Polestar is developing its own e-bikes from scratch

The Volvo-owned carmaker is shying away from typical licensing agreements and is launching its own e-bike with Swedish bike manufacturer Allebike, with whom it has already worked to develop the Alpha Polestar Edition XC, a bike that, according to the carmaker's CEO, is the own creation of Polestar's engineers.

Polestar joins the e-bike market developed by car brands

In recent times, several automotive brands have announced the launch of electric bicycles. In most cases this has been a mere rebranding, adding their brand name to existing products on the market, and in others, as in-house projects such as those announced by Porsche and BMW.

The latest to join this trend is Polestar, the Swedish firm owned by Volvo and of which Nino Schurter is an ambassador, which after launching a full suspension XC mountain bike together with the also Swedish Allebike, now enters the field of electric bikes according to statements made by its CEO Thomas Ingenlath.

He described the latest creations from various automotive firms as a marketing move and pointed out that his collaboration with Allebike had been limited to the bike brand's production capabilities, but the mountain bike was in fact an in-house development by Polestar's engineers, pointing to the challenge of building a bike, having to "fight for every gram" while creating a product that can resist the harsh treatment to which today's bikes are subjected.

Ingenlath also confirmed that the brand is working on the production of an electric bike, although no details about its characteristics were revealed. However, from his statements, alluding to mobility, it could be deduced that it could be a city bike model. However, knowing the history of the collaboration between Allebike and Polestar, it would not be remarkable that their new e-bike would be a mountain bike.

This is not the only collaboration Polestar has initiated in the world of electric mobility on two wheels. Following the same line, Polestar made an agreement with electric scooter company Cake to produce a customised version of the Makka moped, promoted as a mobility pack alongside its Polestar 2 car: the car to get you into town and the electric scooter to get you around town.

This could also be indicative of the philosophy that Polestar may follow in the development of its electric bike, if it is ultimately an electric mobility product and not a mountain e-bike that maintains continuity with the Alpha development.

In any case, we will have to keep our eyes open to see what Polestar is capable of surprising us with. It is sure to be a product that will not leave us indifferent.