Connecting your electric vehicle to equiwatt for the first time.

Follow this guide to add your electric vehicle (EV) to your equiwatt account to earn rewards for shifting energy and saving CO2.

Step 1: Add your electric vehicle

Open the ‘Manage’ tab (toggle icon) and select ‘Add Electric Vehicle’ under the integrations section of the page.

Step 2: Brand Selection

Select your Electric Vehicle brand

Step 3: Introduction

The introduction view is the first view you will see after you have redirected them from the equiwatt app. It acts as a handshake between equiwatt and Smartcar. The screen below will present you with an overview of what to expect in the upcoming EV onboarding flow.

Step 4: Permission Instruction

You will be presented with a quick overview of how data and controls will be accessed and shared between your EV and equiwatt/Smartcar.

Step 5: Sign-in

To connect their devices, you will need to sign in to your account for their specified device brand.

Step 6: Data and Control consent

On this screen you will be given a list of all data and controls Smartcar will be accessing. Once you have gone through the list, click allow to permit Smartcar to access the listed data and controls. 

Step 7: Smartcar integrating your EV with equiwatt

At this stage of the EV onboarding, once you have allowed data access to Smartcar it will initiate the process of integrating your EV with our equiwatt app.

Step 8: Your EV is all set to participate in equivents

As you can see from the screen below, your EV is integrated completely with our equiwatt app. Click the equivents toggle to allow your EV to participate in the events.