Polestar 2: Latest Software with New Range Assistant, Apple Maps and Waze Tested in Practice (P2.10) 

I love the Polestar 2 - fabulous looking car. It’s the car that has ended my obsession with the Tesla Model 3.

This, like all of your videos, is excellent: well-organized, thorough, presented in a clear and engaging manner, and highly refined post-edit. It's evident that each must take a great deal of time to produce. Here you cover so much ground that I need to go back and re-watch different parts (for which your chapter times are most helpful). That's in part because much of the video applies to my Volvo C40 (and to the Volvo XC40 Recharge). I have also learned a great deal from your many BMW i3 videos, as we own one of those (formerly two) as well.

Thanks for the detailed overview! About to "test drive" a Polestar 2 on vacation in the UK and then probably buy one in the US immediately after getting back lol. Two great features I'm now looking forward to thanks to this video - Apple Maps on the information cluster via Carplay, and the fact that Android Automotive lets ABRP access the car's state of charge! Very cool.

this is the car review i have been looking for, focussed on the software

Love the polestar. This is a real car and a special one!! Drove this car many times. Soon I have my hands on one🚘☀️

Well Done.

That was so good. Shocked that with Apple Maps the instruments cluster doesn’t tell you about upcoming turns.

Enjoyed that video thanks. Always a good watch. Will Google maps in the car also do the ABRP thing of working across Europe with recommended stops etc. planning a drive to Spain and Portugal over a couple of days from Cheshire. If so, it would be a direct equivalent to Tesla I suppose?

Loved this video! If Polestar can integrate Apple Maps' automatic ev route planner it would be perfect! As nowadays I prefer Apple Maps over Google Maps

Interesting. I need to experiment with options on my Megane E-Tech which like the Polestar also has built in Google Maps though Android Automotive. For finding exact location in a rural area where the postcode may not be specific enough for a particular property I would like to be able to bring up What Three Words as a final destination but I have been told that as yet it is not yet comparable with CarPlay in the car.

I have recently test driven a Polstar 2 (2023 U.S. version) and the experience I had confirmed that I will soon purchase the 2024 when available. I did notice one detail or feature that was not available (to my knowledge), which was when using one pedal driving and you come to a stop at a traffic light or any stop, there is no indication that the car has the brake engaged or is in park mode. My spouse has a BMW I-4 and when you stop, it indicates or displays "Auto Hold, Park" until you resume or press the accelerator. Does the update provide some similar light or indication that the car will not roll? I could get use to it but I like the indicator provided in the BMW.

Hey! Do you enjoy the Polestar 2? Is there any "rattles" or interior noises?

I wonder if the Android automative would have an UBER (DRIVER APP)

The only thing I’d like extra: paddles to change regen options faster on the drive. Because I can judge when I need coast or regen but don’t want to keep going to screen

I am about to move from Tesla Model 3 to Polestar 2. I am hoping this latest update will be available in a 2022 model !

Is _EV routing in Apple Maps_ available in CarPlay with a direct access to the battery charging level information? Otherwise, it's useless on an EV.

Wouldn’t you agree, if ABRP did not glitch out, it would be better than the rest, even the built-in? It accounts for many EV related and important factors. So this is what I am looking forward to.

Can you run youtube client while driving?

So it fine to navigate on the screen while on the motorway taking your eyes of the road but using a phone is a no no...

Car play is essential, only downmarket brands omit this.

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This is utterly hilarious: 1. People get hypnotized by Apple marketing into buying their fenced-garden products, some of which are quite limited in many ways. 2. Needing a map fo their day-to-day driving, they soon discover how poor Apple Maps is. 3. Trying to circunvent the hardship they brought upon themselves, they look for third-party solace and find Waze. 4. They then buy a car that is the first one to improve on an already pretty good car digital suite (Google Auto) by featuring a dedicated development of such tool (Google Automotive). 5. Being used to suffer, they then try to keep using Waze, either via an awkward cable connection, or by putting up with a third-party app in Google Automotive that impairs one of the best features in the car - replicating the map together with turn-by-turn directions in the driver's display. 6. Meanwhile, all through this "song and dance" they fail to realize that Google Maps, which is already an excellent all-around mapping tool in many platforms and is pretty much perfectly implemented in Google Automotive is right there, at their fingertips, to do exactly what they've been looking for all along...Not being able to think with our heads and just choosing to blindingly follow the crowd leads to some really hilarious results, sometimes.

Waze is shit my system on my Kia is 7 times better then waze or google maps. + I payed for the infotainment... I do not need to touch my cellphone in a car, usefully