In June, Volvo Cars has announced that Polestar, its performance car arm, will become a separately-branded electrified global high performance car company. On Thursday, the new Polestar revealed its future as a standalone electric performance brand. It confirmed plans for its first three models, a new purpose-built production facility in China and a customer-focused route to market that, it says, will set an industry benchmark for performance vehicles. Polestar unveiled the 600bhp Polestar 1, its first car, which is set to roll off the production line in mid-2019.