Announcements

Changes for 22/10

Here’s a summary of changes since the last change announcement to FuelPrice Australia.

Added

  • Suggestion check to Station pages where ULP 91 or ULP 95 is not available
  • Fuel type dropdown to fuel type template
  • More details about last peak to excerpt
  • Styling for Brand pages
  • Text to the Brand templates
  • Brand pages
  • Styling for Brand pages
  • Show all cities regardless of whether price is known
  • Show multiple highest and lowest City values
  • City excerpt high price details

Fixed

  • Lowest fuel price not working for e10
  • Lst updated showing the last fuel type sometimes for Stations
  • Highest and lowest Stations showing on detailed City and state templates

Changed

  • Changed acronym for ULP 91 to Unleaded 91
  • Hide trend icon until new version with peak indicator is ready

Changes for 11/10

Here’s a summary of changes since the last change announcement to FuelPrice Australia.

Added

Added daily monitoring of fuel prices for the following Australian cities:

Site name change to FuelPrice Australia

Due to a report received on 28/10/2018 of possible infringement on the FuelWatch trade mark owned by The State of Western Australia this site – FuelWatch Australia – will effective immediately be called FuelPrice Australia.

All references to the site FuelWatch Australia have been updated to FuelPrice Australia and the fuelwatch.io domain automatically forwards site visitors from Western Australia to the FuelWatch site owned by The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.

Please update any bookmarks to reference the new fuelprice.io domain now actively in use.

What’s coming up for October

New features

  • [  ] Associating all stations with their nearest supported city (e.g. Gull York Roadhouse would be Perth until York is added)
  • [  ] Overlaying the current average daily price with current per-station prices to see what stations have priced their fuel types above/below regional averages
  • [x] Adding tomorrow price for Western Australia based on known prices as available
  • [x] Adding data supplier recognition to stations (e.g. FuelWatch, FuelCheck, MyFuelNT, etc.)
  • [  ] Adding forecasting of tomorrow price and two days from now prices for cities based on known high and low historical prices
  • [x] Heat map pricing overlay for cities
  • [  ] History controls for fuel stations to see last week, last month and all time matching the history controls of fuel types
  • [x] Fuel price monitoring for another 20 towns/cities across Australia
  • [x] Add Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a fuel type where offered
  • [  ] AMP site support with Google Maps and Charts functionality

Fixes

  • [x] The yesterday price and two days ago price is storing the wrong value which affects the daily fuel type summaries of some states. Additional checks against the fuel type history for each city before and after setting the above price values will resolve this
  • [x] Tide lines on the station fuel history shows 1c above/below actual prices
  • [  ] Populate Google Maps Place ID for 379 outstanding stations

Changes

  • [x] Site name change to FuelPrice Australia from FuelWatch Australia (will be announced next week)
  • [x] Removing fuel type acronyms on fuel type lists and replacing with full fuel type name (e.g. ULP 91 becomes Unleaded 91)
  • [x] Show fuel prices in cents where below $1.00 (e.g. 99c instead of $0.99), common for LPG

Changes for 08/30

Here’s a summary of changes since the last change announcement to FuelPrice Australia.

Added

Added daily monitoring of fuel prices for the following Australian cities:

Fixed

  • Mobile support viewing the frontpage and State, City and Station templates

Changes for 06/28

Here’s a summary of changes since the last change announcement to FuelPrice Australia.

Added

Added detailed breakdown of today’s highest/lowest stations within the following Australian States:

Added average breakdown of major cities and regional towns within the following Australian States:

FuelPrice Australia