Although the BMW remote app has dismal reviews the GM OnStar app on Google Play has four stars much higher than the BMW app rating.
Freescale Semiconductor today introduced a range of fully programmable wireless charging ICs for automotive and applications. The new Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) Qi-certified transmit controller
Continental has put together an international team from the IT and automotive industries to work on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), called “Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, LLC”
It will be headquartered in the Silicon Valley and guided by Seval Oz, an expert in vehicle networking and automation. In her previous role she worked on Google’s self-driving car project.
The PR darling of EVs, Elon Musk has responded to feedback from customers who bought an ad in a local Palo Alto newspaper in the form of a Tweet and more. Elon Musk tweeted that the customers were right and many of the features will be implemented soon.
Some connected car features wanted are voice dialing by speaking the numbers, a larger touchscreen spot for answering calling to avoid disconnecting incoming call by mistake.
It looks like that many of the carmakers who committed to Apple CarPlay for iPhone5 and later are not able to get the feature out this year and will launch CarPlay at later dates.
So far Mercedes, Volvo, Honda do not have exact dates for CarPlay with most coming in 2015 while CarPlay compatible Hyundai 2015 Sonata models are being sold with a promise of a CarPlay update by the end of this year.
AUTO Connected Car has partnered with the Telematics West Coast Conference & Exhibition 2014 (Oct 30-31) Hilton, San Diego, produced by Telematics Update. The major
There are more ChargePoint charging stations than Starbucks, McDonald’s, 7-Eleven: 8,160,Dunkin’ Donuts or Wal-marts. BMW’s new fast chargers are supported. EV owners can find charging stations online or via Android and iPhone apps.
When drivers realized there are so many places to charge an EVs, they’re more likely to consider buying EVs. There are many charging stations are at many stores.
With 18,000 charging locations across U.S. and Canada, ChargePoint has more spots than the number of Starbucks: 14,958, McDonald’s: 13,890, 7-Eleven: 8,160, Dunkin’ Donuts: 7,681 and Walmart: 5,256.
Tesla Motors is calling all computer hackers to break into their head—units and win a spot on their blog or even a job.
Telsa plans to hire up to 30 employees/hackers/programmers and displayed at the Def Can conference in Las Vegas, last week.
Many people with expensive sports cars or luxury sedans worry about what happens to their cars when they turn over the keys to the valet
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced today that the Tesla Model S drive unit warranty has been extended to match that of the battery pack. That means the 85 kWh Tesla S, now has an 8 year, infinite mile warranty on both the battery pack and drive unit. It will cover all the owners of the cars, new or used.
The warranty extension will apply retroactively to all Model S vehicles ever produced.
We’ve seen recent studies in connected car research from Harris, Frost and Sullivan, Parks Associates JD Power, Telefónica , and now Waggener Edstrom has released their
Your driver’s seat may sense that you are drowsy and falling asleep are being developed by Nottingham Trent University researchers.
Professor Tilak Dias and William Hurley of the University’s Advanced Textile Research Group with Plessey are working to integrate an Electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors directly into the fabric of car seats.