Control Your Tesla With AI

The complete guide to AI-controlled Tesla: how it works, what you can do, which assistants are supported, setup, safety, and pricing.

You can already lock your Tesla, start climate, or check the battery from Tesla's own app. "AI control" is a different thing: your AI assistant reads your calendar, the weather, and your routines, and decides when to run those same commands — or a dozen of them together — without you opening an app at all. This is the complete guide.

What "AI control" actually means

mytesla.io connects your Tesla to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI assistant that speaks MCP (Model Context Protocol). Once connected, you talk to your car the way you'd talk to a person — "cool the car when my last meeting ends," "each morning, tell me if I'm charged for my commute" — and the AI composes the right Tesla commands with whatever else it already knows about your day.

The value isn't in any single command; a tap in the Tesla app does that just as fast. The value is in compositions: Tesla plus your calendar, plus the weather, plus your routines, handled by the assistant you already talk to.

How it works: MCP + Tesla's Fleet API

You authorize mytesla.io through Tesla's own OAuth consent screen — the same permission model Tesla's app uses.
mytesla.io runs as a hosted MCP server. Your AI client connects to it, authenticates as you, and gets a list of 41 available tools.
When you ask for something, the AI decides which tool(s) to call, calls them through Tesla's official Fleet API and Vehicle Command Protocol, and reports back.

Nothing here is an unofficial or scraped integration — every command is a signed request through the same path Tesla's own app uses. Full technical detail: what is a Tesla MCP server?

What you can do

A few examples that show why this is different from opening an app:

"Cool the car when my last meeting ends today." (needs a calendar connector)
"Each morning, if today's high is over 85°F, start cooling the car 15 minutes before I leave for work." (needs weather + calendar)
"Each morning when I say good morning, tell me my battery, range, and whether I'm charged for my commute."
"Charge to 100% by 7am Saturday, off-peak hours only."
"Where's my car? Did I leave the windows open in the rain?"

See the full breakdown: 25+ things you can do with Tesla + AI.

Which AI assistants work

Any client that speaks Streamable HTTP MCP with OAuth 2.1:

Claude — Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code. No paid tier required. Setup guide →
ChatGPT - a published plugin in ChatGPT's plugin directory, including on the Free plan (outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK; Developer Mode works as a fallback there). Setup guide →
Cursor and VS Code — one-click install links on the home page.
Any other MCP-aware client, pointed at https://mcp.mytesla.io/mcp.

Setup in three steps

Connect your Tesla. Sign in at mytesla.io, authorize your car through Tesla's consent screen, and register a virtual key from your phone (one-time per vehicle).
Pick a plan. Driver ($4.99/mo, 500 credits) or Driver Max ($9.99/mo, 1,500 credits).
Add the connector to your AI. Paste https://mcp.mytesla.io/mcp into your client's connector settings, or follow the client-specific guide above. In ChatGPT, add the mytesla.io plugin from Plugins instead; there's no URL to paste.

The full walkthrough, including every supported command and troubleshooting, is in the setup guide.

Is my Tesla data safe?

mytesla.io does not store your car's location, drive history, or charge history. Live data is fetched per request and handed back to your AI.
We keep a record of each command (which one, whether it worked, how long it took) for billing and reliability, and our servers send usage events to Google Analytics so we can keep the service reliable, improve it, and see which channels bring new users. Those events can include the approximate city of the computer that connects to us, but never your car's location or battery level.
We never sell or resell data, and we don't train AI models on your conversations or vehicle data.
The OAuth scope you approve sets a hard ceiling — mytesla.io can't request anything beyond it, and only exposes 41 fixed tools regardless of what the underlying Fleet API supports.

Full detail: privacy policy.

Pricing and credits

Driver — $4.99/month, 500 credits.
Driver Max — $9.99/month, 1,500 credits.
Most commands cost 1 credit; waking a sleeping car costs 10 (Tesla itself rate-limits and prices wake calls more heavily). Listing vehicles and filing a bug report are always free.

Full detail: billing policy.

Which Teslas are supported

Any Model S, 3, X, or Y that supports Tesla's Fleet API and Vehicle Command Protocol — in practice, essentially every Model S/3/X/Y from 2018 onward. Some commands are trim-specific (panoramic sunroof, ventilated seats); the AI tells you when a command doesn't apply rather than failing silently.

FAQ

Is this affiliated with Tesla, Inc.? No. mytesla.io is an independent product operated by Embay, LLC, built on Tesla's official Fleet API. Not endorsed by or affiliated with Tesla, Inc.

Can the AI drive the car or override safety settings? No. It can only call the 41 defined tools: climate, charging, access, alerts, navigation sharing, and a handful of security toggles. There's no "drive" tool, and PIN-protected features like Valet Mode still require you to set the PIN yourself.

Do I need to write code or use a developer console? No. Setup is entirely in your AI client's settings UI — paste one URL, approve one OAuth prompt. See the setup guide for the exact steps per client.

What's the difference between this and Tesla's own app? Tesla's app is a remote control: you open it, you tap a button. mytesla.io turns your AI into a standing collaborator: using its own calendar and weather connections, your AI can act on rules you set once, and it answers plain-English questions instead of requiring you to read a dashboard.