You may be able to connect with your car in a lot of ways such as making hands-free calls, and many cars out there are able to connect with their manufacturers wirelessly when there is a need, but AT&T and GM want to take connectivity to a new level. The two companies have announced a partnership that will bring the AT&T LTE network to the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac car models meant to go on sale in 2014 in the US and Canada.

As you might know, GM already provides customers with the service of OnStar for security alerts, directions and much more. The future LTE cars will have all those abilities along with more high tech features.

AT&T’s connectivity will be used for a variety of services including diagnostics, infotainment, and their main focus will be safety. We can think about a thousand things such as advanced voice recognition tech for better hands free abilities, or content streaming from services like Netflix, or maybe better communications between cars to avoid accidents, and so on.

All these new features will certainly help sell more cars which is good for GM. Just in case you are thinking about what’s in it for the wireless carrier, AT&T needs to spread their services beyond handsets for growing on the market where most people already own smartphones.

So, are you looking forward to an AT&T connected car? Or do you think that GM should have made a deal with Verizon or another carrier instead?

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The Cadillac Converj shares the same electric drive system with the Chevy Volt and it will give you up to 40 miles of range on electric propulsion alone. If you need to get any further than that between charges, you can make use of the small gas engine to extend your range to a few hundred miles.

Shown here in its concept form, the Cadillac Converj is certainly sportier and sleeker than what you would normally expect from the Cadillac brand. There’s word that a pair of rear doors, maybe suicide-style like the Mazda RX-8, will be added to the production model.

Since GM hasn’t confirmed anything yet and these things inevitably take longer than we’d like, the current word points toward a 2012 launch at the earliest for the Converj. For another take on the GM electric thing, you can also look forward to the Opel Ampera in 2011.

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