Fuel stations along your route: a stop with one tap

The fuel button in the cockpit

The navigation cockpit has a fixed fuel button with a pump symbol. One tap opens the list “Fuel stations ahead”. The search covers the rest of your way: from your position, up to 2 km beside the route and up to 100 km ahead. Stations less than 150 m ahead of you or already behind you are left out. The list shows 30 rows at most.

Sorted by detour

Each row gives the name or brand, the distance ahead, the estimated detour, the opening status and the fuels that are known. The station with the smallest detour comes first, the nearer one when two tie. The detour is an estimate: twice the straight-line distance from the station to the route. The app only knows the real detour after the recalculation, and the list says so.

One tap makes it a stop

Tap a row and the station becomes an intermediate stop. DriveBattle recalculates the route from your position through the station to the unchanged destination, and the navigation keeps running. The destination and earlier stops stay, with up to 5 stops in total. Once you have reached a station (about 80 m), the app drops it from the stop list. The stops survive an app restart and the switch between phone and car. If the recalculation fails, the old route and the old stops stay and you get a message. A new stop needs a connection on the phone. A round trip has no fixed destination and therefore no stop.

A station as destination

In the destination search the quick-pick chip “Fuel” comes first. It lists the stations within 10 km of your position, the nearest first. A tap on a row picks it as the destination.

Your fuel

In the settings you choose the fuel type: By vehicle, Diesel, Super, E10, LPG or CNG. “By vehicle” is the default. For a motorcycle the app takes Super. For a car it only picks a fuel when the vehicle text gives it away clearly, such as TDI, 320d or LPG. Without a hint it does not guess. Matching fuels are highlighted in the row. The switch “Only stations with my fuel” hides the rest. It is off by default because OpenStreetMap lists no fuels for many stations: about one in five carries a diesel entry, only a few E10.

What the data does not know

DriveBattle does not show prices. Opening times appear as “Open until 22:00”, “Open 24 hours” or “Closed” when OpenStreetMap supplies them in a form the app can read. If the entry is missing, the row says nothing. What OpenStreetMap does not know, the app never shows as “not available”.

Without a connection

The app saves every list it loads on the phone. Without a connection it shows saved stations with the note “Offline - showing saved stations” and works out distance and detour itself. That only works where you have loaded stations before. After you download an offline map, the app preloads the stations of that region in the background. It deletes saved stations older than 120 days. If the server answers with an error, the app shows the error and no old data.

In the car with Android Auto

On the display in the car, the “Route” button in the action strip opens a list during guidance. It shows the other route types and, as its last row, “Fuel”. “Fuel” lists the nearest stations along the route, a tap on a row adds the stop, and the navigation recalculates and keeps running. Unlike on the phone, the nearest station comes first in the car, not the one with the smallest detour, and closed ones go to the end. The car display decides how many rows fit, and one row is the OpenStreetMap notice. Success and failure appear as a short message.

Where the data comes from

The stations come from OpenStreetMap. DriveBattle serves them from its own database, which is rebuilt once a month. The first build on 6 October 2026 held about 569,000 stations worldwide. Volunteers maintain OpenStreetMap: a new station is missing until someone adds it. The database has no charging points for electric cars. For the search along the route, the app sends the route, thinned to 1,500 points at most, to the DriveBattle servers, and no third-party service is involved. The data is under the Open Database License (ODbL). The app shows the notice “Fuel stations: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors” wherever stations appear: in the list, in the settings and under App info, and as a list row in the car.

What it costs

The fuel button, the list, the stop and the chip in the destination search are not Premium features on the phone. Offline maps are Premium, and after such a download the app preloads stations. Android Auto is Premium as a whole, and so is “Fuel” in the car. During the beta everything is unlocked. After that Premium costs money, the purchase runs through Google Play and Google Play shows the price. This page describes the Android app.

Frequently asked questions

Does DriveBattle show fuel stations along the route?

Yes. The fuel button in the cockpit lists the stations on the rest of your route, up to 2 km beside it, sorted by estimated detour.

Can I add a fuel station as a stop?

Yes. One tap on a row makes it a stop, the route is recalculated through the station and the navigation keeps running. The phone needs a connection for that.

Does the app show fuel prices?

No. The list shows name or brand, distance, estimated detour, opening status and known fuels, but no prices.

Can I find fuel stations without a connection?

In part. The app saves the stations it has loaded and shows them offline, but only where you have loaded them before. Adding a new stop needs a connection.

Is the fuel station search in Android Auto too?

Yes. The “Route” button opens a list whose last row, “Fuel”, shows the nearest stations along the route. Android Auto is part of Premium.

Is the fuel station search part of Premium?

Not on the phone. Android Auto is Premium as a whole, and so is “Fuel” in the car.