Tesla Location in Amber for EVs

Tesla is changing the ways we can ask for Location Permissions. This means you explicitly need to provide authorisation for us to receive Location data from your vehicle.

How do we use Location data?

Location data is used to detect whether your car is either home or away. We do NOT store your location in our database, we only store a simple yes/no indicating whether you are currently at your home. This is important in making sure we have control when your car’s at home and we can manage the charging and then back-off control and not interrupt any charging away from home - at a Supercharger or elsewhere.

Without this permission, we cannot automatically manage your car’s charging when at home.

If you’re currently using Amber for EVs

At time of writing, you should have received a notification detailing what’s required. If not, the following is still true:

1. Click the link to sign-in to your Tesla account

2. On the “Manage Amber Electric" screen, ensure “Vehicle Location” is checked

3. You don’t need to change any other permissions

4. Once selected, tap “Update”

If you’re new to Amber for EVs

During the enrolment of your vehicle to Amber for EVs, we’ll automatically request this as part of linking your vehicle. Please ensure it is selected.