{"id":221,"date":"2009-02-23T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2009-02-23T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T12:35:11","slug":"chrysler-creates-separate-subsidiary-for-peapod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/chrysler-creates-separate-subsidiary-for-peapod\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler Creates Separate Subsidiary for Peapod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Peapod\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edmunds.com\/greencaradvisor\/peapod.jpg\" alt=\"Peapod From Newly Formed Peapod Mobility, Llc\" width=\"630\" height=\"427\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peapod From Newly Formed Peapod Mobility, LLC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chrysler recently created a separate subsidiary, Peapod Mobility, LLC, to market the Peapod, which had been under the GEM brand.  The new company is headed up by Chrysler &#8220;brand guru&#8221; Peter Arnell who helped design the Peapod.  The company is targeting the 20 something segment with the vehicle.  Arnell recently told <em>Brandweek<\/em>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know how the Beetle was the vehicle of choice for the whole &#8217;60s, the hippie revolution and everything? We&#8217;re hoping that this becomes the new-wave car for the younger set as well as addressing mom and her needs with her kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company expects to deliver the first Peapod. a four-seater, in September 2009 followed by a two-seater later in the year and a utility vehicle in the Spring of 2010.  <a title=\"Edmunds Peapod article\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edmunds.com\/greencaradvisor\/2009\/02\/a-wild-card-now-peapod-could-be-key-influence-on-future-of-nevs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment:<\/strong> If they do produce a utility vehicle what will that mean for GEM which sells a large number of vehicles configured as utility vehicles.  It seems like it would put the companies in direct competition.  The other question is whether or not NEVs with their limited mobility will appeal to a younger and presumably more mobile market segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrysler recently created a separate subsidiary, Peapod Mobility, LLC, to market the Peapod, which had been under the GEM brand. The new company is headed up by Chrysler &#8220;brand guru&#8221; Peter Arnell who helped design the Peapod. The company is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/chrysler-creates-separate-subsidiary-for-peapod\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13,15,18,19],"tags":[109,260,971],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-gem","category-market-entrants","category-marketing","category-nev","category-new-vehicle","tag-arnell","tag-chrysler","tag-peapod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}