This is A Idea About What It May Look Like

• The Polestar 7 would be the model’s compact SUV alternative, of kinds, 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 persistently been one in all our favourite electrical autos available on the market. There’s just one huge downside 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 to this point when individuals need greater vehicles to haul children and kit.

Truly, it has one different downside: it’s in-built China. That was advantageous for the Polestar 2 just a few years in the past when it launched, however nowadays, anti-China protectionist tariffs are all the craze within the U.S. and Europe. However at present we discovered that the upcoming Polestar 7 goals to unravel each issues. It is going to be a compact electrical crossover SUV, and in-built 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 virtually no particulars in regards to 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 may very well 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 lined extensively. And if that silhouette appears 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 at present 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 could face an unsure future with a looming ban on Chinese language automotive expertise. However Volvo is shifting quick to repair the latter subject; the EX30 will likely be in-built Ghent, Belgium later this 12 months, and that model of the automotive must 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 may very well be a terrific contender for it. 

And the specs are already fairly reputable. In U.S. kind, 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 offered right here proper now, after the previous was punted down the highway on account of tariffs.) In WLTP specs, the Zeekr X fashions are able to not less than 300 miles of vary. The most important battery in all of them is a 69 kWh NCM lithium-ion unit. 

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Picture by: InsideEVs

Hopefully—and if my idea is correct—our Polestar 7 could be able to not less than 300 miles of vary too, as that is more and more feeling like desk stakes nowadays. However the Geely Group can be utilizing this similar platform for the Good 1 and Good 3, in addition to the brand new Lynk & Co Z20. I might be fairly shocked if Polestar did not go this route as properly. All of those vehicles even look pretty comparable inside: huge display screen, only a few buttons and bodily switches, and an enormous 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 automobile 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 international place with a well-balanced worldwide manufacturing community. Over time, from Polestar 7 onwards, the Firm will progressively transfer from a multi-platform strategy to 1 single structure, decreasing complexity, prices, and investments.” 

No matter the way it goes down, Geely clearly has so much 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 12 months of gross sales and funds in 2024, but when it might get its personal spin on vehicles just like the Zeekr X and Volvo EX30, it must be in significantly better form long-term.

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