Cost2Drive 2.0 Helps By Quickly Calculating Fuel Costs It’s National Park Week here in the US and so we’re spending a good bit of time looking at how people our using our popular trip planning application to plan trips to … Continue reading
In Honor of National Park Week We Uncover Ten Bizarre Facts Related to our National Parks Dry Tortugas National Park is actually surrounded by water (it’s a group of seven islands off Key West). Conversely, Capitol Reef National Park is … Continue reading
In honor of National Park Week we debunk ten common misconceptions about our wonderful National Parks. Eruptions at Old Faithful are so reliable you can set your watch to them (you may end up late for meetings as predicting the … Continue reading
Early Access to Cost2Drive 2.0 for National Park Week Here at Cost2Go we’ve been working on something for quite some time, something we think is wonderful, and we’re so eager to share it we’re not even going to wait until … Continue reading
Shoppers Are Turning to Cost2Drive in Increasing Numbers This morning my wife wanted to purchase tickets to an upcoming show at the Kennedy Center. She decided to order the tickets online to save time and the fuel costs associated with … Continue reading
Only In The Most Lucrative Categories… There’s been much speculation lately that Facebook is finally staffing up to take a shot at improving their internal search product, a product that many would agree has been woefully under utilized in the … Continue reading
Travel: What would you like to see in a road trip planner app? 3 answers on Quora What would you like to see in a road trip planner app?
If you’ve been in hibernation this winter, or traveling in some remote location with no internet access, then perhaps you haven’t heard of Pinterest. For the rest of us its been impossible to ignore as its the hottest thing since … Continue reading
Trend-line Turns Vertical on Cost2Drive. Are We There Yet? Over the past few weeks something remarkable has been happening with visits to Cost2Drive.com, our popular fuel cost calculator website. They’ve begun growing at an accelerating pace leading us to wonder … Continue reading
Spring break is upon us. How do we know this? Here are the top 10 signs! 10. Your teacher just assigned you a huge project. 9. South Padre Island is at the top of the ride share board. 8. Your … Continue reading
Panic Sets In as $4 Gas Prices Begin Appearing Across the US Back in February of last year there was growing concern that unrest in the Middle East would result in record gas prices come the peak summer driving season, … Continue reading
Thousands of Florida-Bound Car Travelers Turn to Cost2Drive.com for Help Planning Trips as Gas Prices Reach Historic Highs As travelers begin planning their winter vacations in earnest, each week thousands are turning to our popular fuel calculator website and … Continue reading
Beats Out the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord for Most Frequently Entered Vehicle It turns out concerns over driving costs don’t go away with the purchase of a fuel-efficient vehicle. After pouring over data from a million vehicles that have … Continue reading
Edges Out Toyota and Chevrolet With Over 125,000 Routes Entered By Ford Owners As we continue to analyze data from over one million vehicles that have been entered into our popular fuel calculator app we’re ready to announce that Ford … Continue reading
The World’s Most Expensive Cars Among the Million Vehicles Entered on Cost2Drive.com. Its getting so bad even the rich are feeling the pinch of high gas prices. On the eve of the North American International Auto Show (also known as … Continue reading
Over the holidays I was reading a new book that explores the period in famed author Ernest Hemingway’s life when he owned the fishing boat Pilar. The first few chapters of Hemingway’s Boat are dedicated to his purchase of the … Continue reading
The Top 20 Silliest, Ironic and Naughty Routes from Cost2Drive Pouring over the data from more than 1 million trips entered on the Cost2Drive Website and iPhone app in 2011 I came across the following route: From Whistler, BC to … Continue reading
What’s harder to predict are the types of vehicles these travelers will be driving on their epic road trips to Disney, and so we thought this would be an interesting study to undertake given that Disney World is the most … Continue reading
Our Holiday Gift to You! Save $1.99 Through Jan, 1, 2012. In case you hadn’t noticed, gas prices in the US are now at an all time high heading into the week before Christmas as the price for a gallon … Continue reading
Toll Hikes Conspire With Record High Gas Prices to Make This Holiday Travel Season the Most Expensive Ever As if record high gas prices aren’t enough for travelers to deal with this holiday season drivers must also brace for additional … Continue reading
On Track to be Highest on Record for Holiday Season Heading into the 2011 holiday season its beginning to look like getting a lump of coal for Christmas might not be such a bad thing as it can at least … Continue reading
The Fans, Environment Take the Biggest Hit This week’s sports news was filled with stories of major college football conferences jockeying for new teams while panic set in for conferences like the Big East that have been shedding teams faster … Continue reading
Something Unsettling as Gas Prices Reach Historic Highs Earlier this year a new movie version of the famous Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged was released that depicted the US economy in a disastrous state by 2016 with gas prices at … Continue reading
New App Featured in Special ‘On the Road’ Section for Car Apps The big news keeps rolling in for our new Cost2Drive iPhone app as this weekend we learned the app has been featured in a special ‘On the Road’ … Continue reading
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfTE1JZz3bY] Great review of our new app by the CNET TV team. You can view the full episode here.
Reviews, Press Mentions Catapults App into Top 10 Ranking It’s been an exciting week since we launched our latest update to the new Cost2Drive iPhone app, version 1.0.1 with Kayak flight integration, and the reviews have been coming in fast … Continue reading
New Kayak Integration Provides Quick Cost Comparison UPDATE: The new Cost2Drive iPhone app was just names App of the Week by Love For Tech tech blog! Read the review. Only 2 weeks after launching the revolutionary Cost2Drive iPhone app it’s … Continue reading
Revolutionary App Makes Calculating Driving Costs a Breeze! UPDATE: We’ve just launched version 1.0.1 which has an airfare comparison feature. Read more here. Ever try to figure out how much it costs to drive somewhere? It’s easy, right? Just multiply … Continue reading
Most Searched “Beach” Destination on Cost2Drive.com With less than two weeks to go before Labor Day weekend, and gas prices starting to decline, its not too late to plan a last-minute trip to the beach to cap off the summer … Continue reading
Places First in Bloomberg TV – TechStars Startup Competition A week ago we were informed that our vision for evolving Cost2Drive into a new kind of trip planning application for car travelers was one of 5 startups selected by Bloomberg … Continue reading
Helping People Plan Better Car Trips 2011 has shaped up to be an exciting year for us at C2G. We began the year with a great deal of TV coverage coinciding with the spike in gas prices. Then in late … Continue reading
Hundreds of Colleges and Universities Entered as Destinations When we launched Cost2Drive we thought that college students might find it a helpful tool for budgeting trips to-and-from college campuses, as well as a way to save money on road trips … Continue reading
Summer Travelers Are At the Top of the List I have to admit that when we launched our trip planning application Cost2Drive back in October of 2008 we weren’t sure of the answer to this question. Gas prices had just … Continue reading
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Searches for National Parks on Cost2Drive.com on the Increase Heading into the Fourth of July holiday weekend I thought it would be interesting to see if visitors to Cost2Drive.com have been searching for national parks on our site as they … Continue reading
Improves Speed, Accuracy and Comprehensiveness. If there’s one thing we obsess about at C2G, its creating absolutely seamless experiences that delight our users, and so its with great excitement that we announce today that we’ve enabled the Google Maps autocomplete … Continue reading
Focus on Regional Travel Combats Gas Price Concerns There’s no shortage of hype and hysteria in the media these days surrounding high gas prices and their potential impact on travelers this summer, and so here at C2G we’re introducing a … Continue reading
We Take a Look at Data from Cost2Drive for Clues With gas prices skyrocketing over the past few months its all but certain that they’re weighing heavily on travelers’ minds, and so we decided to take a look at some … Continue reading
Is New Zealand the Hot New Destination for Car Travelers? A couple of years ago National Geographic Traveler Magazine ran a fantastic feature about 50 extraordinary road trips called the Drives of a Lifetime. The feature was so popular they … Continue reading
My route Obsession Several years ago as I was planning a car trip for me, my wife and teenage son from Washington, DC to Sarasota, FL, I faced the all-too-common challenge of trying to figure out where to stop along … Continue reading
While browsing the Internet this weekend I came across this rather startling post from fleet management company FieldLogix about a new feature in Google Maps in Europe that estimates fuel costs for a trip. What’s startling about this is not … Continue reading
When you envision a product you often have an existing product in mind where you see opportunity to improve or enhance it in a way that will better serve the marketplace. Validation can come in many forms, such as user … Continue reading
ONE In what may be the most brilliant marketing ploy of the new year, yesterday at the 2011 North American International Auto Show (aka Detroit Auto Show) Chevrolet launched the Sonic. The Sonic, which apparently is a revision on the … Continue reading
To coincide with the start of the North American International Auto Show (also known as the Detroit Auto Show), C2G, LLC announces the launch of the Electric Car Commuting Calculator, a Facebook application that calculates how much money you’d save … Continue reading
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It’s like that horror movie we’ve all seen, where we’re certain that the monster has been slayed, but just when we think its safe to go back in the water again…. Over the Christmas holiday you may have noticed the … Continue reading
As prospective owners of the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf begin receiving their eagerly anticipated cars in the coming weeks, a growing debate is raging over the actual cost of driving these vehicles. A few weeks ago the EPA finally … Continue reading
How much does it cost you to drive to work each day? Most people don’t realize that transportation costs to and from work can end up being one of their largest monthly expenditures, and so here at C2G we’re working … Continue reading
Here at C2G we LOVE to drive, and so we’re focused on building tools that help people plan and experience better car trips. One of the products we’ve built is RoadTweets, an iPhone application that makes it super easy to … Continue reading
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Adds Facebook Like Button to Website A few weeks ago at their f8 developer conference, Facebook announced a new feature that Websites can easily add to their sites; the ‘Like’ button. The button, which Facebook refers to as a ‘plug … Continue reading
When the iPad was made available for sale in US stores on April 3rd I took the opportunity to visit an Apple store in Naples, FL and test out the device. After waiting in line for about 45 minutes I … Continue reading
Last year National Geographic Traveler magazine ran a great feature called Drives of a Lifetime. It consisted of 50 amazing road trip itineraries from across the globe (though the large majority are in North America). We thought it would … Continue reading
Has Kayak been flipping off its customers? Actually, they’ve been letting their users flip themselves off with their fun new interactive flip tool that lets users create their own version of the Kayak logo that resembles the schedule boards found … Continue reading
With the summer rapidly approaching and the weather turning fine, many thoughts are turning toward the road as plans of summer road trips are exploding thru the twitosphere. Therefore we thought we’d rerun a blog post from last year that … Continue reading
It’s March Madness and the selections have been made for the teams in the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. For all you rabid fans out there getting ready to hit the road and support your teams we’re providing you with … Continue reading
For our inaugural post on the Cost2Go blog I thought it might be fun to look into the future by adding the Chevrolet Volt into our Galculator (fuel cost calculator) on Cost2Drive. The timing of this coincides with two conferences … Continue reading