Emily GT, electric car prototype created by former Saab engineers in Sweden with Chinese funding, production can be seen in Italy under the umbrella of a Canadian startup, car report.
CEO Jihad Mohammad said in a LinkedIn post that the startup in question is called EV Electra and had just received an approved offer to buy a factory in Italy. According to Autocar, EV Electra had previously discussed plans to produce cars in Türkiye, as well as the former Saab factory in Trollhättan, Sweden, but the startup failed to reach an agreement with the owner. Factory current. Meanwhile, Saab’s former development center is now being used to carry out the above work North Star 5.
NEVS Emily GT prototype – Photo source: Plint/Protean
The EV Electra showed off images of other body styles beyond the first sedan, including wagon, coupe and convertible. It also shows a sports car called Rise and a luxury sedan called Capital ES. In a separate post on LinkedIn, Mohammad said the startup is moving on to select dealers and expects to begin distributing at least one of these proposed models in August 2019. 2024.
The Emily GT has its roots in NEVS, which acquired the rest of Saab — including future product development — after the Swedish automaker went bankrupt in 2011. NEVS boarded four electric cars planned for China based on the Phoenix platform will underpin the next-generation Saab 9-3, along with an electric version of the Old 9-3 and 9-3X uses that model’s legacy General Motors platform. A later version was shown publicly in 2017.
NEVS Emily GT prototype – Photo source: Plint/Protean
Similar in size to a Tesla Model S or Lucid Air, the Emily GT was created with that Saab pedigree as a demonstration of the Protean all-wheel drive, rather than a production model. China’s Dongfeng Fengshen E70 recently became The world’s first passenger car to use them. Protean just this past week also showed one Land Rover Defender EV conversion Leverage technology as part of weight loss measures.
Development is said to have begun in 2019, with the first prototypes said to be completed in 10 months. However, the Emily GT was not presented to the public until 2023. EV Electra purchased the rights to the project, whose development was said to have stopped in 2021, the same year.
