teslam.io — Tesla owners, Korea
No developer account to create, no API bill to pay. One Tesla sign-in and driving is verified and credited in DRV. teslam.io carries the Fleet API cost in full.
Signals flow only while the car is moving. Four every minute — latitude, longitude, speed, odometer. DRV accrues strictly against the odometer delta.
01 — How it works
From the moment a vehicle is linked, teslam.io pays Tesla directly for its telemetry. There is no step where an owner registers on a developer portal or attaches a payment method.
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Official OAuth. Credentials never pass through teslam.io, and access can be revoked at any time from the Tesla account itself.
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Fleet Telemetry pushes signals only while the vehicle is in motion. Parked, nothing is transmitted and nothing is billed.
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Credited only when the odometer advances and agrees with speed and route. 10 DRV per km, capped at 500 DRV a day.
02 — What is collected
Collection scope is a trust question before it is a cost question. The spec is the minimum that can prove a drive, and permissions outside that list are never requested at all.
Collected
Not collected
Camera footage or Autopilot perception data
Occupant identity or contacts
Charging and payment methods
Any vehicle control — doors, climate, drive
Location while parked
Which puts the API cost per vehicle at
4 signals × once per minute × 1 driving hour per day
This is why the spec samples per minute rather than streaming per second. It keeps the resolution a drive needs to be verified while cutting signal count by a factor of sixty.
03 — Two tokens
A single reward token loses value as mining rises, until it becomes a point nobody wants. So the design splits a utility token issued daily from an asset token with a fixed supply.
utility · reward
Drive Utility Token
Issued by driving alone. Supply is uncapped, but daily mining is throttled dynamically against distance and efficiency score.
governance · asset
teslam.io Governance Token
Driving does not produce it. It is distributed for locking DRV up over a period, or for substantive technical writing in the community.
How the token moves
Redeemed
gift cards · Supercharger credit
Staked
lock-up → TSLM distribution
Burned
badges · vehicle cosmetics
04 — Where the token goes to die
If every token earned leaves as cash, no reward model survives. DRV exits circulation three ways, and only one of them actually spends company money.
A partner has to be settled with. B2B commission is the only thing that offsets it.
Supercharger credit
settled with a charging partner
Gift cards
coffee, convenience, small denominations
Car wash · tint coupons
local partner outlets
Digital goods have no cost of service. The only sink that scales for free.
Vehicle cosmetics
in-app digital goods
Digital badges
driving tiers · limited marks
Not cash out this month, but a liability owed in a later one.
TSLM staking
lock-up, then governance distribution
These three shares are the most important and least validated numbers in the model. Every point that moves into cash redemption raises the break-even by the same amount.
05 — What one vehicle costs
The constraint on this business is not what Tesla charges. It is what the driver is paid. The two figures below come out of the same model; one of them is quoted often and the other is not.
| Tesla Fleet API · 240 signals/day × 30 days | ₩1,001 |
|---|---|
| DRV issued, at face value · at average monthly distanceassumed | ₩6,000 |
| Burned in-app · digital goods · no cost of service | −₩2,100 |
| Staked, deferred · not cash this month | −₩1,500 |
| Redeemed for goods · requires real settlement | ₩2,400 |
| Partner commission recovered · none contracted yetassumed | −₩360 |
| Net reward cost · redeemed − commission | ₩2,040 |
| Cash out, per vehicle · month · API + net reward cost | ₩3,041 |
API fees as a share of total cash out
33%
240 signals/day × 30 days
Break-even
₩3,041
Every vehicle has to generate at least this much revenue a month — data, advertising and partner commission combined. Clearing this line is the entire business.
the quoted figure · API only
₩500,400
actual outlay, reward included
₩2,030,400
Genesis members earn 1.5× the base reward. Counting API fees alone gives about ₩500,000 a month; including the rewards paid out makes it four times that. The cohort is capped at 500 because of this number, not the API bill.
06 — What covers it
None of them is contracted. This is not a record of results — it is the list of things that must be closed for the line above to be cleared.
B2B commission paid when an owner redeems DRV for charging credit or a gift card. Cash arrives at the moment the token burns, so outlay and revenue land in the same period.
Banner and token partnerships with car washes, tint shops and EV parts retailers. The product is verified owner traffic with confirmed purchasing power.
Real-world efficiency, tyre-wear prediction, regional EV movement. Buyers are EV insurers and charging infrastructure operators. No personally identifying data is included.
Used-car platform partnerships built on verified ownership and driving history.
07 — Rollout
When the operator carries every cost centrally, uncontrolled sign-ups make the growth curve and the loss curve the same curve. Seats are counted out.
A closed beta of the first 500 owners from the Tesla community. The goal is not growth — it is proving the verification algorithm and the settlement pipeline hold.
1.5× base reward
Genesis cohort mark
Vote on tokenomics changes
선착순 500명 · 폐쇄형 베타
Quests that use what is specific to a Tesla rather than just distance. Drive cards share to the community in one click, so a screenshot becomes the acquisition path.
Beat 7.0 km/kWh efficiency
Check in at a V4 Supercharger
One-click share card
퀘스트 · 원클릭 공유 · 첫 광고 계약
Sign-up limits come off, but only after a monthly total reward pool cap is in place. The spend ceiling is fixed as a number before the door opens.
Monthly reward pool cap
Data business begins
Used-car platform partnership
월간 리워드 풀 상한제 도입 후 개방
08 — How a drive is trusted
That is why reward is based on the vehicle's own reported cumulative distance rather than position. Coordinates are used for cross-checking, never for calculating the reward.
Cumulative distance cannot decrease. If the value rewinds or jumps abnormally, the whole segment is discarded.
If the distance delta between two samples is not physically consistent with reported speed, nothing is credited.
If minute-spaced coordinates do not connect over the road network, the segment is held for human review.
500 DRV a day. Even a segment that passes verification is bounded in what it can take.
A vehicle binds to a single account. The same car cannot accrue on several accounts at once.
Privacy
Once a drive is verified, raw coordinates are replaced by a segment summary rather than retained. Datasets sold B2B contain no personally identifying data and no raw coordinates. Access can be revoked directly and immediately from the Tesla account.
Genesis 500
A closed beta. It carries 1.5× the base reward, the Genesis cohort mark, and a vote whenever the tokenomics change.
Register interest500 vehicles, first come. Registration happens on an external form; this site stores no personal data.