- Proprietor reveals the great and the dangerous after 100,000 miles in a Polestar 2.
- The Polestar 2 is a Chinese language-made, Swedish-designed electrical sedan.
The Polestar 2 was the Swedish-based automaker’s first all-electric mass-market automobile. And for a very good few years, it was one of many fiercest opponents to the Tesla Mannequin 3–however then Polestar introduced the one model of the two accessible in the USA from 2025 will price over $65,000.
In contrast, the quickest Tesla Mannequin 3, the Efficiency All-Wheel Drive, prices $10,000 much less, which is some huge cash. The distinction is even greater when trying on the base Mannequin 3, which retails for $42,490 with out vacation spot charges.
Nonetheless, folks like Robert Dunn from the YouTube channel Getting old Wheels purchased a Polestar 2 and have very optimistic ideas in regards to the Chinese language-made EV. In Dunn’s case, his Polestar 2 has lately handed the 100,000 miles mark, which suggests quite a lot of stuff had the prospect to go improper–and the battery guarantee has ended.
So, how did this Chinese language-made, Swedish-designed electrical sedan maintain up after two and a half years and so many miles? In brief, fairly good.
On the subject of battery well being–which is probably crucial metric for EVs–this explicit Polestar 2 is at present at 88.8% battery well being, in line with the diagnostics software program utilized by Robert Dunn. When the automobile had 77,000 miles on the clock, the battery state of well being was at 91.5%.
In actuality, the degradation led to a variety lack of round 20 miles when driving from 100% to 0% state of cost, however Dunn hardly ever does that. As an alternative, he stated he’s virtually all the time preserving the battery between 10% and 80%, and the vary loss isn’t actually an enormous deal.
When new, this Polestar 2 Twin Motor Lengthy-Vary had an EPA-rated driving vary of 249 miles. It has a 75-kilowatt-hour (usable) battery pack and two 150-kilowatt electrical motors on every axle. Polestar up to date the two for the 2024 mannequin 12 months, when it obtained a much bigger battery and a single-motor model that was rear-wheel drive as a substitute of front-wheel drive.
Inside, the automobile nonetheless seems to be just about like new, offered it’s clear. There’s a little bit of discoloration on the driving force’s aspect speaker grille, the place the driving force’s knee rests. Additionally, the cushion on the driving force’s aspect door isn’t a cushion anymore as a result of he all the time rests his elbow there when driving.
The yellow seatbelts are getting soiled, and the air-con is intermittently performing up. when that occurs, a easy restart of the automobile normally solves it. The automobile additionally misplaced the GPS sign as soon as, and it might solely be fastened by way of a diagnostics instrument plugged into the automobile’s OBD port.
There are a collection of noises coming from the suspension and probably the rear CV shafts, however they’re not as necessary to warrant a restore, simply not but. Some suspension points have been fastened below guarantee free of charge, however that’s just about it. Tires and windshield wiper blades have been additionally modified a few occasions, however that’s completely regular for any automobile, as are the a number of rock chips on the bodywork and windshield.
