Pull actual supercharging fees from account API

[dthiery]

Actual supercharger fees for a session can be pulled from the Tesla API by hitting https://www.tesla.com/teslaaccount/charging/api/history?vin=5YJ3XXXXXXXXXX. It would be a cool feature to pull supercharging actual costs from the acct API after a charging session completes instead of relying on geofenced cost numbers.

[dhruvarora2]

Would be nice to have this!

[bikeymouse]

Second best thing would be if there was a (community based?) list of SuperCharge locations and costs per kWh per country that you could easily import into Teslamate as Geofences.
In general an import/export function for Geofences would be nice, so we could share Geofence.

[prisnagka]

I agree, but it's also the case of different cost depending on the time of day. Using the api directly would eliminate that problem. (I wonder if the api includes any extra costs connected to parking too long after completing a charge as well?

[prisnagka]

Actual supercharger fees for a session can be pulled from the Tesla API by hitting https://www.tesla.com/teslaaccount/charging/api/history?vin=5YJ3XXXXXXXXXX.

This would seriously be such an awesome addition that I'm surprised that it's not already in there. Does anyone know if there are any specific restrictions posed by Tesla that would make this extra hard or impossible to implement?

[cwanja]

I should not have deleted my comment, but rather edited.

The only issue I could see with this would be lining up charging sessions - you could guesstimate by start and end time. But if the API is delayed in either end (likely the owners over the charging one), I could see it getting wonky. It seems technically feasible, but fully admitting I do not know the under the covers architecture that @adriankumpf has developed.

[bouvrais]

I am a bit confused. I just installed Teslamate. Went to a SC today and expected the charge fee to show up in Teslamate but it does not. The charge session does show up but the cost column is empty.
I understand that this discussion is about pulling the actual fee from the API, but what is the current (expected) behaviour? Should Teslamate infer the cost from the sesssion duration? Something else? Or is the behaviour I am seeing (i.e. nothing) by design?

[cwanja]

TeslaMate showing nothing for the cost is the expected, current, working behavior. You would need to manually add the cost to the charge session. This discussion wants to bring it in automatically.

[bikeymouse]

If you make this SuC or any other charge point a Point of Interest you can add the cost per Kwh so next charges will be calculated automatically based on that.

[bouvrais]

Thanks for the quick replies @cwanja, @bikeymouse. I can now see that clicking the "cost" cell on the charge dashboard for a particular charge session brings me to a form where I can input the actual cost for that particular session.
I had indeed to create a geofence for that particular SC (and name it appropriately) for it to be picked up as a supercharger session since its default name does not include "Supercharger"... But it works as intended!
I do concur that pulling the charge session info from the API would be a elegant solution as it would likely kill to birds with one stone: not only could one get the detailed costs, but it would also allow to identify a particular charging session as a SC session without inferring from the name.

[prisnagka]

Good suggestion but with prices varying based on time etc, a better approach is still to pull the data via an api. Adding 10-15 SoC’s as poi’s will be cumbersome to maintain. Cheers, /Peter

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29 aug. 2022 kl. 08:15 skrev bikeymouse ***@***.***>:  If you make this SuC or any other charge point a Point of Interest you can add the cost per Kwh so next charges will be calculated automatically based on that. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.

[bikeymouse]

Yes, of course. Just wanted to point a new user to the option that is allready available in the current version.

Btw: I’m not aware of time based pricing for Tesla SuC’s in Europe at least, so maintaining the prices for your 5-10 “favorite” SuC’s seems doable.
Bigger problem is that what the car is reporting as the added Kwh is less then what the charger actually delivered, due to losses.
So getting the/your actual charge costs from an API will always be more accurate.

[prisnagka]

Just got an email from Tesla where they introduce time based pricing - lower prices nighttime when the utilisation is lower.

We could really use this type of feature if it’s possible to fit in.

[mat1990dj]

TeslaFI has already implemented this and it's adding a 5m window for time differences

[ooottttooo]

Any news on this idea? It would still be a neat feature. If I could, I would program it :-)

[jpizquierdo]

Actual supercharger fees for a session can be pulled from the Tesla API by hitting https://www.tesla.com/teslaaccount/charging/api/history?vin=5YJ3XXXXXXXXXX. It would be a cool feature to pull supercharging actual costs from the acct API after a charging session completes instead of relying on geofenced cost numbers.

It would be awesome