Polestar 1 electrified vehicle to debut next year

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Starting life as Volvo's Concept Coupe five years back, a 2+2 which was created to demonstrate Volvo's Scalable Product Architecture platform (SPA) which can be found on Volvo's current-gen models like the XC40. But there was a massive roadblock, as pointed out by Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar's new chief and also the design chief.
In an interview with Autocar UK, Ingenlath had stated, "When the Polestar 1 was still the Concept Coupe, it attracted lots of attention. Everyone wanted to know if we were going to build it, but it was always clear it wouldn't work in the normal Volvo way and not just because of the business case. It also had design features that stretched Volvo too far, yet we felt its proportions ideally fitted the GT category."
At launch, the Polestar 1 Coupe will get the previously mentioned electric guise alongside internal combustion as well. It will get a 379bhp, 2.0-litre, turbocharged and supercharged, 4-cylinder petrol alongside a pair of 110bhp motors on the rear, giving the overall 600bhp look with the Ohlins' continuously controlled electronic suspension. Ingenlath has stated that the production will be capped at 500 units a year which will be hand-made and priced at over 150,000 euros which is over Rs 1.17 crore at current exchange rates.

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