Test Track
Our proving ground. Paddock20’s case studies live here. We test what we build and try to break it before anyone relies on it.
Join the crewCase 01: One 2024 Model Y · Nashville, Tennessee
What would happen if the 50-hour week became gig work?
In pursuit of independence, on an EV with no charger at home.
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As of October 20.
One Model Y. Real gigs. Real receipts. Every number is marked measured, modeled or stated.
- 4,766miles measured
- 599drives
- 44charging sessions
- 58days recorded
Where the study stands
Can one used Model Y earn its keep while a company gets built?
Counting the full cost of the day, not only the electricity. Latest complete week, Oct 11 to 17: 571.7 miles driven and $262.54 earned. The delivery apps counted 245.4 miles, and 331.2 of the week’s miles were driven outside the hours the apps list.
The week’s numbersThis monthEvery day on the RecordEvery cost on the Ledger
- Activity recorded through
- Monday, October 19
- Figures last checked
- October 19earnings against the owner's statements, charging against its invoices
- Latest weekly story
- Week of October 11: one Supercharger cost 26¢ or 42¢ a kWh, October 19
Days after Monday, October 19 are not on the record yet. A day missing from the record is not a day off.
What this is
One car. Five questions.
A 2024 Model Y. Gig work around Nashville. No charger at home. Its drives, its invoices and the delivery apps’ own screens are the record. Five questions, answered in its own numbers.
What does electricity cost?
12.1¢a mile, electricity only, as charged
Modeled against the four gas vehicles it replaced.
The Ledger: What does electricity cost?What is charging like with no charger at home?
21 mina typical stop, 29% to 80%
The public chargers this car used billed 25¢ to 59¢ a kWh.
Charge: What is charging like with no charger at home?How much of the driving does FSD (Supervised) do?
95.3%of miles on FSD (Supervised)
Across 4,766 measured miles, with a driver supervising every one. It measures use, not time saved.
Drive: How much of the driving does FSD (Supervised) do?Does the battery hold up?
79 kWhmeasured on one reading at 121 cycles
Measured at 79 kWh on one reading. A second dated reading is needed to show change.
Battery: Does the battery hold up?Can the car make money?
$1,752earned on 21 days with income, all income
Delivery apps $1,652. Direct client $100.00.
The Record: Can the car make money?
What the money figures mean
Earned is not kept. Kept is not profit.
The whole record, August 23 to October 19. Each figure says what it counts, and the two that need more than the record holds say so.
- Earned
- $1,752
- Paid, invoiced or credited by the platform, before any cost.
- Paid
- $1,720
- The cash in. Pending, credited and not yet paid: $32.32.
- After energy
- $1,452
- On the days with income, earned less the electricity those days’ miles used, modeled at the car’s measured 12.1¢ a mile.
- Electricity, a mile
- 12.1¢
- Electricity only, as charged, measured from the invoices. Insurance and software are separate lines on the Ledger. Tires, registration, maintenance and the car’s loss in value are not priced yet.
- Per working hour
- Not yet
- Hours on shift, from the first delivery to the last, are on the Record’s weeks and months. The full working time, with the wait for the first order and the time between shifts, is not recorded on enough days to divide by.
- Profit
- Not yet
- It needs every cost on one basis: the electricity, insurance, software, tires, registration, maintenance and the car’s loss in value.
The system behind the study
Four sources, one record.
The car’s drives, the charging invoices, the delivery apps’ own screens and the owner’s notes each describe part of a day. Putting them on one record takes shared dates, one definition for each figure, and a check for anything missing or counted twice. Paddock20 builds the same kind of record around a business’s own work.
Case studies
Six cases. One proving ground.
In the Paddock20 world, case studies live on the Test Track. Case 01 and Case 03 run here now. The other apps move in one at a time. Until each arrives, its case study opens on paddock20.com.
Case 01On the Test Track
The Model Y
Vehicle testing lab
One 2024 Model Y, measured. What an electric car really costs to run. Whether FSD (Supervised) makes the day more productive.
- 12.1¢a mile, measured
- 24,260miles on the odometer
- 95.3%of miles on FSD (Supervised)
- 79 kWhbattery, on one reading
Case 02Moving in
Lot Assistant
Automotive · Enterprise Operations
Track every vehicle: in, moved, or out. Live, on the phone a crew already carries. It ran a busy dealer floor. No one ever moved the database by hand.
Read the case study on paddock20.com: Lot Assistant (opens in a new tab)
Case 03On the Test Track
SupercarIQ
Automotive · AI · Identification & Valuation
An app that names a car and prices it from auction results. What its nightly sweep found. What is in its store. Who asked it.
- 4,131auction results in its store
- 104nights of price sweeps
- 18empty nights in a row, to October 6
- 326price lookups logged
Case 04Moving in
iGot Receipts
Automotive · Consumer Product
A phone app that keeps a car's paper trail. Every mod, service, tire and receipt is logged against the VIN. At sale, it prints as one packet: photos, dates, receipts.
Read the case study on paddock20.com: iGot Receipts (opens in a new tab)
Case 05Moving in
Paddock Mail
AI · Productivity Tool
Sorts the inbox, drafts the replies, and clears the junk. Three models back each other up, so one provider going down does not stop the queue. No rules to set up.
Read the case study on paddock20.com: Paddock Mail (opens in a new tab)
Case 06Moving in
RAIL Redline
AI Product · Copy Engine
Paste a draft. RAIL rewrites it in the author's own voice, aimed at what buyers search for. Four voice modes, live DataForSEO grounding, a contract redline mode, and a receipt on every run.
Read the case study on paddock20.com: RAIL Redline (opens in a new tab)
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