Swedish automaker Polestar will introduce its flagship SUV in October, increasing the model’s lineup to a trio of fashions.

The Volvo Automobile affiliate will begin deliveries of the Polestar 3, a Porsche Cayenne-sized crossover, in Europe and the U.S. early subsequent 12 months.

Polestar excepts to promote 24,000 items of the Polestar 3 subsequent 12 months, rising that quantity to 67,000 in 2024 and 77,000 in 2025, in accordance with firm figures. The Polestar 2 is forecast to stay the model’s world top-seller throughout that interval. The model’s lineup additionally consists of the low-volume Polestar 1 efficiency plug-in hybrid.

Forward of the launch, Polestar launched a brand new movie and the primary undisguised picture of the midsize crossover.

In contrast to the present Volvo-inspired Polestar 2 sedan, the Polestar 3 options new design parts that embrace a sloping silhouette and headlight and rear mild styling which can be distinct from different Polestar fashions.

“The goal of the Polestar vary is to be sportier and to have a stronger give attention to the motive force [than Volvo models that also use the new SPA2 architecture]. Even when it is an SUV such because the Polestar 3, it’ll have a smooth silhouette, which means there shall be much less emphasis on cargo house and extra emphasis on the propulsion. It would even have a extra daring design,” Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath instructed Automotive Information Europe in an interview earlier this 12 months.

Polestar plans to equip the brand new mannequin with {hardware} and electronics that might allow autonomous freeway driving by mid-decade, together with lidar sensors from Luminar Applied sciences and laptop electronics elements from Nvidia.

The sensors are packed into the so-called Sensible Zone — a clear panel on the Polestar 3’s entrance grille.

The Polestar 3 is constructed on a brand new all-electric platform, SPA2, developed by Volvo for its next-generation automobiles, designed with twin motors and an anticipated vary of 600 km (about 373 miles), primarily based on the European WLTP requirements.

As soon as that know-how is permitted, the brand new platform may also supply eyes-off, hands-off autonomous driving functionality.

Development engine

The Polestar 3 is vital for the younger model’s ambitions to develop its world gross sales tenfold to about 290,000 items by 2025. Polestar plans to launch a brand new automotive yearly for the subsequent three years, beginning with Polestar 3, and aiming to extend its presence to a minimum of 30 world markets by the tip of 2023.

“It is a main milestone for our firm, one that enhances our development trajectory and takes us into our subsequent section,” Ingenlath mentioned within the launch.

Polestar has not revealed worth for Polestar 3.

The Polestar 3 shall be construct at Volvo’s U.S. manufacturing unit close to Charleston, South Carolina, and at a plant in Chengdu, China.