Swedish EV Brand Polestar Announces Polestar O₂ Concept Car With Built-in Drone

Electric car + autonomous drone

Swedish EV brand Polestar has pro­vid­ed yet anoth­er proof of its depar­ture from the DNA of par­ent com­pa­ny Vol­vo Cars by unveil­ing its sec­ond Polestar O₂ con­cept car with an inte­grat­ed cin­e­mat­ic drone. This will be an all-elec­tric hard­top con­vert­ible based on the automak­er’s Pre­cept con­cept and show­cas­es what Polestar has in store for its future EVs, both in terms of design and envi­ron­men­tal friend­li­ness, accord­ing to a com­pa­ny spokesper­son. Whether or not the cin­e­mat­ic drone option will be enabled, how­ev­er, remains to be seen.

Regard­ing the built-in drone, Polestar also explained that in order to imple­ment the built-in drone option, its engi­neers have devel­oped a spe­cial aero­dy­nam­ic cov­er locat­ed just behind the rear seats, which can rise to cre­ate a neg­a­tive pres­sure area. The built-in drone itself is held by the mag­net­ic field of the built-in mag­net, which is turned off before the drone is launched, allow­ing it to take off, and vice ver­sa, is acti­vat­ed when the drone is land­ing, includ­ing when the car is mov­ing at speeds up to 90 km/h.

Developer about Polestar O₂

Polestar O₂ is our vision for a new era of sports cars. Blend­ing the joy of open-top dri­ving with the puri­ty of elec­tric mobil­i­ty, it opens up a new blend of dri­ving emo­tions. But, like all our cars, we are not lim­it­ed to sprint races in a straight line. After all, it is when you turn the steer­ing wheel that the real fun begins.

When is mass production?

Accord­ing to JP Can­ton, head of Polestar PR, they all would like to start with the Polestar O₂, but this is not being con­sid­ered at the moment, as the main focus of the com­pa­ny is on the release of the Polestar 3 mod­el to the mar­ket.

About company

Polestar is a grow­ing pre­mi­um EV brand launched in 2017 as a ven­ture co-owned by Vol­vo Cars Group and Geely Hold­ing. The automak­er cur­rent­ly offers two elec­tri­fied vehi­cles, the PHEV Polestar 1 and the all-elec­tric Polestar 2, but it is also report­ed that (at least) three more elec­tric vehi­cles are on the way.