This is A Principle About What It Might Look Like

• The Polestar 7 would be the model’s compact SUV alternative, 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 will 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 every of our favourite electrical automobiles 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 larger vehicles to haul children and equipment.

Truly, it has one different downside: it’s inbuilt China. That was effective for the Polestar 2 a number of years in the past when it launched, however lately, anti-China protectionist tariffs are all the trend within the U.S. and Europe. However as we speak we realized that the upcoming Polestar 7 goals to unravel each issues. It will likely 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 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 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 carefully 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 know-how. However Volvo is shifting quick to repair the latter challenge; the EX30 will likely be inbuilt 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 may very well be an amazing 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 street resulting from 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 principle 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 lately. However the Geely Group can be utilizing this identical platform for the Sensible 1 and Sensible 3, in addition to the brand new Lynk & Co Z20. I’d be fairly stunned if Polestar did not go this route as properly. All of those vehicles even look pretty comparable inside: huge display, 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 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 stated 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 step by step 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 lots 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 must be in significantly better form long-term.

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