Polestar establishes new development center in Coventry, UK

Volvo Car Company High-performance electric vehicle company Polestar is expanding its research and development capacity. Polestar is doing this by establishing a new facility in Coventry, Great Britain, where about 60 engineers will be employed.

The high-performance electric cars of the future – those that come after the Polestar 3 – require new technology and this expertise will be built at the Polestar R&D center in Coventry:

“Invest in it The engineering talent available in the UK will enhance our capabilities,” says Thomas Ingenlath, CEO of Polestar. “The passion and dedication of these skilled engineers aligns perfectly with the Polestar ethos and enables us to create amazing cars.”

Together Coventry and Warwickshire form an area that has developed an automotive technology cluster consisting of around 15 universities and several specialist companies. Among other things, the Aston Martin factory and several Jaguar Land Rover facilities are located here.

Hans Persson, Administrator For R&D at Polestar:

“Polestar’s role as a technology leader requires new and cutting-edge skills in building lightweight, multi-material cars, and the new UK facility allows us to take the next step towards our cars of the future.”

“The team that will “The creation of a new R&D subsidiary in the UK is already well-versed in Polestar’s technology philosophy, and we will expand the original team in 2019,” says Hans Persson. “These engineers will be an excellent complement to our existing R&D team in Sweden and other supporting teams around the world.”

The company that owns Volvo Cars and Polestar, Chinese group Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, bought British sports car manufacturer Lotus in 2017. Their factory and headquarters are located in Hethel, just east of Coventry. Geely is building a new design center in Coventry Where you have to carry out missions for Lotus, Lynk & Co, Proton and the London Electric Vehicle Company (which, among other things, builds the London taxi).

To Geely Design UK has Former Volvo chief designer Peter Horbury and Wayne Burgess, who previously worked for Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover, among others, have been linked.