Polestar’s first electrical SUV will get its official unveiling on October twelfth a variety goal of 372 miles and an elective Performance Pack, the Swedish firm introduced. The Polestar 3 will launch with premium options like an air suspension, energetic dampers and torque vectoring, placing it up in opposition to different SUV EVs just like the Mercedes-Benz EQS, Rivian R1S and Tesla Model X. Like these fashions, it’s going to be manufactured within the US at Volvo’s manufacturing unit in Charleston, South Carolina.
The firm, co-owned by Volvo and Chinese mum or dad Geely, revealed a good bit of details about the Polestar 3. That features a new glimpse from the again exhibiting comparable (however the other way up) taillights to the Polestar 2. Polestar beforehand confirmed off the design from the facet in June (under).
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The Polestar 3 will include a rear-biased dual-motor powertrain much like the one on the Polestar 2, with electrical torque vectoring through a twin clutch system on the rear motor. The journey will probably be managed by an adaptive dual-chamber air suspension and energetic dampers as normal, letting drivers change between consolation and agency suspension dynamics. The dampers will alter to swimsuit highway situations “as soon as each two milliseconds,” Polestar mentioned.
The elective Performance Pack will ship 510 horsepower and 671 pound-feet of torque (in comparison with 670 horsepower for the Model X). It additionally contains Polestar Engineered chassis tuning for the energetic dampers and air suspension, together with inside particulars like gold seat belts.
Previously, the corporate has mentioned that it is taking pictures for a 372-mile vary on the European WLTP cycle (so significantly much less in EPA phrases). It’ll additionally embody a semi-autonomous driving system for freeway driving, enabled by by NVIDIA tech and a lidar sensor — Volvo is probably going to make use of comparable tech on its next-gen EX90 SUV set to launch on November ninth. Rumors have pegged the Polestar 3’s value at someplace between $75,000 and $111,000 at launch.
