Thursday, January 11, 2018

Minimising Car Expenses

As we're coming to the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to share how much I spend on petrol and CashCard top-ups. I drive daily to work and each day in the weekend to leisure places. 

I religiously recorded each petrol and CashCard top-up for my own analysis.

  • "Litres" is amount of petrol added in one pump. I usually go for N95 full tank. 
    • I used DBS Esso and the vouchers they sent for the first half of the year. After which I switched to UOB OneCard (SPC) since DBS started charging the annual fee and also I wanted to concentrate all expenses into one credit card.
    • DBS Esso allows you to accumulate points for redemption of vouchers later on, hence the steep "71.xx%" discount below.
  • "Nett $" is after all the applicable discounts using the station discount card and credit card and the occasional vouchers. 
  • "KM" is the distance travelled since last top up. 
  • "KM/L" is the distance travelled per litre of petrol -- dividing "KM" by "Litres". This calculation assumes the amount of petrol added to reach full tank all went towards travelling the "KM". 

There are a couple of "breaks" in which I didn't use the car: 1 x 2-week overseas vacation, 1 x 3-week overseas trip, 1 x 3-week ICT and 3 x weekend overseas trips. That's a total of about 65 days or 2 months. This is an unusual year in which I had quite a lot of "breaks".

Average cost per month is $1349.41 / 10 months = ~ $135 / month which is slightly higher than my average ez-link card consumption per month (about $120) in the past.

Date
Litres
$/litre
Nett $
Discount
KM
KM/L
2017-01-07
31.84
$2.060
$54.43
17.00%
459.50
14.43
2017-01-22
33.04
$2.060
$56.48
17.00%
441.60
13.37
2017-02-04
33.25
$2.110
$58.23
17.00%
571.70
17.19
2017-02-18
33.71
$2.110
$59.03
17.00%
500.60
14.85
2017-03-14
31.83
$2.090
$55.22
17.00%
441.50
13.87
2017-03-31
23.94
$2.090
$36.54
26.98%
2017-04-10
32.35
$2.090
$56.13
16.99%
2017-04-20
29.42
$2.120
$51.76
17.00%
425.80
14.47
2017-05-01
33.03
$2.120
$58.12
17.00%
448.60
13.58
2017-05-11
29.93
$2.100
$52.17
16.99%
416.20
13.91
2017-05-23
31.60
$2.120
$55.61
17.00%
493.30
15.61
2017-06-17
31.25
$2.090
$54.20
17.01%
429.80
13.75
2017-06-28
33.82
$2.070
$58.10
17.00%
467.40
13.82
2017-07-08
26.33
$2.090
$15.68
71.51%
378.10
14.36
2017-07-19
34.21
$2.090
$50.77
28.99%
478.60
13.99
2017-08-02
34.64
$2.110
$52.12
28.68%
456.70
13.19
2017-08-28
33.76
$2.110
$50.54
29.04%
487.10
14.43
2017-09-08
33.97
$2.140
$51.79
28.75%
477.90
14.07
2017-09-20
33.69
$2.170
$52.13
28.70%
499.10
14.81
2017-10-03
33.03
$2.180
$58.20
19.17%
490.40
14.85
2017-10-13
31.68
$2.180
$58.71
14.99%
505.00
15.94
2017-10-24
34.78
$2.180
$55.50
26.80%
468.50
13.47
2017-11-04
34.01
$2.210
$60.87
19.00%
485.50
14.28
2017-11-14
31.22
$2.230
$56.19
19.30%
474.40
15.19
2017-11-18
12.17
$2.230
$23.33
14.01%
178.50
14.67
2017-12-30
34.25
$2.210
$57.56
23.95%
497.20
14.52

CashCard Top-up

I hope I didn't miss out any transaction. I only started to use the vCashCard towards the end of the year and only if I can remember to pull out the CashCard before passing through an ERP gantry. 

Average per month = $850 / 10 months = $85 / month

Moving on, I will avoid the city area as much as possible to save on ERP fees. 

Date
Amount added

2017-01-07
$50.00
2017-01-27
$50.00
2017-02-11
$50.00
2017-03-11
$50.00
2017-04-01
$50.00
2017-04-15
$50.00
2017-04-22
$50.00
2017-05-05
$50.00
2017-05-19
$50.00
2017-06-16
$50.00
2017-07-07
$50.00
2017-09-02
$50.00
2017-09-15
$50.00
2017-10-16
$50.00
2017-11-12
$50.00
2017-12-29
$50.00
2017-12-28
$50.00
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