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Export your Tesla data

Your car and your Tesla account produce more data than any single screen shows. Some of it downloads in a minute, some takes weeks to arrive, and some Tesla does not keep at all. Here is what each route gives you, according to Tesla's own pages.

By DashM8 · Published 7 October 2026 · Updated 16 October 2026

Ask Tesla for a copy

Tesla's privacy support page describes the request: sign in to its web form, choose Data Privacy Request, then Obtain a Copy of My Data, and pick a time range. Tesla says it can take up to 30 days, or less where local law sets a shorter deadline. You then get an email and have 7 days to download the files, which come as CSV, JSON, HTML or PDF with times in UTC.

What may be included: order details, account information, support activity, service history, vehicle usage, safety events, infotainment settings, app usage and Supercharging history. What is not: Sentry and Dashcam recordings. Tesla also says driving data is not linked to your account by default, so that part can be thin, and its owner's manual says Tesla keeps no vehicle-specific location history beyond the location of a crash.

Where the law requires an event data recorder, its data can be part of the response, and Tesla notes that what is available varies by location. Ask for the time range you actually need: a narrower request is easier to read when it arrives.

Supercharger invoices

In the Tesla app, open the menu, then Charging, then Charging History. The download icon lets you choose the dates, the vehicle and the file type, and it is the quickest way to get what you paid for Supercharging, session by session. Charge Stats, in the same Charging menu, summarises your charging and its cost; Tesla says it needs recent car and app software and the owner's account.

Keep the invoices with your other records. They are the documents a company-car expense claim or your own cost spreadsheet is checked against, and an app's estimate is only as good as its match with them.

Dashcam and Sentry clips

Recordings stay in the car until you take them. They are written to a USB drive in the glovebox or front console, which the car can format for you. Clips go into RecentClips (the last hour), SavedClips and SentryClips, and the oldest are deleted when the drive fills up, so copy anything you want to keep. Newer cars encrypt their clips; Tesla's manual says they can be decrypted in the car or at dashcam.tesla.com, locally, without the clips being sent to Tesla.

If you prepare a drive yourself, the manual lists the formats the car accepts: exFAT, FAT, ext3 or ext4, but not NTFS. Watching clips in the Tesla app's Dashcam Viewer needs Premium Connectivity, according to the same manual.

Through the Fleet API

Apps you connect, DashM8 among them, read through Tesla's Fleet API. Tesla documents a charging history endpoint and a PDF invoice per session, which is how an app can put your Supercharger costs beside its own data. Fleet Telemetry sends data straight from the car to the app's own server, so what an app records lives there, and the app is where you export it from.

Before you switch apps

Export first, then revoke. Once you remove an app's virtual key or its access, Tesla says its streaming stops at once, so the app records nothing after that moment; what it already holds stays only on its servers until you download it or delete your account there. In the Tesla app, your profile's Security & Privacy section lists the third-party apps that have access, which is a useful checklist of where your history lives.

Exporting from DashM8

On the Account page, Take a copy with you exports everything DashM8 stores for your account (trips, routes, charging, costs and telemetry) as one compressed file, without credentials. Large histories can take a few minutes, and because the file includes your location history, keep it somewhere private.

For spreadsheets, the period report under Reports downloads trips and charging sessions as CSV, every trip exports as GPX, and Pro adds a printable logbook with its own CSV.

DashM8's history begins when you connect your car, and it can import what TeslaFi, TeslaMate or Tessie recorded before that. If you are moving from another service, our import pages explain what each one lets you export, so nothing is lost on the way.

Sources

Every source below was checked on 7 October 2026. Prices, tariffs and Tesla's pages change; check the source before you rely on a figure.

Tesla Support: Privacy
Tesla Support: Supercharging
Tesla Support: Charge Stats
Tesla: Model 3 Owner's Manual (PDF)
Tesla Developer: Charging Endpoints
Tesla Developer: Virtual Keys: Overview
Tesla Support: Access for Third-Party Apps