After the Polestar 1 and 2, the new and completely surprising Polestar 3, called the third model from Volvo’s sister brand, will follow next year. Polestar shows a new image of the 3 that gives a better idea of what to expect from the model.
Polestar will pull the camouflage sticker work off the car you see in this photo next year. It concerns the Polestar 3, the third model of the brand. The Polestar 3 promises to be an SUV with a steeply sloping roofline and is described by its creators as an ‘electric performance SUV’.
Although the Polestar 3 is the third model from the brand to present itself as a manufacturer of pure electric cars, it is only the second EV from the brand. After all, the Polestar 1 was a muscular plug-in hybrid. Like the 2, the Polestar 3 will simply get an electric powertrain. Polestar is also expanding considerably in the next three years. Every year with one model to be exact. The Polestar 3 will be launched in 2022, the Polestar 4 will follow in 2024 and the Polestar 5 will follow in 2025. Polestar describes the 4 as a ‘smaller performance SUV’ and the 5 as a GT-like model. The 5 is the production version of the Precept Concept that Polestar showed in 2020.
Polestar Precept Concept (2020), a direct preview of the Polestar 5 . planned for 2025
Apparently, design influences from the Precept Concept have already filtered through to the Polestar 3. For example, we clearly see influences from that car in the front of the electric SUV. With this, Polestar seems to finally distance itself from sister brand Volvo next year in terms of design. If you see the body shape of the 3 and think that the Polestar 3 will be nothing more than Polestar’s version of the Volvo C40, it seems to be wrong. Not only do too many things deviate too much from that car, the Polestar 3 also promises to be quite a size larger than that C40. Polestar gives the 3 handles recessed in the doors and side mirrors placed on remarkably thin sticks.
Polestar 3
Technical data of the Polestar 3 is not yet available, although the manufacturer does report that the car should be able to run autonomously on the highway in the long run. The Polestar 3 will soon be built in the United States, the country where the brand sees its sales increase the fastest. The Polestar 3 will roll off the production line there next year at Volvo’s plant in Charleston, South Carolina. The international starting price of the Polestar 3 should be around €75,000, according to information previously released by CEO Thomas Ingenlath.
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