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Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by Zhenya on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:32AM (#33022103)
This is for oems to embed in their infotainment/ tcu so that they can expose their vehicle data to end users?
Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by abhishek9925 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:36AM (#33022157)
Actually, we help EV owners share their vehicle data (that is locked inside the car dashboard or the OEM mobile app) with third party service providers like e-mobility apps, auto insurance companies or utilities.
Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by Zhenya on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:41PM (#33024419)
So you are creating a translation layer between OEM APIs and thirdparty service and giving the owner of the car to connect those pipes using your service?
Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by abhishek9925 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:50PM (#33024554)
Exactly, we act as a bridge between the EV owner and the third party apps. We rely on the EV owner's consent to share their data with a service of their choice.
Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by Zhenya on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:46PM (#33025312)
What’s your business model?
Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by abhishek9925 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:51PM (#33025374)
Currently, we charge $0.25 per EV connected per month with upto 10,000 API calls allowed per month.
Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by Zhenya on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:33PM (#33029774)
You’re charging the customer for this?

How do they control the rate of api calls?

Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by abhishek9925 on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:56AM (#33031465)
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?
Re:Launch HN: Telematica (YC W22) – Plaid for Electric Vehicles by Zhenya on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:38PM (#33038012)
Ah. You’re B2B.

Thanks.