• Usage based insurance : Insurance Premiums based on how and where you drive
• Car Sharing: Car Pooling and Sharing applications are popping up that use geo-location information to locate cars nearby and the time for pickup.
• Fuel Optimization: Logistics and short term movement industry is using the technology to reduce fuel and maintenance costs of fleets of vehicles
• Traffic and Route Optimization
• Automated Payment of Road Tolls
• Security: Tracking of the location of cars improves the loss via theft and unauthorized usage.
• Automated Car Rental: Car rental industry is using the connected car idea to come up with people-less car rental processes
• Car Entertainment: On board entertainment systems connected to the internet can enable geo-location sensitive services like “alerts on a sale near me” and range of e-commerce services.
• Fleet Management: Dashboards showing the positioning, health and movement of fleets of vehicles. Companies can expect to save 20-25% in fuel savings alone.

The internet of things for cars estimates to grow by 83% YOY in 2013.