2024 has to be Polestar’s year. Created in 2017, floated in 2022 and with just 55,000 cars delivered in 2023, ‘the European Tesla’ has so far struggled to emulate the sales or stock market successes of its Californian rival. Polestar’s share value fell 57% in 2023. In February this year, Volvo – the company that created Polestar in a joint venture with Geely – announced it would cease funding and look to reduce its stake.
Climb into the back and it’s roomy in the extreme . Headroom is fine for six-footers; tighter if you’re taller. The interior design is quirky but gorgeous, with a neat wing motif that runs around the front of the cockpit and, mirrored, behind second-row occupants, making you feel snug and safe and happy. The vast panoramic roof can be optioned with electro-chromatic glass and, despite the lack of natural light from behind, there’s no sense of claustrophobia thanks to gentle ambient lighting .
By modern EV standards neither the Dual motor nor Single motor cars are ballistic in a straight line. Even the Dual motor’s clout is blunted by a kerbweight of circa 2.3 tonnes. But get into the interesting bits, like braking and changing direction, and the 4 begins to shine like a, well, like a pole star.
Through that sweeper, studded with its evil-looking drain covers, side-skip is sublimely controlled in the Dual motor car, on 22-inch wheels with performance tyres, and our trajectory barely any less resolute in the passively-damped Single motor car. As he drifts, we talk. ‘The turn-in response, it’s good. It’s very easy to turn in the car. Then I accelerate, I slide a little, and I can play with it… If you tune the chassis without ESC – really tune the balance, with no electronics – this is the best way. Then you create a car that is predictable, in harmony. Then you put the stability control systems on top of this. This so important for the customer, whether they can describe what they’re feeling or not. It’s the same with the steering.
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