Company: PLSAY
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001884082-25-000012
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Company: Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 19
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 AB, a subsidiary of Volvo Cars which in turn owned shares in Polestar Automotive Holding Limited and hence the participants were indirectly minority owners of the Group. The investment was made at fair market value in accordance with an external valuation.

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As a consequence of the listing of Polestar Automotive Holding UK Limited on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in June 2022 and in accordance with the terms of the Polestar Incentive Program, Volvo Cars was obliged to repurchase the participants shares in PSINV AB at fair market value. Each participant was thereafter obliged to reinvest the net proceeds received (repurchase amount less an amount corresponding to the effective tax rate on capital gains in the participants jurisdiction) in shares in Polestar Automotive Holding UK Limited directly on the open market. The purchased shares were subject to a 180

Refer toNote 7 - Employee benefits for details on compensation to the EMT and managing directors at the Group’s sales units.

Asset disposals

In December 2022, Polestar committed to a plan to sell, to Geely, its Chengdu manufacturing plant held by Polestar New Energy Vehicle Co. LTD. ("PSNEV"). Prior to the sale, there was a change in the grouping of assets classified as held for sale to include

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additional assets and immaterial liabilities. The inclusion of these additional assets and immaterial liabilities formed a group of assets and did not meet the definition of a business as defined by IFRS 3. The sale of PSNEV represented a common control transaction because (1) PSNEV did not meet the definition of a business at the time of the transaction, (2) the ultimate control of PSNEV was the same before and after the transaction, and (3) control of PSNEV was not transitory (i. e., organized to effect a 'grooming' transaction.). Refer toNote 28 - Assets held for sale for additional details.

Note 28 - Assets held for sale

In December 2022, the Group committed to a plan to sell, to Geely, its Chengdu manufacturing plant held by the Group subsidiary, PSNEV, that was previously used to manufacture the Polestar 1 and special edition Polestar 2 BST 270. Accordingly, the Chengdu plant and certain related assets were presented as a disposal group held for sale. The assets related to the Chengdu Plant which were classified as held for sale amounted to $