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A secret electric sedan under development at NEVS has surfaced, the same month a Swedish electric vehicle startup announced it would be shutting down.
NEVS is the company that famously tried to save Saab after it went bankrupt in 2011. After failing, NEVS tried to use its own name for an EV brand that packs the latest technology and was developed by many of the same people who work at Saab.
One of those EVs is a large sedan, shown here in prototype form as the NEVS Emily GT. Construction started in 2019 and was completed in just 10 months.
In 2020, NEVS began documenting the development of Emily GT with marketing firm Plint, which has now released some of the content it produced.
Will we see wheeled motorbikes in future Koenigsegg? Christian von Koenigsegg seems impressed. pic.twitter.com/hoFuxig1LB
— Motor Authority (@motor authority) April 28, 2023
Some content includes a video showing Koenigsegg CEO and founder Christan von Koenigsegg testing a prototype Emily GT. NEVS acquired a 20% stake in Koenigsegg in 2019, and the two companies plan to form a joint venture whose goals were never disclosed but are thought to be in the EV space.
Emily GT was not meant for production. The aim is to demonstrate the in-wheel electric motor technology from Protean, a British EV technology company that was acquired by NEVS in 2019.
The development was led by Peter Dahl, who started his career at Saab in 1994 and joined NEVS after Saab’s bankruptcy. Also involved in the project is former Saab designer Simon Padien, who was part of the team that worked on the last Saab 9-5, which may explain why the Emily GT with its boxy greenhouse looks like a spiritual successor to the Saab 9-5.
Protean wheeled electric motor
No specifications have been released by NEVS but the Emily GT is thought to have been designed to support a 175 kwh battery. Each of its four Protean wheeled motors is rated at 120 hp, meaning a combined output of around 480 hp.
With each motor sitting in a space inside the wheel, supplying power exactly where and when the driver needs it, it means gearboxes, driveshafts and differentials are no longer needed, eliminating weight while increasing power transfer efficiency. In addition, each in-wheel motor can be controlled completely independently, providing significantly greater vehicle control, performance and dynamics than any other conventional drive system. US EV startup Lordstown uses a wheel motor on its Endurance electric pickup truck.
Further development of Emily GT stalled in 2021 when parent company NEVS Evergrande Group ran into financial trouble with more than $300 billion in debt, mainly related to its real estate business in China. By then, with funds drying up, NEVS had started looking for a buyer. Now NEVS has closed and is looking for a buyer for its assets. Emily GT is considered one of the assets that NEVS is offering for sale.
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