VIRTUAL POWER PLANTS
Integrate & manage more EVs in your Virtual Power Plant
Utilities, energy retailers, and virtual power plant (VPP) software use Smartcar to enroll more EV drivers into VPP programs and effectively control charging sessions to balance the grid.
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Increase participation in VPP programs
Enroll drivers into demand response programs even if they’re not using a Level 2 DC charger. Remove dependencies on specific charging hardware to increase program participation.
- Shorten vehicle onboarding for higher conversion rates.
- Enhance the user experience with customizable vehicle onboarding flows.
- Ensure data transparency with consent-based data collection.
Automate active load control
Proactively manage EV charging schedules to shift energy consumption away from peak hours. Ensure battery health and efficient capacity utilization while reducing carbon impact.
- Give drivers a frictionless “set it and forget it” energy management solution.
- Remotely start and stop charging an EV to optimize grid load.
- Preserve battery health by setting EV charge limits.
Build accurate load forecasts with reliable EV data
Retrieve granular battery and charging data with direct integrations across 200+ EV models. Better understand how EV drivers charge, where they charge, and how much energy they consume.
- Retrieve a battery’s state of charge (SoC), charging status, location, and more.
- Build an EV data infrastructure with industry-grade security compliance.
- Partner with dedicated API experts to manage and maintain integration reliability.
What our customers say
“Integrating with the Smartcar platform saved us months, if not years of engineering work. Being able to use one API to increase our breadth of supported EVs is a huge benefit for us.”
“Without Smartcar, the process of integrating with electric cars would have been long, cumbersome, and resource-intensive. A small team like ours wouldn’t be able to achieve this on their own.”
“We chose Smartcar’s vehicle APIs to augment our EV Everywhere product capabilities, advancing our mission of promoting sustainable energy solutions for the energy and transportation sectors.”
“When looking for an electric vehicle API provider, Smartcar was the only option to fit the bill. Instead of calling out to tons of different vehicle APIs, we only need to call out to one.”
“Smartcar has enabled us to level up our EV Managed Charging platform for electric utilities by filling an important technology gap — connecting to the vehicle.”
Battery level
Retrieve the state of charge (SoC) and the remaining range from an electric vehicle with a single API request.
Charging status
Know when your customer’s EV is plugged in and if the battery is currently charging.
Start & stop charge
Start and stop charging your customer’s vehicle remotely to balance their preferred schedule with the current electric grid load.
Get & set charge limit
Check and set the charge limit for EVs to effectively manage grid load expectations while optimizing battery life for your customers.
Download our guide
Our guide to EV home energy management features real examples of how DERMS providers can increase customer enrollment and engagement rates with our API. Download a copy to learn how to:
- Retrieve up-to-date information from EVs during home and away charging.
- Remotely control EV charging to balance demand and supply on the grid.
- Connect to a majority of EVs on the road today.
The power of Smartcar’s platform
Compatible with 37 makes
Whether your customers manage fleets of cars, vans, or pickup trucks, our API lets you connect to a whole fleet in a single integration.
Easy to use
With our friendly documentation and SDKs, your engineering team can integrate Smartcar into any mobile or web app. Automatic software updates eliminate the need for maintenance.
Precise & reliable
By eliminating the hardware layer and connecting directly to the vehicles themselves, you can obtain the most rigorous and tamper-proof car data on the market.
