Off the back of its recent site redesign Cost2Drive has unveiled a European version of its trip budgeting service with many of the same fixtures and fittings.
Cost2Drive is describing the European site, launched in time for peak summer travel and the London 2012 Olympics, as a lite version at this stage.
Functionality includes the ability to budget trips based on 15,000 European vehicles going back to 2000, multi-point routing, TripAdvisor integration and fuel efficiency ratings from the UKÂ Department of Transport.
The site, [original Tlabs Showcase here with the 12-month Tlabs Reprise here], also features 70 trip planner pages for the most popular cities and destinations.
The service is currently only available in English with costs quoted in Euro but there are plans to add further languages and currencies.
The company is also considering further content integration such as the ability to compare airfares via Kayak, a feature already available on the US site.
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European version? You mean UK version. But in Euro.
Another US company who have no idea about Europe. List of vehicles in UK is different of list of vehicles on the continent. For instance, on the continent we drive opels, no vauxhalls. Okay, mostly the same models but not always. And our British friiends don’t like the Euro. Like it or not, that’s reality.
Do the homework again please.
Oh, and if you later on decide to bring different languages based on the country: in Belgium, Dutch is the language of 60% of the people, so don’t use French as default language. Common mistake, even by the big ones like Facebook.
@renaat – would it be safe to say that this not a thumbs-up from you then?
I don’t have a car, in Europe I travel by train, so I don’t need this website.
And my friends who travel by car, have company cars so they don’t care about the costs.
Interesting video about cost of driving cars: http://blip.tv/center-for-investigative-reporting/the-price-of-gas-5263590
But my point is: UK Continental Europe Eurozone Schengen area
It is not only about language, it is more complex than that. People of big countries forget that sometimes.
Hi Renaat,
Thanks for the feedback, and we absolutely that we have much work to do here and thus the ‘lite’ version approach to get something in the market to address the need we were seeing from users of our app overseas. Nothing pained us more than seeing users from Europe trying to use our application and not getting results, so we decided to at least get something useful in their hands and then begin addressing additional languages and currencies.
Expect to see this evolve quickly.
Cheers,
Jim Kovarik
President & Cofounder, C2G, LLC