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This is an ooof. to straighten the timeline of events as i monitor the connected car space -- - 2016 YC invests in Smartcar. - 2019 Otonomo lost lawsuit to Smartcar after stealing/copying them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19719380 - 2021 YC decides to invest in Enode which cloning Smartcar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468448 - 2022 YC decides to invest in Telematica which cloning Smartcar. I give…
I can see how there might be a use case for large fleets, but as an electric car owner for personal use I have to say that your two "problems" (range anxiety and charging management) are actually the two things I found to not really be problems. You plug it in at night.
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Currently, we charge $0.25 per EV connected per month with upto 10,000 API calls allowed per month.
You’re charging the customer for this? How do they control the rate of api calls?
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You’re charging the customer for this? How do they control the rate of api calls?
We are a B2B company so we charge the service provider that wants to use Telematica to connect their end users EV. I did not understand your second question, who does "they" refer to?
Thanks.
Doesn't this break the ToS of the vehicle vendors' user accounts?
Platforms not providing OAuth and the ability to delegate access to an appropriate sub-set of data and utility permission is nothing new. Almost every major platform I can think of was slow to provide what it's innovation community wanted - I remember giving countless apps my Twitter or LinkedIn passwords in order to access 3rd party functionality and value. Blackberry/RIM held a frightening number of email address a…
Tesla probably has to give it to the government without a warrant or probable cause, like Google and Apple et al do. The government can toss you in jail if they don’t like the cut of your jib, and this data lets them find a way to do so quasi-legally. Small data-hungry startups can’t really damage you with this data by comparison. The privacy ship has sailed. If you want location privacy, rip out the GSM transceiver…
The difference is Tesla has a lot to lose if they can't demonstrate adequate consumer protection of the data from theft/unauthorized access - and significant consequences if a breach does occur. They should also have high quality engineering talent to make sure exploits don't occur.
A small startup doesn't have the same burdon on penalty for breach and probably far lower quality of eng talent.
This is why I reluctantly concede to Google and Tesla tracking my location, but not random startups.