• Officially up to 406 miles of range
• Real-life efficiency less impressive
• Reasonable charging times

What are the running costs?

How much it costs you to run will largely depend on how you choose to charge. Filling up at home, overnight, preferably on an electric-car specific tariff will be the cheapest. While the most expensive option – almost on parity with petrol – will be found at a rapid charger, typically in service stations.

According to our miles per pound calculator, you should be able to do 4.8-12.4 miles per pound officially. On paper it looks similar to the Tesla Model 3 and BMW i4 and it tracks like that in real-life testing too.

Range and charging

The Long Range version of the single motor will officially do 406 miles. This is the longest range on offer, but in our real-world experience it’ll do more like 330 miles if you take it easy. Spend all your time on the motorway and it can drop below 280 miles. A Model 3 is capable of travelling far farther.

The Standard Range single motor will officially cover 331 miles while the Long Range Dual Motor and the same model with the Performance Pack will officially cover 367 miles. We’re yet to do any meaningful range testing with these models but will report back once we do.

If you have a middling 7kW wallbox at home, an overnight charge would take a theoretical 7 hours from empty for the Standard Range Single Motor and 8 hours for every other model. Track down one of the emerging, faster 150kW public rapid chargers and 0-80% should take 34 minutes for the Standard Range Single Motor and 28 minutes for everything else.

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Servicing and warranty

There’s a large number of Polestar service points in the UK, all thanks to the company’s collaboration with Volvo. What’s more, every Polestar 2 comes with free, scheduled maintenance for the first three years of ownership, or 31,250 miles, whichever comes first. Over-the-air updates also allow remote maintenance of the car, ensuring it’s running the latest version of its onboard software

As for the guarantee, the 2 benefits from a three-year or 60,000-mile vehicle warranty (whichever comes first), eight-year or 100,000-mile battery warranty (whichever comes first) and 12-year corrosion warranty.

Reliability

• Polestar models share Volvo parts…
• …Meaning no red flags with reliability
• Free breakdown assistance for three years

Polestar is a relatively new car company so there’s not much available data on the reliability of its cars. However, since they share much of their underpinnings and parts with Volvo, you can expect Volvo-esque reliability from the range. That is to say, better than average.

Should your Polestar have a manufacturing issue that requires repair, your local service point will arrange pickup and delivery free of charge, as well as provide a courtesy vehicle. Meanwhile, if a breakdown occurs, the 2 comes with three years’ breakdown assistance in 45 European countries included as standard.