When did the EU Data Act start to apply?

On 12 September 2025. Some obligations, such as designing products so their data is accessible by default, apply to products placed on the market from 12 September 2026.

Can a car maker charge me for my own data?

No. Data made available to the user of a connected product under the Data Act is free of charge to them.

Does the Data Act apply outside the EU?

It covers connected products placed on the EU market and their users in the EU, wherever the manufacturer is based.

Guides

The EU Data Act and your car: what you can ask for

Since September 2025, the people who use a connected car in the EU have a right to the data it generates. A plain-language account of what that means.

Updated 15 October 2026

In brief

The EU Data Act — Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 — has applied since 12 September 2025. It gives the user of a connected product, such as a car, the right to access the data generated by using it, free of charge, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have it shared with a third party of their choice. XPeng meets it with a self-service data centre at xpeng.com/data-act.

What the Data Act is

The Data Act is an EU regulation about who may use the data that connected devices produce. Before it, the data a car generated was in practice the manufacturer's: it travelled to their servers, and drivers saw only what an app chose to show. The Data Act makes the user of the product a party with rights of their own.

Being a regulation, it applies directly in every member state, without national laws needed to bring it in.

Your rights as a driver

For data generated by using a connected car, the user can ask for:

Access to the data, easily and securely, without undue delay.
The data free of charge to you.
A comprehensive, structured, commonly used and machine-readable format — the CSV files XPeng sends are an example.
Sharing with a third party of your choice, such as an independent repair shop or an app.
For products placed on the market from 12 September 2026, design that makes the data accessible by default.

The Data Act and the GDPR

Car data is often personal data too: the export carries your VIN on every row, and the times you drive and charge describe your routine. Where it is personal, the GDPR still applies alongside the Data Act, including your right of access and your right to data portability. The two do not replace each other.

What XPeng provides

Owners log in at xpeng.com/data-act with their XPeng account and reach a data centre for each car. There they choose data categories and a period of up to thirty days, and download a ZIP of CSV files sampled once a second, usually within minutes. The same page has a section for authorising third parties to receive the data, which is the Data Act’s right to share. The request guide walks through it, and the export format guide lists what is in the files.

Using the data

Raw signals are a right on paper until something reads them. LogbooX is a free, open-source reader for the XPeng export that runs in the browser: it finds trips and charging sessions, measures battery behaviour and driving style, and drafts a logbook — without sending the data anywhere. It is not affiliated with XPeng.

Questions

When did the EU Data Act start to apply?: On 12 September 2025. Some obligations, such as designing products so their data is accessible by default, apply to products placed on the market from 12 September 2026.
Can a car maker charge me for my own data?: No. Data made available to the user of a connected product under the Data Act is free of charge to them.
Does the Data Act apply outside the EU?: It covers connected products placed on the EU market and their users in the EU, wherever the manufacturer is based.