Polestar 2 EV rapid charging at 150kw - Testing out BP chargemaster 150kw installation 

That is very impressive! And a huge benefit to reducing total travelling time. Can it maintain close to 150kw even with a cold battery?

@@ShortCircuitPS2 It does - the Ramp up might be a bit slower if not preconditioned but it reaches this speed and can maintain it throughout the charge session

Thanks, very kind!

Where in the video did I say 150kw when I should have said 175kw? I'd love to know!

Short Circuit I think he is referencing what the charger said on the screen just before you started the charge. You said the charger was a 150 a few times in the video but the charger screen displayed 175

Yes agreed. I definitely wouldn't want it any firmer!

Yes, not many of these in the country. I've got a Polar plus membership so this charge cost me £11.20. The Polestar 2 tends to charge faster if the battery is warm, perhaps a software update might improve this in the future as the car is fairly limited in terms of what it can receive.

Interesting thanks, I'll have to give that a try!

Thanks, our other lease car is an Outlander PHEV. Really like it but much prefer the drive and eco benefits of a full electric.

Thanks, wow very interesting to hear how tesla deal with the battery heat issue. I totally agree that the tesla charging network is a huge selling point for the brand!

Wow that's great charging speed! Tesla are definitely way ahead in this area. It would be great if the Polestar could heat the battery before reaching the charger.

@@ShortCircuitPS2 it is probably something they could add in a software update. I’m sure the polestar has the capability to heat and cool the battery.

@@audunskilbrei8279 They could add it, but like every other manufacturer beside Tesla, they're either inept, don't want to, and/or just don't care.

@@thelondonbroiler I think that is too harsh. They are an electric car only company(almost, I know the p1 is a hybrid) and I think they are absolutely invested in making the best electric car they can. This is their first mass market car and its still early days. Tesla has been at it for more than a decade now.

Great! That will be a fantastic car.

Make sure the battery is warm prior to DC fast charging if you want max speed, i guess there is no way you can affect the battery temp on the Polestar 2, the battery typically needs around 40 celcius to fast charge att maximum speed. Tesla has a software feature "Prectonditioning battery for fast charging" it is activated when navigating to a DC fast charger (supercharger) and it will heat the battery to the optimum temperature when (during the drive) arriving to the fast charger matching the temperature to the arrival time! Tesla also heats the battery when activating cabin heater (if needed) optmized for driving. Driving will gradually heat the battery, this is also a way to heat the battery prior to fast charging but you need to drive fast for at least an hour or more (depending on the starting temperature) Driving a short trip in winter to a fast charger in the morning is worst case scenario! :-)

Yes this is very true. I believe that if the battery is warm enough the Polestar 2 can reach 150kw but only for a very short part of the charge cycle. It does seem that in many videos people seldom achieve that.

Yeah it copes really well. It's quite firm, similar to the bmw 535d 2015 model I used to own. However it handles much better and feels more composed

Does the Polestar not do battery pre-conditioning when navigating to a charger then?

Yes very true, the tesla charging network is very good. And actually I've since read that in our area tesla are installing two new locations so their network is expanding too.

@@ShortCircuitPS2 Yes we're getting one here next year. As more competitors come to market, Superchargers will become a USP for Tesla. Even that will be lost as other networks expand though.

I don't think this one would. The Plugsurfing app lists chargers that their card works with, there are quite a number including the Shell chargers.

Clickbait!?! Well if you had bothered to read the title of the video it’s says 'using a 150 kW installation', not getting 150 kWs. And the car doesn’t show the charge rate in kWs, only mph, or did you miss that bit as well! So how do you know what the maximum kW rate was? Answer, you don’t.

@@iainmackie7064 The thumbnail says "150KW RAPID CHARGING" - does it? The title says "Polestar 2 EV rapid charging at 150kw" - does it? We see in the video the actual ABB charger is capable of 175 kW, so why do you claim a totally different thing?

@@abraxastulammo9940 The thumbnail says "Testing out BP chargemaster 150kW installation". How ambiguous is that? Obviously a little. I also said the car doesn't show the chargerate in kWs - I never mentioned the chargepoint. So once again all that is required is that you read what's actually written.

@@iainmackie5079 It is said the car had a consumption of 36 kWh / 100 miles and charge speed tops out at 254 mi/h so the math should be 36 kW * 2.54 = 91.44 kW net charging speed.

@@abraxastulammo9940 I'm glad you are not my maths teacher. I can't see how your formula will work. The consumption rate, 36kWh/100 miles has zero to do with the Charge rate. The consumption figure is just how many kWhs it used per 100 miles for the last journey. That figure won't change if you plug into a 7kW charger, a 50kW charger or a 150kW charger. Nor will the mph rate change if he had taken longer to get there and had a lower consumption rate of, say, 34 kWh/100 miles. So how are the two numbers related? I don't think they are. The car showed a variety of mph charge rates, the best being 254 miles per hour briefly. But how does someone convert that to kWs? The charge rate depends on what? Not the capacity of the battery, thats in kWhs, not miles. Possibly an algorithm of what Polestar think it should consumer per kWh. Does anyone know what that is? It's possible to work out the % increase, then convert that to kWhs and factor in the time (that info is also available on the chargepoint), ie X kWh in over Y minutes to get an average kW rate, but it's an average not a flow rate. In the video it shows 55 kWs went in over 45 minutes, so that's an average charge rate of 73.3kWs. That's why I think giving a charge rate in mph is completely useless. On AC the car gives it in Amps, so it's possible to convert that to kWs. Not sure why they don't give DC that way either, or even better give both as kWs.