Polestar To Open New R&D Facility At Former Saab Factory

Polestar volition found a caller probe and improvement installation astatine a mill successful Trollhattan, Sweden, formerly operated by Saab.

Operations volition beryllium based retired of a 15,000 square-feet gathering astatine the tract and it volition initially behaviour powertrain improvement of the Polestar 5 and the Polestar 6. Additionally, the Swedish electrical car shaper volition trial powertrains, electrical motors, and batteries astatine the center. Polestar has stopped abbreviated of buying the works and volition rent it from the metropolis of Trollhattan.

Confirmation of Polestar moving into the tract comes conscionable a period aft National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), which had antecedently been operating retired of the factory, closed its doors. The caller probe and improvement tract joins ones already operated by Polestar successful Gothenburg, Sweden and Coventry, England.

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While it would beryllium tenable to presume that Polestar would besides look to found a accumulation enactment astatine the site, that doesn’t look to beryllium the case. When asked by Auto News Europe if it intended to manufacture vehicles successful Trollhattan, a Polestar spokesperson said the steadfast would proceed to trust connected its sister brands for production. Currently, the Polestar 2 is built astatine a Geely tract successful China portion the Polestar 3 volition beryllium built successful Chengdu, China and successful South Carolina. Meanwhile, the recently-unveiled Polestar 4 volition travel to beingness astatine Geely’s tract successful Hangzhou Bay, China.

While the forthcoming Polestar 5 and Polestar 6 are shaping up arsenic fantabulous EVs, it is the Polestar 4 that’s been grabbing the headlines since its unveiling past week. The conveyance blurs the lines betwixt a sedan and an SUV and is underpinned by Geely’s Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA). It has a 2,999 mm (118 inch) wheelbase and has been designed without a rear model of immoderate kind, allowing for the fitment of a solid extortion that extends down the heads of rear occupants.