GEM has been producing low-speed electric vehicles for more than 25 years and has sold more than 65,000 of them. LSVs are more than a golf cart—they are street legal on most roads posted 35 mph or less. Yet knowing where those roads are and where a GEM can take you can be a challenge. In response, GEM has now created the first mapping tool for low-speed roads: GEM Go.

In partnership with Esri, and their ArcGIS Platform solution, the maps are updated quarterly with new data to help ensure the latest accuracy.

More than half of United States roadways are assigned speed limits of 35 miles per hour or less, and that number is growing constantly as more cities are lowering speed limits to increase safe, healthy and equitable mobility. With GEM Go, users drop a pin or enter an address, and the map will populate with a radius of all roadways 35 mph or less.

In cities such as Washington, DC, with a default speed limit of 20 mph, LSVs can get anywhere in the city and beyond.

GEM vehicles often replace full-size cars, trucks, vans and non-street legal golf carts for applications ranging from neighborhood errands to urban shuttles and delivery to utility work. GEM Go makes it simple and clear to identify where an LSV can be driven.

Although we have an extensive installed base with GEM, it represents a very small fraction of what LSVs can become in the market when you keep breaking down the barriers like the lack of understanding of where GEM vehicles can be driven. With our recent launch of the all new MY24 GEM and now GEM Go we are on the leading edge of driving the LSV category forward.

—Keith Simon, CEO, Waev Inc.

Waev, the owner of the GEM brand, recently announced that it is introducing the new 2024 GEM passenger and utility vehicles with more than 30 refinements to expand adoption and provide a more automotive-like driving experience. The 2024 line-up is based on a new electrical architecture.