Car cost per mile
What a Honda Pilot costs you per mile
Every mile you drive for Uber or Lyft costs you something, the drive to the pickup included. Pick your year, check the gas price, and you have the number to take off every fare.
About 54¢ a mile for a 2022 Honda Pilot at $4.37 gas: gas 20¢, depreciation 14¢, repairs 6¢, insurance 9¢, tires 2¢, misc 3¢.
How it's worked out
Six costs, every mile.
Built on the method AAA uses in its annual Your Driving Costs study: gas, plus the costs that come with owning the car. We took it further for people who drive for a living, so the starting numbers fit your car, its age, and how you drive it.
On Normal driving, the same starting numbers the Roadnomics app uses when you add your car. They're estimates; if you know your real numbers, open Adjust the estimates and type them in.
- Gas
- The pump price divided by your miles per gallon. For an electric car, your price per kWh times the kWh it uses per mile.
- Depreciation
- What the car loses in value with each mile. Steep in the first years, then it levels off into a reserve for the next car.
- Repairs and maintenance
- Oil, brakes, and the repairs that come with age. Low on a new car, rising as it gets older.
- Insurance
- Your own policy, spread over the miles you drive.
- Tires
- About 2¢ a mile: an $800 set over 40,000 miles. 3¢ for an electric car, which wears tires faster.
- Misc
- Registration, inspection, and the small things.
- How you drive
- Hard starts and stops cut gas mileage 10–40% in stop-and-go traffic (fueleconomy.gov), so Hard takes 20% off your MPG and wears brakes and tires faster. Easy gives a little back. The wear numbers are our estimates.
Why it matters: a ride pays a fare, but the car eats some of it on every mile, the drive to the pickup included. Roadnomics subtracts this number from every offer before it tells you whether the ride clears the hourly you want to keep.