Built and tested with Australian PHEV owners
HybridEdge reads your plug-in hybrid's own data over a ~$50 OBD reader*, prices every kilometre with your electricity plan and your petrol receipts, and shows what each drive really cost.
*One of the currently compatible readers. See the FAQ for the adapters we have tested.
Every number in the app is measured directly from the car, or it is not shown.
What it is
A plug-in hybrid runs on two fuels with two prices, and the car never joins them up. Efficiency screens show energy, range guesses drift, and nobody can tell you whether yesterday's commute cost two dollars or ten.
HybridEdge blends the costs, exactly when and how you used the energy. A small Bluetooth OBD reader plugs into the diagnostic port every car has, and the app reads the same live figures a workshop scan tool reads: battery level, fuel level, speed, odometer. It prices the electric kilometres with your actual electricity plan, the petrol kilometres with your actual receipts, and keeps the whole history on your phone.
Accuracy
The app's readings are validated against the car's own instruments, drive by drive, before they are shown as truth. When the app has not verified a number for your exact model yet, it says so and asks you to read the dash while it learns.
How far the app's battery reading sat from the dash at full charge on the reference car, validated across the whole battery range.
Measured usable battery capacity agrees with the manufacturer's own cloud data to within two percent. The brochure figure was 10% off.
While you drive, the app takes a fresh reading from the car more than 150 times a minute: battery level, fuel level, speed, and what the engine is doing. Every trip is built from thousands of real measurements.
Features
01 · True cost
Electric cost, petrol cost, and the combined per-100 km figure for each drive, each week, and each month. Compared honestly against what a petrol or diesel car would have cost.
Your figure comes from your own drives, not a brochure.
02 · Logbook
Every trip with odometer readings, places, and costs. Swipe to tag business or private, export a clean CSV for your accountant with the business-use percentage computed.
Record business kilometres. Give your accountant real data.
03 · Energy ledger
Charges and refuels sit in one editable history, so the cost basis behind every trip is visible and correctable. Mistype a charge and you can fix it later without breaking the maths.
All your energy costs, logged and listed.
04 · Your real tariff
Pick your electricity plan from nearly 200 real Australian tariffs. Free windows and time-of-use included. A midnight charge and a peak-hour charge cost different money, and the app knows.
Solar counts as free. Free windows count as free.
05 · Receipt scanning
Litres, price and total read straight off the receipt. Charging sessions scan too, from a screenshot of your charger's app or your charger's screen.
Every electron in your battery and litre of petrol in your tank has a price.
06 · PHEV database
Battery sizes, tank capacities, and consumption figures for the plug-in hybrids actually sold here, kept current without app updates. And multiple cars per household are supported.
Your model missing? It gets added on request.
07 · Live capture
Battery, fuel, speed, and which energy source is doing the work right now, live from the car while you drive. CarPlay included.
Measured values only. When the reader is off, the dials say so.
08 · Auto Drive
With a reader plugged in, Auto Drive starts the trip as you pull away and saves it a few minutes after you park, so a quick stop stays part of the same trip. It can be switched on once the app has learned your car's battery reading.
Nothing to tap at the start or the end.
09 · Charge detection
With a reader plugged in, when the battery rises while the car is parked, the app records the charge: how much went in, when, and what it cost on your electricity plan. If it came from solar or a home battery, one tap says so.
No typing when you charge at home.
Privacy
There is no account, and your trips, costs, and locations stay on your phone. Three things can leave it, all your choice: household sync, which copies a car's trips into your own iCloud for the phones you invite; anonymous calibration readings while your car's model is still being learned, including two numbers from each charge the app watches on cars that report their battery's power, which make the app accurate for every owner of that model; and a diagnostic report if you ever send one. The app asks you about calibration sharing plainly during setup. The privacy policy is short because there is so little to say.
On the App Store now
HybridEdge was developed and validated on the Denza B5, and tested with owners of Denza, BYD, GWM, Mitsubishi, and Toyota plug-in hybrids. All you need is an iPhone, your car, and a ~$50 reader. It's $29.99 a year, and your first month is free: time to get a reader and let the app learn your car. If it isn't for you, cancel at least a day before the month ends and it costs nothing.
Every model starts with a short learning phase, and the first owners of each one make it automatic for everyone who follows.