Week of October 4: the apps counted 495 of 1,086 miles

The question: how much of a week's driving do the delivery apps pay for? The apps pay by the delivery and count each delivery's distance. The car's own record counts every mile, including the drive to the first pickup, the gaps between orders and everything outside the apps' hours.

What happened. From Sunday, October 4 to Saturday, October 10, the car drove 1,085.8 miles on seven working days, 98.6% of them on FSD (Supervised), with a driver supervising every mile. 576.9 of those miles were driven inside the hours the apps list, and the apps themselves counted 494.6. The other 508.9 miles were outside those hours, and the Record does not say what they were for. The week's report on the Record puts 468.8 miles outside the apps' hours because its split leaves out October 7, a day with an Instacart order, and Instacart does not count miles.

What it brought in. $692.20 was earned that week, and all of it is paid: $579.33 from Uber Eats, $12.87 from Instacart and $100 from a direct client.

What it cost. At 12.3¢ a mile, the car's measured rate through October 11, the week's miles used $133.13 of electricity, modeled, which leaves $559.07. That is electricity only. Insurance and software are separate lines on the Ledger, and tires, registration, maintenance and the car's loss in value are not priced yet. The car bought $98.53 of charging that week.

What this week cannot tell us. It is one week, one car and one city. The miles outside the apps' hours are not sorted into errands, charging trips or personal driving, so some of them may belong to the work. The apps' mile counts are their own and are not checked delivery by delivery. The full working time, with the waiting and the charging, is not recorded, so no hourly figure is published.

Next week's question: when the car charges farther away for a lower price, does the saving cover the extra miles and the time?