The company acquired the assets of the Swedish NEVS, including all the developments on the Emily GT project. The electric car was created by former Saab engineers and was supposed to turn into a family of cars with different body types. In terms of technology, the sedan was not inferior to the Porsche Taycan. It was planned to be equipped with motor wheels and a battery with a capacity of 175 kilowatt-hours, which would provide a range of up to 1000 kilometers on a single charge.
It seems that a new chapter is beginning in the history of the Swedish brand SAAB. After the transfer of its assets to NEVS AB (National Electric Vehicle Sweden) and the failure to launch the electric successor to the Saabs, the Lebanese EV Electra became interested in the abandoned Emily GT project. The company was founded in 2017 by entrepreneur Jihad Mohammad, who made his fortune in the telecommunications business in Canada. With the help of contractors, he wants to bring the electric car to completion and organize assembly at the former SAAB plant in Trollhättan.
The four-door NEVS Emily GT, which we described in detail in a separate article, was created with money from the Chinese Evergrande Group. In just ten months, a team of former Saab engineers not only designed the car, but also built six running prototypes. The sedan was supposed to receive Protean Electric motor wheels, an 800-volt on-board network and a battery with a capacity of as much as 175 kilowatt-hours. The most powerful version of the Emily GT took about three seconds to accelerate to one hundred, and the maximum power reserve was around 1000 kilometers. The car was only about six months away from the assembly line, but there simply wasn’t enough money for further work.
It is not known exactly how the financial capabilities of EV Electra correspond to its ambitious plans. After all, the company has not yet begun production of its own electric car, Quds Rise, introduced back in 2021. It was driven by one rear electric motor (160 horsepower), powered by a 50-kilowatt-hour traction battery. Weighing just over a ton from zero to “hundreds,” the Lebanese electric car allegedly accelerated in five seconds and drove up to 450 kilometers on a single charge. However, its maximum speed was only 165 kilometers per hour.
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