Volvo’s electric car brand Polestar has revealed through the latest episode of its YouTube documentary series that its all-electric four-door GT Precept concept car will be renamed the Polestar 5 and launched in 2024.
Polestar committed last year to turn the Precept electric concept into a production vehicle, and since July of this year the company has been publishing a short YouTube documentary series documenting the transformation of the Polestar Precept concept car through to production.
In the latest 4-minute episode, Polestar detailed the process of designing the exterior of the Polestar Precept.
Polestar’s exterior design manager Nahum Escobedo stars in the latest episode, and unlike much of the hyperbolic design language which can often make it into automotive press releases, Escobedo actually manages to convey his design process in a way that makes sense with what we can see of the stylish and sleek finished product.
Separately to the video, which focused solely on the exterior design of the Precept, Polestar also published a press release in which it confirmed that the production version of the Polestar Precept would be called the Polestar 5.
An all-electric performance four-door GT, the Polestar 5 will be launched in 2024.
“With the Precept documentary series, we are intentionally doing something car companies usually don’t – going behind the scenes transparently as we turn this stunning concept car into production reality,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO.
“Precept was developed to preview the future of Polestar, embodying the company’s key competencies of design, sustainability, technology and performance,” the company wrote.
“Now seen with production readiness in mind, the Polestar 5 embodies the company’s increasingly independent and muscular design language, cues of which will already be seen on Polestar 3 that is expected to be launched in 2022.”
Of particular interest from the YouTube documentary were the design cues which led to the design of the Precept – which included everything from Polestar’s larger design ethos through to airplanes and sharks.
Publication of the YouTube documentary also comes hot on the heels of Polestar’s recent promise to ramp annual sales to 290,000 vehicles by the end of 2025 and expand its operations so as to be operating in 30 global markets.
“We have driven tremendous growth since beginning full scale activity in 2020, underpinned by organic market expansion, strong interest in our award-winning Polestar models and benefits from post-pandemic retail tailwinds,” said Ingenlath.
“We look forward to further accelerating growth by expanding our global presence and continuing to innovate our product portfolio.”
Polestar also recently succeeded in bringing its Polestar 2 to Australia, and you can see our review here: Polestar 2 review: Breaking through the ICE with a chilled attitude.
Joshua S. Hill is a Melbourne-based journalist who has been writing about climate change, clean technology, and electric vehicles for over 15 years. He has been reporting on electric vehicles and clean technologies for Renew Economy and The Driven since 2012. His preferred mode of transport is his feet.