Sweden's answer to Tesla

[scooterscot]

Polestar (a Volvo company) have put the Polestar 1 & 2 into production - they look quite awesome.The Polestar 2 claiming 500km between charges and the quality a Volvo build, very interesting indeed. Especially the 15 minute charge time.

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If small Sweden can do this why can't the UK??? - Perhaps it's something to do with all those Media studies graduates.

P1




and the P2

[GreenMirror]

I thought Dyson were doing this?

[scooterscot]

nah, he's buggered off to Singapore.

[minestrone]

If small Sweden can do this why can't the UK??? - Perhaps it's something to do with all those Media studies graduates.

They are Chinese.

[NigelJK]

Designed here

[scooterscot]

They are Indian.

[redgiant]

They are Chinese.

They are Indian.

Volvo Cars (inc. Polestar) is owned by Geely Group (Chinese Automotive Group).

Geely - Wikipedia

[DimPrawn]

So basically, China, India and USA can make cool electric cars. Who knew!

[woohoo]

The challenge Tesla are having is actually producing enough of them and keeping the quality up. So it's fine producing something like this in tiny numbers but actually becoming a serious player is a different matter.

[minestrone]

Doesn't help their founder is clearly banging half a pound of blue cheese every night.