# Volvo Cars

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/volvo-cars/  
**Website:** https://developer.volvocars.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Volvo Cars is a Swedish premium automotive OEM (headquartered in Gothenburg, owned by Geely) that operates the Volvo Cars Developer Portal as the public face of its connected-vehicle platform. The portal exposes the Connected Vehicle API, Energy API, Energy Device API, and Location API for third-party developers to build applications around real Volvo cars equipped with Volvo On Call or Google Built-In. APIs use OAuth 2.0 against Volvo ID with explicit owner consent, a VCC-API-Key client identifier, and a free tier capped at 10,000 calls per day per app. The portal also covers Android Automotive in-car app development with an official XC40 Recharge emulator, 3D assets and simulator resources, and an active open-source program at github.com/volvo-cars.

## Kin Score — 29.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 33.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 19.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (4)

- **Volvo Cars Connected Vehicle API** — Receive vehicle data and send commands to the vehicle. Vehicle data covers status, diagnostics, statistics, and metadata — including odometer, fuel amount, tyre pressures, brake...
- **Volvo Cars Energy API** — Access the most recent energy state of a BEV or PHEV — battery charge level, target battery charge level, charging connection status, charging system status, charging type, char...
- **Volvo Cars Location API** — Retrieve detailed information on a vehicle's current location. Designed for interactive applications that need to know where a consenting driver's Volvo is right now. Same regio...
- **Volvo Cars Energy Device API** — API for managing wallboxes, charging sessions, and user ID tokens — the device-side counterpart to the vehicle-side Energy API. Enables integrations that pair a home charger or ...

## Security (1)

- **Volvo Cars Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Automotive, Connected Vehicle, Electric Vehicles, Telematics, Android Automotive, OEM, Mobility

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/volvo-cars/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.