Calculate fuel consumption and show cost of the route
It would be great to be able to enter the average fuel consumption for certain speeds for your vehicle and then while calculating show also the cost of the route. It can be calculated by known speeds on the road, the need to stop and go on traffic lights, the overall profile of the route. There is an iPhone app that can serve as an inspiration - http://drivegain.com
Thanks for your feedback. At this time, this doesn't fit on our roadmap, but we'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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Christopher Williams commented
- You save your vehicle information on your profile(ie. MPG on freeway and city, gas tank size) with the ability to save multiple vehicles.
- You tell Waze how much gas you have such as 1/2 tank or to stop at a gas station to fill up(newer cars could enter the miles to empty information from their vehicle) and calculate from there and it would let you know which gas stations you would need to stop at to get the cheapest refills on your trip and the fewest stops necessary.
- This would help save time and money.
- Since Waze already has gas prices being reported it could calculate the gas cost of your trip.
- You have a setting for cheapest gas cost route and quickest route. Cheapest gas cost might have you stop even at a half tank or so to save you a few dollars where the gas is cheaper while quickest route would have you stop the fewest times necessary.
- The app would calculate and show both options side by side with the gas cost and then you would pick which one you want.
- It could keep a running total of how much money it has saved you on gas compared to using the quickest route option and you can use that information to get more people to use the app, such as "The average Waze user saved over" + ("$15/month" or "$10/refill" or "your own clever wording") + "using the Smart Gas Shopper option."
- You could even tell it what fast food restaurant you prefer to eat at and a time and it would calculate that into your trip too, maybe that would be a different option, most likely, agreed. -
niv borenstien commented
there is an israeli application (angi) that recieve from the car the fuel amount
combind this data with the car fuel tank, the trip destination and you can know if the driver needs to refuel and suggeste a near by fuel station.
more then that, this application retreive from the car engine (and other) problems, and u can suggeste near by garage
all the best
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Isaac Sousa commented
The simplest (initial) version could be made using only variables already calculated: distance and time. The user would have to previously input cost for distance (€/km) and time (€/min.).
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Mark commented
This idea is similar to another, but not quite.
If we tell Waze when we fill up, and enter our car's range (either by make of car so Waze knows, or enter the range that our car displays, or enter our own comfortably conservative range per fillup), Waze could provide better data for gas stations. Do I have enough gas to get home? How far along my route can I go to get to the cheapest gas? Etc.
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Sergey Masharov commented
also including toll roads.
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Dignity Matters commented
then publish your OBD2:Waze performance stats via
XMPP PEP
there was once an interactive table of available XMPP XEP (xmpp extensions). I cannot find it currently
http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/technology-overview/
was here
search suggestions for
XMPP
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Dignity Matters commented
this would only have value if your handset could interface your car via OBD2 ;)
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Nicholas Miller commented
I'd like to add to this. I think it would be awesome if you could base your route decision not only on time but total trip cost. It would be based on total toll cost (if route has tolls) plus gasoline cost. Gasoline cost would be the sum of your average city MPG (user inputted) x city miles and your average highway MPG (user inputted) x highway miles.