EnergyAustralia · AUD

Fuel cost calculator for Australia

Cost of a trip, in metric or US units.

Changing country switches the currency and resets the inputs to local starting values.

Your numbers

km
L/100km
$per litre
people

Trip cost

$76.00

40 L of fuel

Cost per km
$0.152
Per person
$38.00
Round trip
$152.00
Equivalent MPG
29.4
the other convention

How to read the result

Fuel is the part of a road trip people guess at and get wrong, especially when comparing a drive to a flight.

Enter distance, efficiency and pump price to get the trip cost and the per-mile or per-kilometre rate.

This page is set to Australia and prints AUD. Starts at $1.90 per litre. Every figure is a starting point you should overwrite with your own.

Worked example in AUD

Using the values the form starts with.

Trip cost

$76.00

Cost per km
$0.152
Per person
$38.00
Round trip
$152.00
Equivalent MPG
29.4

Questions people ask

MPG or L/100km?
They are reciprocals: 235.215 divided by one gives the other. MPG rises as efficiency improves, L/100km falls. This page defaults to metric, which is what pumps in Australia use.
What is fuel costing in Australia?
The default here is $1.90 per litre, a reasonable recent figure for Australia. Pump prices move weekly, so put in what you actually paid.
Should I use the sticker efficiency?
Real-world consumption usually runs 10–20% worse than the official figure, more so in cold weather or city traffic.

Fuel cost in other countries

Same maths, local currency and local starting values.

Cookies on Calcuit
We use essential cookies to remember this choice and, if you sign in, to keep you signed in. Advertising cookies from Google AdSense are optional. They are not set, and the AdSense script is not loaded, unless you accept.