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General Motors and OnStar announced a new program that will be applied to the Chevrolet Volt and which will use the car’s built-in telematics system to send data from the vehicle to the power grid.
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- Chrysler Introduces Industry-first In-vehicle Wireless Charging Pad
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- On…and-off-star: System Upgrade Causes Malfunctions To Gm's Telematics Service
In a press statement issued on January 31, General Motors announced that its OnStar call centers receive more than 150,000 calls a day. That equates to almost two calls per second. Yet for the past few days, some of the more than 6 million users of...
- Is This The Start Of Google Motors? Google Tech To Connect Chevy Volt Customers
General Motors has announced that OnStar will be working with Google in order to help connect the Chevrolet Volt even more. Google has some add-ons in development for version 2.0 of the upcoming Volt app. There will be a navigation tab that uses Google...
- The Good Car Guy's Need-to-know For The Chevrolet Volt
First, five points The Good Car Guy believes to be necessary knowledge for all those interested in the Chevrolet Volt. This post will take you to the photo gallery and plenty of General Motors talk. 1- Powered by its electric-drive unit, the Volt makes...
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Big Brother: Chevrolet and OnStar to Monitor Volt Drivers’ Charging Habits
General Motors and OnStar announced a new program that will be applied to the Chevrolet Volt and which will use the car’s built-in telematics system to send data from the vehicle to the power grid.
This will enable the carmaker to track the charging habits of the vehicle’s drivers so as to better manage the car’s energy supply.
Read more »- New Gm App Shows Chevy Volt Owners The Real Cost Of Charging Their Hybrid At Home
Plug-in hybrid vehicles claim to be much more fuel efficient, and thus cheaper to run, than regular models powered only by international combustion engines. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, though; in the case of plug-in hybrids, you have...
- Chrysler Introduces Industry-first In-vehicle Wireless Charging Pad
The idea of wireless charging smaller or in some cases, even larger devices is nothing new, but the Chrysler Group wants to be the first to offer such a system on cars through its Mopar division. General Motors had presented a wireless cell phone mat...
- On…and-off-star: System Upgrade Causes Malfunctions To Gm's Telematics Service
In a press statement issued on January 31, General Motors announced that its OnStar call centers receive more than 150,000 calls a day. That equates to almost two calls per second. Yet for the past few days, some of the more than 6 million users of...
- Is This The Start Of Google Motors? Google Tech To Connect Chevy Volt Customers
General Motors has announced that OnStar will be working with Google in order to help connect the Chevrolet Volt even more. Google has some add-ons in development for version 2.0 of the upcoming Volt app. There will be a navigation tab that uses Google...
- The Good Car Guy's Need-to-know For The Chevrolet Volt
First, five points The Good Car Guy believes to be necessary knowledge for all those interested in the Chevrolet Volt. This post will take you to the photo gallery and plenty of General Motors talk. 1- Powered by its electric-drive unit, the Volt makes...