Up to 2025, no fewer than three new all-electric Polestar models will appear. First comes the 3, then the 4 and then the 5. That may sound logical, but the type designations say nothing about their position in the model range. The Polestar 4 proves that.
Next year we can welcome the Polestar 3. Earlier this year, AutoWeek looked extensively ahead. The Polestar 3 will be a fairly hefty SUV with a relatively low roofline and an emphasis on ‘sporty performance’. He shares his base with the next Volvo XC90, so that indicates that it will be quite a good boy. The expected starting price of around €75,000 also puts the Polestar 3 at some distance from the Polestar 2. So there is still quite a bit of space in between, and the Polestar 4 dives into that gap in a sense. Yes, the 4 is therefore slid below the 3 in the offer. The Polestar 4 not only creeps closer to the Polestar 2 than the 3 in price. Broadly speaking, you can see it as a somewhat more SUV-like alternative to the Polestar 2. With a target price of €45,000, the 4 will enter Polestar 2 waters and we also expect the newcomer to be on the same CMA platform. Although parent company Geely is working on the brand new SPA2 platform, that seems to be reserved for larger and more expensive models such as the Polestars 3 and 5 and Volvo’s 60 and 90 series.
Polestar 4 – Illustration: Larson
new face
Yet the Polestar 4 is by no means a ‘warmed-up mash’, or a Polestar 2 with a slightly different carriage. The Polestar 4, like the 3 and 5, follows the design direction that the brand took with last year’s Precept Concept. This means, among other things, that the 4 gets a fairly different nose, with headlights split into two parts as a special eye catcher. By the way, don’t be surprised if Polestar eventually gives the 2 this new family face, making the duo look a bit more alike. The 4 looks more familiar along the flanks, but the ‘new Polestar’ of the Precept Concept returns once again at the rear. There is also the most distinguishing element of the 4 compared to the 2. The Polestar 4 gets an emphatically sloping roofline. This, together with the high body, means that the Polestar 4 will undoubtedly be described as a ‘coupé SUV’. If you had to compare the Polestar 4 with an existing model, then the Volvo C40 Recharge is the appropriate type. Just as that model is an addition to the Volvo XC40, the Polestar 4 logically becomes that compared to the Polestar 2, although the mutual external differences are therefore somewhat greater. Polestar aims its arrows with the 4 on brands such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, of which only Audi with the E-tron Sportback and Q4 e-tron Sportback offers electric ‘coupé SUVs’. It will eventually become urgent in this segment.
Assuming that the Polestar 4 is indeed still on the CMA platform, we can already make an estimate of the specifications. They are quite similar to what is now possible with the Polestar 2, only then undoubtedly just a bit more. After all, the 4 will only be on the market in two years, so Polestar still has some time.
Updated technique
Assume front or four-wheel drive, with one or two electric motors. As far as power is concerned, you can count on at least about 230 hp to more than 400 hp, although it is possible that Polestar will go a step further with the Polestar 4 by then. This is also possible with the range. Currently, a WLTP range of 550 km is realistic, but Polestar wants to have taken a big step towards 1,000 km by mid-decade. How much further stretch there is in the CMA base remains to be seen. We’ll know for sure in two years. As mentioned, the Polestar 3 will be next year’s turn. A year after the 4, in 2025, the Polestar 5 will appear. This will broadly be the production version of the Precept Concept, with which the Swedes are targeting the Tesla Model S, among other things.
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