The UK's network of Polestar car showrooms is set to expand before the year-end, as the electric car manufacturer works on doubling the sales volume it achieved last year.

Permanent Polestar 'Spaces', the brand's name for car showrooms, are due to be opened in north west London by Endeavour Automotive and in Glasgow by Lookers before the year-end.

Both the AM100 groups are already agents for Polestar elsewhere - Lookers at Manchester and Endeavour at Battersea in south London.

Matt Hawkins, head of sales at Polestar UK, told AM during the summer, as the Polestar 2 received significant updates including longer battery range, that the brand is on track to achieve 15,000 new car sales in 2023 as its electric cars increasingly attract new company car drivers.

Such an achievement would mean it outselling long-established prestige brand Jaguar - at September 1 Polestar's YTD sales volume was already ahead of both Jaguar and Lexus.