As much as it would seem like a bad time to be an electric-only carmaker right now, Polestar is proof that it’s not all bad news for the EV industry. The Swedish brand sold just over 60,000 cars globally in 2025 – a modest number in the wider industry but the most successful year for the young company since it was spun off from Volvo’s racing team and performance badge into its own brand in 2017.
Off the back of that momentum, Polestar’s not slowing down any time soon, announcing that four new or updated models will arrive on the market during the next three years, including one that looks like it might answer the cries of a certain portion of the car-buying public.
The EV Wagon We’ve Been Waiting For?
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The first of the new models, we already know all about. It’s the Polestar 5, the high-performance four-door GT unveiled in 2025 to take on the likes of the Porsche Taycan and Audi E-Tron GT. With up to 871 HP in Performance guise, it’s set to be the fastest car yet built by the brand, and the sportiest since the original Polestar 1, an ultra-limited run plug-in hybrid coupe. Deliveries are set to begin this summer.
An arguably more intriguing addition to the Polestar range, though, is getting unveiled at some point in 2026 ahead of deliveries beginning in the fourth quarter of the year. Set to be an additional version of the existing high-riding Polestar 4 fastback, CEO Michael Lohscheller hints at what to expect: “Sweden is famous for its estate cars, and its SUVs are world-class. We are combining the space of an estate and the versatility of an SUV with the dynamic performance that is Polestar.”
That all but confirms a lifted station wagon version of the 4, in the vein of the old Volvo XC70, and with Volvo itself still on the fence about whether to build an electric wagon, this could be the suave Swedish longroof EV fans have been crying out for. It’s teased in the accompanying image, and appears to show that – sensibly for a wagon body – it’ll ditch the existing 4’s controversial windowless rear end design for a conventional rear windshield.
A Second-Gen 2 and a Baby SUV
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Looking further ahead, a second generation of Polestar’s first mass-produced model, the 2, will arrive in early 2027, around seven years after the first-gen went into production. Under Polestar’s somewhat unusual naming strategy, it’ll retain the 2 name despite being an all-new model, and while other details are scarce, the blurry teaser image shows that it’ll move away from the current model’s Volvo-ish styling and adopt the more Polestar-specific look already found on most of the brand’s newer cars.
Finally, come 2028, Polestar will expand its range once more with the 7. Again, little is known about it for now, but Polestar calls it a “compact, premium SUV,” so expect it to slot below the larger 3 in the brand’s range. And no, we don’t blame you if you’re struggling to keep track of these names.
Sports Car Late, But Still Coming
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You may have noticed that, despite Polestar’s system of naming cars in order of their release, its planned all-new models jump straight from the 5 to the 7. That’s because the planned Polestar 6 – a range-topping two-door sports car previewed by 2022’s Polestar O2 concept, and then the more aggressive BST concept in 2024 – has been pushed back while the brand focuses on higher-volume vehicles like the 7 and new 2.
This was confirmed by Lohscheller in an interview with Autocar last year, but the brand still plans to eventually build it as a flagship sitting on the same performance-focused bones as the new 5, so it’s something to look forward to once all the other new models outlined above are on the market.
