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Filld: New Silicon Valley startup will bring fuel truck to your car
Posted on 5/27/15 at 9:40 pm
Posted on 5/27/15 at 9:40 pm
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Scott Hempy was riding in the car with his wife a few months back when realized he was running low on gas. He joked that it would be great if there was a way to refuel while he was driving, the same way Air Force jets do during long flights. The two had a laugh about it and then resumed driving. But this being Silicon Valley in an era of irrational exuberance, what seemed at first like a trivial inconvenience soon became the basis for a brand new startup, Filld.
You download the app, put in some info about your vehicle, and give it your address. Enter a window of time for delivery and a truck is dispatched to your location. You still have do the hard work of making sure the gas cap is unlocked, but I’m sure there will be a drone to solve this problem in the future. For a $7 surcharge, you can avoid the indignity of having to stand upright for several minutes and pump your gas by hand like some 20th century serf.
I asked Hempy how it could possibly be efficient to pay a driver to burn gas going from house to house filling up individual cars. He says the company buys fuel wholesale and charges market rate per gallon. "We cut out the brick-and-mortar costs of owning a station." That leaves plenty of margin, even if Filld isn't selling slushies and slim jims. "No corner real estate, no utility bills."
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This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 9:43 pm
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Posted on 5/27/15 at 9:48 pm to hikingfan
Interesting idea
Posted on 5/27/15 at 9:59 pm to hikingfan
or if it came to the same office building once a week...make a standard rotation....that could work and maybe lower the $7 surcharge some
Posted on 5/27/15 at 10:05 pm to Croacka
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Interesting idea
The only way this works is for home delivery in wealthier neighborhoods.
I've actually been putting together and idea. If you could fill your wife's, daughter's, cars up instead of them getting out in weather to fill their cars, you wouldn't pay a few bucks extra for a home service?
Posted on 5/28/15 at 5:35 am to GeeOH
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I've actually been putting together and idea. If you could fill your wife's, daughter's, cars up instead of them getting out in weather to fill their cars, you wouldn't pay a few bucks extra for a home service?
No. They go out in the weather to shop and spend my money. They can stop and pump their own gas.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 6:41 am to hikingfan
Low overhead but very large startup costs, especially if you're going to drive the truck yourself. I like the idea, though.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 7:52 am to hikingfan
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For a $7 surcharge, you can avoid the indignity of having to stand upright for several minutes and pump your gas by hand like some 20th century serf.
I'm not paying a $7 surcharge when I can just stop at a gas station on the way home from work. Maybe rich people will pay it, but the everyday working guy won't do it.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 8:54 am to hikingfan
This will be interesting. I wonder if he will act as his own common carrier?
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:05 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
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m not paying a $7 surcharge when I can just stop at a gas station on the way home from work. Maybe rich people will pay it, but the everyday working guy won't do it.
Don't underestimate people's laziness.
What you said above could be and has been said about many things.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:12 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
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I'm not paying a $7 surcharge when I can just stop at a gas station on the way home from work. Maybe rich people will pay it, but the everyday working guy won't do it.
Ever had a pizza delivered before? Why pay the extra $3 delivery fee plus tip when you can just drive over to the pizza place?
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:21 am to Superior Pariah
i am not sure there is much of a market for this. gas stations are everywhere. and well you are already getting out in your car.
And who wants to order gas to be told a "window" when they will get their gas.
I could see it being a winner in a big office, fill up everyone's cars on tuesdays or whatever
And who wants to order gas to be told a "window" when they will get their gas.
I could see it being a winner in a big office, fill up everyone's cars on tuesdays or whatever
Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:19 pm to hikingfan
This will never work out for him. Too much competition from the mob.
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:28 pm to hikingfan
Solution looking for a problem. Also the tech startup trend of leaving out a vowel in your company name is terrible.
Posted on 5/31/15 at 11:05 pm to Hawkeye95
In a typical city, there are plenty of people with lots of money, but not quite enough to have full time assistants doing these menial tasks, that would pay for this. Avoiding a trip to the gas station is worth it to them. I think it would be great to have my car filled at 6am before heading to work.
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