Articles tagged "Polestar"

It is quite interesting how the automotive, and electric car in particular, brands evolve. Take the Polestar - first a tuning company for Volvo, then an in-house performance division that eventually became an independent brand within the Geely auto...

Polestar’s first electric SUV, th ePolestar 3, was unveiled last year, and while its European and US pricing has been on the more expensive end of this category EVs, its Chinese debut originally came with a shocker. The company officially...

The Polestar 2 BST 270 was a limited run of 270 units. Before that, it was a special version of the Polestar 2 made for the Goodwood Festival. Next week, Polestar is going to unveil the "next edition" of the Polestar 2, and it looks a lot like a new...

The Polestar 4 is out on the roads and already testing ahead of its debut later this year. This is the very first time we get to see the actual car and first impressions are quite good. The Polestar 4 is meant to fill in the gap between the recently...

Today Polestar announced a renewed partnership with Luminar. The Polestar 3 is now available to order with integrated LiDAR tech supplied by Luminar, and there will be a Luminar-made LiDAR option for the upcoming Polestar 5 too, when that...

Welcome to your first look at the Polestar 4 in the wild. The Polestar 4 is a sporty all-electric SUV that Polestar is tipped to launch in 2024. Think of it as a direct Tesla Model Y competitor. The couple of snaps below are from a test car found...

It is no longer a rumor, earlier today we shared leaked information about the updated Polestar 2 and now the company went out and confirmed all the information and added some more details. The 2024 Polestar 2 is shaping up to be a really competitive...

Polestar 2 will get a specs update in 2024 and the details of that one were revealed prematurely by the German EV news outlet Nextmove. The changes are quite significant for some trims, others get a lesser bump. Let’s have a closer look! The...

Polestar is releasing a series of videos about the Polestar 3 as part of its In detail series, which will tell us more about different aspects of the new car. The first two are all about the SmartZone and the front wing, but there will be others...

Google announced a new HD version of its Maps service for cars with the Android Automotive operating system. The new HD maps will provide more detailed road markings, lane-level localization, road barriers and signs. The feature will debut on the...

If you want the highest performing, sportiest Polestar 2, you can't have one anymore. That's because the highest performing, sportiest Polestar 2 is the Polestar 2 BST 270 Edition, which was a limited edition of 270 units - all reserved already. The...

Today at CES in Las Vegas Nvidia announced that its GeForce Now game streaming service is headed to cars. Specifically, cars from BYD, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, and Polestar. No special equipment (other than one or more controllers, we presume) will...

The Polestar 3 is planned for Q3 next year, but the company is going to showcase at CES 2023 an integral part of the vehicle called Smart Eye. It's a closed-loop system that monitors the driver and can potentially prevent fatal...

Polestar has started offering a new over-the-air software update for the Polestar 2 in the US, but this isn't your regular, run-of-the-mill, bug fixing update. Nor is it free. This one nets you an extra 69 horsepower and 15 pound-feet of torque,...

While many other electric car companies, especially the young ones, struggle to post meaningful profits and are held back by delays, Polestar just joined the likes of Tesla and reported its first profitable quarter in a short time since it became a...

Polestar has raised $1.6 billion in funding that would see it has enough funds to go until 2023. The funding was split between Polestar's top two shareholders - Volvo and PSD Investment, owned by Eric Li, chairman of both Volvo and parent company...

Polestar 3 - the long awaited first SUV from a 5 year old electric car brand that managed to revolutionize the EV industry, in the short time since it burst onto the automotive scene. You could say Polestar 3 is a story of plenty - it has plenty of...

A market research for September in Germany shows some promising results for the automotive industry in the country. The total amount of cars sold in September 2022 compared to the same month in 2021 grew 14,1% and 19.7% of those are fully...

Polestar announced today that the prices of its only model available in China will be increased immediately due to sharp rises in costs of raw materials. The price increase isn’t permanent and the company will review it again before the end of this...

If you are a Polestar fan - mark your calendar for October 12, 1PM ET or 5PM GMT. Polestar will take the covers off its first, all-electric SUV, the Polestar 3. With the official announcement, the company released some more details about its...