I love the relaxed vibe of this video. I also love listening to Imogen talk, she's such an incredible woman. Beautiful and nerdy at the same time in a good way 😁
Other petrolhead reviewers have focussed more on the handling, braking, and performance of this car and have raved over that aspect. They say that the price is actually very competitive as the car is a match for far more expensive and sporty cars like the Porsche Taycan.
Imogen is just excellent. The iPace is looking pretty dated now although still a great car. I will be really interested in second hand prices when they reach the market especially ex-lease.
Good to know you can drive, Imogen. I mean, I was always sure you could. But the boys usually hog all the car reviews that it's good to finally have some visual proof. ;)
@@thomaswestin9987 I was talking about the European market specifically, sorry I wasn't clear. what I meant is that (aside from being made in the USA), it would have been nice to keep the car European, since it's a sort of sister company to Volvo (though I know, it's owned by a Chinese company).
“Plenty of boot space” ? That must be a joke. For a car of this size the boot is way too small. This is not a practical car but a stylish car and we all know that styles will not last.
You’re basically paying in weight and cash to cart around a giant battery you’ll never use. I mean who in their right mind does 600 miles (even 400 or 500) in one go without a break. The same battery could power two decent regular sized cars and all you’d need is to improve charging speeds. So simply for that, their sheer wastefulness of it all, I don’t like it. Nice design but a pointless car.
the same argument could be made for giving a ICE car a 70 some even have 90-100 litre fuel tanks when a smaller car with 35 litre tank is smaller lighter goes a little further not having to haul around an extra 55-65 kg of fuel I would love the Mini Electric but it is impractical for other reasons (no 5 door option and a matchbox boot (200litre capacity) sure the earlier 32kwh with 28kwh usable loses its refuel advantage if you can't charge at hope and take advantage of lower unit cost for kWh instead of the 79p out in public. then a Hyundai Kona with 64kwh seems to be the happy medium for year round comfortably able to go longer trips without hopping from charger to charger
Nicely presented and a nice car. So nice to have a presenter who knows what they are talking about with no flash or glam. Just natural with no fillers !
For that price you be far better off buying the refreshed Tesla Model S or X, Both are now the same price as Tesla have lowered the prices! Polestars are over priced for what they are. Even if they start using the Tesla charging system soon they still are not worth the money.
I find it incredible how Mercedes, BMW, etc. charge 100k starting price for an SUV, and nobody bats an eye, but when a new brand does it - in my opinion better- then people are outraged. If you can't afford it, then go post angry comments in Mercedes videos too, because they've been doing that much longer than any of us have been alive for.
That's the thing: it's so frustrating to see ALL of these brands focusing so freaking much on expensive EVs (and cars in general). But people (granted, probably not the same people) will *brag* about their +$70k pickups and SUVs. If they're going to spend an insane amount of money on a car, I'd at least like to see them going electric. Yes these materials and resources could be more efficiently used, but that is categorically not how capitalism works.
Mercedes, BMW, etc are luxury car brands. (They also sell vehicles that are 2 to 3 to 4x the amount of this Polestar.) They have been making cars for 100 +/- years. They are 'aspirational' brands. Don't get me wrong, I think the Mercedes EQS and EQE are hideous, inside and out, and are complete failures. The BMW iX is ugly, but I still kind of want one. Polestar is great, but they have a weird name (let's be honest) and don't have brand cache nor reputation.
@@bob808you know that polestar have been tuning cars for a long time. They were Volvos equivalent to BMW M division or AMG but more focused on STCC (Swedish touring car championship), meaning they actually made Volvos in to legit racing cars. If BMW branched of M division in to a new brand that would be polestar but without the legit racing heritage. And it’s not like Polestar hade a racing team 50-60 years ago they actually hade it with the same people still working and tuning Polestars today. And polestar, Volvo and Zeekr have cooperation in Gothenburg cross working between the companies. They have the same engineers working on Polestar as they have on Volvo. Polestar means northern star but could be said to be a bit of Swenglish for a native American English speaker.
Nobody bats an eye? Didn't mercedes announce that they are removing their EV platform because of low sales and Porsche Taycan prices drop like they're hot? I think people bat eyes and close wallets for these overpriced EVs that have lower quality interiors. With every passing year, compared to older versions, they are more expensive and have cheaper feeling materials. That is my experience with most EVs from German manufacturers.
Similar to large SUVs with a gas engine... It is just a ridiculously large car... Should be a van or a station wagon, same space, less weight, better aero, better drive feel... SUVs are pointless IMO. Took many years of PR to get people to want them back in the 1990s...
Already folks on here saying people will never pay a lot of money for Chinese products...probably on their I-phones or expensive laptops built ..you know where.
I phones and computers are mostly established formalised products, they are very simple compared to an electric car. I would say that an EV is very similar to an aeroplane, and a phone similar to a radio.
@@JRNagel and later on it happened with the Koreans And then the Chinese We are past this point people are buying Chinese cars and it is only going to grow. People did not say they will not buy Chinese cars they said they will not pay 75k for one
@@eden5260well Polestar isn’t a Chinese brand, it’s a Swedish brand a derivative from Volvo based on Volvos racing team Polestar. It’s designed and developed in Sweden, with Swedish engineers from both Volvo and Polestar all working out of Gothenburg. It’s 100% Swedish but the largest owner of polestar is Geely. When Volvo was owned by Ford no one considered it a US brand, even though many cars were built in the US.
Oh, come on.. £ 80k ? Do you realise that from Birmingham upwards, with £ 80 k you buy yourself a nice 2 bedroom house with garden? And in the north even a 3 bedroom house? These prices are ridiculous. I'll go for a £ 40 k Tesla or BYD all my life instead.
That efficiency is appalling. No way I'd ever consider a car that did less than 3.5 miles per kWh. My EV6 was not great and could manage that. My Tesla managed 4.5 and on a good day 5.
Fully agree. My MG5 gets similar if not better than your Tesla 😊 I used to have the Jaguar iPace. That was lucky to get 3, with 2.5 more the norm. EVs have a long way to go yet before they will be accepted by the masses. I find little point in buying an expensive EV that is going to lose half its value within 12 months, when MG knock them out cheap, and have similar range.
@@szabiszekelyit's not a Lamborghini. If you can afford a 60k tesla you can afford a 70k polestar. The problem here is that this is a more expensive vehicle delivering less than cheaper alternatives..
@@Twin.motors efficiency is only one of many parameters when evaluating which car to buy and I would wager that in this price category it’s at the bottom of the list (comfort, style, driving feel for sure are more important). We have two (cheap) electric cars and we use about £50/month in electricity. Would I care if I had 50% worse efficiency and had to pay £75? Would someone who can affor to lose £10k/year in depreciation care?
@@szabiszekely efficiency is the measurement of good engineering. When manufacturers throw 111kw of battery to achieve things others can do with 80kw it's clear they don't know what they're doing
@@beefiron It's a bit of bullying but I guess just showing what's trying to be a better car for the same price is a good marketing strategy if that gets sales.
05:55 From the consumption point of view, a week ago I took my EV6 on a 380+ mile run to collect a cat. I expected about 3.5 to 4 miles per kWh, from watching reports. At home I usually get 4 to 4.5 most of the time. I got 4.5 over the whole trip, averaging between 50 to 60 mph on the M3, M25 and A12. My overall average even went up. Count me impressed. This does 2.7 to 3.1 OUCH! I will keep my EV6. (Even if I had the extra 20 grand :-).
@@Mr35000000 There are several rehoming centres on the Isle of Wight (RSPCA and Cats Protection mainly), but you are limited to what cats come in, and as I already had 3 others, limited to cats who will live with other cats. That reduces the possibilities hugely: Most cats are not keen on mixing with others, in the case of already matched pairs tending to prefer their own existing 'family.' If you are happy to adopt a kitten, there are choices, but they require attention full time that I can not give, as I work. So in 2 years of looking, there have been less than a dozen that might might fit my circumstances, all adopted within a few weeks. I never expected to get this puss, but he has had a hard start in life, and was returned after a month by his previous adopters: The kiss of death for a cat. I have unusual conditions that I thought he might accept, where most families would not suit him. Going much better than I expect a week in, but it will take time :-). More of an answer than you expected I suspect!
@@coniow That was an extremely comprehensive answer, to my rather flippant comment. You sound like a good person. I love animals, so you have my upmost respect. I wish you & the cats all the best for the future. 🐈⬛❤
@@Mr35000000 Thank you :-). For a cat who was expected to spend at least a week, and probably a month hiding away, he was exploring the house on his second night, and introduced to to of the 3 other cats in less than a week. Guess nobody told HIM! :-)
@@coniow Thats great, he has found a happy home and seems to be loving it! Total respect!
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Yes, it's nice that Polestar came up with creative design and color patterns to give that car a compact, less massive feeling. But when I'm driving around some narrow cobblestone streets in countryside villages or try to find a parking slot in the city, this will not change the fact that this car is yet another huge, massive SUV. I'm so fed up with this kind of car. Can't see them anymore
If anyone buys this for "environmental" reasons then there simply a knob. 111kwh is a absolutely ridiculous amount of resources to put into a car that at best if charged from 100% solar (which it wont be ) will save roughly 2 tonnes of co2 per year. Slice the battery into 10 which can be charged in the day by solar & you have successfully taken 10 houses of the grid & the net savings are greater than a figure of 10 This kind of greenwashing only works with people who dont see the bigger picture & dont understand that even if we can go 100% ev ( we cant ) it will make f*ck all difference as cars are a tiny percentage of the global co2 emissions but yeh look over hear at this ev not over there @ chinas 1200 coal burning power stations. We need to burn hydrocarbons or its back to the stone ages thats a fact & we really do need to do something about it but evs wont do a thing
The EV benefit is zero tailpipe emissions at the point of use. The 111kwh battery takes much less resources to build than sourcing and transporting the 17,000 litres of fuel which the average fuel powered car uses in it’s lifetime. Also, lookup the amount of renewable energy China has built since 2022 💡
Kinda half-assed review singing praises to Polestar rather than actually looking at the car. What about the driving dynamics of all that fancy air suspension and torque vectoring? Front boot? Camera situation? And what about the title of the video? Why is it too late?
"Yay" another massive, expensive SUV. Thank you for the review, Imogen I am looking forward to the smaller, lighter, more efficient, and cheaper cars that hopefully are coming soon. I giggled at the back seat test when I thought, "we could do with an inflatable Jack so Imogen can do... The Jack Test" 🤣😊
@@thomaswestin9987 I mean not really why is this chinese made Model Y clone worth £20,000-30,000 more? That's not a small price difference, I'm failing to see any features that elevate it to that price.
@@lucasfunkt It got better performance/ comfort than the tesla but still cant really say it is worth that much more. The polestar should be a bit lower in price atleast.
Looks great but I look at the price and its £80000 increaing to nearly £100000. Just an insane amount of money and they wonder why some EVs are stuggling.
@@santostv. Class has nothing to do with it. There are many EVs for sale at a price similar to other cars. There have always been expensive cars, that only wealthy people can afford. Early adopters usually pay a higher price for new technology (EVs), which then become cheaper. So, those with higher disposable money kick start the market. Money and class are different things.
Not only is it too late; the range is ridiculous given 4 year delay in production; should be at 400 mi range not stuck at 300 which by the way is really 240 given 15-18% real world range between charging and deductions for using a/c. I learned this hard way; buying a $70K EV.
Nice. Its a premium car, so its expensive, but that is typical of automotive marketing strategy. Its out of my price range, but there are plenty of folks who can afford it. Good luck to them. I will stick to my Tesla M3.
Good review, comprehensive. I won't be shelling out £75k on one, but im sure plenty of people will. I love Polestar's focus on a sustainable supply chain.
Electric vehicles are a joke if you live in a rural area. They won't get you to the nearest city, hard use will drain the batteries in no time flat, the only thing they're good for is city driving.
@@peetfischer1269 Myself, and everyone else where I live. And more and more people are leaving the city because country life is FAR more affordable. Cities are for suckers.
I ordered a Polestar3 and i’ll get it next week. I’m really very excited to discover my new car and after having driven Mercedes, BMW and Audi, I’m really curious about this new model. I’ll you know how fantastic the car is… or not.
ROFL...390 plus miles for those truly long car trips.. For starters...you really usually get 80-85% of usable miles from their so called stated miles...so 310 miles if you are lucky...0-80% in 30 mins if you can get 250kw charger....(good luck with that- so really an hour or more charging to 80%) and it is obvious the description for really long trips is from someone from a UK or western Europe perspective. Try living in Australia, Canada, or USA or other large countries....and no when you travelling in those countries....( will refer to Australia, where I grew up come from just to be clear) 310 miles doesn't get you that far...and no we don't like to sit around for hours waiting to charge a car in the middle of nowhere.. Bottom line...Maybe good for Europe..but thats it as far as range goes..wish sometimes someone would acknowledge that, and also more effort was made to extend range of vehicles.....because of course EV is a good thing, but it has to be practical across multiple contexts and locations.
Yeah I bought my PS2 for under 75k aud years ago and it's a bloody beauty, not letting it go for a fair while. Heaps of room, awesome service, scandi design, long distances. Live in the bush so flapjack fingerprints don't matter
3:20 “they [Polestar] really are the best in the business as far as dynamics and tuning…” Uhhhhhhh no. Literally all auto journalists would give that title to Porsche every year since about 1990 and maybe now second place would go to Lucid or BMW. Have you driven other cars before?
The price😵💫 And what advantage does it really have over any other EV SUV out there? Still not clear from this video. Sunroof for example, cool but can it open or does it have a shade? Not much talk about the practicality of this car.
Disappointing from ethical, environmental and cost point of view it doesn't use LFP batteries, especially with such a big battery. Be good if car reviews talked more about battery chemistry, as LFP also improve longevity of Car, and can reduce price of the car. New electric cars should phase out the use of Cobalt containing lithium batteries, so unethical Cobalt mining using child labour in African countries happens more often. If their promoting sustainable materials in the car, NMC battery chemistry makes even less sense.
Hey look another car most people can't afford. Greeeeeeat. So when are the Chinese EVs coming to North America? Tired of having to choose between retirement or nice vehicle. At this rate, I'll be drive ICE for another 20 years.
This is a very pricey vehicle with a questionable range with a questionable price for a full charge. And I'm not even bring into discussion the time needed for a full charge. This is not an evolution!
How many people who watch these videos can afford to buy one of these cars? And on which planet is this a non polluting vehicle? How does one know how accurate are all the “ facts and figures” are? All these WLTP figures have been proven to be exaggerated by the owners of these vehicles. Range extended vehicles should have been promoted and would have been better for the people and the planet.
Does efficiency maybe have a greater impact on sales than is acknowledged? Many cars give around double the mpkWh - why would you spend double the amount on mileage each year?
Love the look of that car, however too expensive and in Australia it falls within luxury price range with means there is a luxury car tax added on top of it.
decent car reviewed by a presenter who laid down the facts I wanted to hear.... refreshing.
This was a lovely video, very serene.
Polestar has a great line up of vehicles now and for the future. Great design. Great looking vehicles.
I love the relaxed vibe of this video. I also love listening to Imogen talk, she's such an incredible woman. Beautiful and nerdy at the same time in a good way 😁
she's really a great presenter !!
111kwh battery is enough for two cars. Can't see much future for Polestar.
My model Y RWD has the same range with literally half the battery
@Twin.motors this is more model X than model Y... your comparison doesn't make that much sense.
Other petrolhead reviewers have focussed more on the handling, braking, and performance of this car and have raved over that aspect. They say that the price is actually very competitive as the car is a match for far more expensive and sporty cars like the Porsche Taycan.
Cheers Imogen and the team
Imogen is just excellent. The iPace is looking pretty dated now although still a great car. I will be really interested in second hand prices when they reach the market especially ex-lease.
Good to know you can drive, Imogen.
I mean, I was always sure you could. But the boys usually hog all the car reviews that it's good to finally have some visual proof. ;)
I just wish it was built in Europe rather than China - only complaint, the car is just amazing
production starts in USA this summer
@@thomaswestin9987 I was talking about the European market specifically, sorry I wasn't clear. what I meant is that (aside from being made in the USA), it would have been nice to keep the car European, since it's a sort of sister company to Volvo (though I know, it's owned by a Chinese company).
@@Tortuex_ sure I would like it to be produced in Sweden but SUVs are easier to sell in the USA than in Europe, and Sweden has 1/35 of US population.
@@thomaswestin9987 not in the counties I've lived in, you see a loooooot of SUVs but idk about the rest of Europe to be fair so you might be right :/
In my part of Europe most “SUV’s” are crossovers in reality but I’m seeing a loot of more “American” style trucks unfortunately.
“Plenty of boot space” ? That must be a joke. For a car of this size the boot is way too small. This is not a practical car but a stylish car and we all know that styles will not last.
Jeah, i mean, whatever happened to station wagons. More room, lower profile. These cars are a menace on roads. Way to big.
You’re basically paying in weight and cash to cart around a giant battery you’ll never use. I mean who in their right mind does 600 miles (even 400 or 500) in one go without a break.
The same battery could power two decent regular sized cars and all you’d need is to improve charging speeds. So simply for that, their sheer wastefulness of it all, I don’t like it. Nice design but a pointless car.
the same argument could be made for giving a ICE car a 70 some even have 90-100 litre fuel tanks when a smaller car with 35 litre tank is smaller lighter goes a little further not having to haul around an extra 55-65 kg of fuel I would love the Mini Electric but it is impractical for other reasons (no 5 door option and a matchbox boot (200litre capacity) sure the earlier 32kwh with 28kwh usable loses its refuel advantage if you can't charge at hope and take advantage of lower unit cost for kWh instead of the 79p out in public. then a Hyundai Kona with 64kwh seems to be the happy medium for year round comfortably able to go longer trips without hopping from charger to charger
Too bad they have to charge so much to balance the books. So few people will ever get a chance to experience Polestar 3. Nice package here.
I think these qualifies as a Crossover and not a pure SUV.
Another crossover ........sigh
So enormous battery, poor efficiency and very expensive. This is definitely not something I would be considering.
Good review
Very good looking car
jlr's thunder is the v8 under the hood, they are nobody in the world of EVs. Why add them in the title.
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"nappa Leather" sounds so premium or sustainable, and yet its just skin of baby animal, not very sustainable! Even more cruel than normal leather
poor efficinecy and high price will kill off Polestar eventually.
I really like this reviewer. She's calm and has a soothing voice.
So much better than that smarmy bloke they employed after Jonny Smith left.
Grow up Lucas
She's charming and professional.
@@harrismedwell2386 I don't like his presenting, I do like Imogen's and Jonny's what's your problem? I'm not allowed an opinion?
@johnathelimousineline5910 Such a weird self-report of a comment.
I’ll buy it used in 3 years. Love my polestar 2.
I'm with you except I'll be looking at the Polestar 4
@@majord_nz actually, you’re right
What's out don't drive over a tank mine 😮
Doubt you will need to wait that long considering depreciation of EV’s currently
This is the thinking of poor people. Hahahahahaha
Nicely presented and a nice car. So nice to have a presenter who knows what they are talking about with no flash or glam. Just natural with no fillers !
You fancy her!
Cant blame you.
@@Mr35000000 She is lovely. Straightforward, natural, gorgeous. You sussed me out ! 💃💃🥰🥰🥰
This is such a quality piece of jurnalism. Thank you. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Too late for what?
They are in financial troubles
For that price you be far better off buying the refreshed Tesla Model S or X, Both are now the same price as Tesla have lowered the prices!
Polestars are over priced for what they are. Even if they start using the Tesla charging system soon they still are not worth the money.
I find it incredible how Mercedes, BMW, etc. charge 100k starting price for an SUV, and nobody bats an eye, but when a new brand does it - in my opinion better- then people are outraged. If you can't afford it, then go post angry comments in Mercedes videos too, because they've been doing that much longer than any of us have been alive for.
That's the thing: it's so frustrating to see ALL of these brands focusing so freaking much on expensive EVs (and cars in general). But people (granted, probably not the same people) will *brag* about their +$70k pickups and SUVs.
If they're going to spend an insane amount of money on a car, I'd at least like to see them going electric. Yes these materials and resources could be more efficiently used, but that is categorically not how capitalism works.
Mercedes, BMW, etc are luxury car brands. (They also sell vehicles that are 2 to 3 to 4x the amount of this Polestar.) They have been making cars for 100 +/- years. They are 'aspirational' brands. Don't get me wrong, I think the Mercedes EQS and EQE are hideous, inside and out, and are complete failures. The BMW iX is ugly, but I still kind of want one. Polestar is great, but they have a weird name (let's be honest) and don't have brand cache nor reputation.
@@bob808what’s weird about the name Polestar? I’d say it’s got cool Scandinavian connotations considering the brand is associated with Volvo.
@@bob808you know that polestar have been tuning cars for a long time. They were Volvos equivalent to BMW M division or AMG but more focused on STCC (Swedish touring car championship), meaning they actually made Volvos in to legit racing cars. If BMW branched of M division in to a new brand that would be polestar but without the legit racing heritage. And it’s not like Polestar hade a racing team 50-60 years ago they actually hade it with the same people still working and tuning Polestars today.
And polestar, Volvo and Zeekr have cooperation in Gothenburg cross working between the companies. They have the same engineers working on Polestar as they have on Volvo.
Polestar means northern star but could be said to be a bit of Swenglish for a native American English speaker.
Nobody bats an eye? Didn't mercedes announce that they are removing their EV platform because of low sales and Porsche Taycan prices drop like they're hot? I think people bat eyes and close wallets for these overpriced EVs that have lower quality interiors. With every passing year, compared to older versions, they are more expensive and have cheaper feeling materials. That is my experience with most EVs from German manufacturers.
Obnoxiously overweight car at 2.5 tonnes.
Similar to large SUVs with a gas engine... It is just a ridiculously large car... Should be a van or a station wagon, same space, less weight, better aero, better drive feel... SUVs are pointless IMO. Took many years of PR to get people to want them back in the 1990s...
Already folks on here saying people will never pay a lot of money for Chinese products...probably on their I-phones or expensive laptops built ..you know where.
Produced in China
And a Chinese brand
Are two completely different things
Name one big Chinese brand people like or desire
I phones and computers are mostly established formalised products, they are very simple compared to an electric car. I would say that an EV is very similar to an aeroplane, and a phone similar to a radio.
I’m old enough to remember people saying exactly the same thing about Japanese cars when they were first introduced to the Australian market.
@@JRNagel and later on it happened with the Koreans
And then the Chinese
We are past this point people are buying Chinese cars and it is only going to grow.
People did not say they will not buy Chinese cars they said they will not pay 75k for one
@@eden5260well Polestar isn’t a Chinese brand, it’s a Swedish brand a derivative from Volvo based on Volvos racing team Polestar. It’s designed and developed in Sweden, with Swedish engineers from both Volvo and Polestar all working out of Gothenburg. It’s 100% Swedish but the largest owner of polestar is Geely. When Volvo was owned by Ford no one considered it a US brand, even though many cars were built in the US.
Its going to flop, unless it gets massive price reductions
Oh, come on.. £ 80k ? Do you realise that from Birmingham upwards, with £ 80 k you buy yourself a nice 2 bedroom house with garden? And in the north even a 3 bedroom house? These prices are ridiculous.
I'll go for a £ 40 k Tesla or BYD all my life instead.
Lmao that price is WAAAAAY too high for a Chinese SUV.
I hope they won't be surprised when this flops like all other Polestars
Liked the background music on this one 👍
Spanish, tapas and sourdoughy vibes? 😊 For Polestar 3? 🤪
whats the sound called?
That efficiency is appalling. No way I'd ever consider a car that did less than 3.5 miles per kWh. My EV6 was not great and could manage that. My Tesla managed 4.5 and on a good day 5.
Fully agree. My MG5 gets similar if not better than your Tesla 😊 I used to have the Jaguar iPace. That was lucky to get 3, with 2.5 more the norm. EVs have a long way to go yet before they will be accepted by the masses. I find little point in buying an expensive EV that is going to lose half its value within 12 months, when MG knock them out cheap, and have similar range.
I don't think anyone who affords this car cares about a couple extra hundred pounds for electricity per year, when the depreciation is £10-15k/year.
@@szabiszekelyit's not a Lamborghini. If you can afford a 60k tesla you can afford a 70k polestar. The problem here is that this is a more expensive vehicle delivering less than cheaper alternatives..
@@Twin.motors efficiency is only one of many parameters when evaluating which car to buy and I would wager that in this price category it’s at the bottom of the list (comfort, style, driving feel for sure are more important). We have two (cheap) electric cars and we use about £50/month in electricity. Would I care if I had 50% worse efficiency and had to pay £75? Would someone who can affor to lose £10k/year in depreciation care?
@@szabiszekely efficiency is the measurement of good engineering. When manufacturers throw 111kw of battery to achieve things others can do with 80kw it's clear they don't know what they're doing
What's with the Jaguar Land Rover bit in the title? Didn't think I heard it mentioned in the video. Is there something I missed?
Perhaps Polestar is trying to become the new most unreliable manufacturer? lol
It's priced almost exactly the same as the RR Sport, so that's the market it's targeting.
@@beefiron It's a bit of bullying but I guess just showing what's trying to be a better car for the same price is a good marketing strategy if that gets sales.
@@spankeyfish Uh, no.
It's the same size as a Discovery (apart from height)
05:55 From the consumption point of view, a week ago I took my EV6 on a 380+ mile run to collect a cat. I expected about 3.5 to 4 miles per kWh, from watching reports. At home I usually get 4 to 4.5 most of the time.
I got 4.5 over the whole trip, averaging between 50 to 60 mph on the M3, M25 and A12. My overall average even went up. Count me impressed.
This does 2.7 to 3.1 OUCH!
I will keep my EV6. (Even if I had the extra 20 grand :-).
Do they not have cats nearer?
@@Mr35000000 There are several rehoming centres on the Isle of Wight (RSPCA and Cats Protection mainly), but you are limited to what cats come in, and as I already had 3 others, limited to cats who will live with other cats. That reduces the possibilities hugely: Most cats are not keen on mixing with others, in the case of already matched pairs tending to prefer their own existing 'family.'
If you are happy to adopt a kitten, there are choices, but they require attention full time that I can not give, as I work.
So in 2 years of looking, there have been less than a dozen that might might fit my circumstances, all adopted within a few weeks.
I never expected to get this puss, but he has had a hard start in life, and was returned after a month by his previous adopters: The kiss of death for a cat. I have unusual conditions that I thought he might accept, where most families would not suit him. Going much better than I expect a week in, but it will take time :-).
More of an answer than you expected I suspect!
@@coniow That was an extremely comprehensive answer, to my rather flippant comment.
You sound like a good person. I love animals, so you have my upmost respect.
I wish you & the cats all the best for the future.
🐈⬛❤
@@Mr35000000 Thank you :-).
For a cat who was expected to spend at least a week, and probably a month hiding away, he was exploring the house on his second night, and introduced to to of the 3 other cats in less than a week.
Guess nobody told HIM! :-)
@@coniow Thats great, he has found a happy home and seems to be loving it! Total respect!
Yes, it's nice that Polestar came up with creative design and color patterns to give that car a compact, less massive feeling. But when I'm driving around some narrow cobblestone streets in countryside villages or try to find a parking slot in the city, this will not change the fact that this car is yet another huge, massive SUV. I'm so fed up with this kind of car. Can't see them anymore
Very restricted visibility to rear three-quarters.
£70k but battery warranty 8 yrs!! 2/3 lease then car only has 5 years left - batteries out of warranty!! Cars scarp value.
If anyone buys this for "environmental" reasons then there simply a knob.
111kwh is a absolutely ridiculous amount of resources to put into a car that at best if charged from 100% solar (which it wont be ) will save roughly 2 tonnes of co2 per year.
Slice the battery into 10 which can be charged in the day by solar & you have successfully taken 10 houses of the grid & the net savings are greater than a figure of 10
This kind of greenwashing only works with people who dont see the bigger picture & dont understand that even if we can go 100% ev ( we cant ) it will make f*ck all difference as cars are a tiny percentage of the global co2 emissions but yeh look over hear at this ev not over there @ chinas 1200 coal burning power stations.
We need to burn hydrocarbons or its back to the stone ages thats a fact & we really do need to do something about it but evs wont do a thing
The EV benefit is zero tailpipe emissions at the point of use.
The 111kwh battery takes much less resources to build than sourcing and transporting the 17,000 litres of fuel which the average fuel powered car uses in it’s lifetime.
Also, lookup the amount of renewable energy China has built since 2022 💡
Another unaffordable car in a hyper saturated bracket. Waste of time.
2 1/2 minutes in and the first glimpse of the tablet stuck on the fascia - end of my interest.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one thinking that!
...ummm wdym finally? the 3 has been out and the polestar 4 is also out already
Kinda half-assed review singing praises to Polestar rather than actually looking at the car. What about the driving dynamics of all that fancy air suspension and torque vectoring? Front boot? Camera situation? And what about the title of the video? Why is it too late?
Yeah, feels like a lot of stuff lifted from the press briefing.
too late, too expensive!
All that weight, the unaffordable price and the cherry on top, the AI... lol
Not for people like you
@@azozazoz4117 Definitely not
That's a stunning car! The Venn diagram analogy was very apt. Great deep dive yet again by Fully Charged
"Yay" another massive, expensive SUV. Thank you for the review, Imogen I am looking forward to the smaller, lighter, more efficient, and cheaper cars that hopefully are coming soon.
I giggled at the back seat test when I thought, "we could do with an inflatable Jack so Imogen can do... The Jack Test" 🤣😊
Nice car but at that price it's making the Model Y look incredibly good value. The Model Y even has more boot space.
Hahahahahaha, not for people like you
you are comparing apples and oranges
@@azozazoz4117 Oh not for smart people who like value for their money, for thickos who overpay, that's kind of insensitive of you to say.
@@thomaswestin9987 I mean not really why is this chinese made Model Y clone worth £20,000-30,000 more? That's not a small price difference, I'm failing to see any features that elevate it to that price.
@@lucasfunkt It got better performance/ comfort than the tesla but still cant really say it is worth that much more. The polestar should be a bit lower in price atleast.
It's nice - bar the price, great presentation!
Looks great but I look at the price and its £80000 increaing to nearly £100000. Just an insane amount of money and they wonder why some EVs are stuggling.
People who can afford the price will buy it. People who can't will buy the affordable other cars. It has been forever thus, hasn't it?
not for people like you
Ev’s are still mostly targeted at the upper class but there already a few for middle class.
@@santostv. Class has nothing to do with it. There are many EVs for sale at a price similar to other cars. There have always been expensive cars, that only wealthy people can afford. Early adopters usually pay a higher price for new technology (EVs), which then become cheaper. So, those with higher disposable money kick start the market. Money and class are different things.
@@t4bs594 They are correlated imo, although been a “social construct”.
They all come with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto? I’m pretty sure that’s not true…
They implemented apple car play into polestar 3 & 4
Looks good but it may struggle at that price point.
Not only is it too late; the range is ridiculous given 4 year delay in production; should be at 400 mi range not stuck at 300 which by the way is really 240 given 15-18% real world range between charging and deductions for using a/c. I learned this hard way; buying a $70K EV.
Ridiculous price. I'd never pay that amount for any vehicle.
£75,900 ! Jeepers ! Not so much a means to transport people, more as a means to transport money from peoples’ wallets.
@@joe2mercs Its value will likely depreciate by 75% within 12 months. Good luck to any buyers of this PRC vehicle
Yet another expensive to buy and expensive to insure EV
You mention energy consumption in miles to a kWh, can you convert it to something more understandable? Like ft/Btu 😂?
Nice. Its a premium car, so its expensive, but that is typical of automotive marketing strategy. Its out of my price range, but there are plenty of folks who can afford it. Good luck to them. I will stick to my Tesla M3.
Not for people like you
Good review, comprehensive. I won't be shelling out £75k on one, but im sure plenty of people will. I love Polestar's focus on a sustainable supply chain.
Polestar have sold over 100,000 Polestar Model 2 cars. Polestar 2 no 100,000, was delivered to Ireland in early 2023.
Yes, 55,000 are the sales numbers from 2023 only. In Norway alone (with 5.5 mill people) around 14,500 Polestar 2's are sold.
that jacket is awesome
The POLESTAR is ALSO FROM CHINA LOLLL
Great review very well presented
Juggernaut
3 miles per kWh just isn't good enough.
Electric vehicles are a joke if you live in a rural area. They won't get you to the nearest city, hard use will drain the batteries in no time flat, the only thing they're good for is city driving.
If you live 400km or more away from town, you are right. But who does that?
@@peetfischer1269 Myself, and everyone else where I live. And more and more people are leaving the city because country life is FAR more affordable. Cities are for suckers.
@@gregmonks Sounds good. Let me see by myself. Which region are you living in?
Boring Horrible and Way overpriced especially if it comes to Australia 🤑🤒🤢🤮🥱😳
I ordered a Polestar3 and i’ll get it next week. I’m really very excited to discover my new car and after having driven Mercedes, BMW and Audi, I’m really curious about this new model. I’ll you know how fantastic the car is… or not.
😮 why has it got such a huge bonnet? What a waste of space! Especially as the boot is so tiny for such a giant beast.
And a tiny Frunk. Packaging for the bad engineering.
Subscribed. Excellent unbiased review with calm voice
ROFL...390 plus miles for those truly long car trips.. For starters...you really usually get 80-85% of usable miles from their so called stated miles...so 310 miles if you are lucky...0-80% in 30 mins if you can get 250kw charger....(good luck with that- so really an hour or more charging to 80%) and it is obvious the description for really long trips is from someone from a UK or western Europe perspective. Try living in Australia, Canada, or USA or other large countries....and no when you travelling in those countries....( will refer to Australia, where I grew up come from just to be clear) 310 miles doesn't get you that far...and no we don't like to sit around for hours waiting to charge a car in the middle of nowhere.. Bottom line...Maybe good for Europe..but thats it as far as range goes..wish sometimes someone would acknowledge that, and also more effort was made to extend range of vehicles.....because of course EV is a good thing, but it has to be practical across multiple contexts and locations.
$145-175k AUD 🤣 yeah nahhh. Hard to compare interior wise to a Tesla but I’m not paying more than double, they are dreaming.
Yeah I bought my PS2 for under 75k aud years ago and it's a bloody beauty, not letting it go for a fair while. Heaps of room, awesome service, scandi design, long distances. Live in the bush so flapjack fingerprints don't matter
@@WhiteEvo6 they have no resale value at all, same as all Chinese branded vehicles
Yawn! It looks exactly like every other SUV.......boring! And ridiculously expensive.
3:20 “they [Polestar] really are the best in the business as far as dynamics and tuning…” Uhhhhhhh no. Literally all auto journalists would give that title to Porsche every year since about 1990 and maybe now second place would go to Lucid or BMW. Have you driven other cars before?
That's terrible efficiency. For that battery size, I'd expect 500 miles range. Otherwise, looks quite nice, a bit like skoda enyaq or bmw x1 shape
The price😵💫
And what advantage does it really have over any other EV SUV out there? Still not clear from this video. Sunroof for example, cool but can it open or does it have a shade? Not much talk about the practicality of this car.
Disappointing from ethical, environmental and cost point of view it doesn't use LFP batteries, especially with such a big battery. Be good if car reviews talked more about battery chemistry, as LFP also improve longevity of Car, and can reduce price of the car. New electric cars should phase out the use of Cobalt containing lithium batteries, so unethical Cobalt mining using child labour in African countries happens more often. If their promoting sustainable materials in the car, NMC battery chemistry makes even less sense.
ev platform? why not show under the bonnet.
What are you expecting to find under the bonnet?
@@kimbels791 Embarrassing frunk and a nightmare of AC plumbing...
All for over twice the price of a Model Y (Australasia).
Showing cars above €50.000 i shouldn't be done.
And you guys flying out for the luxury, not so stop burning stuff 🎉.
Very uninteresting.
The car seems "ok" - honestly nothing exciting but really? 75k? Not for me. Also no discussion of charge rates, V2G etc.
Well done review! Thank you Imogen
I feel attacked by the fancy road bike comment
The car does absolutely nothing for me. There are much more interesting EVs available - which probably explains Polestar's low sales figures.
Hey look another car most people can't afford. Greeeeeeat. So when are the Chinese EVs coming to North America? Tired of having to choose between retirement or nice vehicle. At this rate, I'll be drive ICE for another 20 years.
25% overpriced - would never buy one at that price.
maybe you don't have the money ... Surely !
This is a very pricey vehicle with a questionable range with a questionable price for a full charge. And I'm not even bring into discussion the time needed for a full charge. This is not an evolution!
How many people who watch these videos can afford to buy one of these cars? And on which planet is this a non polluting vehicle? How does one know how accurate are all the “ facts and figures” are? All these WLTP figures have been proven to be exaggerated by the owners of these vehicles.
Range extended vehicles should have been promoted and would have been better for the people and the planet.
Another unnecessarily *_huge_* EV. Not interested. Somebody wake me up when there's a sensibly sized car to coo over.
Still crap. 😡
Does efficiency maybe have a greater impact on sales than is acknowledged? Many cars give around double the mpkWh - why would you spend double the amount on mileage each year?
Love the look of that car, however too expensive and in Australia it falls within luxury price range with means there is a luxury car tax added on top of it.
This interviewer was a breath of fresh air. They need to use her more instead of yet another boring bloke. (I’m male, btw).
25 speaker sound system is required? Sorry but no. That's excessive by any measure for a car.
2.5 tons. Too heavy, no thanks.
111kWh mind boggling? Hummer/Silverado EV says: hold my 🍺
Nice car, but should really be 800V to compete with cars like the Audi Q6.
484L space in the trunk is not big... even here the review is "nice" please try to be less obvious with the sponsored things ;)