Saab Will Begin Manufacturing Its 9-3 In China Next Year

Sweden National Electric Vehicles, the company that owns Saab, is planning to resume production of the Saab 9-3 later this year and launch an electric version once entered 2014. The most obvious of this is that the production will not take place in Sweden, but is made ​​in China, specifically in the city of Qingdao, the town council has purchased 22% of the company to ensure the manufacture .

The agreement signed NEVs suggests that both electric cars like the internal combustion will be built at the factory. This becomes a change of plans by the Swedish company, who came to say at the outset that only would manufacture their cars at the factory in Trollhattan.

NEVs have the rights to make the Saab 9-3 sedan, and the variant e-All-Electric-Power-which never reached production. They can use the Saab name, the only thing they do not have is the logo shared with the Swedish firm Scania (except for some details).

The Chinese government hopes to achieve in two years running on their roads totaling half a million electric cars, so that NEVs are more interested in exploiting the potential of electric Saab in that country. Think also export to Europe. We’ll see if these expectations are sufficient for Saab still alive.