A new electric car by Chrysler debuted at the New York Auto Show, the Peapod, sounds cute and is innovative too. The car includes an iPhone docking system that lets your iPhone turn on your car.

"Simply dock your iPod for a fun, cutting edge way to start up. Exclusive software designed exclusively for Peapod turns your iPod into a key," said a brochure on the care, according to a report on Autobloggreen. "Both options are interchangeable and secure."

This isn't the first car to promise the iPhone would work as a key. The Rinspeed concept car showed the same feature at the 2009 Geneva auto show, according to cnet.com. But the Peapod will beat Rinspeed to the production line.

The iPhone, when docked in the Peapod, will also function as a green meter displaying the energy savings of driving an all-electric car, as an way into the car's sound system and as a navigational system, according to Autobloggreen.

The Peapod is a neighborhood electric vehicle; a no-emissions vehicle meant for the trips and errands around town which take up 90 percent of most driving, according to the Peapod Web site.