It’s been a while now since our last post on this page. One might think that we got overwhelmed by all that attention from everyone and took a moment to just lean back and enjoy the commotion. Quite on the opposite, we’ve been working hard; so hard we just haven’t found the time to post anything.

Mattias designing one of the parts of the alternator

The production is now well on its way. There are still some gaps to fill in concerning the final design choices, but they are shrinking by the hour. Everyone in the group are right now either reading up on something, designing something, producing something, ordering something, improving something, or redoing something that should have been right in the first place. If you were to take photos of us working now would be a good time since we are all sitting entirely focused on some detail or system in one of the cars. Next time we will post some images.

One thing that has amused us in the last week is a survey published by Manpower Sweden (Swedish). It says that the number one dream job among Swedes is engineer (!), even outdoing jobs such as writer, pilot, musician and adventurer. This because “engineers might earn a  high salary and also have an ability to improve the community”, according to the study. Well, the salary part might not be too overwhelming in our case, but here we are, designing a vehicle that very well might improve things later on. And yeah, we feel kind of good about it, so we encourage all other Swedes to stop dreaming and go for it.

Another thing is that a Swedish magazine Ny Teknik (“New Technology”) made a car designer draw his impression of a future SAAB model, now that the company is back on track again. The results turned out something like this. Doesn’t that color and shape just remind you of something? Hmm…

From now on we will send out two posts a week to keep you closely informed about our progress, so stay tuned!

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