Patent ID: 8498792

Claim:
A system for implementing efficiency score tracking for vehicle operations, comprising: a computer processor; and logic executable by the computer processor, the logic configured to implement a method, the method comprising: identifying an operator of a vehicle; at each time increment for a duration of a driving event with respect to the vehicle: determining mileage accrual and an amount of energy consumed, wherein a value representing the amount of energy consumed is calculated based on variations in climate, the climate determined, in part, from a global positioning system location acquired from the vehicle; calculating an efficiency value as a function of the mileage accrual and the amount of energy consumed; assigning a point value to the efficiency value; adding the point value to previous point values, if any, assigned during the driving event; and displaying a sum of the point value and the previous point values, if any, to the operator in the vehicle, the sum reflecting a cumulative number of points assigned for a corresponding time increment and any previous time increments of the driving event; and presenting a total point value reflecting a sum of all of the point values assigned to the operator of the vehicle for all of the time increments associated with the driving event.