Fiat eco:Drive AIR application wins MediaGuardian award

eco-driveThe Fiat eco:Drive application built by AKQA won a MediaGuardian award this week  in the “DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY” category. eco:Drive is an innovative application built on AIR that aims to improve your driving skills. It analyzes your driving style and helps increase your fuel efficiency, saving you money and minimizing your CO2 emissions.

Andrew and I recorded a video about eco:Drive a few months ago. If you haven’t seen it and would like to find out more about why and how eco:Drive was built, check out the video here.

Congrats to Rick, Adam and Harald at AKQA and Claudio at Fiat.

Behind the scenes of Fiat’s EcoDrive Adobe AIR application

A few weeks ago, Andrew Shorten and I talked to Fiat and AKQA about the Fiat EcoDrive AIR application. Find out why Fiat decided to make this application and how AKQA built it. See how this AIR application can save money for Fiat drivers and how the car is connected to it.

Interested in building your own AIR application? Then check out these applications used by AKQA to build the EcoDrive application:

Do you have a cool Flex or AIR application that we should highlight in a future video – if so, please get in touch.