Can Polestar design a new kind of car company?

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We are back after our week off, and we’ve got a good one today. On this episode I’m talking to Thomas Ingenlath, CEO of Polestar, a new car company with close family ties to Volvo. We talked a lot about what kind of company Polestar is — it’s pretty small, and has the ability to rethink a lot of things about how a car company is organized, while having the ability to fall back on a larger company if needed. We also talked a lot about what makes a car company a car company, at a time when everything about cars seems up for grabs. Transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.0	Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Napitell, Editor and Chief of the
1:19.0	Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. We're back
1:23.8	after a week off and we've got a good one today. On this upset I'm talking to
1:27.0	Thomas Ingenlatt, CEO of Polestar. That's a new car company with close
1:31.7	family ties to Volvo. Polestar has two cars that you can go out and buy today.
1:35.8	There's a $150,000 hybrid sports coupe called the Polestar 1, and the
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