During this period, Chevrolet invented a wine pump, which he built from a defective one-cylinder motor mounted on a three-wheeled bicycle.

One story tells the choosing of the company's logo as a modified Swiss cross, to honor Chevrolet's homeland.

[9] Another story tells of the Chevrolet logo as a design taken from the wallpaper of a Paris hotel room where Louis once stayed.

In 1916, Louis Chevrolet and his brothers founded the Frontenac Motor Corporation to make racing parts for Ford Model Ts.

In 1916, he and his younger brothers Gaston and Arthur Chevrolet started Frontenac Motor Corporation, designing and producing a line of racing cars.

[13][14] In 1927, Chevrolet launched the aircraft engine construction company Chevrolair, which failed three years later as a result of the Great Depression.

The centerpiece of the memorial is a bronze bust of Chevrolet wearing a racing cap and goggles; it rests on a marble and granite square base.

The Swiss national train company, SBB, has named one of its long distance ICN-Trains after Louis Chevrolet.

The train family operates primarily on the East-West axis, also serving Chevrolet's home town, La Chaux-de-Fonds.