EFILive

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EFILive Limited is a New Zealand based software development company that designs and produces state of the art, PC-based, digital tools for on-board vehicle electronics.

From humble beginnings, co-owner, Paul Blackmore developed a scanning tool to feed his desire for gaining knowledge about the performance of his vehicle. OBD or OnBoard Diagnostics, a computer-based system built into all 1996 and later light-duty vehicles and trucks (as required by the United States of America's Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990) made this possible.

Carbytes, a free OBD-I scantool, was then made available for public download in the late 1990's. Interest from aftermarket performance workshops, and calls for significant product enhancements lead to the creation of EFILive Limited. The new software, aptly named EFILive V4, was designed for OBD-I GM vehicles. With the industry advancements in aftermarket performance products, EFILive saw a need to provide OBD-II support to compliment other products in the market. EFILive V5, and then V6 were added to the product suite to meet these needs.

In collaboration with now co-owner Ross Myers, EFILive V7 is the first product that combined an integrated PC based scanning and tuning tool for the General Motors' LS1 engine platform. EFIlive V7 and the FlashScan interface feature "blackbox" data logging, hardware communications via USB connection, free software upgrades, and ‘key’ upgradeable licensing and hardware.

EFILive continues to add industry leading features and new technologies to make your job easier when scanning, diagnosing and tuning EFI systems. Platform expansion to include additional vehicle, engine and transmission types has seen more industry firsts, and the current developments of EFILive’s new V2 hardware interface will add the existing features as well as the new CAN interface found in newer vehicles.

EFILive works closely with its teams of distributors, resellers, field and beta testers, as well as their customers and aftermarket performance workshops. This means that EFILive's product development is focused on building high performance tools for high performance vehicles.