Since the introduction of General Motors’ fleet telematics solution, OnStar Vehicle Insights, fleet managers have received nearly 3.5 million notifications and details of almost 16 million trips covering more than 246 million miles. Now, fleets can use OnStar Vehicle Insights with most non-GM vehicles via a plug-in adapter. This means fleet customers can use OnStar Vehicle Insights across their whole fleet, regardless of vehicle make or model year. This expansion aims to help fleets save on operations, monitor fleet vehicles, and keep drivers safe using one telematics platform.
The OnStar Vehicle Insights Fleet Adapter plugs into the OBD-II port of non-GM vehicles; it also plugs into GM vehicles built without OnStar hardware and model year 2014 or older GM vehicles. Once the adapter is connected to the OnStar Vehicle Insights app or website, fleets receive insights from the Insights platform. GM designed the platform to lower the cost of vehicle maintenance while keeping their fleets up and running.
“Our goal is to help make fleet management as easy and efficient as possible for our current and future customers,” says Ed Peper, US vice president, GM Fleet. “We know many customers have mixed fleets, and we believe there is significant benefit in streamlining the process and monitoring a whole fleet using our singular platform.”
SUITE OF FEATURES
With OnStar Vehicle Insights, fleets have access to a suite of features designed to improve efficiencies, productivity, and safety, including:
- Vehicle Locator: Provides the location of fleet vehicles in real time, including geofence boundary alerts.
- Vehicle Health: Provides vehicle mileage, oil life, and fuel efficiency, as well as preventive service prompts and maintenance notifications.
- Driver Behavior: Displays driver behaviors and trips and sends alerts around specific events, like exceeding a specified speed limit.
- Performance Insights: A simplified performance dashboard aggregates data and presents trends that are helpful for business operation.
- Remote Commands: Allow drivers to lock, unlock, and remote start a vehicle from the OnStar Vehicle Insights website or mobile app when keys are not readily available.
- Daily Trip Summaries: Allow drivers to maintain and reference trip history in an organized manner.
DRIVER COACHING
Also now available through the OnStar Vehicle Insights platform is In-Vehicle Coaching. GM created this new virtual coaching feature to help fleet managers keep their drivers safe. When activated, In-Vehicle Coaching provides real-time verbal cues to drivers, including seat belt, acceleration, speeding, and braking alerts. Set by the fleet manager, the alerts encourage safer driving habits. In a recent pilot, In-Vehicle Coaching helped drivers decrease hard braking by 26%, hard acceleration by 76%, and speeding over 80 miles per hour by 93%.
The expansion of OnStar Vehicle Insights, part of GM’s suite of fleet solutions, is the company’s latest step in implementing its growth strategy by creating software-enabled services that create holistic, innovative solutions for customers’ entire fleet. For fleet customers who already have electric vehicles and to make the transition to electric fleets seamless for future customers, GM recently announced OnStar Vehicle Insights’ integration into the Ultium Charge 360 fleet charging service.
OnStar Vehicle Insights, including its Fleet Adapter plug-in and In-Vehicle Coaching, is available to customers in the US and Canada.
Find out more, visit www.onstarvehicleinsights.com.
