Mileage log for Tesla Model 3. The practical guide
How an automatic mileage log works in a Tesla Model 3. Connection, classification, common consultant scenarios and what you save in time.
Tesla Model 3 is the most common consultant car in Sweden. Long driving, many client visits, often mixed with private trips on weekends. An automatic mileage log handles all the classification for you. Here is the practical guide for Model 3.
What Model 3 delivers to the log
The car reports odometer, coordinates, timestamps and route into the Tesla account. That is enough raw data for a complete mileage log. What is missing, purpose and driver, you fill in via rules and the app’s trip view.
Setup for a Model 3
Three steps:
- Sign in to MPH DriveLog with your Tesla account
- Mark zones around home, office and your five biggest clients
- Set rules for commute and office hours
The rest is classified by rules or marked easily on a weekly basis.
Typical consultant setup
For a consultant the rule setup often looks like this:
- Home to office Monday-Friday 06-10: commute, private
- Office to home Monday-Friday 15-19: commute, private
- Trips leaving the home zone without stopping in the office zone, Monday-Friday: business
- Saturday and Sunday: private, regardless of route
With that setup typically 85 to 90 percent of trips classify automatically. The rest takes a few minutes to review on Sunday evening.
Long trips
Model 3 is heavily used for Stockholm-Gothenburg, Stockholm-Malmo and similar long stretches. With supercharger pauses a trip can include up to three stops. DriveLog chains the stops if they are short enough and classifies them as one continuous trip. If a stop is long, say a lunch, the trip splits in two and you classify them separately.
Setup for salespeople
Salespeople covering large geographic areas often benefit from a broader rule: “weekdays 09-17 outside home and office zones” classified as business. It catches ad-hoc client visits that do not have their own geofence zone.
“I use my Model 3 as a family car and commute by public transport. Do I need a log?”
Only if the car is a company car or used in business operations. If it is privately owned with no business connection you do not need a log for Skatteverket.
What you save in time
An active consultant spends 8 to 12 minutes a day on a paper log. Per year that is 30 to 50 hours. DriveLog needs about 30 to 45 minutes per month. The difference is a work week per year freed up.
What you save in money
Reduced benefit value via limited private use is SEK 18,000 to 22,000 per year for a typical Model 3. That is more than the DriveLog subscription costs over ten years.
Common problems
Two cases are extra common for Model 3. The first is consulting trips that start at home and end at the client via a gas station. Some system providers classify it as three trips. DriveLog chains short stops like refuelling and washing so it becomes one trip to the client.
The second is shared cars between partners. Then you set a base rule about main driver and adjust individual trips manually when needed.
What MPH DriveLog does for Model 3
Connection, classification, six years of history, PDF and CSV export. That is the whole package, and it is what Model 3 consultants usually ask for.
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