Polestar

What Polestar makes

Polestar is a car brand that builds electric performance cars. Its own pages say it was born in Sweden and began in Scandinavia, and that it introduced itself in 2017 as a design-led electric performance brand. The company describes design as the tool it uses to create products that support a cleaner and more sustainable future, and it presents the desirable choice and the right choice as one and the same.

Where it builds and sells

Polestar reports retail spaces, offices, production facilities and a service network in several countries, shown on a world map on its site rather than listed by name. Its first retail spaces opened in Oslo and Beijing in 2019. Production of the Polestar 3 began in South Carolina in the United States in 2024, and the model is delivered in Europe and the US. The company has been listed on Nasdaq since 2022 under the ticker PSNY. Buyers in the UK can order through the national Polestar site, which also offers pre-owned cars.

Its electric line-up

The current range on the UK site has the Polestar 2, the Polestar 3, the Polestar 4 in coupe and SUV body styles, and the Polestar 5. Polestar 2 production began in 2020 with the first deliveries that year, the Polestar 3 was revealed in 2022, and the first handovers of both the Polestar 3 and Polestar 4 took place in 2024. The earlier Polestar 1 now appears only among pre-owned cars. Special editions such as the Polestar 2 BST 270 and an electric roadster concept are also mentioned on the company pages.

Key facts

• Brand launch: 2017
• Origin: Sweden
• Listing: Nasdaq, 2022 (PSNY)
• Current models: Polestar 2, 3, 4 (coupe and SUV), 5
• Polestar 3 production: South Carolina, USA, from 2024