The All-Electric Polestar 2 Wants A Fight With The Tesla Model 3

Polestar has confirmed more details about the cars that will follow its intriguing new ‘1’ coupe. As we previously noted, there are plans for a ‘2’ and a ‘3’, and here’s the low-down.

There’s good news for Brits as the company has given the green light to right-hand drive versions of both, after it was revealed that the 1 would only have controls on the left side.

Both the 2 saloon and the 3 SUV will be fully electric, as opposed to hybrid like the 1. The 2 will go head-to-head with the troubled Tesla Model 3 in both size and price. The roughly 4.7-metre four-door will sell for around €40,000 in Europe, or £35,000.

It will “vividly compete” with the ultra-simple Tesla, says the firm. We can see it having a few more knobs and switches throughout than the minimalist Model 3, but we won’t know for sure until closer to the 2’s planned production phase in early 2020. The launch will come late next year.

Polestar clearly wants to take things slowly, and the Polestar 3 won’t arrive for another two years after that. We now know the 3 will have a low roof line for an SUV, and try to capture a coupe look despite very obviously being a big soft-roader.

The 3 will join the 1 on the firm’s Chengdu production line in China, but the smaller 2 will be built somewhere else that can handle higher volumes of 50,000 cars or more per year. A location has not yet been decided.

The new cars will be both sold outright as well as being leased on Polestar’s all-encompassing fixed-monthly-price deal, including servicing and insurance. The latter is where the company predicts the market is going. It allows maximum profits – and maximum control over them.