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A direct successor to the Polestar 2 sedan has been confirmed to follow the Polestar 7 small SUV, with the model expected to arrive closer to 2030.
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The Polestar 2 electric sedan has been confirmed to receive a direct successor – but it is still some years away.
It is expected to launch closer to 2030, following the Polestar 5 executive sedan due later this year, the low-volume Polestar 6 coupe in 2026, and the Polestar 7 likely for 2027.
The successor to the Polestar 2 – the brand’s first EV – is tipped to become the second Polestar model to use its recently-announced scalable electric-car architecture, which will debut with the Polestar 7 before it gradually rolls out across its entire line-up with new-generation models.
The executive said Polestar will aim to maintain a similar model line-up with the 2 small sedan, the 3 large SUV, the 4 medium sedan, the 5 executive sedan, the 6 two-door coupe, the 7 compact SUV, and their successors.
The Polestar 2 replacement is not expected to retain its current name as it will move to a new number based on its launch order, likely becoming the Polestar 8 or Polestar 9 as it will follow after the Polestar 7.
Lohscheller said the current Polestar 2 has “years to go”, claiming revisions made to the vehicle in 2023 – a switch to a rear-wheel-drive bias to match the Tesla Model 3 and BYD Seal, along with battery upgrades and design tweaks – could have been enough to be considered a new model.
Launched globally in 2020 ahead of its Australian arrival in 2022, the Polestar 2 was the first all-electric vehicle from the Swedish-Chinese brand after the Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid coupe.
The Volvo S90-based Polestar 1 and Volvo XC40-based Polestar 2 started life as Volvo concept cars – the 2013 Concept Coupe and 2016 40.1, respectively – but launched under the Polestar brand, which was spun off from Volvo by its Geely parent in 2017 to focus on electric vehicles.
The Polestar 3 SUV is the brand’s first ground-up vehicle, though it is a sibling to the Volvo EX90. The Polestar 5 and 6 are the first to use a bespoke platform.
More than 160,000 examples of the Chinese-built Polestar 2 have been delivered globally since its launch five years ago.
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Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded by classic Fords and Holdens, brand-new cars, and everything in between from birth, with his parents’ owning an automotive workshop in regional Victoria. Jordan started writing about cars in 2021, and joined the Drive team in 2024.
