GM and Motorq Streamline Fleet Vehicle Logistics During COVID-19, Unlock New Approach for Fleet Management
November 18 2020 - 09:00AM
Motorq, the connected car API company and General Motors
innovated a new approach to streamline the delivery of Chevrolet,
Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles to fleet owners and operators
during supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19. For the first
time, the companies integrated GM’s OnStarTM Pre-Delivery data
service, with Motorq’s cloud-based platform to allow fleet managers
to accurately identify and track the location of vehicles
throughout the logistics lifecycle. What began as a short-term fix
is now becoming a new standard for fleet management.
Pre-delivery fleet tracking has always presented challenges as
automotive manufacturers move hundreds of thousands of vehicles
from factories, to staging lots, on trailers, to dealers and
ultimately to the customer. Work and travel restrictions stemming
from Covid-19 made this process even more difficult, as factories
were idled, inventory movements were limited and dealership
personnel were sporadically available. It was hard for fleet owners
to obtain timely, accurate information about the status of their
orders.
GM and Motorq are working to solve this problem by leveraging
the embedded telematics data services from OnStarTM to track and
display vehicle location via a private, secure web-based portal.
Upon receiving consent, Motorq’s cloud-based platform “ingests”
vehicle data (like VIN, location, status, etc.) in real-time and
presents it to fleet managers in the portal. With this new service,
fleet managers for the first time can see the status and location
of all tracked vehicles at any given moment. In addition to the
live feed, fleet managers can also receive a daily status report
delivered via email.
“It is said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ and
COVID-19 certainly created the need for a new approach for tracking
fleet vehicles,” said Arun Rajagopalan, co-founder and CEO of
Motorq. “The benefits of this new approach have been embraced by
fleet managers and we believe this can become the new industry
standard for pre-delivery vehicle intelligence and management.”
“We saw a huge opportunity to leverage the power of OnStar for
an entirely new use case – helping fleet customers better track the
location and status of their vehicles, many of which were
mission-critical for the response to COVID-19,” said Ed Peper, U.S.
Vice President at General Motors Fleet. “Our collaboration with
Motorq enabled us to quickly solve a short-term problem and create
a new long-term opportunity for our customers as well.”
Any large fleets with an existing GM Fleet Account Number are
eligible to participate. Interested parties should contact
sales@motorq.com.
About General MotorsGeneral
Motors (NYSE:GM) is a global company committed to
delivering safer, better and more sustainable ways for people to
get around. General Motors, its subsidiaries and its joint venture
entities sell vehicles under
the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Holden, Baojun and Wuling brands.
More information on the company and its subsidiaries,
including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety and
security services, can be found at http://www.gm.com.
About Motorq Inc.Motorq is a venture-backed
connected-car data and analytics software platform company that
enables large fleet owners and fleet management companies to
leverage data and actionable insights from the emerging, fragmented
set of advanced connected-car systems. Motorq’s cloud-based system
performs ingestion, normalization, stream analytics processing, and
data provisioning via APIs and other methods. Businesses use Motorq
as a tool to implement connectivity-derived insights better, faster
and cheaper, so they can focus on their core. Additional
information is available at www.motorq.com.
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