Electric Sidecar

Your personal automative assistant and OBD scanner, now supporting CarPlay and Shortcuts.

Electric Sidecar is designed specifically for Apple platforms and with privacy and data security in mind. It's your car, your data, your journey.

The app works best in combination with an OBD scanner and/or a Connected Account (Beta). Without either, you can still pull NHTSA recall notices for your vehicle.

## Privacy and security

- All data is stored on your phone and never sent to third party servers.
- Sign in with Connected Accounts (Beta) uses OAuth industry standards for authentication.

## OBD scanner

- Use a connected OBD scanner to read real-time data from your vehicle.
- Requires a separate purchase of an OBD scanner.
- Manage your OBD scanners from CarPlay.
- View live OBD parameters from CarPlay.
- Over 70 standard OBD-II parameters supported for most vehicles since 1996.

## Trip logger

- Explore your neighborhood and beyond with CarPlay support and a historical trip overlay.
- Automatic trip logger using on-device intelligence; just enable it and drive.
- Capture battery and/or fuel economy automatically with a connected account or OBD scanner.
- Optimized for all-day use without being a drain on your phone's battery.

## Integrations

- Widgets for iPhone and Apple Watch, including: vehicle state, tire pressure, range, fuel history, trip logs
- Live activities while charging EVs
- Lock your car with Siri (requires Connected Accounts (Beta))

## Maintenance minder

- NHTSA recalls pulled automatically for your vehicle.
- Identify upcoming maintenance tasks on your vehicle with Connected Accounts (Beta).

## Community

- Report and discuss issues occurring with your vehicle with other vehicle owners.
- Contribute to the growing set of open source OBD vehicle parameters.

## Document storage

- Organize your documents in a digital glovebox.
- On-device document scanning helps you organize your documents.

## Sign in with Connected Accounts (Beta)

- Supported accounts: Porsche, Toyota, Tesla.
- Sign in with Connected Accounts (Beta) allow you to remotely access your vehicle's data and perform remote commands such as locking your car.
- As a beta feature, availability may change over time.

With zero purchases you get 30 seconds of OBD scanning for free. Extend this time by purchasing ScanPasses for either 24 hours or 7 days.

Unlock all features with a subscription. Subscriptions come with a free trial period.

Need help? Have feature requests? Reach out at support@electricsidecar.app

EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula