About

What this site is

This site exists for one question: what does it actually cost, per mile and per week, to drive a specific car for Uber, Lyft, or delivery work? That question has an answer built from public numbers — EPA fuel economy ratings, published maintenance estimates, used-vehicle price guides, current fuel and electricity prices, and Uber's own vehicle-tier requirements — run through a fixed set of formulas. This site collects that data per vehicle, runs the formulas, and publishes both the results and the arithmetic behind them, so a reader can check the numbers rather than take them on faith. Every formula, every data source, and every assumption is documented in full on the methodology page.

Who this is for

The audience is people deciding whether a specific car is worth buying, keeping, or trading in for gig driving work — full-time rideshare and delivery drivers weighing a vehicle purchase, part-time drivers trying to figure out whether their current car is actually profitable once depreciation and wear are counted, and anyone comparing two candidate vehicles before signing for one of them. The site is built around cars commonly used for this kind of driving: efficient sedans and hatchbacks, hybrids, a few electric vehicles, and larger vehicles that qualify for Uber Comfort or Uber XL tiers.

What this site does not do

We do not test drive cars, and nothing on this site describes how a vehicle handles, how its seats feel, or how it drives in the rain — that is a different kind of review, and it is not what this project sets out to answer. We do not publish reviewer bylines, staff biographies, or quotes attributed to named people, because there are no test drivers or road-test staff behind the numbers: the content here is generated from a dataset and a set of formulas, applied consistently across every vehicle. We also do not accept payment to influence which vehicles are covered or what a comparison concludes; see the disclosure page for how this site is funded and what that funding does and does not affect.

Where the numbers come from

Fuel economy figures come from the EPA's own fueleconomy.gov. Maintenance estimates come from published sources — caredge.com, repairpal.com, yourmechanic.com. Used-vehicle price ranges come from Kelley Blue Book listings for each vehicle's base trim. Fuel and electricity prices come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Uber tier eligibility is checked against Uber's own published vehicle-requirement pages. None of these figures are estimated by guesswork or generated by an unsupervised process; each one traces back to a public source, and each vehicle's own page links the specific sources used for that vehicle. The full formulas that turn this raw data into cost-per-mile and profit figures are on the methodology page, along with the date the underlying data was last checked.

Estimates, not guarantees

Every figure here is a model-based estimate, not a measured result from an actual car or an actual driver. Real costs depend on driving style, local traffic, climate, insurance history, and plain luck with any individual vehicle, none of which a public-data model can capture. Treat these numbers as a starting point for comparing vehicles against each other, not as a prediction of what any one car will cost any one driver. Questions, corrections, or a source that looks wrong can go to the address on the contact page.