Bike Commute Savings Calculator

About this calculator

Swapping a car commute for a bike ride removes both fuel/parking costs and a portion of a car's carbon footprint on every trip, and the savings compound quickly over a working year: the US EPA estimates roughly 400 grams of CO₂ per mile for an average gasoline car, while fuel and parking costs add up per mile driven based on local fuel prices and a typical fuel-economy figure.

This calculator takes your one-way commute distance, how many days a week you cycle instead of drive, and standard cost/emissions factors, and projects both the money and CO₂ you save over a year. Commuters weighing whether to switch to cycling, employers running green-commute or bike-to-work incentive programs, and sustainability-minded individuals tracking their personal carbon reduction use it to turn an abstract 'biking is better' into concrete annual figures.