A direct successor to the Polestar 2 sedan has been confirmed to follow the Polestar 7 small SUV, with the model expected to arrive closer to 2030.
The Polestar 2 electric sedan has been confirmed to receive a direct successor – but it is still some years away.
Polestar CEO Michael Lohscheller told UK publication Autocar the 2 will get its own replacement in the future, after some media reports suggested the Polestar 7 ‘premium compact SUV’ announced last week would act as its successor.
It is expected to launch closer to 2030, following the Polestar 5 executive sedan due later this year, the low-volume Polestar 6 coupe in 2026, and the Polestar 7 likely for 2027.
The successor to the Polestar 2 – the brand’s first EV – is tipped to become the second Polestar model to use its recently-announced scalable electric-car architecture, which will debut with the Polestar 7 before it gradually rolls out across its entire line-up with new-generation models.
The executive said Polestar will aim to maintain a similar model line-up with the 2 small sedan, the 3 large SUV, the 4 medium sedan, the 5 executive sedan, the 6 two-door coupe, the 7 compact SUV, and their successors.
The Polestar 2 replacement is not expected to retain its current name as it will move to a new number based on its launch order, likely becoming the Polestar 8 or Polestar 9 as it will follow after the Polestar 7.
Lohscheller said the current Polestar 2 has “years to go”, claiming revisions made to the vehicle in 2023 – a switch to a rear-wheel-drive bias to match the Tesla Model 3 and BYD Seal, along with battery upgrades and design tweaks – could have been enough to be considered a new model.
Launched globally in 2020 ahead of its Australian arrival in 2022, the Polestar 2 was the first all-electric vehicle from the Swedish-Chinese brand after the Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid coupe.
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The Volvo S90-based Polestar 1 and Volvo XC40-based Polestar 2 started life as Volvo concept cars – the 2013 Concept Coupe and 2016 40.1, respectively – but launched under the Polestar brand, which was spun off from Volvo by its Geely parent in 2017 to focus on electric vehicles.
The Polestar 3 SUV is the brand’s first ground-up vehicle, though it is a sibling to the Volvo EX90. The Polestar 5 and 6 are the first to use a bespoke platform.
More than 160,000 examples of the Chinese-built Polestar 2 have been delivered globally since its launch five years ago.
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