Polestar 6 electrical roadster
Polestar has confirmed plans to construct its first efficiency electrical roadster. With a design primarily based intently on the O₂ idea, the Polestar 6 is predicted to enter manufacturing in 2026.
“The automobile is an ideal mixture of highly effective electrical efficiency and the fun of recent air with the highest down,” says Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar’s CEO. He’s additionally the Swedish marque’s artistic director. Ingenlath provides that optimistic shopper and press responses helped the agency determine to place the convertible two-seater into manufacturing. “I’m so excited to make it a actuality,” he says.
Polestar 6 will probably be primarily based intently on the Polestar O₂ idea proven in Los Angeles in March 2022
The Polestar O₂ was revealed in Los Angeles in March, advancing the design, expertise and sustainability ambitions laid out by the 2020 Principle — a examine automobile exhibiting the corporate’s imaginative and prescient for future sports activities automobiles. These idea automobiles are an train in shaping the marque’s design theme and exploring the way it might apply to completely different physique shapes. In any case, although Polestar is tied to mum or dad firm Volvo from a enterprise perspective, the mission from the beginning has been to create a model that holds its personal, which does require constructing a memorable visible identification.
A definite character additionally entails constructing a novel driving expertise that isn’t the identical as Volvo. Head of design Maximilian Missoni defined his thought course of when the O2 was first proven. “By mixing the enjoyment of open-top driving with the purity of electrical mobility, it unlocks a brand new mixture of feelings in a automobile,” he stated. “However as with all our automobiles, we’re about extra than simply straight-line sprints. It’s once you flip the steering wheel that the true enjoyable begins.”
The Polestar 6 inside will proceed the clinically clear and clear design Polestar champions
All that is because of the bonded aluminum platform, a expertise tailored from the Polestar 5, which may even information the 6’s manufacturing. The standard and rigidity of the platform, Polestar claims, permits the motive force to expertise a heightened dynamic response. On the similar time, dealing with is stored taut resulting from small roll angles and excessive roll damping, and the agile, direct steering really feel is linear, with extra vital steering torque build-up.
The brand new automobile will characteristic the high-performance, 800-volt electrical structure already confirmed for Polestar 5 to incorporate an output of as much as 650 kW (884 hp) and 900 Nm from a twin motor powertrain, a focused zero to 62mph dash time of simply 3.2 seconds and a prime velocity of 155mph.
The rear of the idea automobile that the Polestar 6 is predicated on
Just like the O₂, Polestar 6 may have a retractable hard-top. And it retains traditional sports activities automobile proportions with a low and extensive physique, compact 2+2 cabin design, minimal overhangs and an extended wheelbase. The form can also be designed to help the automobile’s aerodynamics the place doable to assist maximize battery vary. The built-in ducts, as an illustration, enhance laminar airflow over the wheels and physique sides, whereas the back lights perform as air blades to scale back turbulence behind the automobile.
Polestar’s model promise is anchored on pushing in the direction of sustainable transport. In establishing the O2, the workforce built-in a way of controlling recycled content material to enhance the circularity of steel elements. As an example, the completely different grades of aluminum used all through the chassis are individually labeled to allow them to be recycled extra successfully and their properties retained.
In the meantime, all of the tender elements within the inside are made of sunshine recycled polyester, together with foam, adhesive, 3D knit fibers and non-woven lamination to simplify the recycling course of and assist obtain circularity of supplies, which is Polestar’s final goal. It’s unclear if this progressive considering will attain the Polestar 6 manufacturing automobile, however I think facets of it’s going to evolve to fulfill manufacturing requirements.
5 hundred “Polestar 6 LA Idea” editions are deliberate to have fun the launch. They’ll characteristic the distinctive Sky blue exterior, mild leather-based inside and 21-inch wheels of the unique Polestar O₂ idea.
See Bcomp’s pure fiber cloth, utilized by Polestar in its interiors, characteristic within the Rei icon. And skim my interview with the pinnacle of Rolls-Royce exterior design right here on designing the final word luxurious and distinctive transport.
