Automobile
Comparis adopts TCS fuel price radar
In November 2022, the TCS launched its fuel price radar. It has just been adopted by Comparis, which now offers it to its users.
Published
More than 3,600 service stations now display at least one price. (illustrative image)
Getty Images via AFP
Three months ago, to the day, the Swiss Touring Club (TCS) launched its fuel price radar. Since then, 98% of petrol station prices – i.e. more than 3,600 stations displaying at least one price – have been listed on the TCS comparator which “has been visited more than 3.5 million times, has 23,000 registered contributors and 20,000 data updated daily”, reports the TCS, in a press release published on Monday. A success that might still grow since the online comparator Comparis has decided to adopt the fuel price radar.
“Thus, Comparis users will have access at all times to the best fuel prices in their region,” explains the TCS. Its director, Jürg Wittwer is delighted with this announcement. “We are very pleased that Comparis is adopting our fuel pricing solution. Together we will be even more efficient for the benefit of Swiss consumers, without costing the Confederation a cent,” he said.
A collaboration that is just as popular with Comparis. “In these times of rising prices, I am particularly pleased that we can offer greater transparency regarding the price of fuels on the Swiss market. An ambition that is not obvious but that the collaboration with the TCS will make possible,” said Paul Kummer, member of the board of directors of the Comparis group.
In its annual report, published on Monday, Price Monitoring recalled that it had “already proposed to strengthen competition between service stations by means of an application to combat high prices at the pump”. A proposal “motivated by the sudden rise in fuel prices in 2022 and the very high (gross) margins of service stations”. She sees the application of the TCS as “a first success”. “Over the next few months, we will show whether its data collection model through the indications provided by customers is qualitatively satisfactory,” she announces.
(comm/aze)
