2021 Polestar 2: E3 - Hoist Review 

🤣 some of the old engineers where brilliant some where lazy and made rubbish 🗑💚🌎🤣

@Road 'N Turf I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Yup that comment made me chuckle.

Haha! Great line!

The advantage of old farts croaking off. Humans progress through older generations dying off.

Yeah. This one was epic. :D

stealing something that you won't remember not an easy task :D

Someone should put that on a tee shirt. :D

Glad to hear it!

@@MunroLive Your analyses demonstrate the difference between complaining and critical thinking.

Same.

Same

@@MunroLive I’m happy to go through ten times more detail.

He looks like he does not know that Volvo was also an aircraft manufacturer in the past (the surprise about welding).

Just throw Polestar 2 in the trash bin.

@@markplott4820 Why? It seems to be an above average engineered car. The money is spent on the battery and software. Also, the less complicated a car is, the easier it is to fix.. No one wants a car that is over engineered.

@@mamadouaziza2536 - the POLESTAR 2 is an OVERWEIGHT and OVERLY Complex vehicle , built from a GAS car platform. in Comparison TESLA has FEWER parts , fewer Fuses and Fewer ECU than POLESTAR . TESLA is going to TOTAL Underbody casting and a Structural battery pack. saves 900 Robots and processes.

@@markplott4820 Hmm, ok. BMW's i3 is a lightweight car constructed with carbon fibre, plastic and uses fewer parts than a Tesla...

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That's what Mandy Sunro said.

I suspect it's a bit like the first-generation jet airliners and bombers like 707 and B-52 (especially after the Comet and B-47 accidents). The engineers decided that they didn't quite understand the forces they were dealing with so they way overbuilt everything. Right now I suspect the manufacturers are more concerned about gaining market share and maintaining a reputation in this still relatively developed market. As these companies get better understanding of the most common failure modes on electric vehicles they will commence with cost reduction in ways that they believe will not increase failure rates signifigantly. But right now it is probably too much risk for them to try to save a few dollars on each car produced.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, will do!

GM also almost killed Opel, glad to see they are now part of Stellantis!

Yeah, for all the China hate that the sheep are spewing all over the internet, it's actually American car brands that are the death-mark of cars. Same with Opel, run into the ground by GM then rescued by PSA at the last moment.

Yep! And Volvo was owned by Ford for a considerable time as well, and while it did not end up as badly as for Saab, the guys at Volvo weren't very happy about Ford:s management practises... Geely is a lot more hands-off, basically "We'll get you a bunch of cash, you do your thing!" - and it's working out very well.

You know I was wondering after Sandy's (mostly) glowing inspection of the Mach-E just how many Ford engineers from that team had Munro quotes from those videos printed out and stuck up on internal message boards or if management shared the YT links to make sure they got to see them.

A brown nose LOLOL

Fantastically built car.. Very impressive.

You are so welcome!

I had uncle like him. The most amazing guy I ever met. Oh Lord how I loved him as a kid! He was so obsessed with his passions that he had no time left to grow old. And then he got Alzheimer’s and it was such a horrible thing to watch. But he was still himself. Even at the end his old self kept coming back. Like a miracle- the poor man was sitting there, completely absent. And then all of sudden he joined the conversation in the middle of it, said something totally on topic, had a little argument and switched off back again... I think it’s that constant being in the topic you love that keeps you so fresh. You never stop, so the age can’t keep up?

@@JorgTheElder Polestar is still very Swedish as well. Some Volvos are made in China and I can't really tell the difference between those and the Swedish-made or Belgian-made ones.

Needs another 100 miles of range for the price...weight makes you wait...when charging... and getting approved for that car loan .

True, but remember Volvo wants you to subscribe, not purchase. ;) That being said, their subscription is a great deal if you are going to spend this kind of money on a car, but I think only Volvo, not Polestar, does the subscription. The XC40 BEV is now available for subscription in Europe, probably a few months out in the US.

I wonder why?

Glad you like them!

My pleasure!

Our pleasure!

Exactly! I like Sandy, but he tends to view each car on its own, rather than as a corporate platform that needs economy of scale.

You're welcome!

Glad you like them!

Right, i was waiting for an explanation also.

you get actual luxury though with this.

Polestar 2 is a LUXURY brand, compared to TESLA, Polestar 2 is competing with i-pace, e-TRON and other luxury cars, TESLA is OUTSELLING All of them.

No what you are getting is a vehicle that shares platform with the gas version of Volvo XC40 that starts at~$35k. While the base BEV version of the XC40 starts ~$55k and this Polestar 2 starts at ~$60k. It’s their low end platform that’s been modified here. That’s no more luxury than a low end Buick or Accura.

@@patr5902 never understood the problem with simply converting a gas car to an electric one. Makes more sense than going back to the drawing board.

@@patr5902 BTW, the Polestar 2 starts in the $40s when the lower trims arrive. The first release is the fully loaded version. I own a Volvo and a Tesla that cost around the same amount of money. My Volvo feels much more luxury than the Tesla.

Our pleasure!

All cars have larger discs in the front because of weight transfer when braking. For the same reason, EV regenerative braking in the front is safer (stability) and more efficient.

Explains the placement of the inverter as well.

Thanks, we have a great team!

No problem!