Setting up DRIVE Electric for Tesla may seem complicated at first because Tesla uses several different technologies and security mechanisms. Understanding the basics before getting started can make the process much easier.

The app supports three ways of communicating with your vehicle:
• Tesla's Fleet API (internet connection)
• Bluetooth Key (local Bluetooth Low Energy connection)
• NFC Key (works like a Tesla Key Card)

1. Sign in using the companion phone app
To use Tesla's internet-based services, sign in to your Tesla account using the companion phone app. The app uses Tesla's official sign-in page, so your credentials are entered directly on Tesla's website and are never visible to DRIVE Electric for Tesla.

2. Grant access and register the Virtual Key
Tesla's official API requires two additional security steps:
• Grant the app access to your Tesla account.
• Register a Virtual Key in your vehicle so it can decrypt encrypted commands.

For detailed instructions, see How do I sign in and register the virtual key?

3. Premium Plan for remote access
Since February 2025, Tesla has charged developers for Fleet API access. Remote internet-based commands therefore require a Premium Plan subscription.

4. Enable the Bluetooth Key
The app can communicate directly with your vehicle over Bluetooth. This feature requires pairing a Bluetooth Key with your vehicle. Do not confuse the Bluetooth Key with the Virtual Key used by Tesla's Fleet API.

To pair the Bluetooth Key, open:
App Menu → Tesla Key → Enable

For detailed instructions, see How do I enable the Bluetooth Key?

5. Use your watch as an NFC Key Card
The app can also function as an NFC Key Card. If you have already signed in and enabled the Bluetooth Key, NFC support is automatically enabled and ready to use.

If you only want NFC functionality, you can add the watch directly from the vehicle's Locks menu without signing in to the app. Simply open the watch app once after installation so it can generate the encrypted NFC credentials, then follow Tesla's standard key card pairing procedure.

For detailed instructions, see How do I enable the NFC Key?.

Important
If you previously added the watch as an NFC-only key and later decide to enable the Bluetooth Key, remove the NFC key from the vehicle before starting Bluetooth pairing. Once Bluetooth pairing is complete, NFC functionality will be added automatically.

After a successful login, the companion phone app is no longer required for daily use. However, it is recommended to keep it installed in case you need to sign in again later, for example after changing your Tesla account password.

Tesla's official Fleet API requires most vehicles to use encrypted commands secured by a Virtual Key. To use DRIVE Electric for Tesla, you must complete both the Tesla account authorization process and the Virtual Key enrollment process.

Watch the setup video

Follow these steps carefully:

1. Open the companion phone app and tap Sign In.
2. Select the correct Tesla region.
3. Sign in using your Tesla account credentials.
4. Grant access to all requested permission categories. If any permissions are missing, visit your Tesla Account and sign in again to update them.
5. After sign-in, the app will ask you to enroll a Virtual Key.
6. For Model 3, Model Y, and newer Model S/X vehicles, open the official Tesla app and select the correct vehicle before continuing. Then return to DRIVE and tap OPEN to continue the enrollment process.
7. Complete the key enrollment process in the Tesla app. The key should appear in the vehicle's Locks menu as drive.klokkprojects.no.
8. Open the watch app and complete the sign-in process. This transfers the required tokens and configuration from the phone app to the watch.
9. You're ready to go.

Legacy sign-in video

Important
If you are already signed in and want to repeat the setup process, first log out from the watch app:
App Menu → App Settings → Log Out

Tesla setup page bug
Some users may see a page asking them to install the Tesla app even though it is already installed. If this happens, try tapping the Tesla app icon on the page or selecting "Open on Tesla" from the menu. If that does not work, use Chrome or open the following link on a computer and scan the displayed QR code with your phone:
https://tesla.com/_ak/drive.klokkprojects.no

Logins from Mainland China are currently not supported.

In February 2025, Tesla introduced usage-based pricing for access to the Fleet API. Before that, third-party apps could use Tesla's unofficial API at no cost. The original purchase price of DRIVE Electric for Tesla was therefore never intended to cover ongoing Fleet API usage charges.

Today, every remote action performed through Tesla's official API generates a cost. These charges are paid directly by the developer and vary depending on the type of request being made.

The Premium Plan helps cover these recurring costs and keeps remote features available for all users. Without it, providing Fleet API access would not be financially viable.

Why wasn't this included in the original purchase price?
Tesla's Fleet API fees did not exist when the app was originally released. The platform changed after purchase, introducing ongoing monthly costs that must now be paid for every active user.

Can existing customers be exempt from the subscription?
Unfortunately, no. The subscription exists solely because Tesla now charges for API access. Continuing to provide remote services without recovering those costs would make the app unsustainable.

Since the first release, the Play Store listing has included a disclaimer explaining that Tesla may change, restrict, or remove API access at any time and that such changes could affect functionality.

Tesla Fleet API pricing examples
Wakes: 50 requests per $1
Data requests: 500 requests per $1
Commands: 1000 requests per $1

Example monthly usage based on starting climate control twice per day:
Wakes: 2 × 30 × $0.02 = $1.20
Data requests: 4 × 30 × $0.002 = $0.24
Commands: 2 × 30 × $0.001 = $0.06

Total monthly API cost: approximately $1.50

For comparison, the one-time purchase price of the app is roughly equivalent to purchasing additional Tesla Key Cards. Even without remote access, the app still provides Bluetooth Key and NFC Key functionality directly from your watch.

Main screen tips

• Quickly jump to the Climate or Charging section by tapping the arrow area. The single arrow scrolls to Climate, while the double arrow scrolls directly to Charging.
• To open the app menu, swipe down from the middle of the screen and quickly tap the blue tab that appears at the top. Avoid swiping from the very top of the display, as this opens the watch's built-in quick settings menu.
• The app menu provides access to vehicle information, Bluetooth key settings, app settings, and other features.
• To prevent accidental command execution, enable command confirmations in App Settings. You can still bypass the confirmation screen by long-pressing a command.
• Tap the six-dot icon to open the Controls menu. You can customize its appearance in App Settings by choosing list or grid layouts, with or without colors.
• The shortcut in the upper-right corner normally shows the Bluetooth Key status, but may display higher-priority notifications such as software updates. Tap it to view details.
• When media is playing in your vehicle, a music note icon appears. Tap it to open the media controls.
• In the Charging section, tap the value field to switch between charge limit and current limit views.
• If Sleep Mode is enabled and the displayed information appears outdated or greyed out, tap the charge value to wake the vehicle and refresh the data.

Tile tips

• Tiles provide quick access to commands directly from your watch face. Add and rearrange them using your watch's companion app or from the tile carousel itself.
• The main DRIVE tile can be customized with your preferred commands. Arrange them from App Settings.
• If the Bluetooth Key is enabled, viewing a DRIVE tile for approximately two seconds will trigger a Bluetooth connection attempt. This delay prevents accidental connections while swiping through tiles.
• Wait until the tile shows that the vehicle is connected before sending Bluetooth commands. Otherwise, commands will be sent through Tesla's internet services, which may be slower.

Installation issues are usually caused by Google Play Store or device-specific software, not by the app itself. Because Android watches and phones come in many different hardware and software combinations, installation problems can occur occasionally.

Try the following:

1. Clear the Play Store cache on both your phone and watch, then restart both devices.
2. Make sure Google Play Services is fully up to date on both devices.
3. Verify that your watch has enough available storage space.
4. If the "Install on other devices" option is missing on your phone, open the Play Store directly on the watch and install the app from there.

If the issue persists, contact Google Play Support.

If the app is not working after sign-in, make sure you completed every step described in How do I sign in and register the virtual key?

Checklist

1. Verify that the app has all required Tesla account permissions.
Visit Tesla Account Settings, confirm that DRIVE Electric for Tesla appears in your authorized applications, and ensure the five top permission categories are enabled.

2. Verify that the virtual key has been enrolled in your vehicle.
Open the Locks section in the vehicle. A key named drive.klokkprojects.no should be listed. If it is missing, wake the vehicle using the official Tesla app and restart the enrollment process.

3. If you signed in again using the phone app, remember to log out of the watch app afterward.
Logging out allows the watch to retrieve updated access tokens, regions, and permissions from the companion phone app.

To enable the Bluetooth Key, open:
App Menu → Tesla Key → Enable

Follow the on-screen instructions to pair your watch with the vehicle.

Video guide:

How to Enable the Bluetooth Tesla Key

Important:
• Enabling the Bluetooth Key automatically enables the NFC Key as well.
• If you previously added the watch as an NFC-only key, remove that key from the vehicle before pairing the Bluetooth Key. Otherwise, pairing may fail.
• If pairing or connection fails, see What does the BLE Filter setting do
• OnePlus Watch 2 and 2R users should disable BLE Filter before pairing (older firmware only).
• OnePlus Watch 3 users should leave BLE Filter enabled.

The NFC Key works exactly like a Tesla Key Card.

If you already paired the Bluetooth Key, NFC is automatically enabled and ready to use.

If you only want NFC functionality, you can add the watch directly from the vehicle's Locks menu without enabling the Bluetooth Key.

Video guide:

How to Use Your Watch as an NFC Key Card

Please note:
• Adding the NFC Key alone does not enable the Bluetooth Key.
• Pairing the Bluetooth Key first is the recommended approach because it enables both Bluetooth and NFC functionality.
• On some watches running versions earlier than Wear OS 4, the screen must be awake when tapping the B-pillar.
• Some manufacturers disable NFC while Battery Saver is active.

If you only want NFC access, you do not need to sign in. Simply launch the app once after installation, accept the disclaimer, and follow the pairing instructions.

Beginning in February 2025, Tesla started charging developers for access to the Fleet API.

Without a Premium Plan subscription, the app cannot provide remote internet-based access to your vehicle.

You can still communicate with your vehicle locally using the Bluetooth Key when you are nearby.

Subscribing to the Premium Plan restores remote access and helps cover Tesla's Fleet API usage costs.

For older Tesla models that do not support Bluetooth vehicle communication, a Premium Plan is required to continue using remote vehicle controls.

This means that you missed out on the last step of the new sign in process and did not complete the enrollment of the virtual key.
Please read the above section App not working - Checklist bullet point 2.

This means that your vehicle is expecting encrypted commands from the app. Probably the Secure (Beta) Protocol setting in the watch app settings is disabled.
Please read the above section App not working - Checklist bullet point 3.

In most cases this is due to Tesla phasing out the unofficial API used by third-party apps. Tesla will gradually convert vehicles to the new official API during late 2023 and early 2024. To switch from the old API to the new one, you must first log out of the watch app and then sign back in using the phone app. To improve the security and control for users of third-party applications, some additional steps are required while signing in. First, you must give the app access to your Tesla account. After logging in, the phone app will ask you to grant access to various scopes/categories. In order for the app to work, you must grant access to ALL the categories requested by the app. You then need to start a process to transfer a virtual key to the vehicle. This is done from the official Tesla app, but initiated from the DRIVE app. You must approve this key transfer before the car can receive encrypted messages from the watch app.

Meaning of the return codes - assuming you HAVE converted to the new API:
401 - unauthorized - This means that your credentials are invalid (token expired or otherwise invalidated). Have you changed password?
403 - forbidden - This means that the app does not have access to your account or vehicle. Have you granted access to ALL the required scopes?

Although in some cases it is a healthy attitude to be skeptical of third-party applications, I will try to convince you why this app is safe.

First of all, this app is now an officially approved partner, using the official API made by Tesla. There are no proxy servers involved, so no communication takes place via servers that the developer has any access to. When the app is downloaded to your phone and watch, all communication takes place directly between your device and Tesla.
When you use the phone app to log in, the phone app will open an SSL-encoded web view directly to Tesla's own SSO service. This ensures that your credentials are not visible to the phone app, but entered directly on Tesla's own website. The only thing transferred from your phone to your watch is an access/refresh token used to identify you against the official Tesla API. Since most of the vehicles in Tesla's fleet now require end-to-end encryption, this token cannot be used to send commands to the car alone. First, as the vehicle owner, you must approve a virtual key transferred to your car. This can only be done from the official Tesla app. Only encrypted commands sent from the DRIVE watch app can be decrypted with this key. A stray token, without further access to your credentials, can not be used to open or drive your car. You have full access to remove access linked to this token from your Tesla account. Also, the token only has a lifetime of 8 hours before it needs to be renewed. This renewal is automatically handled by the watch when required.

Not unless your watch app tells you to. The phone app is only used once to retrieve an access- and refresh token and transfer it to the watch app. You will have approx. 8 hours to transfer this token from the phone to the watch. After that the token will expire on the phone app and can not be used. Once the token is transferred from the phone app to the watch app, the watch app will automatically renew the token by itself when needed. The phone app is only needed again if your watch app logs you out for some reason. This can happen if you change your password at Tesla.com, or if Tesla invalidates the token for any other reason. In this case you must sign in again on your phone app and transfer the new token to the watch app.

If the watch app repeatedly asks you to log in again after approx. 8 hours, read Q: "After signing in, the watch app keeps asking me to log in again". If this is not working, you may have to change password at Tesla.com

Some of you are experiencing a "login loop" between the phone app and the watch app. The reason for this is that the token generated by the phone app, which is transferred to your watch, does not have the necessary grants to your account. The first time you log in, you will be asked to grant the app various accesses to your account. If you do not tick off all the grants that the app asks for, the watch app will not have access to list available cars from your account (for example). The watch app will then ask you to log in again and check the app accesses. This can be perceived as a loop and an app error. You can also change these accesses from your Tesla account at Tesla.com.

No. However, location is used to present the vehicle on Google Maps and Audio is used for voice commands. The app is also sending anonymous app statistics to Firebase Crashlytics to give us insigth into app failures and usage. Absolutely no user credentials, or any other data whatsoever, is sent to the developer or other third parties.

Please refer to the Privacy Policy to learn more.

The app is found on Google Play Store. Once purchased, the companion phone app is installed on your Android phone and the watch app is installed on the smartwatch. If only the phone app is installed after purchase, please look for the "available on more devices" pull-down menu and install the watch app from there. You can also search for DRIVE Electric for Tesla on the Google Play Store app installed on your smartwatch and download it from there.

Please make sure your watch device is compatible and runs Wear OS before purchase!

DRIVE Electric for Tesla on Play Store

Most paid apps on Google Play can be refunded within 48 hours by yourself. This will give you plenty of time to try out the app. You can initiate a refund from the app's listing in Google Play anytime within those 48 hours. Contact us by email if the refund button is not showing within those 48 hours. We will need the order id starting with GPA.xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx, or your receipt in full.

Learn more about refunds on Google Play here.

Swipe down from the center of the main screen and quickly tap the blue tab that appears at the top. This opens up the app menu. From there you will have 6 choices:

1. Vehicle information
2. Select vehicle
3. Manage Bluetooth key
4. Locate vehicle
5. Summon (or compass view)
6. App settings

Tip: To avoid opening the watch's official quick menu, swipe down from the center of the screen. Do not swipe down from the top of the screen.

This can be done from app menu -> app settings -> disable PIN. If you forgot your PIN and can’t access the app, then you need to uninstall the app and install it again, alternatively clear the app's data and cache.

The PIN will also be disabled if you log out.

Yes it does. Just swipe left on areas not assigned to shortcuts on the main screen or go to App Menu -> Select Vehicles.
In Tile view, just click on the vehicle name and it will toggle between your vehicles.

All power modes are removed in v5.0.0 due to new power saving restrictions from Google on Wear OS. Long-running background processes are no longer allowed. This means that only the "open app to connect" mode is left, and will become the default and only power mode.

In order to pair the Tesla Key, the app will use Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) to scan for your vehicle. This scan uses a scan filter based on your VIN number to filter out your exact vehicle. Although the use of scan filters is mandatory for background processes, some watch manufacturers do not support them. If you experience that the Tesla Key will not connect when you activate the Tesla Key, try setting this setting to OFF. The app will then scan through all visible BLE devices to find the vehicle. This is a less efficient way than using scan filters, but can help pair the Tesla Key. This setting is ON by default, except for OnePlus Watch 2/2R devices, where scan filters are known to not work. App v4.6.1 needed.

The main app will fall back using the internet interface if it fails to connect to the Bluetooth interface. If the vehicle is sleeping, the internet interface must wake up the vehicle before it can receive commands. This sequence will feel like a long delay. The Tiles, however, will only use the Bluetooth interface if it is already connected to the vehicle. Otherwise it will use the internet interface. When swiping to the Tile view, please allow 3-5 seconds to connect to the vehicle before you issue any commands.

If the app fails to connect to the Bluetooth interface, you can tap the Tesla Key icon in the DRIVE Electric tile, or in the app menu, to check the Bluetooth connection. If it won't connect, disable/enable the Bluetooth key (Tesla Key) to force the app to do a full Bluetooth scan. Then try the command again. You can also try to restart your watch, or enable/disable flight mode. This will restart the Bluetooth stack on the watch OS.

If nothing else works, remove the key from the car's user interface, disable and renew the Tesla Key on the watch, and pair it again.

App menu -> Tesla key -> disable.
Vehicle UI -> Locks -> delete the Tesla Key.
App menu -> app settings -> renew the Tesla Key.
App menu -> Tesla Key -> enable again and pair the new key.

First of all, the 'Walk-Away-Door Lock' option must be enabled in the vehicle's UI. You should also assign the Bluetooth key to your driver profile in the Locks menu; Tap the person icon next to the key to assign it to your profile. Please, also read the driver's manual as there are many conditions that must be met.

Secondly, whether the vehicle will automatically lock or not, depends on the protocol used to unlock the vehicle.

The app uses either NFC, Bluetooth, or the internet connection to unlock the vehicle. They all behave differently.

Think of the protocols like this:
NFC -> same as your key card.
Bluetooth -> same as how the official phone app operates when in range of the vehicle, also known as phone-as-key.
Internet -> same as how the official phone app operates when out of range of the vehicle.

Even when you use the official keys provided by Tesla, the automatic lock feature will only work when you have unlocked the door using the Bluetooth protocol. If you open the vehicle using your key card, you need to lock the vehicle with the key card. It won't automatically lock. The key card is not actively connected to the vehicle, and the vehicle will not know when you walk away. The Bluetooth connection however, is actively connected, and it will know when you leave because the Bluetooth connection eventually breaks. Then it will automatically lock. Once connected the vehicle will automatically lock when you walk away from the vehicle (approx 10m, or 4m with the Auto-Secure Vehicle option set).

PS! If the watch app disconnects before you leave the vehicle, it will not automatically lock. It is always your responsibility to ensure that your vehicle is locked when leaving.

OnApproach will delay a given command until you approach Bluetooth range of your vehicle. This can be useful when carrying groceries with both hands from the grocery store to the car.

To activate OnApproach, for example to open the trunk:
1. From the OnApproach Tile, click on the trunk command. (tile available from v4.4.5).
2. In the Controls menu, click on the "walking man" icon on the right side of the trunk command if the menu is in list view.
3. In the Controls menu, long press the trunk command if the menu is in grid view (PS! Choose layout in app settings).
4. Answer yes to the confirmation.

This will start a 10 minute long Bluetooth search for your car. As soon as it detects the car, it will open the trunk without you having to do anything.

Please enable the Tesla Key to activate the OnApproach functionality.

Yes, the app offers a battery level/time finished complication. You can add it to your favourite watch face by entering the watch face edit mode. The complication will update regularly by its own if the vehicle is online, but it will never wake your vehicle from sleep. The information shown can be outdated. While charging the complication will show the time charging is finished instead of range. You can tap the complication to open the main app.

The availablilty depends on the watch face developer. Some watch faces may filter out 3rd-party complications to have better control over the watch face battery usage.

The app offers 6 different Tiles.
One tile for general commands, two dedicated keyfobs used when the app is connected as a Bluetooth key, one for OnApproach commands and two action button tiles.

Tip 1: Go to App Menu -> App Settings -> Organize Controls Menu, to set the commands you want in the general tile called DRIVE. Just drag and drop commands in the desired order. The six top-most commands in the list will show up in the tile. If the Bluetooth key is enabled, the sixth command will be replaced by the Tesla Key admin. The 1st and 2nd command in the list will show up in the action button 1 and 2 tiles.

Tip 2: Use the official wearable app on your phone to rearrange the DRIVE tiles all the way to the left. This way you only need to swipe once from the watch face to access the first tile.

Tip 3: If you have the Bluetooth key enabled, swiping to a tile will cause the app to start a key connection attempt after approx 2 seconds. Wait for the BT key icon color to change, or for a slight buzz, to know when the key is authenticated and ready to receive commands.

Tip 4: Action button 2 can be converted to an OnApproach action button in the app's settings menu.

Yes, go to App Menu -> App Settings -> Organize Controls Menu. Then drag and drop commands in the desired order.

If you use the tile called DRIVE, the six top-most commands in the list will show up in the tile. If the Bluetooth key is enabled, the sixth command will be replaced by the Tesla Key admin.

Enabling Sleep Mode is highly recommended and prevents the app from waking up your vehicle when you start the app to check status. Tesla stores the last known information of the vehicle on its servers and Sleep Mode will use this information instead of waking up the vehicle.

Disabling Sleep Mode, however, will make commands faster since the app will wake the vehicle when the app is started instead of waiting until a command is issued.

It depends on the release version. This is intended for the developer and may give some more visual feedback needed when testing the app. It can also activate some new features before they are completely beta tested.

Taxi mode will, among other things, activate a menu with more door combinations in the Unlatch Doors tile. You can choose to open both rear doors, or open all doors except the driver door. In Taxi mode this icon replaces the Open Frunk command in the tile. Enable this feature in app settings.

This feature is available from v4.0.7

When the vehicle display is turned on and a valid media source selected, a 'music note' will show up in the top icon row on the app's main screen. Tap this icon and confirm to access the media controls (or long click to bypass the confirmation). The media controls will automatically return to the main screen if the vehicle display turns off or the music stops. You can long click the skip track icons to skip between your favorites. If you long click on the volume down button, you will mute the sound, and if you long click the volume up it will adjust from any volume to a low volume (volume 2).

* app v4.0.0 onwards...

The app uses built-in magnetometer and accelerator sensors to be able to indicate direction. Probably your watch lacks one or both sensors. The distance is calculated using the GPS coordinates and the text color shows in white color when found.

The compass and the vehicle in the background should turn individually. To find the vehicle you need to align the vehicle to the horizontal lines, like a flight instrument (HSI). The blue dot shows the North direction.

If the vehicle does not return any GPS location it will default to the demo vehicle location, which is downtown Oslo, Norway. Ie. if the app is in Sleep Mode, the vehicle will not return any GPS location.

The button becomes active when the vehicle API reports that the vehicle is close by your HomeLink location. In addition, for the command to succeed, your vehicle's GPS location is transferred as an argument to the vehicle command. For the vehicle to return any GPS location you must turn Location Sharing ON and Sleep Mode OFF in app settings.

No, Summon is currently unavailable.

PS! After converting to the new official API the Summon functionality is temporarily unavailable until it is supported by the new API again.

Yes, depending on Wear OS versions and brand implementations the app supports voice commands using the internal watch Speech Recognizer.

Supported versions:
- Wear 5.x onwards
- Wear 2.x

Not supported versions:
- Wear 3.x
- Wear 4.x

This is a good question, but it will have several answers depending on settings, usage and watch type (LTE or not). Technically the watch app shouldn't be much slower, but the implementation is a little bit different.

1. Usually, what takes time, is to wake up the vehicle from sleep mode. The official phone app will always wake the vehicle when you start the app (you'll see the little spinning wheel before it becomes operational). The watch app will do the same only if "sleep mode" is turned off in app settings. If "sleep mode" is turned on, it will not wake up the vehicle unless a command is being sent. This "wake up" can take up to 30 seconds and feels like a delay, so this is the first thing you need to check. Commands will execute faster with "sleep mode" off. The same thing will happen if you use the Tile commands. Nothing has woken up the vehicle before the command is sent, so the app must first wake up the vehicle before it can send the command. If you have Sentry mode on, however, the vehicle is always awake and commands will feel much faster.

2. If you notice the delay only when you're close to your vehicle, then it might have to do with the Bluetooth key. The official phone app will connect through Bluetooth as soon as it detects your vehicle, assuming you have enabled the phone key. This interface bypasses Tesla's internet servers and communicates directly with the vehicle. The watch app also has this capability, so enabling the Tesla Key in the watch app will cause it to communicate with the vehicle directly. But there is a difference: The watch app does not have the battery capasity to scan for your vehicle 24/7. You therefore have to either open up the main app or swipe to one of the Tiles before it will attempt to connect over Bluetooth. This usually takes 3-5 seconds before any command can be sent. You will see "Connected" under the vehicle name in the Tile when the key is connected. PS! Please also check out the Power Mode question!

3. If your watch is connected to your phone it will always try to use the phone's internet connectivity before it eventually switches over to internal Wifi or LTE. This might also cause a little delay, but will not affect the Bluetooth key.

If you get this error message, the encrypted storage on your watch is corrupt. This can happen if you reinstall the app from a backup after a watch reset. The encrypted storage is "linked" with the OS and cannot be read after a watch reset. To fix this, clear the app's cache/storage from your watch's main settings. Go to Apps, find DRIVE Electric for Tesla and clear data & buffer. Then sign in to the phone app and restart the watch app. You have to manually enter preferred settings again from the app settings and also pair the Tesla Key again.

Short answer: No, there is no collaboration between different ecosystems, and there is no technical way to transfer a purchased app between them. To do that, I had to offer the app free to download, but subscription-based (with monthly or annual pricing). This would make the app more profitable, but more expensive for the user in the long run. I've decided not to, as long as Tesla keeps their official API free.
The WearOS version of the app is built from the ground up, written in Java/Kotlin and will work on all Wear OS brands like Pixel, Fossil, TicWatch, Samsung etc.

Read more about it here: https://m.facebook.com/story

The Tizen version of the app is no longer for sale. If you bought it earlier and need to reinstall the app on your Tizen watch (Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 or earlier), you can find the app on Galaxy Store -> Menu -> My Apps -> DRIVE Electric for Tesla.

PS! Starting early 2024, the unofficial API used by this app will be phased out by Tesla. The Tizen app will cease to work after this!

No, after the phase-in of the official API by Tesla, a paired Android phone is required to sign in.

- Read the IMPORTANT LOGIN INFORMATION at the top.

- For some users, the watch token needs to be renewed every day. This seems to be caused by Tesla's WAF (web application firewall) that temporarily block you if you make excessive requests. This is to prevent bots from attacking the service, either as a brute force or denial-of-service attack. If this happens to you, the best medicine so far has been to change the password at Tesla.com. As a precaution also reduce the amount of third party applications accessing your account. If you have many third party applications running, you can add a separate driver profile and use that account to connect your third party applications to.

Almost all smartwatches running Google Wear OS 2 - 6 are compatible.

Please note that Samsung Galaxy watches older than the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 operate on a proprietary operating system called Tizen OS and is NOT compatible. Examples are: Samsung Gear S-series, Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Watch 2 (active) and Galaxy Watch 3.

List of compatible watches as of July 2026:

Casio:
GSW-H1000
Smart Outdoor Watch WSD-F10
WSD-F20
WSD-F21HR
WSD-F30

Fitbit:
Ace LTE

Fossil:
Gen 5 LTE
Gen 5e
Gen 6
Q Wander / Q Marshal / Q Founder 2.0 / Bradshaw / Dylan
Sport
Wear OS by Google Smartwatch

Pixel:
Pixel Watch
Pixel Watch 2
Pixel Watch 3
Pixel Watch 4

Guess:
Wear

Huawei:
Watch 2

Hublot:
Big Bang e Gen 3
Big Bang e

LGE:
G Watch R
LG Watch Sport
LG Watch Style
LG Watch W7

Louis Vuitton:
Tambour Horizon

Mobvoi:
TicWatch C2
TicWatch E2/S2
TicWatch E3
TicWatch Pro
TicWatch Pro 3
TicWatch Pro 3 GPS/LTE
TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS/LTE
Ticwatch Pro 4G
Ticwatch Pro 5
Ticwatch Pro 5 Enduro
Ticwatch S Smartwatch
Ticwatch E Smartwatch

Montblanc:
Summit
Summit Lite
Summit 2+
Summit 3

Motorola:
Moto 360

Movado:
Boss Touch / TH 24/7 YOU
Movado Connect
Movado Connect 2.0

Nixon:
The Mission

OnePlus:
Watch 2
Watch 2R
Watch 3
Watch 4

Oppo:
OPPO Watch
OPPO Watch X
OPPO Watch X2
OPPO Watch X2 mini
OPPO Watch X3

Polar:
M600

Samsung:
Galaxy Watch 4
Galaxy Watch 4 Classic
Galaxy Watch 5
Galaxy Watch 5 Pro
Galaxy Watch 6
Galaxy Watch 6 Classic
Galaxy Watch 7
Galaxy Watch 8
Galaxy Watch 8 Classic
Galaxy Watch 9
Galaxy Watch Ultra
Galaxy Watch Ultra 2
Galaxy Watch FE

Suunto:
Suunto 7

TAG Heuer:
Connected
Connected 2020
Connected Calibre E4 42mm
Connected Calibre E4 45mm
Connected Modular 41
Connected Modular 45 (China)

Verizon Wireless:
Wear24

Xiaomi:
Watch 2
Watch 2 Pro
Watch 5

ZTE:
Quartz