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What is Trip tracker?

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Written by Monika

Trip tracker is a feature in the OBDeleven app that automatically records your trips and provides insights into your driving habits.

It tracks your routes, analyzes driving behavior such as braking and acceleration, and shows how your driving changes over time. It also includes a Driving score that reflects how smoothly you drive and a Fuel tracker that estimates fuel expenses for each trip.

Trip tracker works without an OBDeleven device (though you need to have it connected at least once before) and is available for free in the OBDeleven app.

What insights does Trip tracker show?

Driving history

Trip tracker gives you a clear overview of your driving habits – from individual trips to daily and weekly activity.

You can view daily and weekly summaries, including:

  • Total distance driven

  • Daily average distance

  • Top daily distance

  • Daily Driving Score

  • Traffic conditions

  • Fuel cost per trip

  • Weekly fuel usage

Easily compare your current week with the previous one to spot changes in your driving patterns and fuel costs over time.

Driving score

Trip tracker analyzes your driving behavior during each trip – including braking, acceleration, and speed consistency – and compiles it into a Driving Score.

This score reflects how safe, smooth, and efficient your driving is. A higher score means smoother driving, which can help reduce vehicle wear and improve fuel efficiency.

You’ll see your Driving Score for individual trips and in 7-day overviews.

Route tracking

Each trip is displayed on a map, showing your route and traffic conditions (normal, slow, or congested).

Trips are automatically saved as snapshots – you can rename or delete them anytime.

For each trip, you can view:

  • Distance driven

  • Duration

  • Average speed

  • Max speed

  • Max altitude

  • Altitude difference

Fuel tracking

Fuel expense tracker is part of Trip tracker. It helps you see estimated fuel expenses for your trips.

To make the estimates more accurate, you first need to answer a short questionnaire about your car’s fuel use and consumption habits.

Using this data, Fuel expense tracker automatically estimates how much the trip costs you. You’ll see the numbers appear as part of a specific drive summary or in a weekly usage overview.

Fuel expense tracker also lets you manually log all your refuels, helping you stay aware of how much you spend on fuel over time. The more refuels you add, the more accurate your fuel usage and trip cost insights become.

These insights can help you adjust the way you drive or choose better routes to save as much fuel as possible.

How to use Trip tracker?

Trip tracker runs automatically in the background once it is enabled. To start using it:

1. Download the OBDeleven app and sign up

2. Tap "Enable Trip Tracker" in the widget

3. Allow all required permissions and confirm

4. Take your first drive – your trips will be recorded automatically, and insights will appear afterward.

Trip tracker works using your smartphone on any vehicle, as long as your smartphone supports the OBDeleven app (version starting from 2.1.0).

We recommend connecting to your car via Bluetooth, CarPlay, or Android Auto to improve the accuracy of insights.

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