Polestar has taken the subsequent step in its improvement as the electrical overall performance logo with the display of the brand new Polestar 2. Polestar 2 is the brand new all-electric powered fastback that brings electric powered overall performance motors to a broader and more and more more modern target target market. It gives avant-garde layout and a completely unique client revel in withinside the top class compact electric powered segment. Polestar 2 is the primary electric powered automobile to compete withinside the market across the Tesla Model 3, with the variety beginning at a manual fee of 39,900 euros. For the primary one year of production, manual fee of the release version is 59,900 euros.
"Polestar 2 is our first absolutely electric powered automobile and primary extent model. Everything approximately it's been designed and engineered with ardour and dedication. As an electric powered overall performance logo, and thru the drawing close release of a portfolio of absolutely electric powered motors, Polestar is decided to cope with the international's air high-satisfactory challenges. Polestar can provide electric powered overall performance motors which are high-quality to very own and pressure," says Thomas Ingenlath, Chief Executive Officer of Polestar.
Polestar 2 is a top class five-door fastback with electric powered vehicles and a seventy eight kWh battery capability so as to allow a centered variety of 500 km, primarily based totally on Volvo Car Group's adaptable Compact Modular Architecture platform (CMA). The 27-module battery percent is incorporated into the ground and contributes to the pressure of the chassis in addition to improves the automobile's noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) levels - street noise has been decreased through 3.7 dB as compared to a conventional chassis.
For Polestar, overall performance underlies the whole using revel in. The all-wheel pressure electric powered powertrain in Polestar 2 produces three hundred kW (408 hp) and 660 Nm (487 lb-ft). This interprets to a 0-one hundred km/h acceleration time of much less than five seconds.
The fashionable dynamic chassis may be more suitable through the Performance Pack that improves using dynamics with Öhlins dampers, Brembo brakes and particular 20-inch solid wheels. Polestar's signature gold seat belts, brake callipers and valve caps entire the overall performance visuals.
Highlighting the generation spearhead function that Polestar performs withinside the Volvo Car Group, Polestar 2 is one of the first motors withinside the international to embed an infotainment gadget powered through Android. The Android spine offers a strong and adaptable virtual surroundings for apps and automobile capabilities to coexist, and brings embedded Google offerings to a automobile for the primary time - inclusive of the Google Assistant, Google Maps with help for electric powered automobiles and the Google Play Store. Natural voice manage and a brand new 11-inch contact display screen show convey the brand new interface to life.
Phone-as-Key generation allows automobile sharing and a extra incorporated possession revel in, in addition to Polestar's related offerings including percent-up and delivery. It additionally permits Polestar 2 to experience the driving force upon approach. Smart functions like enlarged pics withinside the device cluster permit the driving force to effortlessly see the charging repute and variety earlier than coming into the automobile. Polestar 2 also can predetermine the driving force's subsequent pass to create a unbroken revel in with a organized cabin and brief begin sequence.
Maximilian Missoni, head of Design at Polestar, comments: "We determined to convey some thing exclusive to the segment. Our avant-garde layout has advanced from Polestar 1 into an edgier, bolder statement. We have additionally designed a fashionable vegan indoors with modern textiles so as to attraction to the forward-wondering target target market who will enroll in Polestar 2."
Design-led functions encompass Pixel LED headlights and proximity lighting fixtures which allow a completely unique welcome sequence, Polestar's now-signature frameless aspect mirrors and the particular illuminated Polestar logo, that's contemplated onto the automobile's panoramic glass roof.
In not unusualplace with all Polestar motors, Polestar 2 will handiest be to be had for ordering online. The manual buy fee for the release model of Polestar 2 is 59,900 euros with subscription pricing to observe at a later date. Pre-orders are open at polestar.com. Production of Polestar 2 starts offevolved in early 2020 in China for worldwide markets in each left- and right-hand pressure.
Polestar 2 will make its first public look on the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show in March, after which embark on a worldwide roadshow in Europe, North America and China in the course of 2019. Polestar 2 can also be to be had in a community of soon-to-be-opened Polestar Spaces so as to offer bodily viewing and take a look at pressure opportunities.
Initial release markets encompass China, the United States, Canada, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Other markets are below attention for destiny expansion.
