Polestar, Volvo’s luxury electric performance brand, has announced its Chengdu production facility has begun producing the brand’s Polestar 1 vehicle, a plug-in hybrid. The facility itself is billed as “one of the most environmentally responsible car factories in China” and will seek LEED Gold status. According to Bengt Halvorsen at Green Car Reports, Polestar will deliver 200 Polestar 1 vehicles…
Volvo, the Swedish automaker, is set to release new versions of its XC60 and V60 plug-in hybrids which will both be high performance models. The vehicles—the 2020 XC60 T8 Polestar Engineered and 2020 V6 T8 Polestar Engineered plug-in hybrids—will employ a front-wheel-drive system with 2L turbocharged and supercharged engines in combination with an electric motor. As Eric Evarts at Green…
Volvo’s luxury brand Polestar will be releasing its first vehicle this year. The Polestar 1, as the vehicle is known, will employ a high-performance “twin-charged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with a pair of electric motors,” according to Car Scoops who caught the vehicle cold weather testing recently. The vehicle will have an all-electric range of 93 miles. The plug-in will have…
Volvo continues its electrification push with a new subscription model for one of its vehicles. The S60 T8 Plug-In Hybrid went on sale on the Care by Volvo app and sold out in 39 minutes. The Swedish automaker offered twenty all-new S60 T8 PHEVs on its app, and customers claimed them via $500 credit card deposits. The 2019 S60 T8…
Volvo’s fast push to a fully electrified model line-up has continued apace, with the expected rollout of the 2019 S60 T8 next year continuing the automaker’s strategic development. The automaker has stated that all of its models will be available in an electrified form by 2019. In other words, for every standard ICE in its line-up, Volvo will offer an…
Volvo’s luxury brand has launched its first model, priced at $155,000. Polestar made the announcement of its Polestar 1 pricing at the Beijing Motor Show last week. Also on offer by Polestar, a subscription program for the Polestar 1. Much like subscription programs available for smart phones, the Polestar 1 subscription will offer insurance and maintenance costs, amongst other perks,…