Paddock20 Test Track · Sources and IP · 8 min read
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Nothing here is hidden. Every figure on the Test Track comes from somewhere, and each source is named below with what it supplies and how it is credited. The tools and methods that turn those sources into these pages are Paddock20’s own, and they are named here too.
Where the figures come from
| Source | What it supplies | As credited on the site |
|---|---|---|
| The carmaker's charging invoices, through its Fleet API The carmaker | Every Supercharger invoice (kWh billed, rate, dollars) and, only when the car is already awake, its odometer and battery level. | Charging costs from the carmaker's own charging invoices. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the carmaker |
| The carmaker's published documents and the car's app The carmaker | Warranty terms and this car's end dates, the FSD (Supervised) and connectivity prices, the specs and announcements quoted on The Car, and the maintenance schedule, seats and cargo figures from its Model Y owner's manual (2020 to 2024). | Warranty terms from the carmaker's New Vehicle Limited Warranty; this car's end dates from the car's app; the maintenance schedule, seats and cargo from its Model Y owner's manual. |
| The carmaker's Model Y wrap template (custom-wraps) The carmaker | The Model Y template under the six Paddock20 wrap files offered for download on The Car. | Wraps built on the carmaker's Model Y template from its public custom-wraps repository. |
| TezLab Brooklyn Running, LLC | Drives, miles, FSD (Supervised) miles, efficiency, energy into the pack, charging sessions, idle loss, battery health, odometer and a nearby-car comparison. | Drives and pack-side energy measured through TezLab. |
| TezLab charger database and place lookup Brooklyn Running, LLC | Stall counts, ratings and safety scores for each charger in the Charge guide, and the nearby food named in its tips. | Stall counts, ratings and safety scores from TezLab's charger database; nearby food from its place lookup. |
| Uber Eats Uber Technologies, Inc. | The owner's own app screens: deliveries, each delivery's miles and minutes, and the pay, entered day by day on the Record. | Deliveries, miles and pay from the Uber Eats app's own screens. |
| Instacart Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart) | The owner's shopper-app screens: batches, orders, items, active hours, route miles and pay. | Batches, orders, items and active hours from the Instacart shopper app's own screens. |
| Gridwise Gridwise, Inc. | Its published 2025 pay for Uber Eats drivers and Instacart shoppers, drawn as three of the income comparison's nine bars. | Gridwise's 2025 pay data for Uber Eats drivers and Instacart shoppers, linked to each Gridwise page. |
| AAA gas prices AAA (American Automobile Association) | Tennessee's statewide average gas price on August 24, 2026, used to price the miles of the gas vehicles the car replaced. | Gas price: AAA, Tennessee statewide average, August 24, 2026. |
| EPA fuel economy and range ratings U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | The combined mpg ratings of the gas vehicles the car replaced, and the Model Y's 310-mile range rating. | Gas vehicles at their EPA combined ratings; range at the EPA rating. |
| NHTSA vPIC decoder and safety ratings National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (U.S. Department of Transportation) | An independent decode of the car's VIN (make, model, year, plant, motors) and the 5-star rating cited on The Car. | VIN decode from NHTSA's vPIC database; safety rating from NHTSA. |
| Recurrent Recurrent Motors, Inc. | The car's Range Score (96 of 100) on Battery, Ledger and Switch, and its cold-weather range research on Drive. | Range Score from Recurrent. Cold-weather range from Recurrent's research on 30,000-plus vehicles. |
| DataForSEO DataForSEO OU (Estonia) | Nothing printed. US search volumes, pulled 2026-10-05, chose the words the front door's headings use. | Search demand from DataForSEO chose which questions to answer; none of its figures is printed. |
| CarGurus price trends CarGurus, Inc. | Average listing prices of used Model Ys by model year, read by hand from its public price-trends page, for the Ledger's value section. | Lot prices from CarGurus, used Model Y price trends, with the date of each read. |
| Edmunds Edmunds.com, Inc. | One quoted line from its Model Y trim comparison, on The Car's lineup tab. | Quoted from Edmunds' Model Y trim comparison. |
| JATO Dynamics JATO Dynamics | The 2023 and 2024 global sales counts cited on The Car's history section. | Global sales counts from JATO Dynamics. |
| Focus2Move Focus2Move (legal entity not verified) | The 2024 count that ranks Model Y first, cited beside JATO's on The Car's history section. | 2024 sales count from Focus2Move. |
| IRS tax rates Internal Revenue Service (U.S. Department of the Treasury) | The payroll tax (7.65%) and self-employment tax (15.3% of 92.35% of net earnings) used in the income comparison. | Payroll and self-employment tax rates from the IRS. |
| Higgsfield (AI image generation) Higgsfield Inc. | The backdrop plates behind every page and share card, generated to Paddock20's direction. | Backdrop images generated with AI through Higgsfield, directed by Paddock20. |
| SupercarIQ's own database Paddock20 (SupercarIQ is a Paddock20 app) | Case 03: the log of its nightly price sweep, the auction results in its store and its price lookups, read October 6, 2026 as counts and totals only. | Counted by Paddock20 in the app's own database. No search, account, listing or price is shown |
A figure on a page carries its own mark: measured (an invoice, an app screen or a sensor), modeled (worked out from measured figures) or stated (the owner’s word). The Legend explains each.
What Paddock20 built
The Test Track is where Paddock20 proves what it builds before anyone relies on it. These are the pieces of this case study, by the names we use for them.
| Name | What it is | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Paddock20 Test Track | This site: Paddock20's proving ground, where what we build is tested in the open. Case 01: The Model Y, one 2024 Model Y measured from invoices, telemetry and app screens. Case 03: SupercarIQ, read from its own database. | Product |
| SupercarIQ | The Paddock20 app that names a car and prices it from auction results; Case 03 on the Test Track. | Product |
| Paddock20 Telemetry | Seven tiles atop the landing, each three levels deep as bars, a line or a table, for any range on the record; billed rate leads and nothing exports. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Record | A report card for every day, rolled up by week, month, quarter, season and year: jobs, miles, FSD (Supervised) share and money by channel. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Ledger | Cost per mile from the charging invoices against the gas fleet the car replaced, plus its monthly bills, lot prices and warranty. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Front Door | Three layers: the start screen, a short story with the income comparison, then the site itself. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Income Comparison | Net dollars an hour after car cost and tax: example jobs with a commute, this car's delivery days, a target and Gridwise's 2025 pay. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Your Numbers | A calculator that prices this car's measured energy per mile at your electricity rate against the car you drive; the result is a link. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Field Notes | A page for every Sunday-to-Saturday week, built from the car's numbers, with an RSS feed. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Legend | The key to the Record: kinds of day, how a figure is marked, the arithmetic, how each day is proved, route logic and what is never shown. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Charge Guide | Every charger the car used: sessions, kWh, the best rate billed there, stalls, a rating and a tip. | Feature |
| Paddock20 Cross-Checks | The build stops unless the dashboard's figures equal those the site already prints, and the browser code mirrors the Python line for line. | Method |
| Paddock20 Privacy Grain | Publishes the charging record without giving away when or where any one charge happened. | Method |
| Paddock20 Rate Card Tiering | Sorts charging into on-peak and off-peak without publishing when it happened. | Method |
| Paddock20 Provenance Labels | Every figure is marked measured (an invoice, sensor or app screen), modeled (worked out, and says how) or stated (the owner's word). | Method |
| Paddock20 Charge Loss Reconciliation | Measures how much of the energy billed for charging reached the battery. | Method |
| Paddock20 Coverage Audit | Proves every day since delivery from the drives, day totals, the battery chain, the invoices and the odometer, or names it a gap. | Method |
| Paddock20 Corridors | Drives shown only as city-to-city corridors from an allowlist of places, counted by trips; no coordinates, addresses or departure times. | Method |
| Paddock20 Miles by Purpose | Splits a delivery day's miles into those the apps counted, those driven in the apps' hours, those outside them, and not split. | Method |
| Paddock20 Made With the Car | Income on lines where the car was in the work, plus any line a moment (work done during a drive) led to; the Record shows it as With the car. | Method |
| Paddock20 Dated Corrections | A published figure that later changes carries a dated correction on its day, and the build refuses an unexplained change. | Method |
| Paddock20 Shift Reconciliation | Matches the car's drives to the delivery apps' records, and measures the miles the apps did not count. | Method |
| Paddock20 Daily Record CSV | The daily rows the charts draw (miles, drives, kWh, charging spend, efficiency, idle loss), free to read and quote with credit; not licensed for reuse. | Data |
| Paddock20 Start Screen | A DRIVE START STOP button and a gauge cluster that sweeps to the snapshot's cost per mile, with a synthesized wake-up sound. | Design |
| Paddock20 Share Cards | A 1200x630 card for every page that leads with the page's own figure; a hash in each card lets the gate fail a stale one. | Design |
| Paddock20 Glass | Floating glass panels on three elevations over a full-bleed plate with film grain, and chart hues checked for color-vision separation. | Design |
| Paddock20 Wrap Liveries | Six wrap files for the car's Paint Shop, built on the maker's Model Y template, free to download on The Car. | Design |
Marks and rights
- Paddock20™ the company and its logo
- Paddock20 Telemetry™ the instrument that opens the landing
- The Record™ the daily report card
© 2026 Paddock20™ · All rights reserved. Paddock20 and its logo are trademarks of Paddock20. The code, the words, the charts and the design of this site are Paddock20’s. Model Y, Supercharger and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) are trademarks of the carmaker, and this site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by it. Every other name above belongs to its owner and is named for what it supplies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
measured invoice or sensor
modeled derived, and says so
Pulled 2026-10-20 · VIN serial masked · no addresses
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