Polestar Is Building Its Own High-Performance Electric Cars And The First One Arrives This Year
Volvo’s partner-in-speed Polestar is branching out into a new range of performance EVs, according to a new report, and the first one is just months away.
Auto Express has written that Volvo’s parent company, Geely, wants to use the Polestar name and the technical expertise behind it to build a brand that will, they hope, become an electric equivalent of what AMG is to Mercedes. Talk about jumping in at the deep end…
Polestar cars will use Volvo’s Scaleable Product Architecture (SPA) and Compact Modular Architecture (CMA), which form the basis of the latest XC60 and the range of 90-series models. It’s likely that they will be made in the same plants, too.
We don’t know anything about the Swedish AMG’s first car yet, or when exactly to expect it. Our money is on a new mid-sized hatchback or saloon based on the XC60’s platform, a chassis that will ultimately also go to the next V60. The framework is ready and waiting to be adapted to electric power, and it seems logical to us that Polestar would start with a mid-size car with broad consumer appeal.
Geely seems to be loving the Polestar brand, because on top of making it a manufacturer in its own right, it’s set to become the global face of the Chinese firm’s collective motorsport efforts, the magazine says. It’s also set to stay right where it is, in Gothenburg, Sweden. All the better to coordinate with Volvo, after all.
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Sooo…. Volvos capable of exploding?
Samsung didn’t buy them…so nope! :D
Kid: What’s that dad??
Dad: A fast tank.
Kid: Why can’t I hear it??
Dad: It’s electric
RIP Purist Tank Drivers
Purist Tank Drivers also won’t like the idea of having BLUE tanks…
Oh that was electrifiying!
When the cars blue and you say “completely out of the blue.” Puns..
YEEEE
Electric? Goddamnit
Volvo Polestar muutenki kuulostaa hemmetin hyvälle jo
Electric race cars won’t catch on. I bet on it.
You can’t be serious.
oh yes they will the nio ep9 set the ring lap record and the tesla model x has beaten a helcat and the model x p100d does 0-60 in 2.1 seconds so yeah they already caught on
Yeah. obviously not
http://www.fiaformulae.com/en
And that car already set a new nurburgring record and volvo is not going to tell us about it until next year
Lol, maybe!😉
Then if they did, I’ll find out next year and say: “Damn it Volvo, you kept another secret from me!!!”
*Next Century
I’m surprised that Polestar is becoming their own brand, taking a step up! Yay! So excited!
I’m not surprised about the electric part, I knew it would eventually happen and I’m totally cool with it. I don’t care that 0-60 is not as fast as Tesla’s…. but I will consider Polestar better if they accomplish these two things with their electric performance cars…
Design it more like a sports car….less like Tesla Model S…more like S60 Polestar
Make it able to exceed well over 155mph/250kmh. It will actually comeback against a Tesla! :D
That was out of the blue…
Y tho