Took delivery of my Polestar 2 yesterday and early impressions are it's really good. It's a great looking car IMO, it's got a beefy american muscle car stance about it.
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What's wrong with the passenger side?.. Not scraped it already?
What's wrong with the passenger side?.. Not scraped it already?
I think the Polestar is a good-looking car, but for me they’re too heavy, too expensive and utterly fail to solve a problem. Unless the problem is ‘I don’t way to pay BiK tax on a company car.’
100% agreed, Mike. The whole thing is a badly thought-out knee-jerk reaction to a problem. With petrol cars able to do far more mpg than ever before* - and improving all the time - this is a choke on ICE efficiency innovation in the car industry and a steer in the wrong direction.The BIK issue is a biggie, and the rise of plug in hybrids for sure.
Crazy thing is especially with a hybrid, and when used as a company car properly, not just a perk to the office and back, the battery pack is dead, you are carrying then excess weight, with a poor fuel efficient petrol engine with poor mpg.
As an opted out company car driver, it makes no sense to go EV or hybrid. Cars simply too expensive for a start.
Actually, that's a thing EVs are excellent at: allowing owners to feel like they're making a token effort which justifies the V8/10/12 parked next to them.The Polestar works for me as a company vehicle and I’m happy to embrace EV’s going forwards but I’ll also have a weekend car at some point. My heart wants a V12 Vantage but my head is saying V8 for now.
A few, but they were generally all pretty similar. We chose the Pod Point in the end (as recommended by Audi and several other marques) and have been perfectly happy with it.
And they all use the same battery pack and you can drop and swap at a battery stationNow, if electricity generation can become more sustainable AND leccy car production can be more efficient AND leccy cars made lighter (anyone fancy a head-on with a 2.5t slab of battery-powered car..?) then I see the point. We're a way off that.
... and the batteries don't degrade beyond any usefulness and can't be recycled after maybe 7 years.And they all use the same battery pack and you can drop and swap at a battery station