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Chrysler pushing to dramatically cut GEM dealer network
GEM Peapod - Click above for high-res image gallery Chrysler has made a big deal in the past about its long history selling GEM electric cars, and there are tens of thousands of them on the roads today. Of course, the EVs that Chrysler has been selling since 2000 (when DaimlerChrysler purchased GEM) are all NEVs - expensive, slow electric vehicles that aren't selling well these days. With Chrysler's recent emergence from bankruptcy, the company is still looking to cut losses wherever possible. Letting some GEM dealers go is one option. ... Read more →
Pics Aplenty: Peapod Mobility neighborhood electric vehicle Jeremy Korzeniewski
Peapod NEV - Click above for a high-res image gallery Last week at the New York Auto Show, we got the chance to visit Peapod Mobility, the Chrysler-owned maker of neighborhood electric vehicles, ...
Peapod, up close and personal with the electric vehicle in Manhattan Sebastian Blanco
Peapod - click above for a high res gallery Breaking away from the excitement free food here at the New York Auto Show today, we joined up with our friends over at Engadget to pay a quick visit to ...
What is a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV)? Sam Abuelsamid
We all want electric vehicles that we can afford. Unfortunately the only full function electric car "available on the market" in the United States right now is the Tesla Roadster. However even before ...
Peapod now out on its own. Will it find love? Domenick Yoney
Click above for a high res gallery of the Peapod Remember back in September when we told you that Chrysler's GEM division was going to change up its name (but keep the acronym) and be called ...
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GEM electric cars will serving as shuttles during tonight's Green Inaugural Ball 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res image gallery of the Fireball GEM The most common electric cars in America, GEM NEVs, will serve as shuttle vehicles for VIPs during tonight's "Green Inaugural Ball." The ball is part of this weekend's celebrations of Barack Obama's upcoming swearing in as the 44th ...
Army gets 6 electric vehicles, thousands more to come 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Although one base in Germany may not have been satisfied with their GEM experience, that is not keeping the Army from going forward with their previously-announced plan to introduce thousands of electric vehicles to its American garrisons. To kick off the "Army Green, Army Strong" program, delivery ...
Mystery GEM based EV spotted being prepared for Detroit show 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
It's now less than 24 hours until the first press conferences begin at the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit and we'll be there in full force with Sebastian and myself joining a contingent of the Autoblog team at Cobo Hall. However, just like kids waiting to open their ...
All new cars in California now carry smog, global warming scores 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Since the beginning of the year, all 2009 model year vehicles (and anything newer, once they're available) sold in California will be sporting a new sticker. No, not the kind that makes your car worth $4,000 more but the kind that describes the vehicle's global warming and smog scores. Just look ...
Where's the sled? Pics of Santa's GEM electric car 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a gallery of Santa and his GEM Twas the night or two before Christmas, and Santa was most certainly not at the North Pole. Instead, he was at the Boys & Girls Club of the West Valley in Los Angeles giving out toys and promoting a greener Christmas. He was cruising around in a ...
Santa drives a GEM 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Photo by krisdecurtis. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. While NORAD tracks Santa across the sky tonight, they missed his appearance at the Boys & Girls Club of the West Valley in Los Angeles last night. Santa was on hand with a GEM electric vehicle and passed out toys, gave ...
GEM NEVs lack "the right stuff"; Army decides against electric cars 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Six months into trialing 3 GEM neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) at the US Army Garrison Grafenwöhr (in Germany) it has been decided that the small utility vehicles just don't have "the right stuff." The decision has nothing to do with the plummeting price of oil or the lack of cool ...
And this is how Chrysler thinks it will beat the Volt 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Dodge EV While telling the feds that it needs seven billion dollars - pronto! - just to keep the lights on, representatives for Chrysler are also saying that their plans for affordable electric cars, minivans and off-roaders are already in place and ...
LA 2008: A GEM with a fireball and official custom line 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res image gallery of the Fireball GEM So, there's an LA-based custom car service called Fireballed that provides all sorts of vehicles to those who want to experience the "Automotive Hollywood Lifestyle." Designer "Fireball" Tim Lawrence makes some crazy vehicles - see these ...
Chrysler: Half of all cars electric by 2020 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Dodge EV We've taken a good look at each of the three electric vehicle concepts that Chrysler took the wraps off of last week, plus one extra for good measure. For various reasons, none of these vehicles really seems quite ready for prime time - one is ...
GEM changes name to GreenEcoMobility, plans new vehicles 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
We've taken a pretty in-depth look at Chrysler's three most visible electric or range-extended concepts already, leaving just the neighborhood electric vehicle from its GEM division to peer into. First, those three letters now stand for GreenEcoMobility, much more interesting than Global Electric ...
Did you know McCain owns three GEM EVs? 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Maybe this is why John McCain is so gung-ho for better automotive batteries. According to a fluffy piece of reporting by Newsweek, the McCain family owns three GEM electric vehicles. Newsweek wanted to find out how many cars each of the two major party presidential candidates owns, and found out ...
Tata and Chrysler's GEM plan electric delivery vehicle 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Way back in January, rumors began swirling regarding a potential tie-up between Chrysler's GEM and India's Tata Motors. The rumored love-child was an electric version of the delivery truck known in India as the Tata Ace. Now, we have a potential price for the unit, and it sounds almost too good to ...
American electric car companies prefer Project Fastr Blastr to Project Better Place 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Project Better Place has been making lots of headlines with their plan to create a battery swapping and charging infrastructure in different countries. At the recently held Alternative Fuels and Vehicles conference, a panel of representatives from some American electric car makers suggested they ...
AFVI 2008: Miles, GEM and Phoenix share EV product line-ups 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge This week, at the AFVI Expo, I moderated a panel on the roll-out of electric vehicle products from Miles EV, Phoenix Motorcars and GEM. The representatives were Bryon Bliss, vice president of sales and marketing for Phoenix, Jeff Boyd, COO of Miles, and Richard Kaspar, GEM's ...
Chrysler must be happy to keep holding onto GEM 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
GEM vehicles certainly aren't flashy. They don't go more than 25 mph, they look kind of goofy, and they're stuffed with old-fashioned lead acid batteries. In fact, GEM vehicles embody the "golf cart aesthetic" more than any other NEVs that regularly make an appearance on our little blog here. ...
Tata and Chrysler to develop electric vehicle together? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Don't get too excited just yet. Chrysler won't be re-badging a battery-powered version of the Tata Nano in the near future. Global Electric Motors ,or GEM as it's more commonly known, has apparently inked a deal with Tata to create a battery-powered version of the Indian company's Ace mini-truck. ...
Engadget posts picture of GEM electric truck on fire 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Our Engadget buddies have posted a picture of a GEM electric truck on fire. There is really no explanation with the article except "GEM neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) burning peacefully on the UC Riverside campus, January 15th, 2008." The post is titled "And you thought that laptop fire ...
C-NET tries to count all the electric car start-ups 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
C-NET's Michael Kanellos did a little thinking out loud this week when he tried to list all of the electric car start-up companies (not major automakers working on EVs). He counted 16 small companies. The names on this list will be familiar to just about anyone who reads AutoblogGreen, but I ...
GEM wins Blue Sky Innovation award from Calstart 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), the Chrysler-owned manufacturer of neighborhood electric vehicles, has won a Blue Sky Merit award from WestStart-CALSTART. The California-based environmental group has been a long-time promoter of battery powered vehicles and decided to honor GEM for its long-term ...
Michigan Fourth of July parade to feature GEM NEVs 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Holiday parades in communities all over the country invariably include processions of various classic cars. The upcoming Independence Day parade in Bay Harbor, MI will see the usual suspects joined by as many as thirty GEM neighborhood electric vehicles. The luxury community bars residents from ...
Huh?!? A jacked-up, off-road all-electric GEM ATV? 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Some car mods leave me speechless. I like Star Wars as much as the next guy (well, maybe a little bit more) and you know we enjoy VegOil conversions 'round these parts. But jacking up a GEM? That's a new one, and one I'm not 100 percent comfortable with. Our friend Mike Magda is in Pismo Beach ...
Video: Belmar NJ police switch from scooters to GEM NEVs 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The local police in Belmar, New Jersey have switched from using gas-powered scooters to patrol the beach area to GEM neighborhood electric vehicles. The scooters were apparently consuming up to fifty gallons a week of gasoline which has now been superseded by plugging in the GEMs each night. ...
Montana raises NEV speed limit to 35 mph 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Click on the photo for a high-res gallery of the AEV Kurrent factory tour The state of Montana has just passed a law raising the speed limit for neighborhood electric vehicles from 25mph to 35mph. Montana becomes the first state in the nation to allow the increasingly common NEVs to travel at the ...
AFVI Show: All about electric cars with Dynasty, GEM, Zap!, ZENN and Phoenix 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Dynasty, GEM, Zap!, ZENN, Phoenix. Certain readers in our audience will see this list and think, "What about Tesla? And Miles?" I'm not sure why those last two companies were not part of the electric vehicle panel at AFVI on Tuesday, but they weren't. Miles even had a presence at the show (Tesla ...
NEVs may get more speed in Washington State 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Click on the photo for a high res gallery from the AEV factory tour Here are AutoblogGreen, we've done several reports on various neighborhood electric vehicles such as the various models from GEM and a factory visit to American Electric Vehicle that included a drive in their Kurrent. These NEVs ...
The Top Ten electric vehicles you can buy right now (for the most part) 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/The_Top_Ten_electric_vehicles_you_can_buy_right_now_for_the_most_part'; I think all the news of the Tesla Roadster and the Chevy Volt that came out since last summer has reminded a lot of people that there are some serious contenders to the gasoline ...
Unplugged electric car likely cause of building fire in San Francisco 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that an early morning fire at a cafe and gift shop was probably caused by an unplugged GEM neighborhood electric vehicle. The GEM is owned by the National Park Service and apparently caught fire next to a popular coffee shop at Crissy Field. The local NBC ...
