And a trendy 5-door coupé bodystyle, too.
Fresh off the public debut of its 441kW/1000Nm grand-tourer, nascent Swedish performance marque Polestar has dropped details of its second model, imaginatively named the Polestar 2. Whereas its debut 1 model is a 2-door, 4-seat petrol-electric hybrid, the Polestar 2 promises to be a 5-seater, 5-door family coupé-saloon entirely bereft of an internal combustion engine.
The Polestar 2 will hit the market in a couple of years time it’s said, and will be based off Volvo’s Compact Modular Architecture (CMA), as the platform was already engineered from the get-go to work with a fully-electric powertrain. It’s said that Volvo themselves plan a full-electric car on CMA (which presently underpins the XC40 SUV) that’ll do more than 482km (300 miles), and so Polestar 2 promises to be able to do about 560km on a full-charge (thanks to lighter materials, for the most part).
Best of all, the Polestar 2 is expected to cost circa £30,000 (or about $54k), which will make it quite the proposition when it lands in 2021. And if that’s not your thing, Polestar will unveil a coupe-SUV Polestar 3 in 2020 that’ll hit production after the saloon, so there will soon be a Polestar for everyone. Sales will be conducted either through brick-and-mortar ‘Polestar Spaces’ or online, ownership either by paying for the car outright like you traditionally would, or by opting for a subscription package for a minimum of two years.
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