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Polestar CEO Michael Lohscheller | IAA MOBILITY 2025 Blue Forum Keynote
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At IAA MOBILITY 2025, Polestar CEO Michael Lohscheller delivered a powerful keynote addressing the crisis facing the automotive industry—and why electric vehicles are the only path forward.
With legacy automakers struggling, political targets under threat, and industry lobbyists pushing for delays, Lohscheller makes an urgent case: there is nothing neutral about inaction. He calls out "technology neutrality" as a smokescreen for delay, highlights the stark CO2 difference between EVs and combustion cars, and positions Polestar as Europe's only pure electric car maker that refuses to compromise.
The keynote culminates in the global reveal of the Polestar 5—the brand's new flagship performance GT, designed in Sweden, engineered in the UK, and built from the ground up on a clean-sheet platform with 800V architecture.
Key Takeaways
- The car industry is in crisis—and clinging to the past won't solve it
- The EU's 2035 combustion ban is under threat by lobbying and political indecision
- "Technology neutrality" is a delay tactic, not innovation
- EVs offer a real path to carbon neutrality—petrol cars never can
- Polestar is Europe's lowest carbon intensity car maker
- The Polestar 5 is here: flagship performance GT, no compromises