Two or three months after the latest news from Trollhattan related to the events in the company NEVS, new news is coming to us from the headquarters of the former Saab.
As a reminder, the company NEVS had to lay off 300 employees three months ago under the pressure of the great crisis in which Evegrende, as the owner of NEVS, fell. In addition, in October last year, NEVS sold off its production capacities, machines and industrial robots. And finally, at the end of December, the Vänersborg District Court announced that Bankruptcy proceeding was finally over, and thus Saab practically ceased to exist.
According to the latest news from Sweden, the Chinese owner of the company NEVS – Evergrande, which was affected by the great financial crisis, may sell the company NEVS from Trollhattan this spring. According to local media Ekot, The Swedish electric car manufacturer NEVS may be about to get new owners. NEVS’ current owner, the Chinese financial giant Evergrande, is in a deep economic crisis, which has forced Nevs to lay off half of its employees in Trollhättan.
Now they are opening to sell NEVS already in the spring. According to CEO Stefan Tilk, there are “concrete proposals from investors” and an ongoing dialogue with Evergrande about a sale. Nevs took over the bankruptcy estate after Saab Automobile in 2012 and is located in their old premises, where they are now, among other things, working to develop self-driving electric cars.
In the meantime, after a few months of silence from the company NEVS, today they announced on social networks that they are still working on the SANGO project. Sango is a purpose built shared autonomous vehicle with an adaptive interior design designed to meet changing mobility needs over the day. It comes without steering wheel, designed for 6 passengers, and takes you for from door-to-door on demand.
It’s is for the best to get away from China and Chinese investments if possible. Hopefully they will expedite development, if we are so lucky for this to happen. It would be nice to see something progressively Nordic while we are still alive.
I guess having something to sell would be a start…. lot’s has changed in the last ten years…. Rivian has shown it is possible as long as you have deep pockets…
I agree! Let’s keep something going, and go Nordic! I wasn’t too thrilled when the Chinese got hold of NEVS!
Can someone please buy this company and start making the Saab brand again !!!!!! It’s obscene for such an amazing company to sit idle this long when so many Americans dream of Saab returning to the marketplace