"薩博出售給瑞典和中國的共同贊助商"

新老闆將把這家公司轉換成電動車製造商。

汽車製造商薩博已出售給一個由瑞典和中國贊助商所領導的投資集團。該公司的新老闆瑞典國家電動車（Nevs），說他們想將該公司變成電動車製造商。這家陷入困境的汽車製造商以多少價格售出則並未透露細節。

薩博在去年十二月宣告破產，擁有13億瑞典克朗（1.8億美元）的債務。該公司曾一度為通用汽車公司所有，該公司在1989年買下它50%的股份，並在11年後取得完全掌控。該公司在2006年之前，一年銷售多達133,000輛。然而它的命運隨後急轉直下，在2009年僅銷售27,000輛。

通用汽車公司在2009年將公司賣給荷蘭集團世爵，但薩博自此陷入不斷的掙扎當中。薩博目前擁有員工約30,000人，目前還不清楚新老闆要保留其中多少人。Nevs確實計畫要在薩博的特羅爾海坦基地投資電動車的製造技術。

(Business)Saab Sold to Swedish-Chinese Backers

The new owners will convert the company into a maker of electric cars.

Carmaker Saab has been sold to an investment group led by Swedish and Chinese backers. The companys new owners, National Electric Vehicle Sweden (Nevs), have said they want to turn the firm into an electric vehicle manufacturer. No details were released about how much the troubled carmaker had been sold for.

Saab was declared bankrupt in December last year and had debts of 13 billion kronor (US$1.8 billion). The company was once owned by General Motors, which bought a 50% stake in the firm in 1989 and took complete control eleven years later. The company was selling as many as 133,000 cars a year by 2006. However, its fortunes took a turn for the worse after that and sold only 27,000 vehicles in 2009.

General Motors sold the company to the Dutch group Spyker in 2009, but Saab has continued to flounder since then. Saab currently employs around 30,000 people, and it was unclear how many of those will be kept by the new owners. Nevs does plan to invest in electric car manufacturing technology at Saabs Trollhattan base.

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