Inovev plans 25,000 units per year of the new Polestar 3 SUV
- The Polestar brand, which is part of the Chinese group Geely, like Volvo or Lotus, was initially a sports subsidiary of the Swedish brand Volvo, like AMG for Mercedes or Alpina for BMW.
- In 2017, Volvo announces that Polestar will become a brand in its own right, specializing in high-performance plug-in hybrid and 100% electric vehicles, the models of which will be manufactured in China at Geely.
- The first Polestar model meeting these new specifications was presented in October 2017, it is the Polestar 1, a high-performance plug-in hybrid coupe based on the SPA platform which is aesthetically inspired by the old Volvo P1800 coupe. from the 1960s. Its production began in 2019 at the Chinese site in Chengdu.
- The second Polestar model meeting the new specifications is presented in January 2019. It is the Polestar 2, a 100% electric sedan which shares its platform with the Polestar 1 and is produced on the same production site.
- The third Polestar model, logically called Polestar 3, is a 100% electric SUV which was just presented in June 2022 and whose production should start in the fall of 2022, both in China and in the United States on the site Volvo of Charleston.
- It should be noted that Polestars are not marketed in France by court order, following a complaint from Citroën which considers that the brand's logo is too close to its own. Inovev is counting on 25,000 annual sales of the Polestar 3 and then 50,000 eventually, a quantity comparable to the brand's production expected in 2022.
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