Tuesday, October 20, 2009

GM's Chevy Volt to contact OnStar F Lab

General Motors on Monday and opened its doors to OnStar FBI lab here, and the Center for testing in - communication vehicle with the company hopes to make its Chevy Volt electric more high-tech appeal.

P. OnStar in the laboratory is located in downtown Detroit headquarters of General Motors, and is now used OnStar communications system for the collection of data from 19 vehicles, the Chevy Volt for engineering purposes. The same technology will give users the ability to use Internet services and the performance of specific tasks, to plug in electric cars, and executives and the company said. GM Volt when issued at the end of next year, users can be programmed to charge when the car was done for heating and cooling residential, "said Tony Posawatz, vehicle line director of the Chevy Volt. GM looking for more advanced features, as well as the responsiveness of demand when the car slows down freight during the peak hours in exchange for lower prices of public utilities."The car will need to speak to the electricity grid, and can be withdrawn very sensitive (the benefit) of data," said Posawatz. "Electric vehicles consumers want control of energy - they are very data. OnStar is a tool that allows us."

OnStar communications system and an intermediary with the tool, so users can charge out at peak hours, in the middle of the night, and eventually benefit from lower prices. "Smart charging, or the imposition of exit fees at peak hours, it is important to be managed so that the plug-in electric vehicles do not contribute at times of peak demand for electricity. In the near future, and the benefit of workers say the main concern is that many of the cars in one area and local will be imposed on some points of distribution.

Since rolling Volt will require coordination with the facilities, and General Motors Corp. plans to launch the Volt in some areas in the United States "certainly would not be a nation wide publicity of the" Posawatz said. As an integrated communications system that uses digital cellular network to OnStar is of great benefit to engineers volts because there is not much data available to the car battery of similar design, company executives said. Volt is in the long-range electric vehicles that can drive 40 miles on battery power and then uses the internal combustion engine designed to preserve the battery for longer vehicles.

There are 20 units on the Volt, which can feed information to the engineers F-GM OnStar laboratory, which allows them to obtain results and diagnostic information for individual cars. It also allows the GM to obtain data on the sub-battery, and the company is a strict test, since the completion of the car. For example, OnStar can monitor the battery charge, temperature, and the performance of liquid cooling system.

OnStar, which is a subsidiary of General Motors, and now 5.6 million subscribers who pay or $ 199 or $ 299 per year for services, such as roadside assistance, after opening part of the car, which dealt with people in call centers, and General Motors. Although the system is designed to examine the data for gasoline vehicles, GM said executives of the platform technology flexible enough to work with different engines.

General Motors plans to offer OnStar service in China next year. Also, General Motors plans to sell the Chevy Volt in China, Western Europe and Canada, executives said.

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