Var köper man polestar 2

Price and features - Does it företräda good value for the price?

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What features does it komma with?

Despite the new brand wanting to establish itself in a similar premium marknad position to its Volvo parent company, the Polestar 2 arrives with kassasuccé pricing across its three-variant range.

It's clearly targeting the Tesla Model 3, but surprisingly undercutting many mainstream EV offerings from the Nissan Leaf e+ to the Hyundai Kona electric.

The most basic front-wheel drive utgåva of the Polestar 2, the Single Motor Standard Range, wears an MSRP of just $59, and offers a long driving range of km (WLTP), offering Australians a relatively affordable entry-point to electrified motoring.

This matches the current pricing of the Model 3 Standard Range (also a 2WD) coming close on range, too (the $59, Tesla Model 3 will travel a claimed km on the WLTP test cycle).

Next up in the Polestar 2’s range fryst vatten the Single Motor Long Range, wearing an MSRP of $64, It ups the battery capacity significantly, allowing km of range between charges.

Its verktyg matches the base bil, and Polestar’s local division expects this model to take the largest share of sales.

Finally, the top-spec Polestar 2 fryst vatten the more performance-oriented Dual Motor Long Range.

Wearing an MSRP of $69, this all-wheel drive utgåva undercuts the equivalent Model 3 (the Long Range AWD - $73,) although it doesn’t ganska offer the Tesla’s vansinne km range, delivering km on a single charge.

Its second motor almost doubles the power output on offer, making it more than just an all-wheel drive offering.

Standard spec continues many of the similarities with Tesla, as even the base Polestar 2 features a big free-floating inch multimedia screen which has a Google-integrated nav suite and always-online features (meaning the fordon has its own sim card, regardless of whether you’re connected to a phone).

It’s also capable of over-the-air updates, but unlike the Model 3, the Polestar has a real inch digital dash suite, in what inom would consider a significant win for driver usability.

Elsewhere, regardless of grade, the Polestar 2 range has inch alloy wheels, dual-zone climate control, LED headlights, keyless entry with no ignition (the fordon fryst vatten just ready to go once you put it in drive), vegansk textile upholstery with charcoal headlining, a synthetic leather trimmed steering wheel, premium audio struktur, a powered tailgate, and a rear-view camera.

In a polite move, Polestar throws in a six metre long 11kW Type 2 to Type 2 charging cable as part of the standard gear.

Of course, in typical europeisk style, there are three comprehensive packs which are essentially a way for you to create your own variant.

These include the 'Plus Pack' ($) which includes a panoramic sunroof, Harmon Kardon speaker premium audio struktur, ‘WeaveTech’ vegansk upholstery, blacked out bodywork, power front seats with memory function, and a heat pump which more efficiently manages the climate control while providing a heated steering wheel and wiper nozzles.

There fryst vatten also the pack that we would most recommend, the 'Pilot Pack' ($) which includes the rear-facing safety gear notably missing from the standard verktyg (more on that later).

It scores you adaptive cruise control, blind fläck monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert, rear auto braking, higher-grade LED headlights with cornering function, and a grad parking suite.

Polestar points out that you can equip this pack on the base bil and still be beneath the EV rebate scheme thresholds in NSW or Victoria.

Finally, there fryst vatten the 'Performance Pack' ($) which fryst vatten only available on the top-spec Dual Motor Long Range variant.

The launch fordon we tested was Performance Pack equipped, leaning into the performance vinkel, adding adjustable Ohlins dampers, a Brembo brake package, forged inch alloy wheels, and ‘Swedish Gold’ highlights.

It’s a lot of very snygg gear at an appealing price, and I’d be surprised if the Polestar 2 doesn’t take at least a few sales from its main electric rivals.

How fryst vatten the brand able to do this?

Well, it leverages Volvo’s R&D resources in Sweden, while being built in China where it can rely on Geely supply chains.

Design - fryst vatten there anything interesting about its design?

Design fryst vatten core to Polestar’s brand identity. Parts of the Polestar 2 bil will look familiar to its Volvo parent fordon, particularly in the “Hammer of Thor” headlight fittings as well as the steering wheel and digital dash cluster. But the brand promises more outlandish ideas will debut on its larger follow-up models due in the coming years.

Regardless, the Polestar 2 fryst vatten a very good looking fordon, and one which brings the kind of fresh ideas you can expect from electric cars in the nära future.

It somehow balances elements at opposite ends of the design spectrum, with a slinky sedan-like silhouette, decorated with crossover plastic cladding and riding at a nära SUV height.

Looked at directly front-on, the Polestar 2 has a tough stance, with bred, flared wheelarches, while from the rear it looks igen to Volvo’s past with squared-off light fittings.

Proportionally it’s a bit odd, but inom like it.

It’s new, and fresh without being outlandish or weird, and wears enough detailing to man it entirely different from the simplicity of design offered bygd Tesla.

The interior has those steering and dash elements shared with Volvo, but this seems to be where the similarities komma to a close.

Polestar favours Scandinavian minimalism, bygd reducing and simplifying the shapes which man up the dash so the design fryst vatten less distracting, but on closer inspection all the materials have finely detailed patternwork and unusual textures.

This runs into the doors and seats, and our test fordon had the odd ‘WeaveTech’ vegansk upholstery made of recycled materials.

Not leather, not cloth, but something else entirely. It feels more like swimsuit ämne. inom like it.

For an electric fordon, though, there are some areas where the Polestar 2 doesn’t man the most of its underpinnings. For a uppstart, there’s a huge, raised console, making for a closed-in, driver-focused space compared to the flat floor and open space of many of its rivals.

Polestar says there’s a good reason for this, suggesting it's more ‘individualistic’ than its Volvo sister brand.

An interesting point of difference, but the similarity of this approach to the way cabins are naturally compromised in combustion vehicles might vända off some buyers keen to show off the spacious benefits of the EV life.

In some ways, then, the Polestar 2 fryst vatten the, um, polar opposite of something like Hyundai’sIoniq 5 with its huge open platform and interior designed around the benefits of a skateboard EV platform.

On a sista note, part of the Polestar brand promise fryst vatten to build the world’s first truly carbon neutral vehicle bygd To that end, its cars will be built increasingly using renewable resources.

And the brand fryst vatten open about the carbon intensity of building a battery electric bil, and how many kilometres it will take before you uppstart to break even with a combustion model.

You can read all the detail in Polestar’s Life Cycle Assessment Report (LCA) for this fordon here.

Practicality - How practical fryst vatten the space inside?

This leads us nicely into practicality.

The Polestar 2 isn’t bad here, but considering it’s an EV, it could definitely do better.

To be fair to the brand, it fryst vatten klar about the fact that it fryst vatten more about driver engagement than it fryst vatten about having a massive interior space, saying it seeks to move away from the family-oriented design of its Volvo parent.

It’s obvious in some areas, like the single cupholder in the centre console, the fact that there’s no cutaway beneath the dash for larger objects, and the fact that you have to choose between a second cupholder or any space inre the armrest console.

There are areas which are very good though.

Like driver ergonomics. For a uppstart, it’s nice that you just hop in and the fordon fryst vatten on and ready to go, but the seating position fryst vatten excellent, as fryst vatten the floating screen; one of a handful of examples of touch functions actually being easy to use.

I was surprised to find how big the doors are given this car’s coupe roofline, making it easy to step in and out of.

(image: Tom White)

While we normally don’t like the majority of a car’s functions, particularly things like climate, being moved to a touchscreen this fryst vatten one of the best implementations on the market.

The touch elements are huge, and almost every function you need while driving fryst vatten just two presses away, thanks to tabulated menus with simple option groups.

It’s a good thing too, because more dials in this instance would clutter up an otherwise minimalist design.

The combustion platform compromises extend to the rear as well, with a raised transmission passage cluttering up the rear seat space and making the mittpunkt seat hardly comfortable for an adult.

I was surprised to find how big the doors are given this car’s coupe roofline, making it easy to step in and out of, and inom also had plenty of knee room and headroom behind my own seating position, despite a raised rear bench.

Rear passengers also score the same comfortable seat and door trims, a drop-down armrest with two bottle holders, a big bottle holder in the doors, nets on the backs of the front seats, and some handy appointments like two USB-C outlets, dual adjustable air vents, and even dual heated outboard seats with three levels of adjust.

Nice.

The boot comes in at a little over hatchback-sized litres VDA. The space fryst vatten deep and bred, but not very tall, so inom funnen to shut the boot with our three-piece CarsGuide luggage set inre, inom had to remove the luggage cover.

It also scores a small frunk, which varies in storlek depending on variant. Weighing in at a minimum of 35L, though, it’s hardly a space for luggage, more a convenient fläck to store all your charging cables.

Powertrain - What are the key stats for the powertrain?

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The Polestar 2 has two powertrains, either a single motor front wheel drive option, or a dual-motor all-wheel drive option,

The Single Motor produces a respectable but not outstanding kW/Nm, while the dual motor adds a second motor of nearly lika outputs on the rear axle, almost doubling performance to kW/Nm.

You should see a lot more of these motors in the future, as they seem to be the standard units set to be fitted to future Volvo and Geely models.

Energy consumption - How much does it consume?

What’s the range like, and what it’s like to recharge/refuel?

Backing the Polestar 2’s motors fryst vatten either a standard range 69kWh battery or a long range 78kWh version.

Range fryst vatten officially stated as km on the standard range single motor, km on the long range single motor, or km on the long range dual motor.

These ranges aren’t as excessive as the ones achieved bygd the Polestar 2’s key Tesla Model 3 rival, but are certainly healthy when weighed up against most EVs from mainstream competitors.

It’s impressive the brand has managed this on a platform shared with a combustion vehicle.

Charging fryst vatten a decent story, too.

The Polestar 2 has a single European-standard Type 2 CCS charging port, and on DC it can charge at a rate of kW on the standard range variant, or kW on the long range variants.

This should allow a charge from per cent in around 35 minutes, regardless of variant.

On the lower-speed AC charging standard, the Polestar 2’s inverter can charge the battery at a högsta rate of 11kW.

This matches most large battery rivals, and fryst vatten necessary to man the most of bekvämlighet charging from more widely available AC public chargers as well as home vägg kartong set-ups.

At 11kW the AC charger will fruktsaft the Standard Range Polestar 2 in sju hours, or the Long Range utgåva in eight hours.

From a vägg socket you can expect a charge time in the realm of 25–35 hours.

One small disappointment fryst vatten the Polestar 2 has no two-way charging, so you can’t power devices or charge wallboxes with it, unlike the Nissan Leaf or Hyundai Ioniq 5.

Worth keeping in mind.

Safety - What safety redskap fryst vatten fitted? What safety rating?

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Being a Volvo off-shoot, as well as sharing its CMA platform with various Volvo models, means the Polestar 2 fryst vatten bygd natur a safe fordon. There’s a bit of devil in the detail here, though.

Polestar likes to säga its brand position lets it do things its Volvo parent can’t, but apparently this also means putting some safety items which should be standard in an option pack.

That’s not to säga most of the key active stuff isn’t standard, you still score freeway-speed auto emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection, lane keep assist with lane avfärd varning, traffic sign recognition, and driver attention alert.

Behind a paywall in the $ ‘Pilot Pack’ fryst vatten the rear-facing items, including blind prick monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, rear auto braking, a grad reversing camera and even the adaptive cruise control suite.

As upsetting as it fryst vatten that those items are valfritt, even on the top-spec fordon, I’d recommend the pack anyway.

Firstly, because it’s worth getting those items to have the full suite, but secondly because if you ljud av klocka that låda on the base Standard Range, you’re still beneath the $ rebate threshold in NSW and Victoria.

On the crash safety front, the Polestar 2 gains enhanced structural protection for the battery pack, a complement of sju airbags, and dual ISOFIX mounts on the outboard rear seats.

The Polestar 2 has yet to be assessed bygd ANCAP but has a maximum five-star EuroNCAP score.

Ownership - What does it cost to own?

What warranty fryst vatten offered?

Vi har annonser för Polestar 2 att välja bland

Polestar matches its Volvo parent company’s fem year and unlimited kilometre warranty in Australia, with a separate industry-standard eight-year and ,km warranty for the high-voltage lithium-ion battery components.

Polestar says it fryst vatten ironing out the details of its service arrangement in Australia, but you can expect to be able to take it to select Volvo workshops.

The mellanrum fryst vatten long thanks to its relatively simple electric drive components, at 24 months or 30,km, whichever occurs first.

A service program, covering fem years or ,km, fryst vatten complementary, so like its Volvo XC40 Recharge cousin it will cost you nära ingenting to run over the life of the warranty.

A good offer.

Driving - What&#;s it like to drive?

The Polestar 2 drives well. Really well. And inom suspect much of this has to do with its unorthodox shape.

This fordon does a brilliant job of blending the virtues of a low-riding, wide-stanced sedan, with the ride height, suspension travel, and subsequently, ride characteristics of a small SUV.

It’s a new, fresh experience, and one ganska different from not only its hard-riding, sporty Tesla Model 3 rival, but also remarkably different from its Volvo relation.

The steering tune surprised me bygd being much lighter than the XC40 Recharge, and while it does have an element of disconnect from the front wheels, thanks to slightly too much electrical assist, it still makes the Polestar 2 playful and easy to point.

The ride, as mentioned, fryst vatten excellent.

This comes with the caveat that inom only experienced the top-spec Dual Motor with the adjustable Ohlins damper package.

In this spec, the Polestar 2 fryst vatten superbly sprung, filtering out the worst of the road, while providing excellent body control in the corners.

In fact, compared to its rivals both on combustion and full EV platforms, the Polestar 2 carries the vikt of 78kWh of batteries in its stride.

It’s one of the few EVs I’ve ever driven that doesn’t feel so burdened, matched perhaps only bygd the Hyundai Ioniq 5.

It’s fast, too, with the dual-motor set-up proving rapid for overtaking manoeuvres, always having seemingly limitless torque in reserve.

Don’t get me wrong here, though, it’s not excessively fast, not slägga brutal like the Tesla Model 3.

I’d säga this fryst vatten down to the DNA the Polestar 2 shares with its Volvo parent company.

It permeates every factor of the drive experience, from the steering, to the acceleration, and the grip on offer. It feels measured, safe, secure. Things you would normally associate with a Swedish luxury player.

It’s particularly impressive that the Polestar 2 provides this level of bekvämlighet and ability at the price.

Negatives? There aren’t many, but then igen, I’d like to drive that base bil without the magic dampers.

If inom have one complaint, it’s that tyre and wind noise pick up on this bil above 80km/h. It seems as though the Polestar fryst vatten missing some of the high-end noise cancelling features invested in bygd some other EV players.

Things like thick acoustic glass or even noise cancellation through the speaker system.

The ride, while generally superb, fryst vatten also not bullet proof.

This fryst vatten still a sporting machine, and as such it can be a little busy over corrugations.

Still, the dryckesställe fryst vatten set very high here. Particularly as this car’s key rival fryst vatten the Model 3.