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Volvo's performance sub-brand Polestar is bringing a arresting electric conceptualization car to this year's Geneva Motor Show. Instead of heedfulness on flashy performance specs, though, the company is talking up two contrasted topics: the use of sustainable materials throughout the car, as well as a deeper melding with Google's new Android Automotive operating system.

The car is so-called the Polestar Precept, as well as the company says that name was chosen to "emphasize the vehicle's role in setting out Polestar's intrigued as the newfangled electric performance brand."

"A precept is a manifesto of things to come; a declaration," Polestar writes in its printing release. Therefore, CEO Thomas Ingenlath says in a statement, this car "is a declaration, a eyes of what Polestar stands for as well as what makes the colophon relevant," as well as that it conjointly serves as a "response to the intonated challenges our society as well as industry face."

The Precept sedan is a "vision of what Polestar stands for"

"This is not a dream of a else future, Polestar Precept previews unborn cartage as well as shows how we will distribute intro to short our environmentology impact," Ingenlath says.

To that end, Polestar has laid out some of the Precept's half-formed bona fides. The company says the interior panels as well as seatbacks are made out of "flax-based composites," which excuse for an 80 percent slightness in plastic waste, as well as a 50 percent slightness in weight. The Precept's seats have been "3D-knitted from recycled PET [or polyethylene terephthalate] bottles." The bolsters (the sides of a car seat's cushioning) as well as headrests are made from recycled cork vinyl.. As well as the Precept's carpets are made out of reclaimed fishing nets, according to Polestar.

The company says that "[t]hese elements, corporate with marginalia artistry, sniff a new premium plenteousness that surpasses the conventions of leather, copse as well as chrome." Except Polestar doesn't go into any deeper detail approximately how environmentally genial the Precept would be if produced.

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The Precept is electric, so it won't produce any emissions while in use, which is good. As well as electric cars separately get increasingly half-formed as the grid gets cleaner, which is conjointly good. Except Polestar doesn't metrical hint at some of the harder questions approximately the overall environmentology impact of making an electric car, like abbreviation the clone footprint of the sourcing of raw materials for the batteries as well as motors, or the overall emissions of the olio manufacturing process in general. For all the talk in the printing releasing approximately how the Precept is a preview of Polestar's future, it appears that we'll have to wait until Geneva to lasso increasingly approximately exactly what that eyes entails on the environmentology ancillary of things.

Polestar is conjointly teasing how it wants to deepen the melding of Google's Android Automotive OS. The company's already planning to be the original automaker to soliloquizing a wage-earner with Google's embedded operating arrangement -- which is like a increasingly expansive, phone-free version of new-fashioned Android Auto -- with the the Polestar 2 electric car later this year. Except with the Precept, Polestar says it wants to "open up new possibilities in the car, overseas the already awaited decoding of mirrors, seats, conditions as well as merry-go-round settings to the driver's claimed preferences."

What does that beggarly in practice? For one thing, the Precept would shoehorn the slaves as they fluting the car as well as automatically ready their liked applications as well as settings. Google Co-conspirator would shoehorn increasingly languages, including local accents, as well as be clever of increasingly natural conversations. Polestar conjointly imagines video streaming condign a largest composing of the in-car frequenting -- while secured or during charging, of course.

Polestar is promoting the Precept's half-formed bona fides, except isn't talking a ton of specifics

In payoff to cut dropping on distractions -- the Precept does full-length a 15-inch dashboard-mounted touchscreen, as well as a 12.5-inch slaves dangle -- Polestar says it will use "advanced eye-tracking as well as adjacency sensors to faultfinder information in a controlled manner." In over-and-above words, the car's displays will burnish as well as meander what they dangle back users attending at them, or back users resource out to the touchscreen. Polestar conjointly says it will "warn users if they are spending too parous time looking at the screen rather than the alley ahead."

Sedans have become a parous harder shovel in the United States over the last few years as consumers have shifted appear circumstances SUVs as well as trucks. (A trend that automakers, who make increasingly money on these vehicles, have properly obliged.) The Precept is a sharp-looking sedan, as well as while Polestar isn't talking performance nonbelligerent yet, it's exhaustible to imagine a production-ready version of this electric car that admittedly hauls. Whether that's enough to win over size-conscious buyers in the US is a question for uplift day, though Polestar will alpha picking else at an apologetics back it starts aircraft the Polestar 2 lifing in low volumes later this year.

Until any of that happens, though, Polestar charcoal a curiosity, parous like Volvo's procreator company, Geely. The Chinese automotive company bought Volvo all the way fetch in 2010, as well as has helped revive the respectable Swedish colophon back that acquisition. Except in uplift to its own electric car ambitions, Geely has conjointly invested in flying cars, London's electric blackness cabs, as well as its generator is now the largest outside shareholder of German automotive giant Daimler. So whatever Polestar has planned with a car like the Precept, it's intonated that it's separately the tip of the imaginary back it comes Geely's ambitions.