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RICA ECM Upgrades
Performance
E-Power
Sports Tune
Stage 2 + 3
OEM
RICA E-Power is an ECM upgrade specifically designed to reduce vehicle emissions and improve fuel economy by carefully optimizing the software in the engine management system. To put it simply, it’s an environmentally friendly ECM remap that is designed to save you money.

You may be thinking that this is nothing new! After all, the RICA Performance upgrades also improve fuel economy. However, RICA Engineering have taken this concept to a new level and turned the art of ECM optimisation on its head. Traditionally, the focus of remapping has always been about increasing performance, with possible fuel economy improvements as an added bonus. With the RICA E-Power upgrades, the focus is solely on reducing emissions and improving fuel economy rather than focusing on outright performance.

Independent testing by TNO has proved that RICA are able to reduce CO2 emissions by up 15% and improve fuel economy by more than 15%. These tests are the same tests that the manufacturers undertake in order to ensure their vehicles meet the latest European emissions legislation.

The RICA test data enables car owners and drivers to make a direct comparison between a standard car and a RICA optimised car in order to accurately calculate the potential fuel cost savings. The data is not simply an estimated figure applied to all models. Each specific model has been separately tested to provide fuel consumption data specific to each individual model.
RICA  E-Power
Volvo V70 2.4D 163 Euro 4
Fuel Consumption Standard RICA E-Power
Urban 12.32 ltr/100 km
22.9 mpg 		10.53 ltr/100 km
26.8 mpg
Extra-Urban 7.63 ltr/100 km
37.0 mpg 		7.19 ltr/100 km
39.3 mpg
Combined 9.34 ltr/100 km
30.2 mpg 		8.42 ltr/100 km
33.5 mpg

CO2 Emissions Standard RICA E-Power
Urban 325.48 g/km 277.60 g/km
Extra-Urban 202.16 g/km 190.41 g/km
Combined 247.01 g/km 222.39 g/km

Volvo C30 1.6D
Fuel Consumption Standard RICA E-Power
Urban 6.9 ltr/100 km
40.9 mpg 		6.0 ltr/100 km
47.1 mpg
Extra-Urban 4.6 ltr/100 km
61.4 mpg 		3.9 ltr/100 km
72.4 mpg
Combined 5.8 ltr/100 km
48.7 mpg 		4.9 ltr/100 km
57.6 mpg






 
More Information
For specific details of ECM upgrades available for your car, please click on the Tune Your Car link below.

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Programming Method
All RICA ECM upgrades are software remaps. Even on some of the older cars where the chip may have to be removed in order to be reprogrammed, this is still a remap.

Most cars 1999 onwards have the RICA remap flashed (programmed) via the OBD2 diagnostics port.

Did You Know...
Inside the engine computer is a "chip" that stores the software which controls the engine. The term "chip tuning" originally came from the days where this chip had to be replaced with a different one programmed with new software. Modern engine computers do not need the chips changing because they can be reprogrammed while still in the car.

Remapping is another term for chip tuning. The software in the engine computer contains lots of "maps" which are basically spread sheets full of data that define how the ECM controls the engine. Hence, the term "remapping" comes from altering these "maps" in the software.

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