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The Polestar 1 was built between 2019 and 2021, and was built in a new purpose-built Polestar Production Centre in Chengdu, China, [28] from 2019 at a rate of up to 500 per year. [29] During its final year of production, a limited-production gold-painted version of Polestar 1 was released. Only 25 units were produced. [30]
The Polestar 2 is produced in a factory located in Chengdu, China. [28] All cars for the European market get shipped to Shanghai, China, by train. In Shanghai, the car gets placed on a boat to Zeebrugge, Belgium. In Zeebrugge, the European cars get approved after European new-car rules before getting shipped to the destination country. [29]
In October 2017, Volvo Cars and ZGH announced that Polestar, a performance and tuning brand owned by Volvo Cars, would become a standalone brand focusing on electric cars. [63] Polestar introduced its first product, the Polestar 1 coupé on 17 October 2017. The car was produced at the Polestar Production Centre in Chengdu, China. [64]
The move is a way, among other things, to avoid US tariffs on China-made EVs. Polestar, founded in 2017 and spun off from Volvo and parent company China’s Geely in a merger in 2022, will use ...
Polestar claims it is the fastest production car the brand has made, accelerating from 0–62 mph (0–100 km/h) in 3.8 seconds. The 4 is a two-row coupe crossover , that has a choice of the rear-wheel drive model where the motor is placed at the rear axle, or the performance all-wheel drive model where the motors are placed at both the front ...
The Polestar 5 is expected to go up against the Porsche Taycan and Mercedes-Benz EQS. The Polestar 5 was seen in prototype form at the 2023 Goodwood festival of Speed (pictured above).
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The Polestar 1 has a total capacity of 34 kWh [15] arranged in three battery stacks (two packs), fitted behind the rear seats and along the central tunnel. [20] This gives the Polestar 1 an all-electric range of 150 km (93 mi) on the NEDC. Polestar claimed that this was the largest electric range for any plug-in hybrid available at the time. [21]