Remotely manage EV charging

Check the charging status and charge electric vehicles with simple API requests.

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Charging status

Check whether an EV’s charging cable is plugged in and charging.

Start or stop charge

Remotely start or stop charging a battery electric (BEV) or plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV).

Get & set charge limit

Preserve battery health by managing charge limits for electric vehicles.

const smartcar = require('smartcar');

// Get all vehicles associated with this access token
const {vehicles} = await smartcar.getVehicles("<access-token>");

// Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
const vehicle = new smartcar.Vehicle(vehicles[0], "<access-token>");

// Fetch the vehicle's charging status
const charge = await vehicle.charge();

// Start the vehicle's charging session
await vehicle.startCharge();

// Set the vehicle's charge limit
await vehicle.setChargeLimit(0.8);

// Example http response from Smartcar (charging status)
{
  "isPluggedIn": true,
  "state":"FULLY_CHARGED"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (start charge)
{
  "status": "success"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (set charge limit)
{
  "status": "success"
}

import smartcar

# Get all vehicles associated with this access token
response = smartcar.get_vehicles("<access-token>")

# Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
vehicle = smartcar.Vehicle(response.vehicles[0], "<access-token>")

# Fetch the vehicle's charging status
charge = vehicle.charge()

# Start the vehicle's charging session
vehicle.start_charge()

# Set the vehicle's charge limit
vehicle.set_charge_limit(0.8)

// Example http response from Smartcar (charging status)
{
  "isPluggedIn": true,
  "state":"FULLY_CHARGED"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (start charge)
{
  "status": "success"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (set charge limit)
{
  "status": "success"
}

import com.smartcar.sdk.*;

// Get all vehicles associated with this access token
VehicleIds response = Smartcar.getVehicles("<access-token>");
String[] vehicleIds = response.getVehicleIds();

// Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
Vehicle vehicle = new Vehicle(vehicleIds[0], "<access-token>");

// Fetch the vehicle's charging status
VehicleCharge charge = vehicle.charge();

// Start the vehicle's charging session
vehicle.startCharge();

// Set the vehicle's charge limit
vehicle.setChargeLimit(0.8)

// Example http response from Smartcar (charging status)
{
  "isPluggedIn": true,
  "state":"FULLY_CHARGED"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (start charge)
{
  "status": "success"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (set charge limit)
{
  "status": "success"
}

import (
  "context"
  smartcar "github.com/smartcar/go-sdk"
);

// Create a smartcar client
var smartcarClient = smartcar.NewClient();

// Get all vehicles associated with this access token
var vehicleIDs, resErr = smartcarClient.GetVehicleIDs(
  context.TODO(),
  &smartcar.VehicleIDsParams{Access: "<access-token>"},
);

// Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
var vehicle = smartcarClient.NewVehicle(&smartcar.VehicleParams{
  ID: vehicleIDs.VehicleIDs[0],
  AccessToken: "<access-token>"},
);

// Fetch the vehicle's charging status
var charge, resErr = vehicle.GetCharge(context.TODO());

// Start the vehicle's charging session
var startCharge, resErr = vehicle.StartCharge(context.TODO());

// Example http response from Smartcar (charging status)
{
  "isPluggedIn": true,
  "state":"FULLY_CHARGED"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (start charge)
{
  "status": "success"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (set charge limit)
{
  "status": "success"
}

require 'smartcar'

# Get all vehicles associated with this access token
all_vehicles =  Smartcar.get_vehicles(token: token)

# Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
vehicle = Smartcar::Vehicle.new(
  token: "<access-token>",
  id: all_vehicles.vehicles.first
)

# Fetch the vehicle's charging status
charge = vehicle.charge()

# Start the vehicle's charging session
vehicle.startCharge!

# Set the vehicle's charge limit
vehicle.set_charge_limit!(0.8)

// Example http response from Smartcar (charging status)
{
  "isPluggedIn": true,
  "state":"FULLY_CHARGED"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (start charge)
{
  "status": "success"
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (set charge limit)
{
  "status": "success"
}

See the API docs