Another Day, Another All-Electric SUV: Add Lexus RZ, Polestar 3 to the Pile
The ring of all-electric SUVs might seem a little like one of these nowadays, what with all the brands throwing their hats in. Time now to add two more to the list: the Lexus RZ and Polestar 3.
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Lexus, Toyota’s luxury brand, released a teaser video today of the new RZ, a sleek SUV expected to ride on Toyota’s e-Toyota New Global Architecture platform. That means it will likely share underpinnings with the Toyota bZ4X and Subaru Solterra, two just-unveiled SUVs developed under a joint venture between the two automakers. Little else was shared about the RZ, but images in the video show conjoined taillights with “Lexus” stamped in all-caps between them, as well as outlined portions of the brand’s now-familiar spindle grille.
Polestar, Volvo’s performance division turned sub-brand, had comparatively more details. The Polestar 3, shown today in camouflage, looks to be a tidy SUV with short overhangs and prominent rear shoulders. Polestar will build the 3, which CEO Thomas Ingenlath called a “premium electric performance SUV that will define the look of SUVs in the electric age,” for the U.S. market at Volvo’s Charleston, S.C., assembly plant. It will have “autonomous highway piloting” capability using lidar sensors, an expensive technology used primarily in autonomous testing prototypes. Whether that merely signals hands-free steering — similar to what’s on tap from BMW, Ford and GM — or something further, such as Audi’s scuttled attention-free driving, remains to be seen.
The Polestar 3 will launch sometime in the 2022 calendar year, with a smaller Polestar 4 “performance SUV coupe” to follow in 2023; timing remains unknown on the RZ.
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