{"id":41793,"date":"2026-07-24T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/dataset-driving-licence-cost-car-tax-fuel-insurance-ev-charging-across-36-countries-free-csvs-cc-by\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:27:42","slug":"dataset-driving-licence-cost-car-tax-fuel-insurance-ev-charging-across-36-countries-free-csvs-cc-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/dataset-driving-licence-cost-car-tax-fuel-insurance-ev-charging-across-36-countries-free-csvs-cc-by\/","title":{"rendered":"[Dataset] Driving Licence Cost, Car Tax, Fuel, Insurance &amp; EV Charging Across 36 Countries (free CSVs, CC-BY)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Disclosure: I build these datasets and run the site they&#8217;re published on, so this is a self-promotion post per rule 1.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been compiling comparable car-cost data across 36 countries &#8211; the kind of cross-country tables that don&#8217;t really exist anywhere else (most sources are single-country). Two newest releases:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Cost of getting a driving licence in 36 countries, next to average salary, as a share of a month&#8217;s pay. It&#8217;s 112% of a month&#8217;s net pay in the Netherlands, 94% in Japan, but 8% in Mexico City (where there&#8217;s no practical test). <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Public DC fast-charging prices in 30 countries (pay-as-you-go, per kWh and per 100km). The UK is the most expensive in the world at about $1.06\/kWh, roughly 6x India.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier sets in the same family: 5-year total cost of ownership, first-year car tax, and home EV charging &#8211; all 36 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Sources &amp; method: national statistics offices, driving-school associations, official fee schedules, GlobalPetrolPrices and published operator tariffs &#8211; every row carries its own source URL and date. Licensed CC-BY, free to reuse with attribution. Each CSV is linked on its study page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/carsmultiverse.com\/research\/\">https:\/\/carsmultiverse.com\/research\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy to answer questions about any country&#8217;s numbers, or add columns people want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Successful-Ebb7891\"> \/u\/Successful-Ebb7891 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1v5dokp\/dataset_driving_licence_cost_car_tax_fuel\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1v5dokp\/dataset_driving_licence_cost_car_tax_fuel\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41793 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41793' data-nonce='9de69db8d5' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41793 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41793 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclosure: I build these datasets and run the site they&#8217;re published on, so this is a self-promotion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}