diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 93d8045..a927168 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@
 /Interactive
 /.DS_Store
 /.gradle
+/.idea
+/target
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..109e9b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>org.noroomattheinn</groupId>
+    <artifactId>tesla-client</artifactId>
+    <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <description>Tesla Rest API Client</description>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+    </properties>
+
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+        <plugins>
+            <!-- make an uberjar, so that we have eveything we need in one .jar file -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.4.3</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>shade</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.uber.jar</outputFile>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+            <version>3.3.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
+            <version>1.10</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+            <version>1.3.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+            <version>1.1.3</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+            <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>us.monoid.web</groupId>
+            <artifactId>resty</artifactId>
+            <version>0.3.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.code.geocoder-java</groupId>
+            <artifactId>geocoder-java</artifactId>
+            <version>0.15</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>
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