Last updated: 12 September 2026.
This page explains the standards behind everything we publish.
Our rules
- We never publish a fuel price, toll rate, vehicle spec or statistic we can’t trace to a named public source.
- When a figure can’t be verified, we mark it as unverified rather than estimating silently.
- We don’t copy competitor or merchant content — every page is written from scratch.
- We don’t create near-duplicate pages purely to target more search keywords.
- Affiliate relationships (see our Affiliate Disclosure) never influence calculator math or editorial recommendations.
- Corrections are made promptly once verified — see Contact to report an error.
Authorship
Content on DriveCarCost.com is researched and written by the site’s operating team, with figures cross-checked against the sources listed on our Data Sources page.