• Polestar unveils new commercial HQ
    • 21/12/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Polestar has opened new commercial headquarters at Bicester Heritage. The move, which builds on its recent announcement of delivering over 11,000 cars in the UK since entering the market, has seen a new multi-purpose location developed in one of the existing two-storey buildings in the Heritage Quarters. The [...]
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  • Polestar remains on sales target
    • 24/10/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Polestar has reported that it delivered approximately 9,215 vehicles in the third quarter of 2022, bringing the total year-to-date to approximately 30,400 cars for the first nine months of 2022, up 100% year-on-year. A recent ramp up in production following Covid-19 disruptions in China earlier in the year has [...]
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  • Polestar to establish UK headquarters
    • 18/08/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Polestar will establish its UK commercial headquarters and a new customer Test Drive Hub at Bicester Heritage. Opening in December 2022, Polestar Bicester will be a new multi-purpose location following the development of one of the existing two-storey buildings in the Heritage Quarters. The headquarters will [...]
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  • Polestar begins EV deliveries
    • 10/06/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Polestar has begun delivering new Polestar 2 electric cars to Hertz as part of the agreement to supply 65,000 cars over the next five years. The partnership between Polestar and Hertz is one of the largest single orders for electric cars ever made. The start of deliveries signifies Polestar’s operational [...]
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  • Volvo announces new training date
    • 16/02/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Volvo Car UK has announced a new training date, with a Body Technology Day available to the wider sector. Steve Plunkett, Volvo/Polestar Body & Paint Manager, said: “On the back of the overwhelming success of the courses that we were running before lockdown, we are now back up and running with the Body [...]
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  • Volvo names Jim Rowan as new CEO
    • 05/01/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Volvo has announced that Jim Rowan will replace Håkan Samuelsson as CEO and president on 21 March. Rowan is currently CEO of Ember Technologies, and was previously CEO of the Dyson Group. Rowan brings with him more than three decades of global experience in the consumer and technology sectors, delivering strong [...]
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  • Polestar finds perfect Fix
    • 21/10/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Fix Auto Blackburn and Fix Auto Dagenham are two of the first repairers in Britain to be selected for Polestar approval. They have been selected as a direct result of the service they provide Polestar’s parent company Volvo. Steve Plunkett, Volvo and Polestar’s body and paint programme development manager, [...]
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  • Polestar adds Matt Hawkins to UK team
    • 20/05/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Polestar has appointed Matt Hawkins as head of sales in the UK. He joins a UK management team including CEO Jonathan Goodman, head of marketing and events Louise Hardman, head of PR and communications Graeme Lambert and head of operations Bruce Greenwood. Goodman said: “We’re delighted to have someone of [...]
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  • Polestar launches new test drive hub
    • 14/05/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Polestar UK has opened a new test drive hub in Milton Keynes, offering over 7,000 consumers the opportunity to drive a Polestar 2 before the end of the year. The site supplements Polestar London and Polestar Manchester. Eight vehicles – each purely for demonstration purposes, will be available to customers to [...]
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  • Volvo acquire 100% of Polestar
    • 14/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Premium carmaker Volvo has acquired 100 per cent of Polestar, the Swedish high performance car company, including the Polestar brand. Polestar will now be used as the model name for special high performance Volvos. Polestar will also in future utilise Volvo’s twin engine electrification technology to develop next [...]
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