Polestar lines up 2 successor
Autocar UK|April 03, 2024
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Polestar lines up 2 successor

The Polestar 2 won't be directly replaced by a like-for-like successor when it reaches the end of its planned life, instead being succeeded by a substantially different new car called the 7.

Since arriving in 2020 as the Geely-owned Swedish brand's second production car, the electric liftback has topped 150,000 sales in 26 markets worldwide, and it was recently extensively updated with new drivetrain configurations and technical functionality.

The 2 is expected to reach the end of its life in around 2027, but Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath has revealed that the firm "will not replace the Polestar 2 with a Polestar 2", hinting at a radical reinvention for what has been one of the world's best-selling electric cars of the past four years.

"It will be the Polestar 7," he said, confirming that the brand will continue with its chronological model naming strategy beyond the launch of the 6 supercar in 2026.

At this early stage, Ingenlath wasn't willing to share details of what the 2's replacement could look like, saying: "What type of car and how we will do it, we can discuss when it's time."

Ingenlath did suggest that it would be comparably positioned to the 2 and occupy the same position in Polestar's line-up, but he stressed that launching generation after generation of the same car can impose limitations and stifle innovation.

"As much as we might build a very similar car, because it has a different number we won't have this natural trap where we're boxed into that concept of what the car had been," said Ingenlath.

This story is from the April 03, 2024 edition of Autocar UK.

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