Saab’s Comeback To Focus On EVs For Ridesharing

Remember Saab? Of course, the slightly left-of-centre Swedish automaker that withered and died under GM’s control before being sold off to National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) and undergoing a series of false-starts on its road to redemption.

NEVS is confident that this time things will turn out better, and has rolled out its latest version of the born-again Saab 9-3, this time called the NEVS 9-3 (NEVS lost the rights to the Saab name in 2014) and powered by a fully-electric powertrain.

Eagle eyed Saab-spotters will note that at its core the ‘new’ 9-3 is little more than a facelifted version of the second-generation Saab car that debuted in 2003, based on GM’s retired Epsilon underpinnings, and notorious for its portly kerb weight, which is not ideal for a frugal EV then.

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