Are you looking for a service station that sells petrol or diesel at a lower price? Use Waze! The app has a little-known feature to find the cheapest fuel nearby.
Where to find gasoline, gas oil (diesel, in good French) or LPG without breaking the bank? The question is topical at a time when fuel prices are reaching record highs at the pump. Traveling by car is more and more expensive – and unfortunately not everyone can fall back on public transport – and the situation is not likely to improve with the surge in oil prices, which again to further increase the bill for summer holidays, while inflation gallops… More than ever, it is becoming essential for many motorists to find ways to save money, even minimally, on refueling.
Of course, there are several specialized online applications and platforms for comparing fuel prices (see our practical sheet). But if you are looking for the gas station with the lowest prices in the area, you can also use Waze. The famous GPS guidance application has a little-known function that finds you the cheapest pump in the area in the blink of an eye. You just need to set it up properly. A practical function, which also makes it possible not to combine applications.
How to find the cheapest gas station with Waze?
The search for gas stations is not the primary vocation of Waze. But this function is easily accessible when you know of its existence. Don’t forget that the application needs mobile data (data) and your mobile’s GPS to work correctly: so remember to activate them!
► If you don’t already have it, download and install Waze on your smartphone. The application, completely free, is available on Android as well as on iOS.
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► Then open Waze on your mobile and tap My Waze at the bottom left to display the application’s main menu.
► Press the cog at the very top left to enter the app settings.
► Then tap on the section Vehicle Infowith blue toy car icon.
► On the next screen, tap Vehicle type and choose from the three categories: Particular, Taxi Where Motorbike.
► You then return to the previous screen. Press on Preferred fuel, next to the red gas pump. In the list that appears, tap the fuel your vehicle uses to select it (SP95-E10, E85, LPG Where diesel).
► Press the arrow at the top left in order to return to the Settings.
► Press Gas stationsnext to the green logo with the gas pump.
► Tap on the third option, with the double blue arrows: Sort stations by.
► The next screen presents the sorting options: press Price to select this criy!re.
► You then return to the previous page. Press on the arrow at the top left to return to the Settingsthen again to return to the main menu.
►Tap the search bar Where are we going ?right next to the magnifying glass at the top of the screen.
► The screen changes and an input keyboard appears. Under the search bar, tap gas pump icon.
► A list is then displayed, with the brands of the service stations, their address, the distance to which they are located and, above all, the price of the fuel that you selected previously. The cheapest is displayed in green.
► Tap on the gas station that interests you (the cheapest, therefore). A menu giving you all the information about the service station appears. Press the blue button at the bottom right Let’s go ►. All you have to do is follow Waze’s directions to get there!
