https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2021-polestar-2-luqiao-chinese-plant-volvo-xc40/

The Luqiao plant is owned by Geely, the conglomerate that owns Volvo, Lotus, Lynk & Co and Polestar. To that end, the Luqiao plant will also be the new home for Chinese-market Volvo XC40 SUVs, which Volvo announced on Friday as well. Previously, all XC40s were built in Belgium, so this move allows Volvo to manufacture swaths of cars much closer to where they'll be sold, reducing delivery complexity. The Luqiao plant already builds the Lynk & Co 01 SUV. All three vehicles share the same CMA platform.

Of course, vehicles are no good if there's no place to sell them. To that end, Polestar also announced on Friday that it will open its first "Space," Polestar's fancy name for a dealer, in China in the third quarter of 2019. The first Space, announced last October, will open in Norway in mid-2019. In all, Polestar estimates that it will open about 20 different Spaces across 11 Chinese cities during 2020, which will represent about one-third of all global Polestar Spaces.