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Photos: OnStar EV Lab connects to Chevy Volt

General Motors opens its OnStar EV Lab to provide online services and battery management tools to electric Chevy Volt drivers. by CNET News.com

Tags: Battery, OnStar, Photograph, Engineering, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-10-19

2010 Chevrolet Camaro

Photo gallery:2010 Chevrolet Camaro LT Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger, and now the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro: this holy trinity of retro muscle cars is now complete. Each car, being iconic in its own way, will have its own set of fanatical adherents regardless of how well it drives or what tech...

Tags: Chevrolet Camaro, OnStar, Chevrolet

Product reviews 2009-08-18

Microsoft: 'We touch every piece' of auto business

If you're a first responder, which would you prefer to use to get to the site of a car crash? Google Earth? MapQuest? If you work for OnStar, Microsoft's Virtual Earth is now the preferred choice. Last week, OnStar announced that it now uses...

Tags: Car, Vehicle, OnStar, Microsoft Corp., Service, Ford Works, Car2Go, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-21

2008 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ

Photo gallery:2008 Chevrolet Malibu LTZWith the 2008 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ, Chevrolet makes its strongest bid yet to unseat the Toyota Camry as America's most popular car. For cabin quality, the Malibu LTZ equals the Camry and even the Honda Accord. The Malibu features the most modern powertrain we've yet seen...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, cabin electronic, OnStar, phone, Chevrolet Malibu, cell phone, Chevrolet

Product reviews 2008-05-12

2008 Saturn Vue Hybrid Green Line

Photo gallery:2008 Saturn Vue Green LineOne year after the introduction of the 2007 Vue Green Line, Saturn has brought out a significantly revised version of the model. The 2008 Vue Green Line may share most of the tech features of the original model, but its exterior design shows that Saturn...

Tags: OnStar, Saturn, Vue, VUE Green Line, Saturn VUE

Product reviews 2008-03-26

Cops try again for GPS data in Peterson case

An interesting govtech twist in the Stacy Peterson case is the focus on data from the GPS system in her husband's car. Drew Peterson is suspected of first degree murder of his wife, and Tuesday investigators executed yet another search warrant, this one allowing the "seizure of items containing plastic...

Tags: Warrant, OnStar, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-05

2007 Saturn Aura Green Line

The gasoline version of the 2007 Saturn Aura impressed automotive journalists so much that the car won this year's title of North American Car of the Year. Now it's going green. Making use of the same Belt Alternator System hybrid-lite technology that we first saw in the Vue Green Line...

Tags: Manufacturing, OnStar, Saturn, Saturn Aura, Saturn Aura Green Line

Product reviews 2007-07-26

2007 Chevrolet HHR

Photo gallery:2007 Chevrolet HHRIf this were 1950, we would be pretty impressed by the Chevrolet HHR. Its body style, although lower down with narrower windows, would fit right in with the line of Chevy panel trucks. The automatic transmission would seem a bit luxurious, like something out of a Cadillac,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, OnStar, Chevrolet HHR, Chevrolet

Product reviews 2007-05-25

2007 Saturn Aura

Photo gallery:2007 Saturn Aura The 2007 Saturn Aura really wants to be a European sport/luxury sedan, but its attempts fall short. It has a fairly beefy high-tech engine and paddle shifters for its six-speed automatic, which make up the sport part of the equation. However, its unruly...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Saturn Aura, OnStar, Saturn, MP3

Product reviews 2007-01-03

Car talk, with an SOA twist

One of the gee-whizzes of modern technology is the fact that we have cars that can automatically 'phone home' when trouble is detected, such as air bags inflating. Or, as you probably heard from OnStar's real-life recordings in commercials, service reps in another part of the country will remotely unlock...

Tags: OnStar, SOA

Blog posts 2006-01-22

A subtle big brother

A subtle big brotherNot so subtle and certainly not paranoid enough.If everything hinges on license plate number, then illegaly placed/installed plates won't do a damn thing UNLESS they compare the vehicle license number with a picture of the vehicle at the very least. What if you wanted to do...

Tags: flight plan, OnStar, trailer

Discussion threads 2005-12-26

OnStar steering toward cell phones?

OnStar steering toward cell phones?Not the point of OnStarThe point of OnStar is to sell more GM cars - not to sell the OnStar service. If I can get OnStar without buying a GM vehicle, why would I feel inclined to buy a GM vehicle?

Tags: Cellular phones, phone, cell phone, OnStar

Discussion threads 2004-06-16

A Heavenly View of the Customer With Technology

Sound like Star Trek and science fiction? Far from it! But it could be a 60-second commercial for a phenomenal growth industry known as Location-Based Services LBS, and it's custom made for the CRM environment. Most common among such services is OnStar. Once found only in Cadillac and other luxury...

Tags: Environment, OnStar, Spatial Information Technology Center, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

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2010 Ford Flex SEL with EcoBoost

Photo gallery:2010 Ford Flex SEL with EcoBoostAlthough the crossover is a new automotive segment, automakers churned out enough boring designs to make it as homogeneous as the economy car segment. Smartly, Ford spun its own crossover with retro elements to give it a unique look, making it stand out yet...

Tags: Manufacturing, Monitors & displays, Digital music, Ford Motor Co., Ford Flex SEL, crossover

Product reviews 2009-09-02

Microsoft: 'We touch every piece' of auto business

Microsoft: 'We touch every piece' of auto businessWe touch every part of Auto IndustryTouched ... as in "lifted their wallet" ... If MS touched the BIG 3 it could explain a lot.RE: Great...More annoying pop-ups, viruses and malware in my car. Just what I need. This is probably why a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., car

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

2009 Cadillac CTS-V

Photo gallery:2009 Cadillac CTS-VWe previously gave the Cadillac CTS our 2007 Tech Car of the Year award, as that car showed superb new cabin tech and impressive performance. Now Cadillac gives the CTS a steroid shot, pumping the engine up to a 6.2-liter supercharged V-8, giving it a magnetically-controlled suspension...

Tags: Cadillac CTS-V, Cadillac

Product reviews 2009-02-25

2009 Chevrolet Traverse

Photo gallery:2009 Chevrolet Traverse LTZAt first glance, the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse looks like just another SUV, albeit with surprisingly smooth body work. But the Traverse is actually intended as a crossover, its unibody design and independent suspension delivering a more comfortable ride than a truck-based SUV and a downsized engine...

Tags: Chevrolet Traverse, Chevrolet, navigation system

Product reviews 2009-01-06

Help Steve Jobs (Or GM) Design The iCar

Help Steve Jobs Or GM Design The iCarPLEASE............And I suppose when it needs a new battery...I have to spend USD$5,000.00 to ship the car back to Stevie Boy to get it replaced?And is he going to limit what type of fuel it runs on, and how often I can fill...

Tags: iCAR, Steve Jobs, car, UAW, General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Cadillacs recalled over software bug

Cadillacs recalled over software bugOnStar Patch Tuesdays...Coming soon, to a GM vehicle near you.Windows 2009 in you new vehicle anyone?I'd hate to have to wait while my ABS computer rebooted as I am heading off the edge of a cliff!RE: Cadillacs recalled over software bugHow you can protect yourself from...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Autos, Cadillacs, software bug, software

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

2009 Chevrolet Cobalt SS

Photo gallery:2009 Chevrolet Cobalt SSAll of the other automotive journalists were talking up the 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt SS, but we remained skeptical. Car and Driver calls it "freaky fast and fun on a twisty road." Road and Track thinks it might be the "most underrated car in the world". According...

Tags: cabin tech, car, Cobalt Networks, Chevrolet, torque steer, Chevrolet Cobalt, Chevrolet Cobalt SS, Cobalt SS, steer

Product reviews 2008-10-29