Any journey
A suggested Challenge route, or the trip you were making anyway.
AutoVere Challenge
Put AutoVere to the test.
Choose the car you actually drive. Choose the journey you want to test. Calculate it in the real AutoVere, drive it, and compare our numbers with what you truly spent.
Real cars.Real journeys.Real costs.
Photography: Unsplash
A personal invitation to the motoring press
We invite you to test AutoVere yourself.
If you write about cars, you already know how rarely a journey costs what a calculator says it will. Tolls, vignettes, ferries, fuel and charging add up quietly, country by country — and that is exactly what AutoVere is built to get right.
We are not going to ask you to take our word for it.
We would rather hand you the keys: pick a real journey, pick the car sitting on your driveway, use AutoVere as a Pro user, drive the route, and hold our calculation up against your receipts.
If we are close, that is a story worth telling. If we are off, we want to know — and we would rather hear it from you than never hear it at all.
Kjell Mersland — Founder, AutoVere · KM Tech Labs, Kristiansand, Norway
Your test, your terms
Choose the journey you want to test.
Use one of our suggested routes — or choose your own.
Choose the car you actually drive.
There is no fixed test to pass, no scripted route and no approved car list. The Challenge is yours to design; we simply ask you to publish what you find.
Any car
The car in your test fleet or your own driveway — petrol, diesel or electric.
Full Pro access
The complete AutoVere product, unrestricted, for the duration of your test.
Your own conclusion
Publish the result exactly as you find it. We do not review it first.
How the Challenge works
Six calm steps, from invitation to result.
Nothing here is a demo environment. From step five onward you are using the same AutoVere that every other traveller uses.
- 01
Register
Register as a member of the automotive press.
- 02
Get verified
AutoVere reviews the request and activates Challenge access.
- 03
Choose your journey
Pick one of AutoVere's suggested Challenge routes, or a journey of your own.
- 04
Choose your car
Select the vehicle you are actually testing — petrol, diesel or electric.
- 05
Calculate & drive
Use the normal AutoVere experience as a Pro user. Calculate the journey, then drive it for real.
- 06
Compare
Enter your actual journey costs and compare them with the AutoVere calculation.
One product, not a press demo
Your Challenge takes place inside the real AutoVere experience.
AutoVere Challenge is the entrance and the testing concept — not a second, simplified calculator built for journalists. There is no limited press version, no curated sandbox and no separate numbers.
The calculation you test is the calculation everyone else gets.
- 1Challenge landing page
- 2Journalist registration
- 3AutoVere verification
- 4Challenge Pro access
- 5The normal AutoVere product
- 6Your Challenge result
Journey selection
Drive a suggested route — or one that suits your test.
Two ways to run your Challenge. Both use the same engine, the same data sources and the same country-by-country breakdown.
A suggested Challenge route
For each country, AutoVere will provide three suggested routes, covering different regions and different kinds of driving.
ShortMediumLong
Test your own journey
Choose any realistic journey relevant to your test — the trip you were going to make anyway is often the most revealing one. For illustration only: Bergen–Trondheim, Warsaw–Kraków, Los Angeles–San Diego.
Your routeYour scheduleYour conditions
Vehicle selection
Test the car that is actually on your driveway.
Choose the powertrain, then select the specific vehicle from the existing AutoVere vehicle data. No separate Challenge vehicle list.
Petrol
Consumption, fuel prices and tolls costed per country along your route.
Diesel
Long-distance economy, weight and axle classes where operators apply them.
Electric
Battery size, consumption, charging stops and network pricing along the corridor.
Same journey with an EV
What would this journey have cost electrically?
After calculating your own journey, you can run the identical route with an electric vehicle and see what the numbers say. Sometimes it is cheaper. Sometimes charging, tolls and detours change the picture. AutoVere shows the calculation either way.
Illustrative example — not a real AutoVere result
Your car
Diesel
$104.11
Same journey with an EV
Electric
$73.66
Potential difference
$30.46
Example figures only. We do not claim an EV is always cheaper.
Prediction vs. reality
The part most tools quietly avoid.
The Challenge compares what AutoVere calculated before you set off with what the journey actually cost once you arrived. That comparison belongs to you — including the days it does not flatter us.
Illustrative example — not a real AutoVere result
AutoVere calculation
$104.11
Actual journey cost
$107.03
Difference
+2.8%
We do not promise a specific accuracy percentage. Your own result is the point.
Challenge report
Your journey. Your result.
Once the journey is complete, you can receive a professional Challenge result you can reference, publish or challenge us on.
Planned: a permanent web result, a shareable link and a PDF report.
View this journey in AutoVereAfter a Challenge, the journey and its parameters can be opened again inside the normal AutoVere product, so you can keep exploring it.
- Route
- Vehicle
- Powertrain
- AutoVere calculation
- Actual journey cost
- Difference
- EV comparison
- Date
- Challenge ID
The person behind AutoVere
Why I built AutoVere
It started with a simple question: Why is it still so difficult to know what a road trip will actually cost?
I am 74 years old. After more than 40 years in the construction industry, I retired in 2020.
A year later, instead of slowing down, I started building something completely different.
For many years, I had travelled extensively by car through Europe. The more I travelled, the more I noticed the same problem: planning a long journey often meant searching for information in several different places.
Tolls. Vignettes. Ferries. Fuel. EV charging. Different routes. Different countries. Different costs.
I thought there had to be a better way.
So I started building AutoVere.
What began as a personal idea has grown into a much bigger project — and I am not doing it alone. My son is part of the journey too.
Together, we are building AutoVere around a principle that has always been important to me: if something is worth building, it should be built properly.
That means using real data, official sources, algorithms and mathematics to calculate the journey.
Not guesses. Not a black box.
The goal is simple: give people a clearer picture of what a journey is likely to cost before they leave home — and help them make better decisions about routes, cars and travel.
What started in Kristiansand has now grown beyond Norway and beyond Europe.
AutoVere is already launched in the USA and Canada as well as Europe, with the ambition of becoming a global automotive intelligence platform for people who travel by road.
But building something and believing in it is not enough.
I want it to be tested in the real world.
That is why we created the AutoVere Challenge.
I don't want automotive journalists to simply take my word for it.
Choose a real car. Choose a real journey. Calculate it with AutoVere. Drive it. Then compare the result with what actually happened.
No special demonstration. No prepared result.
Just AutoVere — and the road.
If it performs well, we will be proud of it.
If it gets something wrong, we want to know.
Because the best way to prove AutoVere is not to tell you that it works.
It's to let you test it.
Automotive press access
Apply for AutoVere Challenge access
Are you a member of the automotive press? We'd love to have you test AutoVere yourself. Apply for Challenge access and, once approved, use AutoVere as a Pro user while conducting your test.
A quick verification step keeps Challenge access with working journalists. Once approved, your account is upgraded to Pro for the test — no separate press tool, no restrictions.
Ready to put AutoVere to the test?
Choose a journey. Choose your car. Drive it. Compare the result.