Polestar to ship 80,000 EVs this yr

Polestar delivered about 21,000 autos within the fourth quarter of 2022, bringing the preliminary estimate for full yr world volumes to 51,500 vehicles – up 80% year-on-year.

In 2023, Polestar anticipates world volumes to extend by almost 60% to about 80,000 vehicles, led by robust Polestar 2 gross sales, and later within the yr the primary deliveries of Polestar 3 (launched in October 2022).

“I’m pleased with the various milestones we achieved in 2022 and particularly the large workforce effort that went into delivering our strongest quarter up to now – surpassing our 50,000 world volumes goal for the yr,” says Polestar chief govt Thomas Ingenlath.

“We are actually totally targeted on 2023. There would be the ordinary quarterly variations, however I’m assured that we are going to proceed to actively handle our provide chain to fulfill the rising demand for Polestar 2, begin first deliveries of Polestar 3 and launch Polestar 4.

The EV model did effectively in New Zealand final yr and opened its first Australian retail location late final yr.

Polestar expects to put up unaudited preliminary estimates of its monetary outcomes for the yr ended December 31, 2022 on Thursday, March 2, 2023, earlier than the US market opening.

A reside audio webcast will probably be held March 2 at 08:00 Japanese Time (ET) – about 8am on Friday March 3 Australian Japanese Daylight Financial savings Time.

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