From the Desk of the CEO

Dwayne Fosseen, CEO

June 12, 2009

This week I will focus on a Mirenco GPS intelligent vehicle cruise control invention and the patent  that Mirenco developed and demonstrated several years before the market was ready for it. This invention has simply been waiting for the vehicle market to catch up. As it worked out, navigational information was the first use of GPS for vehicles. The next GPS feature was talking navigational GPS units guiding vehicle passengers to their destination. The next step will be using GPS for managing better fuel mileage and emission reduction.

Mirenco was the first company in history to control vehicle fuel mileage and emissions using GPS. On September 19, 1999, in conjunction with the Department of Energy Kansas City Plant, Mirenco successfully demonstrated that it is possible to control vehicle tailpipe emissions and fuel mileage by using real-time GPS signals. This historic journey covered 207 miles from the DOE plant in Kansas City to the Iowa State Capital building by a truck equipped with a Mirenco prototype EconoCruise  system. This demonstration of using GPS and intelligent vehicle ‘look ahead’ electronics controlling the engine fuel injection marked the beginning of a new era for intelligent vehicles in the future.

On Tuesday June 19, 2001, Mirenco publicly disclosed  this historic 207 mile journey in a national full page disclosure in both the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The reason for the disclosure is the fact that Mirenco did not want any confusion at some point of time in the future about who invented this technology. The next reason was to disclose that the technology worked perfectly over the 207 mile demonstration having the US Department of Energy Kansas City Plant engineer monitoring the vehicle over the entire 207 historic event as a witness.

During 2008, oil prices hit all time highs awakening vehicle owners to the fact they have little control over fuel cost.  The only thing a vehicle owner can control is what they drive and its fuel mileage. We believe vehicle owners will demand intelligent vehicle cruise control technology as standard equipment in new vehicles for both the increased fuel mileage and environmental benefits.

Dwayne Fosseen, CEO

Mirenco Inc.