Polestar 3 including a rear-wheel-drive trim later this 12 months

Polestar, lately divorced from the Volvo mothership, is working via some in-house teething points concurrently it navigates a brand new EV panorama with a small and not-exactly-inexpensive mannequin vary. Thanks to cost cuts introduced in March, the 2025 Polestar 3 Lengthy Vary Twin Motor with Pilot Pack will begin at $74,800 after the $1,400 vacation spot cost. That will get patrons an all-wheel-drive crossover making 489 horsepower and 620 pound-feet of torque, in a position to go an estimated 315 miles on a cost. The Pilot Pack provides Pilot Help, Park Help Pilot, Lane Change Help and a head-up show. Australia’s Drive experiences that in a current media launch, the automaker’s world head of communications stated a rear-wheel-drive 3 is on the best way later this 12 months for world markets.  

Naturally, firm reps would not say a lot about what’s coming, so particulars must wait “a couple of months from now when the time involves launch.” The tech specs we have been entrusted with for now specify the identical rear motor as within the Lengthy Vary Twin Motor trim, stated e-motor making 241 hp. Polestar’s additionally sticking with the 111-kWh battery pack within the dual-motor automobiles.

That ought to present a pleasant bump in vary over the model with two motors, however we’ll must see pricing earlier than an evaluation. Though the three is a little bit bigger than a Tesla Mannequin Y, the model’s luxurious pricing places it in a center floor between Ford and Tesla competitors beneath, and BMW and Mercedes competitors above. The three’s new, decrease pricing is $100 beneath that of an entry-level Rivian R1S, the Rivian a bigger, three-row SUV.

So it appears unlikely the Polestar 3 RWD will get near the MSRP of one thing just like the Ford Mustang Mach-E that begins at about $50,000 in Premium trim with the prolonged vary battery good for an estimated 320 miles, or the Tesla Mannequin Y that begins at about $46,000 in Lengthy Vary RWD trim and will get an estimated 320 miles of vary — each of these costs earlier than any potential tax credit. That Rivian can get the credit score as properly.

There could possibly be excellent news on that entrance for Polestar, although. The preliminary automobiles to achieve seller tons someday this quarter are assembled in Chengdu, China, which means patrons who need to buy can not declare the $7,500 federal tax credit score. The one method to declare the credit score is to lease the three. The automaker says it plans on bringing manufacturing of the three to the U.S. “in the course of 2024.” We have learn that early manufacturing exams on the Ridgeville, South Carolina, facility have been accomplished, so the timeline may maintain, and anybody prepared to attend a couple of months to buy the Polestar may get some MSRP reduction.