{"id":525,"date":"2009-07-09T22:42:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2009-07-09T22:42:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:42:41","slug":"chrylser-wants-to-sharply-reduce-the-number-of-gem-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/chrylser-wants-to-sharply-reduce-the-number-of-gem-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrylser Wants To Sharply Reduce The Number Of GEM Dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chrysler will argue in bankruptcy court next week that it should be able to eliminate 64 of 150 GEM dealers.?? This represents just over 40% of the GEM dealerships.?? According to Chrysler management 26 of the dealers are already closed or winding down operations and many others have only sold a &#8220;handful&#8221; of vehicles in the past two years. <a title=\"Chrysler Cuts GEM Dealers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090703\/BUSINESS01\/907030308\/Chrysler+wants+to+cut+GEM+dealers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Freep.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment:<\/strong> This development is not too surprising. In recent weeks I?? have interviewed a number of NEV dealers for an upcoming study and some of them, not just GEM dealers, have shutdown or put their operations on hold.?? The economy has a large part to do with their difficulties as well as misjudging the interest in these vehicles for personal transportation. MC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrysler will argue in bankruptcy court next week that it should be able to eliminate 64 of 150 GEM dealers.?? This represents just over 40% of the GEM dealerships.?? According to Chrysler management 26 of the dealers are already closed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/chrylser-wants-to-sharply-reduce-the-number-of-gem-dealers\/\">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":[5,7,12,18,21],"tags":[159,260,431,2174,2183],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-gem","category-management","category-nev","category-regulation-policy","tag-bankruptcy","tag-chrysler","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-gem","tag-nev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}