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

The Polestar 2 has constantly been certainly one of our favourite electrical autos available on the market. There’s just one large drawback with it: it is a sedan doing battle in an SUV-centric world. Nearly as good as it could be, it might solely take the electrical startup model up to now when folks need greater automobiles to haul children and kit.

Truly, it has one different drawback: it’s in-built China. That was positive for the Polestar 2 just a few years in the past when it launched, however today, anti-China protectionist tariffs are all the trend within the U.S. and Europe. However in the present day we realized that the upcoming Polestar 7 goals to unravel 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 in regards to 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 could possibly 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 coated 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 automobiles are presently 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 expertise. However Volvo is shifting quick to repair the latter problem; the EX30 shall 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 could possibly be an ideal contender for it. 

And the specs are already fairly official. 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 attributable to tariffs.) In WLTP specs, the Zeekr X fashions are able to no less than 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 correct—our Polestar 7 can be able to no less than 300 miles of vary too, as that is more and more feeling like desk stakes today. 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 might be fairly shocked if Polestar did not go this route as effectively. All of those automobiles even look pretty comparable inside: large display screen, only a few buttons and bodily switches, and a giant 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 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 strategy to at least one single structure, decreasing 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 may possibly 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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