First EV with NO rear window launches in Britain – with £60k price tag, 385-mile battery range & luxurious SUV features

THE archetypal ever EV with nary rear model has launched successful the UK, boasting a whopping 385-mile scope and £60,000 terms tag.

The shaper of the bizarre centrifugal has insisted that it is not "innovation for the involvement of innovation".

Swedish EV steadfast Polestar became a standalone marque successful 2017 aft splitting disconnected from Volvo.

It archetypal arrived successful the UK 2 years aboriginal and has carved retired a useful niche successful the competitory luxury EV segment.

The company's latest offering is heralded arsenic a "step towards a caller epoch of car plan wherever accepted elements are reimagined".

The Polestar 4 is its astir extremist exemplary yet arsenic the archetypal mass-production rider car to not diagnostic a rear windscreen.

Instead, it volition usage a roof-mounted camera, intended to supply a wider tract of imaginativeness than the accepted pane of glass.

The camera volition supply a unrecorded provender of the roadworthy to the infotainment surface successful the compartment successful existent clip to compensate for the slimmed-down coupe style.

While reversing cameras person been manufacture modular for immoderate years, this is the archetypal clip the rear model has been wholly eliminated.

The determination has besides allowed designed to springiness passengers other headroom successful the rear seats by pushing backmost the roofline.

The Polestar 4 is present connected sale, retailing from £59,990 and boasting a chunky artillery offering a 385-mile range.

But contempt its economy, it's inactive highly sporty, with a 3.7 2nd 0-60mph time.

And that ample artillery tin spell from 10% to 80% successful little than 30 minutes connected a accelerated charger and tin deed 100% connected a location charger successful astir 5 hours.

Ola Aldensjö, merchandise manager for Polestar, said: "This isn’t conscionable innovation for the involvement of innovation.

"There are genuine motivations for taking this decision.

"Firstly, we are capable to supply an improved enactment of show for the driver.

"The rear camera provides a overmuch clearer representation of what’s going connected down the vehicle.

"This is besides existent for conditions that are usually problematic for the driver, specified arsenic erstwhile the airy isn’t large oregon if it’s raining.

"The clarity is exceptional."

It comes aft Europe's second-largest car steadfast halted production of an iconic model.