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Is Polestar really Swedish though? How much engineering input comes from the team in Sweden?

• ojl 3y ago
  As far as I know, quite Swedish. Lots of shared development with Volvo which has lots of development as well as manufacturing in Sweden, but I don’t think the Polestars are assembled in Sweden.
  • thevagrant 3y ago
    Ok yeah I'm curious as I looked into them a few months back and saw they were manufactured in China. As a consumer it is hard to know which EVs are designed and engineered in house (with outsourced manufacturing) versus a brand that has been repurposed (MG for example)
    • ojl 3y ago
      I think the Polestar 3 will be manufactured in the US though.
    • pdabbadabba 3y ago
      Yeah. That's a fair question to have. From a design perspective, it seems unmistakably Swedish. And it is built on a Volvo platform (same as the C40 recharge, as I understand it) with a lot of Volvo parts. Its seatbelt buckles even say "Since 1959"--referring to the year Volvo supposedly invented the seatbelt. On the other hand, they are indeed manufactured in China. And Polestar is a joint venture between Volvo and Geely (Zhejiang Geely Holding Group), a Chinese company. Volvo Cars itself is also also owned by Geely. So China is not just the country of manufacture, if that's something you're concerned about.