Porsche as a benchmark: Saab’s successor builds an electric car with a range of 1000 kilometers

The former Swedish carmaker Saab went bankrupt years ago, but its successor NEVS is now trying its luck with an electric car. The company has built an all-electric prototype whose properties speak for themselves: four electric motors – one on each wheel – with a total output of initially 480 hp. Four engines with a total of 653 hp and 2200 Newton meters of torque are to be used later. The Emily GT is said to achieve a top acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds.

According to the developers, installing the motors on the wheels brings noticeable advantages: the car should be able to turn without having to turn the steering wheel. In addition, it should enable an “incredibly direct and solid” driving experience, promises NEVS chief engineer and program director Father Dahl to the Swedish portal “Carup”. In addition, a battery with a proud capacity of 175 kWh should bring a range of over 1000 kilometers. After all, the four wheel motors should bring greater energy efficiency compared to other electric cars.

“Porsche Panamera and Porsche Taycan as benchmarks”

“During development, we had the Porsche Panamera and the Porsche Taycan as a benchmark,” says Dahl, who worked as a development engineer at Saab in 1994, to “Carup”. He is one of the engineers involved in the project who previously worked for Saab before the Swedish carmaker went bankrupt in 2011.

The purchase by the Chinese consortium National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) should finally provide an impetus again. They wanted to focus on the development of electric vehicles and produce cars in Trollhättan again in 2017. Actually, NEVS should also produce the solar electric car Sion of the Munich start-up Sono Motors in its Swedish plant – according to the latest plans from the first half of the current year. But the project was finally shelved in February.

Future of NEVS Emily GT – licenses are for sale

In 2019, the Chinese real estate group Evergrande became the majority owner of NEVS and commissioned the development of an electric car. The result is the Emily GT. NEVS claims to have developed the Grand Tourer in just ten months. But Evergrande itself was heavily in debt, so that only six drivable cars were made out of 20 prototypes. The recently unveiled vehicle only has a 52 kWh battery from the Saab 9-3 electric model. Here the developers still specify a very sporty acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.6 seconds.

And that’s not all: the future of the car is simply uncertain. According to Dahl, the prototypes are completely roadworthy. “The project is about 1.5 years away from going into production,” he said. However, the financial resources are lacking. The company is currently hoping to start production; the licenses and technology are for sale. It is currently not possible to say whether the Emily GT will ever find its way onto the road.

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