Polestar has officially parted methods from parent company Volvo, confirming the news via a photo published on Instagram. The message just stated ‘The End’, without any other info to go along with it. It comes just months after auto reveal solely exposed the brand would be going it alone with its own variety of electric performance cars. We can expect to see the very first standalone Polestar design later this year.
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According to a senior source inside Geely (Volvo as well as Polestar’s parent company) the manufacturer wishes to produce a line-up of brands to handle the VW Group. Volvo’s senior vice president of design, Thomas Ingenlath, will head the re-born Polestar brand together with Jonathon Goodman, senior Vice president of business Communication.
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With Volvo cementing its setting rivalling premium brands, Geely wants Polestar to take a sportier function within its group. It wishes to replicate what Mercedes’ has performed in creating its own bespoke AMG vehicles in addition to customized Mercedes-AMG models.
Credit: PolestarCars on Instagram
Thomas Ingenlath, former senior Vice president style at Volvo, now chief executive policeman at Polestar, stated previously: “I am really excited to take up the difficulty of establishing this interesting brand, developing a fabulous portfolio of bespoke products and channelling the enthusiasm we have throughout the Polestar team. The next chapter in Polestar’s history is just beginning.”
Volvo’s new medical spa (Scalable product Architecture) as well as CMA (Compact Modular Architecture) platform innovation will be utilized for a new generation of hot Polestars with an electric, SPA-based vehicle likely to break cover first, a long time this year. The medical spa platform underpins the Volvo XC60 as well as XC90 SUVs in addition to the V90 estate as well as S90 saloon models.
Polestar will continue to style as well as provide performance enhancements for existing Volvo cars, while Polestar is set to ended up being the worldwide deal with of Geely’s motorsport efforts – the business currently prepares as well as runs Volvo Polestar designs under the Polestar Cyan Racing brand.
With Polestar focussing on electric cars, that’s bound to begin rumours of a Geely Polestar involvement in formula E, which Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson has hinted at in the past.
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