About MPGCalc

I have been calculating the MPG of my cars for around 16 years, primarily out of an abundance of stinginess, but also because it's an interesting process (for a certain value of interesting). First of all the calculations and recording was all done on paper, in a filofax. As an IT professional though it was never going to stay that simple.

The first programmatic version of this was a Perl script, written around 14 years ago. It had a good innings, only being replaced by a Golang version in 2023. What started as a CLI app for only my own use and enjoyment evolved in to a website so I could use it away from home, and having done that I realised it could be useful to other people too, so I kept on building.

Charlie