GM Adds 14 2010 Model Year Vehicles to Mobile Application
Last summer, General Motors launched a mobile application for subscribers of its OnStar program that allowed users access to vehicle features from afar. The program was available to all owners of 2011-model-year GM vehicles. Today, the automaker is giving 14 2010 vehicles the same abilities, too.
Those vehicles include the Cadillac DTS and Escalade; Buick Enclave and Lucerne; GMC Acadia, Yukon and Yukon XL; and Chevrolet Avalanche, Impala, Suburban, Tahoe and Traverse.
The OnStar app allows you to remotely start and lock/unlock your vehicle. It also could come in handy for heating up your car in the winter or cooling it down in the summer.
The app can also activate the vehicle’s alarm system and help you find your vehicle in a crowded parking lot. One of the app’s greatest benefits is you can control these functions from any distance; normal key fobs have these controls but work only a few hundred feet away from the car.
The mobile app acts as an extension to OnStar’s Safe and Sound and Directions and Connections services, so you will need to have one of those plans to use the app. A basic OnStar plan costs $18.95 a month or $199 a year. So far, GM says 56,000 owners have activated the app and use it on a regular basis.
