Since the Fuel Economy Survey began, the survey has asked for a miles per gallon or liters per 100 kilometers figure, depending on where you live. But a number of members emailed me asking for the ability to enter the distance traveled and amount of fuel used individually, and the price of the fuel as well. This way they could track how much gas they’ve used, how much it has cost them, and so forth.

It is now possible to enter these data. But this is not required. Those who use trip computers can still enter their fuel economy results as before.

It is also possible for those who have both sets of figures to enter both. If enough people do this, we might finally get to the bottom of suspicions that trip computers are less accurate than manual calculations.

Additional upgrades to the Fuel Economy Survey are planned, but will be implemented after an extensive redesign of the database.