Saab Quant – This Was Supposed to Be the Future

February 20, 2015Goran AničićNo commentKoenigsegg NLV Solar AG Saab Saab Quant Solar Cars tesla Motors

Koenigsegg, the Swedish supercar builder and “ex-new” owner of Saab, once teamed with electronics firm NLV Solar AG to build the Saab Quant, a luxurious solar-electric prototype vehicle. Access to Saab’s production facilities was supposed to help speed the Quant into series production, but…

These are sketches that show what was supposed to be this premium solar-electric car, then a potential competitor Tesla’s Model S.

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The Quant was a co-project with Sweden’s NLV Solar AG, whose photovoltaics and accumulator technology inhabit the concept car. It debuted in 2009 at the Geneva motor show as a test platform for a unique propulsion system that combines NLV’s solar tech with an accumulator storage battery the company says can charge up in 20 minutes for a 311-mile range.

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Goran AničićFebruary 20, 2015

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For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.