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.
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
Vehicle Manufacturer Platform
CARUSO Platform
Your Organization
WHAT
CARUSO, its shareholders and 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
Your organization is participating in this test
to secure mid and long-term strategic advantages in connected vehicles, and how VMs respond to the EU Data Act regulations to evaluate whether on not VMs are indeed giving control the data to owners of the vehicle as the new data act regulates.
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.
Project Objectives
- Transparency: Show which data items are made accessible by the vehicle manufacturers under the Data Act. Also compare the EU Data Act to other data sharing approaches like Extended Vehicle (ExVe).
- Evaluation: Evaluate how the vehicle manufacturers approach the EU Data Act for connected cars. What are differences in the approaches? and how does the
- Benchmarking: Identify OEM-specific differences in readiness and responsiveness.
- Commercialization: Evaluate whether OEMs charge service fees or they are offering data free of charge. Also check how third parties and data aggregators can provide access to data.
- Documentation: Document the practical execution of data requests from OEMs (process, response times, data formats).
Timeline
- Registration: phase for participants
- Duration: 6 months field test execution (09/2025 – 03/2026) and final presentation/reporting
- Objective: coverage of as many different OEMs as possible
- Approach: Contact OEMs to request personal data, track and document response time and reply, analyze the provided data
Expected Results
- Overview: which OEMs comply to the EU Data Act and what are OEM-specific differences in their implementation of the Data Act.
- Comparison: compare EU Data Act vs. ExVe data scope.
- Reporting: standard email/portal templates for vehicle data requests by data subjects, documentation of the different approaches per vehicle manufacturer
- Overview of OEM-specific differences in data release and response times.
- Comparative table: EU Data Act vs. ExVe data scope.
- Standard email/portal templates for vehicle data requests.
- Cost model overview: which OEMs provide data free of charge vs. where a service fee applies
Participating Companies
The following companies may potentially participate. Many of them already confirmed their participation, others are in preparation phase. Additional companies might join during the test. We will always keep the list updated for you, if that happens.
Questions?
Contact us at fieldtest@caruso-dataplace.com if you have any questions regarding the field test. We are happy to help.
Consent Information
Please refer to our Declaration of consent to participate in the “Connected Vehicles Field Test (CVFT) 5.0” at the CVFT 5.0 sign up page. You are eligible to revoke your consent at any time by sending an email to fieldtest@caruso-dataplace.com. All rights and regulations to personal data apply compliant with the GDPR. Data will be stored during the period of the test. All data will be removed after the test.
You can find more information at privacy policy.