of the EU Data Act? And what do they consider as derived data not being in scope of the EU Data Act?
How is data made available and provisioned to data subjects (vehicle owners and vehicle drivers)? How can data subjects use third parties like CARUSO to exercise their right on access to vehicle data?
How is data access technically implemented for third parties? With which data quality is the data provided by the vehicle manufacturers?
What are the commercial and technical differences between the data available under the EU Data Act and the Extended Vehicle (ExVe, see ISO Standard 20077 https://www.iso.org/standard/66975.html) model?
How quickly and in which form do OEMs respond to data requests? How long does it take to activate a vehicle? And how does data provision differ between one-time data requests and continuous data collection?

Connected Car

Company Car or Private Employee Car -> In-Vehicle Data

Vehicle Manufacturer Platform

Data about the use of the vehicle -> In-Vehicle Data

CARUSO Platform

CARUSO provides access to your data, harmonized incoming data, and anonymizes the data before sharing it in context of the CVFT 5.0 -> Standardized Data

Your Organization

Evaluates the data and checks feasibility of the use-cases

WHAT

CARUSO, its partners

are performing a field test with voluntary participation of company cars or privately-owned cars. The test will evaluate the implementation of EU Data Act and provide facts and insight on the access to data for connected cars .

WHY

CARUSO performed this field test

to secure mid- and long-term strategic advantages in connected vehicles, and to gain insights into how VMs respond to the EU Data Act regulations to evaluate whether VMs are indeed giving control of the data to vehicle owners as the new data act requires.

HOW

CARUSO supports the experts of your organization

to get ‘firsthand’ insights and support the fair and non-discriminatory access to vehicle data and ensure the GDPR-compliant use of the data for your organization.