When Saab met its demise within the early 2010s, New Electrical Automobile Sweden (NEVS) bought its belongings. Below new possession, the agency was engaged on an electrical model of the Saab 9-3, creatively named the NEVS 9-3EV. It supplied round 175 horsepower and 190 miles of vary. The 9-3EV’s preliminary deliveries commenced in late 2018, however the automobile by no means made it to the mass manufacturing stage.
Early the next yr, China-based Evergrande Group bought a majority stake within the NEVS. Evergrande Group additionally bought $2 billion in Faraday Future again in 2018. In 2020, the company needed to boost its affect within the EV house, so it fully acquired NEVS.
At across the identical time, Evergrande Group confronted a sequence of economic woes and needed to promote NEVS. To forestall chapter, NEVS introduced that it might enter “hibernation mode” and lay off its workers. This implies the agency will lay off round 95 % of its staff.
However NEVS additionally needed to showcase certainly one of its initiatives as a testomony to its engineering skills: the Emily GT. Whereas working at NEVS, the group of ex-Saab engineers have been decided to create a very completely different kind of electrical automobile. Powered by an enormous 175-kilowatt-hour battery pack, the NEVS Emily GT has a variety concentrating on the 600-mile mark.
With a battery of that measurement, 600 miles might definitely be a sensible determine. However vary is not its solely weapon. Quite, the Emily GT encompasses a quad motor setup utilizing in-wheel electrical motors. Every motor can produce 120 horsepower, totaling 480 for all the automobile.
Whereas 480 horsepower is a strong energy determine, the motors’ most spectacular attribute is their torque vectoring skills. The Emily GT gives true torque vectoring, permitting for unimaginable dealing with simply not potential in most autos of its demeanor. Furthermore, by transferring the motors to contained in the wheels, effectivity can improve because of the decreased mechanical friction.
The Emily GT demonstrates that efficiency and effectivity can arrive in the identical package deal.