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 10 more developer resources.

46.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
4 APIs
AutomobilesElectric VehiclesCarsSmart VehiclesIoTFortune 1000

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 46.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Tesla Motors Authentication API

The Authentication API from Tesla Motors — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

Tesla Motors Media Control API

The Media Control API from Tesla Motors — 8 operation(s) for media control.

Tesla Motors Vehicle Commands API

The Vehicle Commands API from Tesla Motors — 45 operation(s) for vehicle commands.

Tesla Motors Vehicles API

The Vehicles API from Tesla Motors — 11 operation(s) for vehicles.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Tesla Motors Owner API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tesla Motors Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Tesla Motors Context

32 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tesla Motors API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Tesla Motors API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Tesla Vehicle

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Tesla Motors Charge State Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tesla Motors Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Tesla Motors Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tesla Motors Agentic Access

65 operations · 54 acting · 14 human-in-the-loop

65 operations · 54 acting

AGENTIC

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Elon Musk 'Actively Sacrificing' EV Business For AI

2026-05-25

Tesla hires prominent A.I. researcher as Autopilot chief ...

2026-05-25

News

2026-05-25

Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Tesla

2026-05-25

Musk: Tesla to Launch 'Terafab' AI Chip Factory Project Next ...

2026-05-25

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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: '0.19'
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: 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