With rising gas prices it’s becoming more and more important to determine how much gas it will take to complete an upcoming trip. With that information at hand you might be able to determine whether you should look for other forms of transportation to save some money, like taking the train or a bus.
A website called Cost To Drive is here to help with that. With it you put in your starting point, destination, and vehicle make/model… in return you’ll get details as to how much a one way trip would cost in your particular vehicle. If you won’t be able to complete the trip on one tank of gas it will estimate approximately where each of your stops will be, and approximately how much it will cost to fill up based upon the average gas prices in that area.
This is a really nice site that I will definitely be using in the future. One thing that I do want to point out is that their mileage ratings won’t be accurate for every vehicle, and so you may want to manually enter in the tank size and MPG. To do this select the Can’t find your car link on the homepage. It’d be nice if they let you adjust the mileage in other places, and also change the fuel type for people who don’t use Regular grade.
Great find! This will definitely come in handy for the out of state concerts I go to, and the camping trips I take during the summers.
I ran a typical trip and found major errors. First, the price of gas used was off by at least $0.50 per gallon. Second, the data provided for my vehicle was incorrect. It used a gas tank capacity of 19 gallons and the actual is just over 16.
Cannot recommend in it’s current configuration. Too bad – a nice idea and I’d hoped it might make it easy to decide which state in which to get gas for a longer trip.
Could not get the site to work for me I could only get to wait while data is being collected. Waited 20 min twice then gave up. Could be helpful If I could get it to work.
Ryan,
You actually got a mention on Steve Rubel’s “Micro Persuasion”.
Interesting discussion.
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It may either be the browser you’re trying to use, or the service might have been having troubles at that point. It took seconds for it to load the results for me.
Not sure if that’s a good mention or not, but hey, I’ll take what I can get.
We’re only playing with the idea of placing ads at the beginning of our feeds to see if that helps with revenue at all.
Hi! Jim here. One of the founders of Cost2Drive.com. Wanted to provide an update on enhancements we’ve made to the site since we launched:
- we now include the cost to fly for trips +200 miles
- we’ve added another 10 years of vehicle data (to 1990)
- we now include premium and diesel fuel prices
- we’ve added details around how we pull gas prices and calculate costs
We hope you check out the enhancements and let us know what you think!