Sino-Swedish electric car brand prepares to branch out with a sleek new model line—and with a historic EV in its sights.
Polestar has the Model S in its sights—and also, the Lucid Air“We’re 80 percent done, but there’s more to do,” said Polestar’s Chris Baguley as he tossed a Polestar 5 development prototype through a set of cones at rising speeds. Baguley, the principal engineer for vehicle dynamics, spends many hours each week thrashing prototypes of the electric performance sedan around test tracks.
The Polestar 2 that introduced the brand to the U.S. public has been its sole volume entry since 2021. With steady refinements that have made it more competitive and alluring—including a—that compact utility EV has transcended the platform it shares with two small Volvos, which include both battery-electric and internal-combustion variants..
Our tours were conducted by Steve Swift, director of vehicle engineering, and Pete Allen, deputy CTO and head of R&D in the U.K. Like many staff there, both men had worked on a remarkable variety of vehicles over their careers, from Formula 1 to premium brands and then some—including the plug-in hybrid London taxi. As it turned out, Swift had been part of the Lotus team that tuned the suspension of my 1991 Isuzu Impulse, a car so obscure many auto-industry colleagues don’t know it.
The development team is particularly proud of being able to keep the low nose and cowl height of the Precept concept—requiring a front suspension design particularly compact in its vertical dimension, with only 160 mm of front-wheel travel from fully extended to bump stop. That low nose not only aids in reducing aerodynamic drag, but gives the Polestar 5 itstwo-seat open sports car, about which the execs said almost nothing at all beyond acknowledging its existence.
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