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Control Your Tesla With Claude

Connect Claude to your Tesla in about 3 minutes. Official setup for Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code, plus example prompts and pricing.

Claude can check your Tesla's status and send it real commands — pre-condition the cabin, charge to a target percentage, lock the doors, find the car — all from a normal conversation. This is the official setup guide from the people who built the connector.

How it works

Claude doesn't talk to your car directly. It connects to mytesla.io, a hosted MCP server for Tesla. mytesla.io holds the authorization Tesla gave it through the official Fleet API, and Claude calls that server's tools on your behalf. You ask in plain English; Claude figures out which of the 40 available tools to call and with what arguments.

Nothing about this uses an unofficial API or a scraped session token — every command is a signed request through Tesla's own Fleet API and Vehicle Command Protocol, the same path Tesla's own app uses.

Setup (about 3 minutes)

  1. Create a mytesla.io account. Go to mytesla.io and sign in — we email a six-digit code, no password to remember.
  2. Authorize your Tesla. On the dashboard, click Connect Tesla. You'll see Tesla's own consent screen; mytesla.io appears there as "Embay, LLC" (that's us — Tesla shows the legal entity name, not the product name).
  3. Register a virtual key. One more one-time step per vehicle: open a link on your phone and tap Approve on the car's touchscreen (or in the Tesla app). This is what lets the car trust commands signed by mytesla.io.
  4. Pick a plan. Driver is $4.99/month (500 credits); Driver Max is $9.99/month (1,500 credits). Checkout is through Stripe.
  5. Add the connector in Claude.
    • Claude.ai (web) or Claude Desktop: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://mcp.mytesla.io/mcp. Claude opens an OAuth consent screen — approve it, and you're connected.
    • Claude Code (CLI):
      claude mcp add --transport http mytesla https://mcp.mytesla.io/mcp
      Then run /mcp login mytesla to finish authenticating.

That's it — no API keys to copy around, no separate app to install.

What to ask it

Claude picks the right tool from what you type. Some real examples:

  • "How's my car? Is it locked?"
  • "Pre-condition the cabin to 70°F before my 8am meeting." (Claude can combine this with your calendar if you also have a calendar connector.)
  • "Charge to 80% and let me know when it's done."
  • "Schedule departure for 7am tomorrow with preconditioning."
  • "Where's my car? Did I leave the windows down?"
  • "Turn on Dog Mode."
  • "Flash the lights, I can't find it in the parking lot."
  • "Set a speed limit of 70 mph and lock it with a PIN."

Claude reads the car's live state before answering questions like "is it locked" — it's not guessing from a cached value.

Requirements

  • A Tesla Model S, 3, X, or Y from roughly 2018 onward (any car that supports Tesla's Fleet API and Vehicle Command Protocol).
  • A mytesla.io subscription — from $4.99/month.
  • Claude Desktop, Claude.ai (web), or Claude Code. Connector support is a standard feature across all three; check Anthropic's current plan details if you're unsure whether your account has connectors enabled.

Why Claude specifically

Claude was an early adopter of MCP — the open protocol mytesla.io speaks — so adding an external tool is a first-class Settings option rather than a hidden developer flag. That makes the round-trip from "I want my AI to control my car" to actually doing it one of the shortest of any assistant.

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. We're not endorsed by or affiliated with Tesla.

Can Claude actually drive the car or change safety-relevant settings on its own? No. Claude can only call the specific tools mytesla.io exposes — climate, charging, locks, alerts, navigation sharing, and a few security toggles like Sentry Mode and speed limits. There's no "drive" tool, and anything PIN-protected (like Valet Mode) still requires you to set the PIN yourself.

What if my car is asleep? Claude can wake it — that costs 10 credits instead of the usual 1, since Tesla rate-limits and prices wake calls more heavily than reads.

Does this cost anything beyond mytesla.io? No extra fee for the connector itself. You pay your existing Claude plan (if your tier requires one for connectors) plus a mytesla.io subscription.

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