Svante Andersson is staying tight-lipped about the identity of the Emily GT project’s new investor
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by Chris Chilton
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News that the NEVS Emily GT electric car project appears to have been saved has really caught the attention of car enthusiasts. But if you’re anything like us you’re probably asking yourself if it’s really going to happen, or if plans to bring ‘Saab’ back from the dead will founder long before a production car rolls out of the factory.
Well, if there’s one person who’s in a better position than most to tell us how real the prospects of Emily making production are, it’s the man who owns the factory where it will be made. And that man, Swedish millionaire and real estate investor Svante Andersson, seems convinced the fairytale is going full steam ahead, according to an interview Andersson gave with Swedish newspaper TTELA that was picked up by Saab Planet.
Andersson, whose Stenhaga Invest firm bought the former Saab factory in Trollhattan in May of this year, told TTELA that there will be “full activity” at the plant by this fall. Some of the space will be used for car production by the new owners of NEVS, and other areas will be occupied by unrelated companies.
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“I know who they are, but it’s not something I want to talk about,” Andersson says of the mysterious NEVS investor. “It may come from Nevs but I can say that it is a significant part of the factory that they will use, also offices and they need to hire a large number of employees.”
The millionaire car enthusiast, who owns the Kinnekulle Ring racetrack in Sweden, told reporters that he’d had the opportunity to drive the Emily GT EV and was as impressed as everyone else who’s had the chance to get behind the wheel seems to be. But he seemed even more impressed in the efforts of the engineering team at NEVS to get the car finished even when they knew their jobs were on the line.
“Without their efforts, this would not have happened,” he told TTELA. “They have put in weekends and evenings, even though they knew they might not have the job left in six months. This is a labor victory for everyone involved who did a really great job.”
We really hope the plans work out, though as with any story of this kind, we’ll save the celebrations until production is in full swing and EV buyers have signaled their approval with their wallets.
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H/T to TTELA via Saab Planet
