{"id":15189,"date":"2025-05-18T18:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15189"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:50:49","slug":"polestar-4-2025-review-prices-specs-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15189","title":{"rendered":"Polestar 4 2025 Review: Prices, Specs, Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Polestar, according to<\/span> the original mission statement, is an electric<\/a> premium brand that puts performance and design at its core. To which we might also add \u201cit\u2019s not Tesla<\/a>\u201d as an increasingly potent selling point.<\/p>\n

New boss Michael Lohscheller, to the best of our knowledge, has never waved a chainsaw<\/a> around in a meeting, but he\u2019s certainly prioritizing efficiencies and commercial uplift\u2014and he needs to<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Polestar sold 44,851 cars globally last year, a 15 percent decline compared to 2023, but retail sales are up by 76 percent in Q1 this year (from relatively small volumes), bolstered by the arrival of the 3 and 4<\/a>\u2014and Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s monumental hubris.<\/p>\n

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The fact remains, though, that while the brand’s gross margin has now thankfully flipped from negative to positive, Polestar has still lost a thumping $190 million so far this year, while securing $1.7 billion in credit since end of last year. The 4 is very much here as part of the plan to reverse such fortunes, and as this model isn’t made in China it can look to US consumers for help.<\/p>\n

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