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Oct 13 2008

CostToDrive helps you know the cost of a trip

Humayun Mughal 

image141 CostToDrive helps you know the cost of a tripDid you ever think of what a car costs you to travel? This is undoubtedly a debatable issue which needs to be addressed.For that purpose, CostToDrive intends to provide you with estimated budget for your driving trip.This help users save a lot of time and get to know what exactly would the trip cost them.

For that matter, CostToDrive uses a tool called ‘Galculator’. It requires users to provide the route they want to travel, the make & model of the car and a single click gets users to a page consisting of places that come in between, the fuel consumption for the entire journey. The page also provides one with the average fuel rate per gallon for the journey and of course the total time taken for it.

CostToDrive provides you with the closest measures but these can vary a bit depending on various factors. These include; factors like speed, stops one makes and the condition of both your vehicle and the weather that plays a vital role when one plans a journey.

More so, you are also blessed with interesting stats regarding comparison of cars with respect to time taken for a trip.  Results could have been more productive if they had integrated the zoom options provided by google maps; this could provide users with detailed view about places that lie between your journey. All in all, it is a good startup with its services only in U.S and we hope that their horizon expands to the other regions as well.

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