Chevrolet Adds Vehicle Locate Feature for Smartphone App
After years of missing out, Chevrolet owners can finally check their smartphones to see where their car is. The brand announced Wednesday it has added a Vehicle Locate feature to its myChevy smartphone app for iOS and Android.
While most owners will likely take advantage of the feature to, say, locate their car in a crowded parking lot, the feature adds automated text alerts and sets up safety nets for certain situations. Owners should also note this feature replaces the former Family Link, which was solely based on the internet without application support.
Read the article at GM Authority.
Autorama Implements Ebbon-Dacs’ Leaselink Platform for All New Vehicle Orders
UK-based Autorama Group has selected Ebbon-Dacs’ market-leading e-procurement platform, Leaselink, to handle all new vehicle orders across its three main brands and generate operating efficiencies across the business.
Autorama, which has experienced rapid growth in the last four to five years, is one of the UK’s largest credit brokers and operates a fully funded fleet of around 45,000 vehicles. It is the major sponsor of National League football in the UK.
Innovation and Disruption in the Commercial Vehicle Industry
Like so many other industries, the commercial vehicle industry is in the midst of unprecedented change. This change has been driven by – and has given rise to – unceasing disruption and innovation. To help decipher this, our assembled panel of experts will share their predictions on the speed of innovation, changes in this space, and emerging opportunities, including:
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NTEA Releases Vehicle Life Cycle Cost Tool
NTEA recently launched a new Vehicle Life Cycle Cost Tool. Designed to be flexible and user-friendly to accommodate a variety of truck life cycle analysis needs and different fleet structures, this cloud-based resource enables fleets, engineers and sales representatives to load differing depreciation methodologies (such as straight-line, accelerated and pool depreciation techniques), fuel types and regional fuel prices to fit the necessary truck or fleet analysis.
Users can also incorporate the impact of income taxes into business decisions, where appropriate, and perform what-if scenarios.
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