Swedish electric performance carmaker Polestar announced on Tuesday that it will reveal its next car, the Polestar 4 electric SUV that is expected to challenge the Tesla Model Y, at the Shanghai auto show next week.
Polestar announced late last year that it would debut the Polestar 4 SUV in 2023, with company CEO Thomas Ingenlath saying in November that “development of Polestar 4 is on-track, very well advanced”.
This news was followed in January by the first sighting of the Polestar 4 in the wild. According to reports from CNC, the Polestar 4 was sighted in China wrapped in black covering.
Smaller than the newly unveiled Polestar 3, the Polestar 4 is described as a “SUV coupe” and billed as marrying “the aerodynamics of a coupé with the space of an SUV in a package enhanced by modern technology”.
Design cues and sustainability enhancements which have been showcased in Polestar’s recent concept cars are set to make their production debut in the Polestar 4, and Polestar has promised that the Polestar 4 will be its fastest production car to date.
“Polestar 4 is not simply a modified version of our first SUV. Instead, we reconsidered the entire design to create a new breed of SUV coupé,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO.
For those planning to attend the Shanghai auto show, the Polestar 4 will be on display at stand 6B07 in Hall 6.2, and will be joined by the Polestar 3 and the recently updated Polestar 2.
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.