How it works

One link, from booking to locked.

Nothing here needs the two of you to meet, and nothing needs your guest to install anything. This is the whole path.

Before the trip

You create the rental

Pick the car, the window, and what you want back: charge floor, miles included, speed cap, allowed area. Set once per car and it applies to every rental of it.

We text your guest

A short message naming you and the car, with one link. It says plainly that opening it is optional — ignore it and nothing happens.

They see the trip first

When it starts, when it ends, the charge to bring it back at, and the mileage. Before any setup, before any permission.

They agree, or they don't

The consent screen lists exactly what the car reports to you, in plain words, with the driving score switchable off. Declining ends it there.

Getting in

Finding it

We ask if they're at the car. Only someone who says no gets a map, and it's satellite — a guest hunting a garage needs to see the garage, not a street diagram.

Unlocking

One tap. Then lock, frunk, trunk, climate and first-row seat heaters, straight from the page.

The Tesla app, recommended

It makes their phone a real key that unlocks as they walk up and works over Bluetooth with no signal. They scan a code on the car's screen. Optional, always.

Skipping it, honestly

If they skip, we ask whether you left a key card and explain how to use it. With neither, we tell them plainly that a dead zone means no entry.

During

The car reports on itself. You set the thresholds per vehicle, and your guest was told all of it up front.

Drives on a map

Every trip, with over-limit stretches marked and event pins where something happened.

Alerts you chose

Speeding, hard braking, a possible impact, battery floor, the alarm. Your numbers, not ours.

Protections that hold

Speed cap, valet mode, PIN to drive, charge limit, allowed area. Tesla's own floor is 50 mph and we say so rather than quietly adjusting your number.

Revoke, any time

The link stops opening the car within seconds. One driver's code can be killed without ending the rental.

Getting it back

We text the link

Near the end of the window, with the drop-off spot and the charge you asked for.

Your photo of the spot

Plus space number, level and gate code if you set them, and your parking note.

Running late

If they're still driving toward the drop-off when the window closes, we extend it rather than mark them late, and tell you both.

The car checks itself

Windows, frunk, trunk and doors read live. Windows and the trunk close remotely; the frunk can't on any Tesla but a Cybertruck, so we tell them to shut it by hand.

Charge and miles

Against what you asked for, with any overage stated plainly. Below the floor doesn't block the return — a stranded guest helps nobody — but you see it.

Locked, then ended

Tesla app access is removed first, then the lock goes out, and the trip only closes once the car confirms. If it never confirms, the trip stays open and they're told.

That's the whole thing.