This is A Principle 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 alternative vehicles on variations of the identical platforms worldwide. One widespread structure will be discovered with Zeekr and Volvo as effectively.
• May the Polestar 7 emulate the Volvo EX30 and Zeekr X? We’ll quickly see.

The Polestar 2 has persistently been certainly one of our favourite electrical autos available on the market. There’s just one massive drawback with it: it is a sedan doing battle in an SUV-centric world. Pretty much as good as it could be, it might solely take the electrical startup model up to now when individuals need larger vehicles to haul youngsters and kit.

Really, it has one different drawback: it’s in-built China. That was high-quality for the Polestar 2 a couple of years in the past when it launched, however as of late, anti-China protectionist tariffs are all the fashion within the U.S. and Europe. However at the moment we realized that the upcoming Polestar 7 goals to resolve 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 provided nearly no particulars in regards to the automotive in any respect—together with from the corporate’s new chief designer. Nonetheless, we are able to look to the remainder of the Geely Group household for clues as to what it might be. 

Photograph by: Ralph Hermens

The rendering you see right here relies on the Zeekr X, from one other Geely Group EV and hybrid model that we have coated 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 can be in-built Ghent, Belgium later this yr, 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 might be an important contender for it. 

And the specs are already fairly authentic. In U.S. kind, Single Motor Prolonged Vary Volvo EX30 has 268 horsepower and 253 lb-ft of torque with a spread 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 resulting from tariffs.) In WLTP specs, the Zeekr X fashions are able to a minimum of 300 miles of vary. The most important battery in all of them is a 69 kWh NCM lithium-ion unit. 

Photograph by: InsideEVs

Photograph by: InsideEVs

Hopefully—and if my principle is true—our Polestar 7 can be able to a minimum of 300 miles of vary too, as that is more and more feeling like desk stakes as of late. 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 stunned if Polestar did not go this route as effectively. All of those vehicles even look pretty comparable inside: massive display, only a few buttons and bodily switches, and an enormous emphasis on software program. 

Photograph by: InsideEVs

One of many solely issues we do know is that whereas Polestar–and the broader Geely Group—use many alternative 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 regularly transfer from a multi-platform strategy to 1 single structure, lowering complexity, prices, and investments.” 

No matter the way it goes down, Geely clearly has rather a lot 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 actually 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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