Fuel or electrons, plus the rest
Road-trip cost calculator
Build a transparent road-trip receipt for your vehicle and party by replacing every example price, efficiency, stop, and parking assumption.
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Trip inputs
Price the actual car
Example energy prices are not live. Replace them with your vehicle, route, charging plan, and current price.
Receipt, please
Road-trip total
Out of pocket$161.79$80.89 per traveler
- Total distance
- 540 mi
- Fuel
- $86.79
- Parking
- $40.00
- Tolls
- $0.00
- Food / stops
- $35.00
- Optional time value
- $0.00
- Total including time
- $161.79
Show the formula
Energy = total miles ÷ MPG × fuel price. Out of pocket = energy + parking + tolls + food. Time is shown separately and added only to the final comparison line.
Excluded: depreciation, maintenance, financing, insurance, live tolls, charger idle fees, breakdown risk, and real-time conditions.
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What this estimate includes
Source record
2 linked sources; 2 primary
Assumption record
2 stated assumptions; 4 explicit exclusions
Freshness
Current to Recheck after
Review state
- Editorial: approved
- Fact check: approved
- Brokerage: not required
- Fair housing: not required
- Tax / legal: not required
- Subject-matter: not required
- Owner tool review: approved
Assumptions
- Fuel cost equals miles divided by MPG times fuel price.
- EV cost equals miles divided by miles-per-kWh times electricity price.
Not included
- Depreciation
- maintenance
- live tolls
- surge pricing
Calculation details
- Calculator version
- 1.0.0
- Applicability
- User-entered prices
- Information current to
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