Even after its death, Saab is still good for some excitement. Today, the Wall Street Journal breathlessly reported that an “electric-vehicle consortium buys Saab assets.” When you click on the link in Google, you get your assets handed to you via a rude 404: Page not found. The same is happening with many sites that reported a sale of Saab’s assets to a company called National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), which is as Swedish as chopsticks.
What is behind those missing links? Who is the nice man who goes thumbs up next to China Communist Party Polit Bureau member Li Keqiang? And why has he allegedly just bought Saab? (Read More…)
Posted in China, China, Editorials, Electric vehicles, Enthusiasm, Europe, Government, Green, Japan, News Blog
Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, China, Kai Johan Jiang, Saab, Sweden
Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, China, Kai Johan Jiang, Saab, Sweden
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