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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

  1. You authorize mytesla.io through Tesla's own OAuth consent screen — the same permission model Tesla's app uses.
  2. mytesla.io runs as a hosted MCP server. Your AI client connects to it, authenticates as you, and gets a list of 40 available tools.
  3. 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 — Pro, Team, Enterprise, or Edu with Developer Mode. 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

  1. 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).
  2. Pick a plan. Driver ($4.99/mo, 500 credits) or Driver Max ($9.99/mo, 1,500 credits).
  3. 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.

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; nothing persists beyond aggregate usage counts for billing.
  • We don't sell 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 40 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 40 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 is a standing collaborator: it can watch your calendar and the weather and act on rules you set once, and it answers plain-English questions instead of requiring you to read a dashboard.

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