EV Battery API

Click, consent, retrieve SoC.

Read an electric vehicle’s battery level and battery capacity with simple API requests.

Battery level

Retrieve the state of charge (SoC) and the remaining range from a battery electric vehicle (BEV) or a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV).

Battery capacity

Know the capacity of an electric vehicle’s battery.

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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 battery level
const battery = await vehicle.battery();

// Fetch the vehicle's battery capacity 
const batteryCapacity = await vehicle.batteryCapacity();
// Example http response from Smartcar (battery level)
{
  "percentRemaining": 0.3,
  "range": 40.5,
}

// Example http response from Smartcar (battery capacity)
{
  "capacity": 28.7,
}
See the API docs

Product features

Compatible with 37 car brands

Compatible with 37 car brands

Friendly user consent flow

Friendly user consent flow

Works on 2015 and newer vehicles

Works on 2015 and newer vehicles

Trusted & secure

Trusted & secure

Access to live car data

Access to live car data

SDKs for Go, Java, Node.js, Python, and Ruby

SDKs for Go, Java, Node.js, Python, and Ruby

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