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PlugLog tracks your EV: every drive and charge, your real efficiency, range and cost per mile, in one place. Drives and charges can record on their own from the car app, a Tesla account or Android Auto, or you can log charges by hand.

You can add any all-electric vehicle in the EPA's catalog, from 1998 through this year's models, and log its drives and charges by hand. Drives and charges are recorded automatically on EVs with Android Automotive (Google built-in), using the PlugLog car app, and on Teslas, straight from your Tesla account with nothing to install in the car. On other EVs, the PlugLog app for Android records your drives through Android Auto.

In the Garage, give it a nickname and pick the year, make and model. If yours isn't listed, type its name. For a Tesla, choose Connect to my Tesla account.

Yes. Free accounts can track up to 2 vehicles, and Pro has no limit. Each keeps its own history, efficiency trends and costs.

No. The car app, a Tesla account or Android Auto record on their own, and you can log any charge by hand from the numbers on the charger and your dashboard. A Bluetooth OBD-II reader is optional: it adds battery details like temperatures and cell voltages.

Tracking your drives and charges with the car app (on cars with Android Automotive) is free, with full history, efficiency, range and costs, for up to 2 vehicles. PlugLog Pro is $59 a year and adds the Route Planner (road trips planned on the web with charging stops that fit your car, then picked in the car), the reports (mileage, reimbursement and battery health), any number of vehicles and API access. PlugCam storage, for backing up your car's cameras, is $39 a year per 50 GB, and Teslas, recorded straight from your Tesla account, are $59 a year each: neither needs Pro. New accounts get Pro and 50 GB of PlugCam storage free for 30 days, and you can try a Tesla free for 3 months.

There isn't one. Enter your email and we send you a sign-in link. It works once and expires in 15 minutes.

Yes. The page that asked for the link shows a code. Open the link anywhere, check the code matches, and approve it. The first page then signs in by itself.

Scan the QR code on the screen with your phone, check the code matches, and approve on the page it opens. New to PlugLog? Scanning creates your account. Or choose Use email instead and open the link we send on your phone. There's no password to type on the dash.

No. The car app stays signed in as long as it's used at least every 90 days.

Anytime. Download every drive and charge as CSV from Settings → Data. Your data is yours. Pro also includes a read-only API for pulling it into your own tools.

In Settings → Data, choose Delete my account and type your email to confirm. Everything is erased right away: drives, charges, vehicles, PlugCam clips, your public profile and shared links. It also signs your vehicle out. There's no undo.

When we publish new terms or a new privacy policy, everyone is asked to read and accept them, on the web and in the apps.

Your drives, charges and trips, with your efficiency and costs, a live view of a drive or charge as it happens, chargers that fit your car on a map, your PlugCam videos, receipts, maintenance, recalls, badges and reports. It's the same app as PlugLog for Android, built from the same code.

Read and accept the terms, then enter your email. We send you a sign-in link: open it and approve it if it shows the same code as the app.

Yes. A charge in progress shows as a Live Activity on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island.

Yes. It shows your vehicle's battery and range and how fresh they are, a charge in progress, and asks how a public charger worked after you charge there. Add Battery and range to a watch face as a complication. It gets everything from your iPhone, so there's no sign-in on the watch.

Bluetooth connects to your OBD-II reader. Location shows chargers near you. The camera and photos are for a charging receipt, or photos and videos for a trip.

Not yet. On iPhone, use the PlugLog app itself, its lock screen Live Activity and the Apple Watch app.

No. Billing in the app opens your plan at pluglog.app, where you can buy and manage it.

It shows your car's drive or charge as it happens: speed, battery, power and efficiency, live from the car app. Every drive and charge is there too, with chargers that fit your car on a map, your PlugCam videos, and PlugLog on Android Auto when you plug in.

The Android app is in beta. Create a free account, then ask to join from your dashboard with the Google account you use on Google Play: Google Play only lets testers in by its email.

It records your drives from what the car shares with Android Auto: battery level, range, speed and odometer. A drive starts when the car moves and uploads when you park. Where to? lists your planned trips, favorites and charging spots, and hands each stop to Google Maps for directions. You can find chargers and check in too.

Android Auto doesn't share battery power, so PlugLog works out the energy from how much the battery level dropped and your battery's size.

Yes. It has a battery complication, tiles for a quick look and a charge in progress, and asks how a charge went. It needs the PlugLog phone app on your phone.

Driving an EV with Google built-in? PlugLog is a navigation app for your car's screen: Google's map and turn-by-turn, charging stops planned for your car, and your speed, battery and efficiency always in view. Every drive and charge is recorded on its own and synced to your account. Nothing to type at the charger.

Add PlugLog to your car (it runs on the center screen as a navigation app), sign in, and pick the vehicle from your garage. Drives and charges then record on their own and upload whenever the car has a signal.

Yes. Each driver profile on the car picks the vehicle its drives go to. Add the vehicle at pluglog.app/garage first.

Drives and charges are still recorded and upload once the car reconnects.

On a guided trip, PlugLog compares your pace with what the trip needs. If you're on course to arrive at a stop low, it says so on the trip card and once out loud, with what to do: slow down a little, or stop sooner.

Yes. On a guided trip, when the battery is cold enough to charge slowly, a PREP BATTERY band shows before a DC fast stop and PlugLog says it once. PlugLog can't warm the battery itself: use your car's own setting.

Yes. Find a charger on the web or in the phone app and choose Send to car. Trips you plan on the web show in the car's Where to?.

To get through Google's review, car apps have to be built from the car's own templates, so PlugLog was rebuilt as a navigation app. Nothing's gone: every drive, charge, chart and PlugCam video is still in the PlugLog app for Android and on the web.

If your car has Google built-in and records its cameras to a USB drive (like GM's Surround Vision Recorder), PlugCam, our video app, plays every camera on the car's screen when you're parked and backs your clips up to PlugLog with PlugCam storage ($39 a year per 50 GB, no Pro needed). Watch them in the car, at plugcam.app or on pluglog.app, in sync with your speed and power, and share them. See plugcam.app. We're adding more cars.

Battery details your car doesn't otherwise share: temperatures, cell voltages and more. The phone app (Android or iPhone) or the car app connects to it over Bluetooth.

Bluetooth LE readers (look for BLE or Bluetooth 4.0+). Classic Bluetooth readers don't work with iPhone or the car, and Wi-Fi readers and readers that need their own app or subscription won't work. See pluglog.app/obd-readers for the readers drivers have used, and on which vehicles.

The obd-readers page lists, from drivers' own scans, which vehicles each reader read the battery on, on the phone and in the car.

No. PlugLog only asks the vehicle for readings through it. It doesn't change settings or clear codes.

Plug it in under the dash, turn the vehicle on and put it in Park, and close PlugLog on any other device. Then set it up in the Garage, on your vehicle's OBD-II reader.

With the car app or a linked Tesla, it's each drive's distance divided by the energy the battery actually delivered, read from the car many times a minute, with regen subtracted. Through Android Auto, where the car only shares its battery level, it's worked out from how much the battery level dropped. If you only log charges by hand, PlugLog divides the miles since your previous charge by the energy that charge added, which also counts charging losses. Tap the ? beside any efficiency figure for the details.

Yes: mi/kWh, Wh/mi or km/kWh, and more. Switch anytime.

Set a rate for home, work, or anywhere you charge, in Settings → Charging, and every charge there is costed automatically. Time-of-use pricing works too: add an off-peak rate and its hours.

Set Work's rate to $0 in Settings → Charging. Those charges still count toward the energy you've added, and your cost per mile reflects the free miles.

Yes. On Charges, choose Log a charge and enter start and end %, energy added, cost, and miles since your last charge.

Forward the receipt email (from Electrify America, EVgo, ChargePoint and more) to receipts@pluglog.app from your PlugLog email, and PlugLog puts its exact cost on the charge. You can also upload a screenshot, photo or PDF, or paste the text, on Receipts. It's free.

After a public charge, say how it went: charged fine, couldn't charge, the plug didn't fit, the spot was taken, and so on. It helps other drivers know which chargers work, and it's posted to Open Charge Map too.

Yes. Mark a drive as towing, then filter towing drives out on Drives.

Yes. Group a road trip's drives and charges into a trip, and see its totals together.

Part of Pro: plan a road trip on the web with charging stops that fit your car, from your own efficiency, with the weather along the way. Save it, then pick it in the car app's Where to?.

Costs, with your cost per mile, for everyone. With Pro: a mileage log for business drives, home charging reimbursement, and a battery health report with a certificate you can share.

Yes. Make any drive or charge public and it appears on your public profile, with a link to send. Turn on Share live from the car, the phone app or pluglog.app and anyone with your link can watch the drive or charge as it happens. Where you are stays private unless you choose to show it.

Yes. Each charging location and favorite has Hide my routes within, 7 km by default (Off, or 1 to 20 km). Shared drives, trips and live links leave out the route this close to that place.

No. We never sell your data or your videos, to anyone. PlugLog has no ads and no advertising or analytics cookies.

Yes. In the car app, open Privacy and turn off Location data. Drives still keep their speed, battery and efficiency.

Only what you allow when you sign in with Tesla: the car streams its readings, like speed, battery, range and charging, to PlugLog while it's awake, and PlugLog records your drives and charges from them. PlugLog doesn't control your car. Disconnect it in the Garage at any time.

A section of your public profile that stamps every US state and Canadian province you've driven or charged in, the national parks you've visited and the charging networks you've used. It shows which places only, never where in them, and you can turn it off.

Any number of vehicles, the Route Planner, the reports (mileage, reimbursement and battery health) and API access. Recording and viewing your drives and charges stays free.

Yes. New accounts get Pro and 50 GB of PlugCam storage free for 30 days. We won't charge you unless you subscribe.

Yearly, through Stripe, on one subscription for everything you add. Your card details go to Stripe, never to PlugLog. Add something partway through a year and you pay for the rest of that year.

Choose Manage billing on the Upgrade page at pluglog.app. Your plan lasts until the end of the year you've paid for and doesn't renew.

Payments aren't refunded, except where the law requires it. If something went wrong with a charge, email support@pluglog.app and we'll make it right.

A Tesla your plan doesn't cover, after its free months say, is paused: PlugLog stops recording it until you add it to your plan.

Links expire after 15 minutes and work once. Ask for a new one and open it straight away.

Check the car app is signed in and a vehicle is chosen: until then, drives and charges are recorded but wait on the car. They upload once the car has a signal. If you signed out, sign in again and they upload.

Make sure it's plugged in and the vehicle is on, and close PlugLog on any other device that may be holding it. If it connects but the vehicle doesn't answer, unplug it for a few seconds and try again.

When a new version is out, the app says so. Tap it to update on Google Play, or update from the App Store on iPhone.

In the car app's account menu, open Privacy and turn on Debug log. It records every reading to help us fix problems, and is kept for 4 days. Turn it off the same way.

Tap I wish… on any page at pluglog.app, or in the apps, and tell us. Everyone signed in can read and vote on wishes.