Polestar, Volvo’s EV offshoot brand, has confirmed that it will enter the Thai market in 2025, as part of its commercial and retail footprint expansion plans alongside six other new countries. The move will make Thailand the second ASEAN market for Polestar, after it made its debut in Singapore back in 2021.
Aside from Thailand, the Swedish EV brand will also be expanding to France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Brazil in 2025. All of these new markets, inclusive of Thailand, will be operating via “local distribution partnerships”, the press release reads.
In Singapore, Polestar, currently operated by dealer-partner Wearnes Automotive, currently only offers the 2 in the island-nation. The Polestar 3 and 4 should, however, also be launched soon, with the latter recently being previewed at Polestar Space Singapore with an estimated price tag starting from SGD195,000 (approx. RM680k) without COE.
As for the Polestar 2, the fastback sedan is priced from approximately SGD249k (approx. RM868k, inclusive of COE) for the Standard Range Single Motor variant, and approximately SGD309k (approx. RM1.08 million, inclusive of COE) for the Long Range Dual Motor variant with Performance Pack.
Model and variant ability of the Polestar vehicles in Thailand should largely mirror that of Singapore, where all models are imported from China.
Closer to home, while Polestar has yet to announce any plans to enter Malaysia just yet, its sister brands Zeekr and Lynk & Co have both already been confirmed to make their debut in Malaysia soon.
The Zeekr X has recently been spotted doing rounds on Malaysian roads. Like the Polestar 4 and Smart #3, the Zeekr X is also built on Geely’s Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) platform.
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