REVIEW: The $60,000 Polestar 2 luxury EV solves the worst part about driving a Tesla
"Take away my sight, and I'd be tempted to guess I'm at the wheel of the Tesla Model 3, about as good an electric car as can be driven. But I'd know better because something feels different: Things here are more substantive, more satisfying."
"The interior is built to be something an actual human would use and enjoy - not a button-free, avant-garde exercise in alternative design. This is the all-new Polestar 2, you see, and it drives like a finished version of the Model 3."
"Huh." He studied it a bit longer. Nodded in approval. "Looks better than a Tesla!"
"Finally, as an Android user, I was stoked that the car came with Android as its native operating system. For too long I've been frustrated by all the different operating systems each automaker uses. All of them are different. Very nearly all of them are bad. Just leave designing the OS up to the people who actually design OSes!"
"Interestingly, while the Tesla did travel the furthest, it was the least efficient."
It is really nice to see there are driver-friendly legacy-based EVs on the horizon and some look like they are going to be very good. Perhaps more and more people will go EV now that there are really good traditional vehicles coming out. Thanks to Elon the EV world is rapidly moving forward. He must be pleased to see his aspirations coming to fruition.
"The interior is built to be something an actual human would use and enjoy - not a button-free, avant-garde exercise in alternative design. This is the all-new Polestar 2, you see, and it drives like a finished version of the Model 3."
"Huh." He studied it a bit longer. Nodded in approval. "Looks better than a Tesla!"
"Finally, as an Android user, I was stoked that the car came with Android as its native operating system. For too long I've been frustrated by all the different operating systems each automaker uses. All of them are different. Very nearly all of them are bad. Just leave designing the OS up to the people who actually design OSes!"
"Interestingly, while the Tesla did travel the furthest, it was the least efficient."
It is really nice to see there are driver-friendly legacy-based EVs on the horizon and some look like they are going to be very good. Perhaps more and more people will go EV now that there are really good traditional vehicles coming out. Thanks to Elon the EV world is rapidly moving forward. He must be pleased to see his aspirations coming to fruition.
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The reviews of the Polestar 2 have been very good when it comes to the Android interface and the driving comfort. But the reviewer's, Bjorn for example, have all measured the charging speed and it's bad, really bad. After the Fed tax credit the Polestar will cost about the same as a Model Y and as a city car it's absolutely fine but it's going to be a terrible road trip car.
What people care about is the User facing application that they see and interact with. Tesla’s is better than most, but has its issues - just like every other UI known to Mankind.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/polestar-2-recall-inverter/
Howie, enlighten us. What OS is running on our 3s?
Or are you still busy googling md5sum and practicing counting in octal?
> Finally, as an Android user, I was stoked that the car came with Android as its native operating system. For too long I've been frustrated by all the different operating systems each automaker uses. All of them are different. Very nearly all of them are bad. Just leave designing the OS up to the people who actually design OSes-Howard
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> Howie, enlighten us. What OS is running on our 3s?
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"The interior is built to be something an actual human would use and enjoy - not a button-free, avant-garde exercise in alternative design. "
That line says everything. This is just another person who liked the Studebaker because that's what his/her dad drove and it was just fine and would still be driving it today if they could live that long.
Next.
Tesla is running their own UI, I don't know if their API is entirely homegrown or if they run a subset of Android, but porting apps to it is much harder then it is for Android Automotive, that's why we don't have Google Maps or Waze just Tesla's navigation app. Both Android and Tesla are using a Linux kernel but that's irrelevant, the API for the GUI is what's important.
The Android Automotive UI is the Polestar's best feature. The car itself suffers from the fact that it's derived from an ICE platform and as such it's not very efficient which is why it's range sucks. They also haven't done a good job with the battery charging, everyone who has tested it has said it's very slow. Maybe they will be able to fix it in the future but for now it's the car's Achilles' heel.