Polestar started out as a racing outfit running Volvos in Swedish touring car races, so it’s fitting that its sharpest showcar in years is called Formula. Over the years, the brand has grown into an EV maker that loves a grand concept. The Precept of 2020 grew into the Polestar 5, and the O2 roadster is lined up to become the Polestar 6. Now, Polestar has already said which car borrows the concept’s face.
That car is the next Polestar 2, due in 2027, and the Polestar Formula 2030 concept wears its face early. The concept is a low, four-door electric sports car with Dual Blade headlights, a 20-inch curved driver display, pillarless opposing doors, and a cabin that physically rearranges itself depending on how you want to drive. It’s also the first showcar under Head of Design Philipp Römers, so this is the clearest look yet at where Polestar design goes next.
What Does The Polestar Formula 2030 Concept Preview?
Polestar says “various design attributes” will appear on the next Polestar 2 in 2027 and on the Polestar 7, a compact SUV due in 2028 and built in Europe. Only one feature is tied to a specific car so far. The Dual Blade headlights, which take their cue from the Polestar 3, preview the face of the 2027 Polestar 2. The Single Blade rear lights, which do away with the familiar full-width lightbar, are also headed for series production, though Polestar hasn’t said which model gets them first.
The cabin “points towards future Polestar interiors.” So the pillarless doors, the four inflatable seats, the moving cockpit and the screen sizes are concept features for now. The Nitrogen paint stays with the showcar only. Size-wise, Polestar places the Formula 2030 between the coming Polestar 2 and Polestar 7, and credits the Polestar 4 SUV as an influence on its low-slung practicality.
Lower Than A Polestar 5
The Formula 2030 is 4,680mm long, 2,021mm wide and 1,350mm tall, on a 2,780mm wheelbase. Next to the current Polestar 2, it’s 74mm longer and 129mm lower, and its wheelbase is 45mm longer. It also sits lower than the Polestar 5 grand tourer. The proportions are classic sports car: cab-rearward stance, long bonnet, short overhangs and coke-bottle hips, with the visual weight pushed over the rear haunches and 22-inch centre-lock four-spoke wheels at each corner.
The Dual Blade headlights sit inside a front aero wing above a shark nose, with a deep splitter tied to the body by a central spine. That spine carries on into a single vertical wiper, a motorsport trick, sweeping a wraparound visor windscreen that tips its hat to the first-generation Polestar 2. A LiDAR unit hides under an aerodynamic shroud and only shows itself when the car is driving itself, and the Polestar star is projected into the panoramic glass roof. At the back, Polestar calls the look “UFO-esque”. There’s no lightbar, the rear glass wraps into the side glazing, the rear wing sits on illuminated mounts, and a diffuser finishes the tail.
The Nitrogen paint shifts with natural light and runs over everything, wheels, cladding, splitter and diffuser included, in gloss, matt and satin finishes. Swedish Gold, Polestar’s performance signature, appears on the Brembo calipers, valve caps, seat belts and interior trim. Öhlins supplies the race-inspired dampers.
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A Cockpit That Rearranges Itself
The driver faces a 20-inch curved HyperDIM display, while a 12.2-inch centre screen is set into the rising centre tunnel. Below that screen are eight physical controls that can be set up as rocker switches or rotary dials, plus programmable hot keys. After years of the industry burying the AC controls three menus deep, a showcar that brags about real buttons deserves a round of applause. The driver display uses swappable cards and three views: Calm, Map and Car-centric.
There are three drive modes, Performance, Normal and Autonomous, and each one moves the furniture. In Autonomous, the centre screen stands upright, and the seat and wheel move apart as the car takes over. Slide towards Performance, and the centre screen sinks flush while the steering wheel and driver display pull in towards your chest. Polestar also mentions steer-by-wire with haptic feedback for road feel, with the steering feel changing by mode, though it hasn’t detailed the hardware.
The four low-set seats get air-inflatable bolsters and cushions that mould to each occupant. Google Gemini is built in, so the assistant should understand a request better than “navigate to home” barked three times.
Flax, Steel And Swedish Gold
The door interior uses layers from a single polymer family so it can be fully recycled. The seat backs are a composite of European flax and bio-based polypropylene in a grid weave, coloured after the flax fields themselves. The seat frames and cross-car beam use low-emission galvanised steel and are left on show.
Lift the rear clamshell and the body structure is exposed, with Bcomp natural-fibre composite panels around the Öhlins dampers. Under the transparent boot floor, bespoke Polestar bags are held by Swedish Gold straps. Up front, the frunk is sized for race helmets and a fire extinguisher and is framed by a Swedish Gold strut brace, which tells you exactly what kind of weekends the designers had in mind.
When Is The New Polestar 2 Coming?
Polestar says the next Polestar 2 arrives in 2027, with the Polestar 7 following in 2028. It hasn’t said whether the Formula 2030 itself will be built, and it hasn’t shared any mechanical details, so the power, battery, range, and performance figures remain unknown at the moment.
