What is Amigo01
Amigo01 is a specialized digital assistant for monitoring the electric powertrain’s functions and driving modes. We developed it for the Citroen Ami, Fiat Topolino and Opel Rocks. To assist with tracking power consumption, power deployment, improve driving for energy saving and to monitor motor rpm. Some would call this tracking your carbon footprint. We like to see it as a tool for understanding power availability and flow.
The tool was designed to assist the random Formula1 driver who might be driving this little car as a daily. To better understand the new hybrid powertrain technology’s base concepts. All while having fun going to the supermarket.
Amigo shows you in realtime:
- Gear engaged, in F1 driving screen style
- Instant power produced
- Instant torque
- Motor rpm
- Energy consumed in trip
- Energy consumed in total
- Energy charged via mains socket
- Energy regained via harvesting
- Instant Energy consumption estimate per 100km, to compared with other electric cars
- 12V service battery voltage
- Traction battery charge in percentage (not km/miles as on the dashboard)
- Motor mode (idle/drive/harvest/charge)
- Handbrake on/off
It can help the driver use Energy Harvesting more efficiently. Understand the motor and the traction battery’s limitations when it comes to power deployment in different driving scenarios.
What Amigo01 can do and what it cannot do.
Amigo01 cannot change or intervene with the electric motor’s management system. It is a monitoring tool that connects to the car via OBD2 and reads parameters. It connects on a diagnostic layer and displays data that is useful to the driver. For collection and analysis. It can read all of the parameters shown in the photo above.
It cannot change engine modes. It cannot remove vmax limitations. Cannot increase power to the motor. To do all those, you need us to tune the traction ECU first (like here! ).
Purpose
On our tunes, which are highly tweaked/remapped versions of the Ami and the Topolino firmware, these parameters become very important. As the power limitations are lifted and the motor can produce almost twice as much compared to stock. Contrary to popular belief, the tunes are not just a maximum speed fix. Tracking all of the above becomes crucial. Trying not to hurt the battery‘s health from constant abuse nor melt the motor from too much power. And we want to know exactly when and how the motor management introduces limitations to power delivery. To us it is a very important tool for motor development.
Why is this related to the Formula1 2026 cars?
2026 Formula1 regulations brought in new hybrid powerunits favoring heavy electric motor use. 50% power comes from gasoline and the other 50% comes from the (small) battery. Gasoline power dropped to 540hp from 740hp. Electric power went up to 470hp from 160hp in the previous regulations.
That is a crazy amount of electric power that needs to come from somewhere. Deploying so much means that the new cars have very increased battery requirements. The new batteries are Lithium-ion with 9MJ capacity, with special dielectric oil to keep cell temperature under control. But the battery is not big enough to do a full lap flat-out. Not even a full straight flat-out. Or do a race start without harvesting to charge it first. The gasoline engine works as a generator while this happens: you will notice cars redlining for a few seconds at a standstill during race start practice. Big headache to the drivers: Deployment limitations to the battery output so as not to damage its health. Base parameters affecting power delivery are cell temperature, electric motor temperature and battery voltage.
While the scale is completely different, those are the exact same parameters we are monitoring for maximum performance via Amigo01 for the Ami/Topolino/Rocks. Different scale, very similar reasons.
Availability and pricing
At the moment we are only making a few units, in house, per request. Please contact us for more information.
