HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Seamlessly integrate EVs into home energy management
EVs are transforming the energy landscape at home. Incorporate EVs into your home energy management solutions with Smartcar to optimize energy consumption, cut costs, boost grid stability, and elevate customer satisfaction.
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Optimize energy consumption
Enhance your energy management capabilities with the Smartcar API. Build solutions that schedule EV charging during off-peak hours, utilize renewable energy sources, like solar power, when they are most abundant to minimize grid load and reduce energy costs.
- Enable remote start and stop charge capabilities.
- Gain accurate visibility into an EV's state of charge.
- Set charge limits during charging sessions to preserve battery health.
Enhance grid stability and efficiency
Empower utilities to manage EV charging schedules effectively through your home energy management solutions.
- Participate in demand response programs by adjusting EV charging based on real-time grid conditions.
- Boost customer engagement and loyalty by providing financial incentives to homeowners.
Deliver more EV charging offerings
Offer customers personalized, cost-efficient charging solutions that align with their lifestyle. Provide tailored charging schedules that take advantage of off-peak electricity rates, reduce energy bills, and increase customer satisfaction.
Future-proof your energy management strategy
Stay ahead in the competitive home energy management market by integrating with the Smartcar API. Ensure your home management solutions remain compatible with a wide range of EVs, keeping your solutions relevant and forward-thinking.
What our customers say
“Integrating with the Smartcar platform saved us months, if not years of engineering work. Being able to use one API to increase our breadth of supported EVs is a huge benefit for us.”
“Without Smartcar, the process of integrating with electric cars would have been long, cumbersome, and resource-intensive. A small team like ours wouldn’t be able to achieve this on their own.”
“We chose Smartcar’s vehicle APIs to augment our EV Everywhere product capabilities, advancing our mission of promoting sustainable energy solutions for the energy and transportation sectors.”
“When looking for an electric vehicle API provider, Smartcar was the only option to fit the bill. Instead of calling out to tons of different vehicle APIs, we only need to call out to one.”
“Smartcar has enabled us to level up our EV Managed Charging platform for electric utilities by filling an important technology gap — connecting to the vehicle.”
Battery level
Retrieve the state of charge (SoC) and the remaining range from an electric vehicle with a single API request.
Charging status
Know when your customer’s EV is plugged in and if the battery is currently charging.
Start & stop charge
Start and stop charging your customer’s vehicle remotely to balance their preferred schedule with the current electric grid load.
Get & set charge limit
Check and set the charge limit for EVs to effectively manage grid load expectations while optimizing battery life for your customers.
The benefits of the Smartcar API
Entirely hardware-free
Smartcar’s technology doesn’t require any aftermarket hardware. Our documentation and SDKs allow you to easily integrate our APIs into any web portal or mobile app.
Compatible with 30 EV brands
Smartcar allows you to integrate with most battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) through our unified platform.
Simple user experience
Thanks to our user-friendly Smartcar Connect flow, your customers can connect their vehicles to their electric utility account within seconds.
