Posted on 04/22/2009 4:04:11 PM PDT by posterchild
This could be the coolest iPod accessory yet: Chrysler's GEM division has introduced a docking station on wheels. And, it can carry you and three friends along with a tune.
GEM calls the new docking station "Peapod," and it is actually a futuristic neighborhood electric vehicle, or NEV. Unlike the current GEM car that has an exposed tubular structure, the Peapod offers a sleek, ultramodern, and fully enclosed form. In contrast, when it rains the current open GEM design must be enclosed with accessory cab components if you want to stay dry.
(Excerpt) Read more at greencar.com ...
Clown car coffins, who needs spare coffins.
If this thing gets on a real road and gets hit, it'll look like a soccer ball going down the field.
Death trap - when lawyer’s figure out how they can sue for the people killed in these things they will be off the market in a heart beat.
You *will* buy one, made by former Chrysler workers, or one just like it made in a former GM plant, by former GM workers, after Obama is effectively the CEO of both GM and Chrysler, or what is left of them. It's basically a plastic electric golf cart with four mesh seats.
And you *will* like it!
Jawhol?
What the hell it that? Get away from that you don’t know what the hell that is.
Looks like God’s computer mouse.
You can't sue the government without it's permission, and after GM and Chrysler become wholly owned subsidiaries of FedGov, that's who you'd have to sue. (Or a law will be passed insulating whoever makes the thing from such lawsuits, or both).
Plus they'll mandate that anything that could harm the little Greenie be taken off the road.
Besides the article points out that it's about the size of a Mini-Cooper and is likely someone more crash resistant. But you still wouldn't get me in one, if I could even be shoe-horned in it, except off road.
It does look like a mouse. Or an egg. Or a tick.
Like something the Jolly Green Giant would toothpick from between his teeth after a meal.
“In contrast, when it rains the current open GEM design must be enclosed with accessory cab components if you want to stay dry.”
Do you mean to say the podmobile has no sides? Do people just fly out when it’s hit/in an accident? Is this part a population decrease plan?
I saw this on the “today” show this morning - Matt Lauer got in it for a ride and absolutely panicked when the guy test driving it almost blew through the intersection through a red light.
I think watching it get T-boned by a taxi would have been the ultimate irony.
The guy said it was a mere $12,500. That is some golf cart.
Maybe some RAID would be useful?
I think this gives a bit better notion of the scale and construction of the Messaih Mobile.
Heck it'll take *only* 6-8 hours to recharge from a 110 volt outlet. (Never mind that most outlets now put out 120 volts, my UPS says it's plugged into a 120.1 volt outlet, but that varies from 119.9 to 120.1 pretty much randomly).
>>a futuristic neighborhood electric vehicle, or NEV
Hmm. It’s designed to be used near your home, huh?
If the people that buy this thing care so much about the planet, RIDE A BIKE! “Save” the planet, get some exercise, lose some weight, enjoy the ride. If the iPod is so important, bring it along too.
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