Fact – 80% of all fleet enquiries are related to fuel costs. Being able to produce and manage the engine’s management system to maximise the fuel efficiency is a great start. So remapping vehicles to run on modified Eco maps is gaining traction.

Fuel Optimisation Programme

All drivers have a collective responsibility to make the best use of the fuel. Airmax has in-house and in-depth knowledge and can optimise most vehicles to give at least a 15% improvement in diesel fuel economy. All modern vehicles use sophisticated Electronic Control Units (ECU) to manage every aspect of the operation of the vehicle.

ECUs controlling the engine determine all-important aspects of the internal combustion process, including the quantity of fuel, ignition timing and other parameters. In doing so it is trying to optimise the engine’s efficiency under any given set of conditions—hot, cold, heavy load, accelerating etc.

Often, this optimisation is a compromise, where the manufacturer is balancing the needs of the world market they are supplying and not taking account of driving and the road conditions.

By re-profiling the firmware within the ECUs, through a process called “Fuel Optimisation” we can provide a better set of running parameters for the engine for typical UK driving conditions and styles. Historically ECUs were ‘chipped’ or re-mapped for power or performance but these days this includes specific mapping for fuel economy and resultant lowering of CO2.

By having your vehicles ECU fuel optimised we re-set all the ECU parameters that are ‘set for compromise’ to be ‘re-set for optimise’. This in turn gives better fuel consumption, more power, lower CO2 levels at specific, optimum and usual driving conditions, reduces and eliminates flat spots giving you a smoother power curve for a better driving experience all of this can be achieved without reaching any of the safe tolerance put on the engine and therefore not affecting it’s life. Our fuel optimisation programme is fully warranted by us and is completely reversible.

Coupled with Airmax’s Remote diagnostic data this will give further visibility into the driver’s behaviour. So idle time, speed, fast acceleration and harsh breaking can be monitored and then moderated with training.

Progressively though we are now seeing early adopters installing Hydrogen on Demand systems. So called HHO units when combined with telematics units can achieve in excess of 20% fuel efficiencies.

Airmax is also developing a programmable ECU to allow on-board and remote control of systems management. This will include adaptive ECUs routines to account for the changing engine demand for alternative fuels but also GPS Geo-coded conditions and alerts and with ADAS enabled.

Being able to produce and manage the engine’s management system to maximise the fuel efficiency is a great start. Indeed early adaptors are installing The Cell, Inc’s HHO units and shaking down the systems under controlled conditions. The Cell is already achieving in excess of 20% fuel efficiencies.

Airmax is developing a ubiquitous ECU to allow on-board and remote control of systems management.

Just imagine three further new initiatives as a result of this technology and company co-operation:

• Fuel on demand within the vehicle seen by the installation of the City link Renault
• Home production of hydrogen (in the micro brewery sense)
• Hydrogen storage on-board thus is eliminating the need for compressed cylinders and expensive installations