Polestar electric R&D centre announced for UK

Volvo electric performance brand Polestar sets up shop in Coventry

Polestar 2

Polestar is to establish an electric-car research and development (R&D) centre in Coventry, the company has announced.

The Volvo spin-off brand – which already offers the Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid coupe and will shortly launch the fully electric Polestar 2 coupe SUV – is to employ 60 engineers at the new site.

Polestar says the centre will support the development of future models beyond the forthcoming Polestar 3.  

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"Investing in the automotive engineering talent that the UK has to offer will strengthen our capabilities,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO.

Hans Pehrson, responsible for R&D at Polestar, added: “Polestar’s role as a technology spearhead requires new and developing skills in low-volume, lightweight, multi-material performance car engineering, and the new UK operation will allow us to take the next steps towards our future cars.

“The team that will kickstart the new UK R&D subsidiary is already well versed in Polestar engineering philosophy, and we will expand the initial team further during the course of 2019.

"These engineers will be a great complement to our existing R&D team based in Sweden, and other supporting teams around the world.”

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