GPS / Telematics

LAS VEGAS --- General Motors on Jan. 5 demonstrated its new technology that will let Chevrolet Volt drivers control a variety of vehicle functions remotely using a smartphone.

Tags: Chevrolet Volt OnStar smartphone application, OnStar, OnStar Mobile Application , Volt

DETROIT --- OnStar last week expanded its global reach, with Shanghai OnStar Telematics Co. Ltd. activating its first subscriber in China.

Tags: GM, OnStar, Shanghai OnStar Telematics

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- With the help of GM's OnStar in-vehicle safety and security system, police last week apprehended two suspects accused of hijacking a vehicle from Julia Corker, the 22-year-old daughter of U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN).

Tags: carjacking, GM, OnStar

VISALIA, CA --- OnStar's Stolen Vehicle Slowdown (SVS) service helped police safely recover a 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe that had been carjacked at gunpoint Oct. 18 in Visalia, Calif. This is the first time that SVS has been activated to help a subscriber in a carjacking situation, General Motors and OnStar said.

Tags: car theft, GM, GPS, OnStar, Telematics

DETROIT – General Motors' OnStar service has earned the automaker more than $1 billion in annual revenues from subscriber services from an estimated 6 million active subscribers, according to iSuppli.

Tags: GM, OnStar, repair, revenue, Telematics, Warranty

DETROIT – General Motors and OnStar have launched Stolen Vehicle Slowdown on more than 1 million model-year 2009 GM vehicles in the United States and Canada.

Tags: GM, OnStar, Stolen Vehicle Slowdown

DETROIT – OnStar reminds its subscribers in Southeast Texas that a simple push of the OnStar button in GM vehicles will put them in contact with specially-trained crisis advisors.

Tags: Crisis Assist, Hurricane Dolly, OnStar, Texas