When Saab Automobile went bankrupt, the cars stopped rolling out of the Stallbacka factory, which was a hard blow for Trollhättan.
Hopes that cars would roll out of the factory again were raised when the Emily GT electric car project was bought by a foreign investor. However, the buyer turned out to be a fraud, and the factory was once again thrown into limbo.
Now new negotiations raise hope for a future for the old Saab factory.
Secret negotiations about the Saab factory
Saab inaugurated its factory in Stallbacka in 1959, and since car manufacturing was shut down, a number of smaller tenants have been accommodated in the old factory.
Negotiations are now underway with larger companies that are interested in conducting business in the factory, reports say Sweden’s Radio P4 West.
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Hoping for vehicle manufacturing
The information comes from Svante Andersson, who is CEO of Stenhaga invest, which owns the factory property.
Stenhaga invest bought the old Saab factory in 2023, and in connection with this stated to Swedish Radio that it was hoped to rent out the factory for vehicle manufacturing.
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Car companies can move into the old Saab premises
The negotiations are currently secret, but Svante Andersson states that an agreement can be reached within a month.
Andersson reveals, however, that there are several larger players who are interested in Stallbackafabriken.
It concerns both actors active in the automotive industry and in other industries.
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The plans fell through
It looked for a while that car manufacturing would resume at the Stallbacka factory when NEVS, which bought parts of the bankruptcy estate after Saab, showed its new electric car Emily GT.
The car was developed in Trollhättan by old Saab engineers, and offered a range of innovative solutions.
The project was later sold to the Lebanese company EV Electra headed by CEO Jihad Mohammed.
However, it turned out that it was all a scam on EV Electra’s part, and the deal collapsed this spring. The future is thus once again uncertain for Emily GT.
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