On August 13th, Polestar's headquarters officially operated in Nanjing, marking Polestar Polestar's deep integration into Nanjing's intelligent network technology industrial ecosystem.
In January this year, Nanjing "investment breakthrough year" ushered in the opening of the door.Pole Star Technology China Headquarters Project Signed in Nanjing. This strategic joint venture, established by Polaris Automotive and Stargate Phantom Group, focuses its future development on Nanjing, carrying the expectations and ambitions of a city to refresh its industrial genes and build a flagship brand.
Innovation Highland + Industrial Ecology
Boosting new energy development
The headquarters of Polaris is located in Zijinshan Science and Technology City of Jiangning Development Zone. The office building has a total area of 8,322.45 square meters, integrating R&D center, operation center, procurement center, sales center and delivery center.
Polestar Polestar will gather R&D, sales, operation and other related personnel to build Polestar Polestar intelligent automobile operating system Polestar OS and intelligent supporting products, to open up the boundaries of automobiles and related intelligent supporting products, to develop the product matrix of Polestar Polestar's high-end brand, and to promote the manufacturing and sales of Polestar Polestar in the Chinese market.
The story behind the project
In 2017, by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding joint venture Polaris Automotive was established in Gothenburg, Sweden. Subsequently, Polaris Automotive and hand in hand with the Star Chronicle Phantom Group set up a strategic joint venture - Polaris Technology, in advance of the "position" of the intelligent network league road.
Such an enterprise brings investment opportunities, is Nanjing slowly "cultivate" out. As early as three years ago, through the introduction of the park enterprises, Jiangning Development Zone investment team visited Geely Group. Since then the two sides interacted frequently.
The person in charge of the Sixth Investment Promotion Department of Jiangning Development Zone clearly remembers that, during the stage of agreeing on the cooperation agreement, 15 or 16 people sat around a conference room in an offline meeting between the two sides and discussed from 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and when it came to the terms that couldn't be finalized on the spot, the Polaris side directly video-linked the legal affairs and executives of the headquarter. During the eight hours, no one came out of the conference room except for going to the restroom.
What is more surprising to Polaris Technology is that their concept is highly recognized by the investment promotion department of Nanjing. "We believe that a major trend in the development of new energy vehicles is to do interconnection and ecology, and building a car is to build a smart terminal device that can be moved." Pole Star Technology Chief Operating Officer Chen Si-ying said that the two sides talked to each other, from last October when the two sides first carried out negotiations on the Pole Star Technology project, to the signing of the contract at the beginning of January this year, which took only two months.
The government work report of this year's National People's Congress clearly proposed to consolidate and expand the leading edge of industries such as intelligent and networked new energy vehicles, and to boost the consumption of intelligent and networked new energy vehicles, electronic products and other bulk consumption. "The next main battlefield for the development of the domestic new energy automobile industry is intelligent and networked, and the opportunity brought by Polaris Technology is one we don't want to miss." Jiangning Development Zone, said the relevant person in charge.
