Overview
About
The Location API enables your application to remotely receive the vehicle´s latest known location, altitude, and heading.
Please note that the location is only updated at the end of a trip. It is not possible to follow the live location of the vehicle.
You can download the OpenAPI specification as a JSON file.
You can find information about the required scopes, headers, and request/response examples in the Endpoints section.
What do you have access to?
Availability
Car models
This API is generally, with some exceptions, available for:
- All cars with Volvo On Call add-on from model year 2010-2024
- All cars with Google Built In from model year 2020
(some endpoints have limited availability)
Locations
The API can be used with test credentials around the world. However, when published, only cars in the Europe / Middle East / Africa regions are available. We are working to bring other regions online.
View the full list of available countries
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Limitations
This API is Rate Limited to prevent malicious activity or accidents that cause service disruptions. The limit is set to 100 request per minute for a combination of the user's Volvo ID and the Client ID sending the request. A given user will have 100 requests per minute per application it uses. Should this limit be exceeded, the API will respond with HTTP code 429.
Sandbox
Would you like to experiment with this API on your own? You can test its functionality using your own Volvo ID account or a demo Volvo ID account.