Here is A Concept About What It May Look Like

• The Polestar 7 would be the model’s compact SUV substitute, of types, for the Polestar 2 sedan.
• Polestar is owned by China’s Geely Group, which builds many various vehicles on variations of the identical platforms worldwide. One widespread structure might be discovered with Zeekr and Volvo as properly.
• May the Polestar 7 emulate the Volvo EX30 and Zeekr X? We’ll quickly see.

The Polestar 2 has constantly been considered one of our favourite electrical automobiles available on the market. There’s just one huge drawback with it: it is a sedan doing battle in an SUV-centric world. Nearly as good as it might be, it may solely take the electrical startup model thus far when individuals need larger vehicles to haul youngsters and kit.

Truly, it has one different drawback: it’s inbuilt China. That was high-quality for the Polestar 2 a couple of years in the past when it launched, however lately, anti-China protectionist tariffs are all the craze within the U.S. and Europe. However right this moment we discovered that the upcoming Polestar 7 goals to resolve each issues. Will probably be a compact electrical crossover SUV, and inbuilt Europe to keep away from any of that tariff unpleasantness.

However whereas Polestar introduced the Polestar 7 in its 2025 Enterprise and Technique Replace video, it supplied nearly no particulars concerning the automotive in any respect—together with from the corporate’s new chief designer. Nevertheless, we are able to look to the remainder of the Geely Group household for clues as to what it might be. 

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The rendering you see right here is predicated on the Zeekr X, from one other Geely Group EV and hybrid model that we have coated extensively. And if that silhouette seems to be acquainted, it is as a result of the Zeekr X is intently associated to the Volvo EX30, one other compact crossover that is simply now making it to U.S. shores.

Now, Zeekr’s vehicles are presently manufactured in China, which retains it from coming to America for now. And after getting delayed by U.S. tariffs, the also-China-built EX30 now might face an unsure future with a looming ban on Chinese language automotive expertise. However Volvo is transferring quick to repair the latter situation; the EX30 will probably be inbuilt Ghent, Belgium later this yr, and that model of the automotive needs to be exported right here.

All of that is to say that if Polestar is aiming to construct a compact, performance-focused crossover within the Polestar 7, the EX30 and Zeekr X’s SEA-2 platform might be an amazing contender for it. 

And the specs are already fairly professional. In U.S. type, Single Motor Prolonged Vary Volvo EX30 has 268 horsepower and 253 lb-ft of torque with a variety of 275 miles. The Twin Motor Efficiency has 422 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque and as much as 253 miles of vary. (Solely the latter is being bought right here proper now, after the previous was punted down the street attributable to tariffs.) In WLTP specs, the Zeekr X fashions are able to at the least 300 miles of vary. The largest battery in all of them is a 69 kWh NCM lithium-ion unit. 

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Hopefully—and if my idea is correct—our Polestar 7 can be able to at the least 300 miles of vary too, as that is more and more feeling like desk stakes lately. However the Geely Group can be utilizing this similar platform for the Sensible 1 and Sensible 3, in addition to the brand new Lynk & Co Z20. I’d be fairly shocked if Polestar did not go this route as properly. All of those vehicles even look pretty related inside: huge display screen, only a few buttons and bodily switches, and a giant emphasis on software program. 

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One of many solely issues we do know is that whereas Polestar–and the broader Geely Group—use many various car platforms for now, the plan is to more and more unify its {hardware}.

“Reinforcing the worth of Polestar’s asset-light enterprise mannequin, Polestar 7 is deliberate to be manufactured in Europe,” Polestar officers mentioned in a information launch. “With manufacturing already in place within the U.S., South Korea and China, Polestar continues to strengthen its world place with a well-balanced worldwide manufacturing community. Over time, from Polestar 7 onwards, the Firm will steadily transfer from a multi-platform strategy to at least one single structure, lowering complexity, prices, and investments.” 

No matter the way it goes down, Geely clearly has loads to attract from. And as I skilled at CES sitting within the Zeekr 001, these vehicles appear very promising. Polestar could also be coming off a tough yr of gross sales and funds in 2024, but when it could get its personal spin on vehicles just like the Zeekr X and Volvo EX30, it needs to be in significantly better form long-term.

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