Know what your car really costs Track fuel, repairs, and expenses — and see your cost per mile in real time.
Know what your car really costs Track fuel, repairs, and expenses — and see your cost per mile in real time.
The question Moticar was built to answer is simple: how much is my car actually costing me? The Expense & Cost Tracking feature is the heart of the app — a clean, categorised expense tracker that turns scattered receipts, cash payments, and forgotten fuel stops into a clear monthly picture.
Every expense is logged into one of several categories: fuel, mechanical repairs, body work, car wash, tyres, accessories, insurance, documentation fees, and miscellaneous. You can log expenses manually in under 10 seconds, or let motibuddie device prompt you automatically when it detects a refuelling stop.
The monthly dashboard shows your total spend, category breakdown, and comparison against your set budget. If you’ve set a monthly limit and you’re on track to exceed it by mid-month, Moticar flags it immediately so you can adjust.
The real power comes over time. After two or three months of consistent logging, you begin to see patterns: which months are expensive, which categories dominate, and how your costs compare to similar vehicles. Many users discover they’re spending 20–40% more than they estimated before using Moticar.
With the motibuddie, Moticar also calculates your true cost per kilometre (or per mile) — combining fuel, maintenance, and all other expenses against actual distance driven. This is the single most useful number for understanding vehicle economics, and almost no one knows theirs.
For fleet operators, cost tracking scales across all vehicles with per-vehicle and per-driver breakdowns, making expense management and accountability straightforward.
Insights are generated by analysing your driving data, expense history, vehicle diagnostics, and maintenance patterns. The more data Moticar has, the more accurate and personalised the recommendations become.
Some insights (like fuel efficiency trends and driving behaviour analysis) require the OBD2 device. Basic expense-based insights work with manual data entry alone.
Insights refresh weekly, with real-time alerts for significant changes like a sudden spike in fuel consumption or a new diagnostic fault code.
Yes. Moticar anonymously benchmarks your vehicle costs against other users with similar cars in your region, so you can see if you’re overpaying.