- 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 automobiles on variations of the identical platforms worldwide. One frequent structure may be discovered with Zeekr and Volvo as properly.
- Might 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 automobiles in the marketplace. There’s just one large downside 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 folks need greater automobiles to haul youngsters and equipment.
Truly, it has one different downside: it’s in-built China. That was high quality for the Polestar 2 a couple of years in the past when it launched, however today, anti-China protectionist tariffs are all the trend within the U.S. and Europe. However at this time we realized that the upcoming Polestar 7 goals to resolve each issues. Will probably 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 virtually no particulars concerning the automobile 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 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 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 automobiles 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 might face an unsure future with a looming ban on Chinese language automobile know-how. However Volvo is shifting quick to repair the latter subject; the EX30 might be in-built Ghent, Belgium later this yr, and that model of the automobile ought 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 may very well be an amazing contender for it.
And the specs are already fairly legit. 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 offered right here proper now, after the previous was punted down the highway because of tariffs.) In WLTP specs, the Zeekr X fashions are able to a minimum of 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 concept is correct—our Polestar 7 could be able to a minimum of 300 miles of vary too, as that is more and more feeling like desk stakes today. 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 might be fairly shocked if Polestar did not go this route as properly. All of those automobiles even look pretty related inside: large display, 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 international place with a well-balanced worldwide manufacturing community. Over time, from Polestar 7 onwards, the Firm will step by step transfer from a multi-platform method to 1 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 automobiles appear very promising. Polestar could also be coming off a tough yr of gross sales and funds in 2024, but when it might get its personal spin on automobiles just like the Zeekr X and Volvo EX30, it ought to be in a lot better form long-term.
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