Hate filling up your car? This fuel delivery service will bring the petrol to you.

If the chore of filling your car with petrol fills you with dread, one Christchurch company is happy to bring the fuel to you for the same price you'll pay at the pump.

Fuel delivery service FILL brings petrol or diesel directly to your vehicle, offering same day delivery and fixed-rate fuel.

"We all hate using service stations and everyone we talked to hates them too," FILL co-founder Tom Evatt said.

SUPPLIED FILL is modeled on a similar system already running successfully overseas.

"Many people have looked in disbelief when we have said we can provide this service at the same cost as the pump price ... we don't have the same overheads as existing service stations or own or lease expensive real estate," Evatt said.

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The service, in its pilot stage, is available across Christchurch but its founders Evatt, Tim Riley and Gavin Barr hope to eventually roll it out across other parts of New Zealand.

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The system works through a series of apps designed by Christchurch-based company Global Office.

To have a vehicle filled at home or work, customers needed to download the FILL For Fuel app, make a booking and then leave their fuel cap popped for a driver to supply it at a specified time.

A minimum of $30 must be filled per visit and for orders 50 litres or less there is a $3.50 delivery fee.

SUPPLIED Its founders hope the service will eventually be available in other New Zealand cities.

Evatt, Riley and Barr began working on their business more than two years ago when Barr, who runs a company that builds fuel tanks, spotted a gap in the market.

Evatt stressed the concept wasn't their idea and the model was already working in America and Europe, but it needed a "few changes" before it could be applied to the New Zealand market.

With the growth of the "on-demand" economy, and customers able to order "anything to anywhere", it made sense to add petrol to the mix, he said.

While FILL would deliver to anyone, the company had primarily been targeting companies with large fleets of vehicles.

Businesses could cut down time and extra fuel spent on employee's having to detour to petrol stations, and not worry about their cars running low.

The biggest barrier to success was encouraging people to change their habits, especially in such a familiar environment, he said.

Global Office chief executive Nick Witteman said the project "has the potential to be a game changer in New Zealand's fuel industry".

"Everybody uses fuel so we're confident there's space for us," Evatt said.