This is A Concept About What It May Look Like

• The Polestar 7 would be the model’s compact SUV substitute, of types, 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 frequent structure could be discovered with Zeekr and Volvo as nicely.
• May the Polestar 7 emulate the Volvo EX30 and Zeekr X? We’ll quickly see.

The Polestar 2 has persistently been one among our favourite electrical automobiles in the marketplace. There’s just one massive drawback 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 up to now when folks need greater vehicles to haul youngsters and kit.

Truly, it has one different drawback: it’s in-built China. That was superb for the Polestar 2 just a few years in the past when it launched, however as of late, anti-China protectionist tariffs are all the fad within the U.S. and Europe. However right now we discovered that the upcoming Polestar 7 goals to resolve each issues. It will likely 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 nearly no particulars concerning the automotive in any respect—together with from the corporate’s new chief designer. Nevertheless, we will 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 is predicated on the Zeekr X, from one other Geely Group EV and hybrid model that we have lined extensively. And if that silhouette seems to be 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 the moment 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 automotive know-how. However Volvo is transferring quick to repair the latter difficulty; the EX30 shall be in-built Ghent, Belgium later this 12 months, and that model of the automotive needs 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 might be an important contender for it. 

And the specs are already fairly reputable. In U.S. type, 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 bought right here proper now, after the previous was punted down the highway as a result of tariffs.) In WLTP specs, the Zeekr X fashions are able to at the very least 300 miles of vary. The largest battery in all of them is a 69 kWh NCM lithium-ion unit. 

Photograph by: InsideEVs

Photograph by: InsideEVs

Hopefully—and if my idea is true—our Polestar 7 can be able to at the very least 300 miles of vary too, as that is more and more feeling like desk stakes as of late. However the Geely Group can also be utilizing this identical 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 nicely. All of those vehicles even look pretty related 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 stated 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 at least one single structure, decreasing complexity, prices, and investments.” 

No matter the way it goes down, Geely clearly has quite a bit 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 will possibly get its personal spin on vehicles just like the Zeekr X and Volvo EX30, it needs to be in a lot better form long-term.

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