Stillborn NEVS Emily GT options in-wheel motors, Saab cues

A secret electrical sedan in growth at NEVS has surfaced, the identical month the Swedish electric-vehicle startup introduced it was shutting down.

NEVS is the corporate that famously tried to save lots of Saab after it went bankrupt in 2011. After failing that, NEVS tried to make use of its personal identify for a model of EVs packing the newest know-how and developed by most of the similar folks that labored at Saab.

A type of EVs was a big sedan, revealed right here in prototype kind because the NEVS Emily GT. Growth began in 2019 and was accomplished in solely 10 months.

In 2020, NEVS began documenting the Emily GT’s growth with advertising and marketing firm Plint, which has now launched a number of the content material that was produced.

Will we see in-wheel motors in a future Koenigsegg? Christian von Koenigsegg appears impressed. pic.twitter.com/hoFuxig1LB

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A part of the content material features a video that includes Koenigsegg CEO and founder Christan von Koenigsegg testing an Emily GT prototype. NEVS acquired a 20% stake in Koenigsegg in 2019, and the 2 corporations deliberate to kind a three way partnership whose goal was by no means revealed however thought to have been within the EV house.

The Emily GT wasn’t supposed for manufacturing. Its goal was as a demonstrator for in-wheel electrical motor know-how from Protean, a British EV know-how firm acquired by NEVS in 2019.

The event was led by Peter Dahl, who began his profession at Saab in 1994 and joined NEVS after Saab’s chapter. Additionally concerned within the venture was former Saab designer Simon Padien, who was a part of the staff that labored on the final Saab 9-5, which can clarify why the Emily GT with its boxy greenhouse appears prefer it might be a religious successor to the 9-5.

Protean in-wheel electrical motor

No specs have been launched by NEVS however the Emily GT is believed to have been designed to assist a battery as large as 175 kwh. Every of its 4 Protean in-wheel motors is regarded as rated at 120 hp, which might imply a mixed output of round 480 hp.

With every motor sitting within the house inside a wheel, supplying energy precisely the place and when the motive force requires, it means gearboxes, driveshafts and differentials are not mandatory, eliminating weight whereas additionally enhancing the effectivity of energy switch. As well as, every in-wheel motor will be managed solely independently, offering far larger management, efficiency and car dynamics than extra typical drive programs. U.S. EV startup Lordstown makes use of in-wheel motors on its Endurance electrical pickup truck.

Additional growth of the Emily GT stopped in 2021 when NEVS mum or dad firm Evergrande Group bumped into monetary hassle with money owed of greater than $300 billion, linked primarily to its actual property enterprise in China. At the moment, with funding drying up, NEVS already started looking for a purchaser. Now NEVS has shut down and is looking for patrons for its property. The Emily GT is regarded as among the many property that NEVS has put up on the market.