I've got a good setup going for collecting the near-real-time data in a manner that Tesla won't be able to easily distinguish from regular use of the internal on-VPN API by the car. I'm not going to go into details on how I'm doing this since Tesla has already made changes since inception that demonstrate, IMO, that they simply don't want this data available. But, I
do want it exposed and I think many others do as well. I see no real reason to not publish this information. If Tesla has a problem with it they are welcome to contact me directly. Honestly, there should be no reason for any of us to have to do this. Tesla should already have a kick ass web-based version of this data available for customers to use, complete with historical usage trends for trip planning.... but I guess that's never going to happen.
That said, I'm currently providing the data to sites like
@wolfson292's and others that are able to make use of it on a case-by-case basis with really my only requests being noting that I'm providing the data, don't expose my API, and put minimal effort into protecting the public side of things from simple scraping of the data. If you have a project where you'd like to access this data please just contact me before hammering sites that make use of it.
I am databasing all changes in the data in an effort to expose raw data to partner sites for display of historical usage patterns. I feel like this has been needed for
years... and I finally have a chance to get and provide that info to the community since Tesla will not. I am going to wait until I have at least a full week of data before attempting to clean the data up into useful historical usage info. The data is not perfect. There are many stations where either the whole station doesn't report anything, or where only part of the station reports. The nav shows stalls that aren't reporting as in use erroneously. I feel like I'll be able to filter this a bit as I gather more data, but can't be 100% sure without Tesla providing a count of unavailable stalls like they were for a few hours in the beginning.
Anyway, I'll continue to put effort into maintaining my data collection. I hope Tesla doesn't continue to waste resources in attempts to prevent this. I think they should really spend those resources elsewhere on more important things.