We hope you enjoy this impressive light show set to a Christmas classic.

Have a safe and Merry Christmas from the CarLocate Crew!

Five Rivers Metropark -- Ever on the quest to give back to the community, the CarLocate crew traveled to Five Rivers Metropark on July 8th to help keep the area park looking beautiful. Members of the team, volunteered their Friday afternoon to step out of the cool air-conditioned office and brave the scorching heat with nothing more than their green t-shirts and a can-do attitude.

While at the park, the green-clad crew was responsible for keeping the nursery pristine by trimming unwanted weeds such as Sweet Clover to prevent their rampant growth. During the tidying up of the area surrounding the infant plants, the CarLocate team was educated about the various flora that is indigenous to Ohio. After the work was completed, volunteers donated their sweat but gained back knowledge and the great feeling of satisfaction after helping others.

“It’s great to be able to help our community and the environment we live and work in through activities like this. It really puts things in perspective about how beautiful nature is and how we need to protect it. So it makes sense how CarLocate.com can help us specifically search for fuel efficient cars to help that cause!” said Carlocate crew member Matt Scruggs. Scruggs, who often plans and leads the volunteer effort, hopes to add even more monthly events that benefit the surrounding Dayton community.

Be on the lookout for more CarLocate volunteer events. To find more information about CarLocate and the CarLocate crew, find us on Facebook.

The Chevrolet Volt, GM’s new electric car, is contributing to helping the environment besides just lowering greenhouse gases with its battery-powered engine.

The Chevy Volt is using 212,500 lbs of recycled oil booms, which were used and rendered worthless in the recent BP oil spill, to make the air deflector in the cars. The air deflectors are 25% boom material and 75% of other recycled materials left over from GM’s other projects.

Oil Boom

Air Deflector

For those lacking context of just how much 212,500 lbs of recycle boom actually is here are some interesting statistics:

• It generates 227 miles worth of boom material- the distance from Yankee Stadium in NYC to Fenway Park in Boston.

•  Saves 29,000 gallons of water and oil from being thrown out, which equals 1,160 ten minute showers

• It eliminates 149 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions from entering the air, the same weight as eight and a half semi-trucks.

That is quite a bit of material recycled and this is just a small part of GM’s efforts to help the environment. In 2010 alone, 92% of the waste generated by GM was recycled. 

The Chevrolet Volt is not the only one cleaning up the environment, today the CarLocate Crew is doing their part with a trip to a local park to pick up trash and make the City of Dayton a cleaner, more beautiful place!