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Old 08-30-2012, 06:16 PM   #10 (permalink)
Vekke
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Originally Posted by Weather Spotter View Post
if the app gave me all the things my ScanGauge II does, as well as the ability to log this info (excell export, local graphs), log other perramiters: GPS route, elevation change, out door temp,user added items. then I would be interested. If it just was an info app then its not worth paying for. if its got all the above features, and works on Android and Ios, with a cable that costs under $40 I would be willing to pay for the app. free trial to test it and then I would pay $10-$18 for it.

I agree with some of the others, I do not pay for something thats not helping me do something better then what my dedicated tools do. logging is a tool I will pay for.

Side note, all SGII have a Ethernet plug for daisy chaining them together, it might be a better hook up option then the OBDY2 port.
All above and much more. Starting point for first version is probably something like this:
DriveGain

That seemed best that I could find at the moment. So that + about 100 new funtions for various things that effect fuel consumtpion.

I know that people that have hypermiled a long time think that they don`t need more data to tell how to drive fuel efficient. Like Weather spotter said that altitude for instance is someting you cannot see from scangauge or ultragauge directly. There are other features also that you could use even you are already a hypermiler.

Biggest customers will be those semi or class 8 truckers of course and savings there will be big. This companys turnover last year was 1.3 million euros so there is market for a product like this at least in heavy trukking.

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Software will be propably free test for some time and after that it will start to cost something per month.
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