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Lightfoot
Lightfoot is a connected car technology that rewards better drivers. It uses F1-style analytics to help drivers find and stay within their engine’s efficiency sweet spot, with the overall aim of making roads safer the environment cleaner and motoring less expensive. The government-supported, insurer-endorsed technology has been described as the ‘Fitbit for cars’, gamifying the driving experience and encouraging a safer, more efficient style of driving. Its objective is to incentivise better driving and allow drivers to benefit personally for adopting a smoother driving style.

Lightfoot has two core components:
1. A small device that communicates directly with the vehicle’s engine and provides the driver with visual and verbal feedback to enable them to stay within the engine’s “sweet spot” (optimum efficiency) 2. A rewards platform that enables drivers to benefit personally from better driving through competitions, prizes, discounts and other incentives.

Reported benefits of the device include:

 * Up to 20% reduction in fuel consumption
 * Up to 20% reduction in harmful emissions
 * Up to 40% reduction in accident rates
 * Up to 60% reduction in claims value
 * Up to 45% reduction in downtime

Background
Lightfoot was created by Devon-based automotive technology specialist Ashwoods Automotive. Ashwoods now designs and manufactures innovative electric motors and demerged from Lightfoot in 2017. The sister companies share office space but now exist as separate entities.

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Lightfoot pioneers the idea of rewarding better drivers. It has launched initiatives such as Fleet Driver of the Week and Fleet Manager of the Week. These awards help to recognise and reward fleet drivers for better driving, and their managers for communicating how to achieve good results. Any fleet driver who achieves a score of 85% and above (Lightfoot’s gold standard that most drivers achieve) automatically reaches Elite Driver status and is then entered into a weekly draw, with one driver winning the prize. The same occurs for fleet managers whose fleet achieves a score of 85% and above. Prizes range from gadgets like the Amazon Echo to experiences such as supercar track days.

History

 * Lightfoot was created by cleantech automotive technology specialist, Ashwoods Automotive. The Integrated Hybrid Electric Propulsion Unit (IHEPU) project was an Innovate UK funded project, started in 2010, to develop and prototype a retrofit hybrid system for the Ford Transit commercial van. During this project, Ashwoods “Eco-Drive” was born – which quickly re-branded for commercialisation as “Lightfoot”.
 * In 2015, Lightfoot developed a prototype of a full “connected vehicle” solution suitable for the consumer market. The prototype was developed and the concept proven within a small Innovate UK “smart grant” project/pilot called LCP (Lightfoot Consumer Product).
 * Ashwoods demerged in 2017 to create “Ashwoods Electric Motors” and “Lightfoot”. Both companies developing, manufacturing and marketing technologies born from the original “IHEPU” Innovate UK funded project.

Drivers who use Lightfoot have been known to experience fuel costs reductions of 20%, accidents reductions of 60% and reductions in the production of harmful emissions of 15-20%. Lightfoot’s real-time engine analytics attempt to help the driver to improve both efficiency and safety and help them get rewarded for it.