Polestar’s first electrical SUV will get its official unveiling on October twelfth a variety goal of 372 miles and an optionally available Efficiency Pack, the Swedish firm introduced. The Polestar 3 will launch with premium options like an air suspension, lively dampers and torque vectoring, placing it up in opposition to different SUV EVs just like the Mercedes-Benz EQS, Rivian R1S and Tesla Mannequin X. Like these fashions, it will be manufactured within the US at Volvo’s manufacturing facility in Charleston, South Carolina.
The corporate, co-owned by Volvo and Chinese language guardian Geely, revealed a good bit of details about the Polestar 3. That features a new glimpse from the again displaying comparable (however the other way up) taillights to the Polestar 2. Polestar beforehand confirmed off the design from the aspect in June (beneath).
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The Polestar 3 will include a rear-biased dual-motor powertrain just like the one on the Polestar 2, with electrical torque vectoring through a twin clutch system on the rear motor. The trip shall be managed by an adaptive dual-chamber air suspension and lively dampers as commonplace, letting drivers change between consolation and agency suspension dynamics. The dampers will alter to go well with street situations “as soon as each two milliseconds,” Polestar stated.
The optionally available Efficiency Pack will ship 510 horsepower and 671 pound-feet of torque (in comparison with 670 horsepower for the Mannequin X). It additionally contains Polestar Engineered chassis tuning for the lively dampers and air suspension, together with inside particulars like gold seat belts.
Beforehand, the corporate has stated that it is taking pictures for a 372-mile vary on the European WLTP cycle (so significantly much less in EPA phrases). It will 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.
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