Enlarge / A Polestar 5 chassis being wheeled around Polestar’s R&D center. (credit: Polestar)
At some point this year, we expect to see Polestar’s next electric vehicle. It will be an electric SUV built in South Carolina, and it will be called the Polestar 3. But today’s news is actually about the Polestar after that SUV. This flagship will be an elegant four-door coupe called the Polestar 5.
We’re not expecting the Polestar 5 until 2024, but it should put a lot of the ideas shown off in the Precept concept car into production.
And on Tuesday, we got our first look at the car’s skeleton. To date, Polestar has used platforms developed by Volvo; the Polestar 1 GT shares a Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform with bigger Volvos like the S60 and XC90, and the Polestar 2 shares its Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) platform with the Volvo XC40.
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