Tesla Motors

Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company that designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage systems, solar panels, and related products. The Tesla Owner API provides programmatic access to Tesla vehicles for monitoring state, controlling climate, locking/unlocking doors, managing charging, and executing remote commands.

Tesla Motors publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Media Control API, Vehicle Commands API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Automobiles, Electric Vehicles, Cars, Smart Vehicles, and IoT.

The Tesla Motors catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Tesla Motors’ developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, and 11 more developer resources.

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33.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemium

4 APIs

Automobiles Electric Vehicles CarsSmart VehiclesIoT Fortune 1000

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 33.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Contract Governance 1.6 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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Rate Limits 1

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Tesla Motors Rate Limits

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Press 5

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

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Company 2

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LinkedIn

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Other 1

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: tesla-motors
name: Tesla Motors
description: Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company that designs
  and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage systems, solar panels, and related products. The Tesla Owner API
  provides programmatic access to Tesla vehicles for monitoring state, controlling climate, locking/unlocking doors, managing
  charging, and executing remote commands.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.tesla.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Automobiles
- Electric Vehicles
- Cars
- Smart Vehicles
- IoT
- Fortune 1000
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tesla-motors/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tesla-motors:tesla-motors-authentication-api
  name: Tesla Motors Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from Tesla Motors — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  baseURL: https://owner-api.teslamotors.com
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-motors-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
- aid: tesla-motors:tesla-motors-media-control-api
  name: Tesla Motors Media Control API
  description: The Media Control API from Tesla Motors — 8 operation(s) for media control.
  humanURL: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  baseURL: https://owner-api.teslamotors.com
  tags:
  - Media Control
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-motors-media-control-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
- aid: tesla-motors:tesla-motors-vehicle-commands-api
  name: Tesla Motors Vehicle Commands API
  description: The Vehicle Commands API from Tesla Motors — 45 operation(s) for vehicle commands.
  humanURL: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  baseURL: https://owner-api.teslamotors.com
  tags:
  - Vehicle Commands
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-motors-vehicle-commands-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
- aid: tesla-motors:tesla-motors-vehicles-api
  name: Tesla Motors Vehicles API
  description: The Vehicles API from Tesla Motors — 11 operation(s) for vehicles.
  humanURL: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  baseURL: https://owner-api.teslamotors.com
  tags:
  - Vehicles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-motors-vehicles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
common:
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tesla-motors-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/tesla-motors-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tesla-motors-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesla-motors
- name: Tesla Developer Portal
  url: https://developer.tesla.com
  type: Portal
- name: Tesla Fleet API Documentation
  url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  type: Documentation
- name: Tesla Owner API (Unofficial Documentation)
  url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  type: Documentation
- name: Tesla Motors GitHub
  url: https://github.com/teslamotors
  type: Repository
- name: Tesla Website
  url: https://www.tesla.com
  type: Website
- name: Tesla Developer SDK (Python)
  url: https://github.com/tdorssers/TeslaPy
  type: SDKs
- name: Tesla API Ruby Gem
  url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
  type: SDKs
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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