A racing team became an EV brand.
Polestar traces its name to a Swedish motorsport team that became Volvo’s performance partner. Volvo and Geely established it as a standalone electric-car brand with design and development centred in Gothenburg.
- 1996
The Flash Engineering racing team begins the lineage.
- 2015
Volvo acquires the Polestar performance business.
- 2017
Polestar is announced as a standalone electrified brand.



