1. Our position
PlaidCars is an independent vertical index and market-intelligence service. We exist to help UAE consumers understand the Tesla and EV market: what’s for sale, at what price, at what mileage, and how those variables move over time. We send traffic to the marketplaces where listings are originally published — we do not replace them.
We are structured in the tradition of vertical meta-search services operating in adjacent markets globally. Our approach is adapted for the UAE market and our chosen category focus.
2. Data sources
We reference listings from publicly accessible pages on automotive marketplaces operating in the UAE, alongside publicly published vehicle-infrastructure datasets (including government and utility data, standards-based operator feeds, and data published by operators on their consumer-facing surfaces).
Every listing card on PlaidCars identifies its source at the point of display and links directly to the source page. Listings themselves — the original offer to sell — always belong to the platform and the lister that published them. Data-source attribution for non-listing datasets is shown on the page where that data is presented.
3. What we reference, and what we don’t
We reference the minimum set of factual data points necessary to describe a listing so a user can decide whether to click through:
- Vehicle specification: model, year, trim, drivetrain, battery class, exterior/interior colour, specs region, title status.
- Listing commercial facts: asking price, mileage, location (city/region), listing status (active / reserved / sold / removed), posted / updated dates where published by the source.
- Source name and deep link to the original listing.
- Dealer name where the lister is a commercial entity; “Private seller” where the lister is an individual.
We do not publish:
- Listing photographs or thumbnails.
- Full listing descriptions or expressive paragraph text written by the lister.
- Seller contact information — phone, WhatsApp, email, or any other direct-contact channel.
- Personal names of private sellers.
- Vehicle identification numbers (VIN), registration-document images, or any image of government-issued documentation, even where we may have observed them on the source page.
This distinction — facts referenced, expression and personal data excluded — is the core of our approach and is not negotiable.
4. Derived data and our own dataset
Beyond the facts we reference, PlaidCars produces its own derived dataset. This includes:
- Canonical vehicle records that link the same physical car observed across multiple source platforms.
- Price and mileage histories constructed from our own repeated observations over time.
- Deal scoring computed against a cohort of closely-matched comparable cars (same model, trim, year within one, similar mileage, and same market segment).
- Market-level statistics: active supply, median / min / max asking price, price deltas, and similar aggregations by model, trim, year, and market segment.
This derived dataset is PlaidCars’ intellectual property. It is not a reproduction of any source platform’s inventory or database.
5. Deep-linking and traffic
Our default behaviour is to drive qualified user traffic to source platforms. Listing cards on PlaidCars lead outward, not inward. We consider source platforms partners in the broader market, not competitors to be displaced.
6. Data-sharing and partnerships
PlaidCars welcomes formal data-sharing partnerships with source platforms, dealers, and dataset owners. Formal feeds (API, export, RSS, XML) and click-tracking partnerships are preferred over page-by-page observation because they (a) reduce load on the source’s infrastructure, (b) improve data accuracy, and (c) enable richer integrations.
If you represent a platform, dealer, or data owner and would like to discuss a formal arrangement, reach out via x.com/plaidcars.
7. Respect for technical signals
PlaidCars honours robots.txt and equivalent X-Robots-Tag directives where they are applied to pages relevant to our observation. We do not circumvent paywalls, authentication walls, CAPTCHAs, or rate-limit protections. If a source platform implements technical controls that make observation unsustainable, we will adapt our coverage (typically by removing that source) rather than escalate around the control.
8. Respect for listers and dealers
Any lister — private or commercial — may request that a listing referencing their vehicle or business be removed from PlaidCars. See the Takedown & Removal Request Policy. Removal is typically actioned within three business days of a valid request.
We do not display contact information of private sellers. Where a dealer’s business details are shown, they are the publicly published business-identification fields (business name, general location) and do not include staff personal data.
9. Infrastructure and adjacent datasets
Where PlaidCars surfaces datasets beyond listings themselves (for example, charging-station coverage or other vehicle-infrastructure data), we rely on publicly published government and utility datasets, publicly disclosed operator data, and — where applicable — open standards and open mapping data, with attribution. Each such record attributes its data source at the point of display. Operators who would prefer a formal feed arrangement are welcome to reach out via the contact route in §6.
10. Ongoing commitment
This Data & Attribution Policy is a living document. We update it as our coverage, partnerships, and methods evolve. Material changes will be announced on this page.