The Tesla Alternative: A New Electric Vehicle to Consider

As we continue to navigate the world of electric vehicles, it's natural to explore alternative options that may offer similar benefits without the high price tag. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the Polestar 2, a new electric vehicle that's generating buzz in the automotive community.

I think it would be a pretty decent alternative other than the space limitations in here but like a lot of people don't need like I lift my leg up and then like I usually don't drive many people around so whatever. Yeah, and then if you've got like a small kid or your wife's not like six feet tall she could probably sit behind the driver too. There was one thing I thought the wife's driving and you're under six feet tall and you could sit in the back too.

There is also one thing that bothered me, which is that uh since the car is only on when you have it in reverse or drive you can't preheat it if it's not plugged in so let's say I went to your house, I don't live there, we had a play date with our kids, I wanted to pre-heat my car outside because it's cold out, I couldn't do that. Yeah, and I guess the app doesn't work in Canada; we couldn't connect to it here. Yeah, so yeah, I bet there's an app for the states; I think yes, it recently got announced.

I don't know if this is less overwhelming and I think it's more calming to drive. I actually think this is better than the EQS because like, the EQS had a bunch of crazy stuff, but I didn't necessarily like all the craziness. I like I like a lot of the simplicity of this; really like I really like the C40. I like a lot about this and yeah, I don't know, I kind of like all the lights on the EQS, but it's like a way more expensive car too.

Yeah, and like the ambient lighting is really nice and calming and stuff, you can see it during the day, which is a really nice interior overall. It's just uh, it's got some things to it; I feel like it's mostly the charging infrastructure that really needs improvement because even Ivy said like, you need an app for that right? Yep, and then they sent out an email saying that apparently, they're working with a Canadian company to make uh paying easier. And I talked to the guy, and that's just literally a QR code that you can scan and pay for.

But like, I feel like QR codes can get vandalized in public too, like I went to Collingwood, and I had to park in front of a beach, and I had to scan a QR code put in my license plate and pay through a browser that was just a sign outside the road. And I'm like, this is so sketchy; I'm really giving my credit card to a sign on the side of the road. Yeah, to a browser that yeah, I don't even know if this is a real company or not.

Moving on to the price, the Polestar 2 starts at $58,950 Canadian, and the dual motor version costs $74,950. This makes it a more affordable option compared to other electric cars, especially for those looking to save money upfront. However, the single motor front wheel drive version is available for five grand less than the all-wheel drive version.

In terms of performance, the Polestar 2 is surprisingly fun to drive and handles really well, making it one of the more enjoyable electric cars on the market. Its design is also quite stunning, with a cool conversation starter that's sure to turn heads.

Finally, we'd like to hear from you. What do you think of the Polestar 2? Do you have any other questions or concerns about this electric vehicle? Let us know in the comments below. We'll see you at the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign control my bad oh it's pretty damn quick we're spouring torque 408 horsepower 487 pound-feet of torque from two electric motors making this all-wheel drive heck yeah what's the range in this thing the range is quoted to be 418 kilometers because this is an electric car yes however Polestar recommends that you charge up to 90 so when I did that the range was actually 380 kilometers and did you test the range and everything I did I actually tested a lot of different things I do have a large charging rant which I will save for the end of the video so make sure you stay tuned for that but for now let's get to all the good stuff the looks this thing looks fantastic I love the wheels the wheels are the coolest the coolest wheels of all time the wheels are incredible great job pole star these are the optional wheels and you should 100 optional I feel like Volvo and Pulstar always kill it with their wheel designs yeah they did and uh what would be the Continental recommended tire for a pull star R2 the extreme contact dws-06 plus next thing I love the tail lights I think they look awesome when I was close to a poster on the highway I was like wow that looks sweet but then from a distance when I saw you doing a U-turn I'm like what's this guy in the Sonata doing a U-turn for and I'm like oh yeah it's Jacob the only the rims the rims were the thing that I noticed that were different the tail lights are sonata-ish but they're like squared off on this one they do look really really good though and then the headlights are just like normal I guess whole star headlights yes which are not Volvo headlights okay so if you don't know pole star is owned by the company that owns Volvo geely in China yes it's a spin-off of Volvo because pole star was the performance division of Volvo and now it's its own thing which is a luxury thing which is fully electric and it's also performance-ish because there's a performance package available for this car which we don't have and that's why we don't have the yellow seat belts like we did in the Volvo Pulstar Edition or the pole star the top pole Stars have yellow seat belts the Volvo pull Stars no but the top post are pole stars have yellow seat belts yes and then you have like adaptive olins dampers and whatnot manually adjustable yes also uh wait back to looks okay I really like the body lines I think it looks nice clean design and I don't mind that little sticker with the badge thing I think that's an interesting take on badges yeah and it tells you the battery level and that your kilowatt AKA horsepower so I don't know it's it's weird and then quickly we pop the front there's a little bit of room there and this is a hatchback not a trunk even though it looks like a trunk and there's a decent amount of room in the trunk trunk there is and back to what Polestar is I had a quick conversation with my wife she's like what car is that I said it's a pole star she looked at me weird and she said like the strippers and I said yes like the strippers the same joke that every other car Reviewer is done it's not a joke this actually happened no I know but everyone everyone makes a stripper joke no but it's not a joke I'm not making a joke you know she just she literally she didn't understand what I was saying and I said pole star Zach made a joke that if this was his pull start he'd call her Brandy oh see that's a joke yeah I wasn't trying to make a joke I know but okay we were about there was a reference a reference that never even occurred to me I think like Paul is in Poland shut up like you're you're my pole star oh thank you okay so the rest of this car it is quick this is the dual motor version making it all-wheel drive there is recently just announced a single motor version of this which is I think five thousand dollars less expensive than this but this is nice and quick we're only at 52 battery right now which we'll get to in the rant later but it's nice and quick good acceleration doesn't make you sick just the right amount of Power are we in cold mode or not cold mode we're not in cold mode and that is one of the cool things that this car has that other EVS haven't shown me very clearly is that there's a little uh snowflake next to the battery when the battery's too cold and then it tells you that your performance is limited or your charging's limited so it's a clear indicator I'd be fine with less power like just the front wheel drive version yeah but all-wheel drive is nice to have with these things I guess less power and all-wheel drive would be fine for me in more range I guess they can't make different size batteries yeah back to looks we have uh mirrors that go the full Edge that's cool they're very luxurious looking from here and I love that actually okay what do you think of this sunroof I actually have a great view of it uh what am I why am I sitting so high it's so close in my awesome new puffy jacket I got at the flea market uh because I have my Britax car seat because I actually have to pick up my son from daycare after this so it is taking a considerable amount of room for the front passenger so when I'm there you'll see what that looks like later but there's a decent amount of room overall in here for shorter people but if you're as tall as I am there's no room behind myself well even at like 5.8 sitting there like my head is like almost there into the roof yeah not the sunroof and I'm like okay and then one other thing that I notice is while I'm sitting here you know sometimes you're on a road trip you want to relax your legs you're on cruise control I put my legs back and the floor is so high that my leg is touching the steering wheel because the batteries are all underneath and everything by the way I haven't driven this car yet no so Yuri's first genuine opinion is going to be when he's in the driver's seat yes we're keeping it real this year which we always keep it real we kept it so real that you guys don't even know yeah exactly okay suspension very bouncy just like every other EV which I really don't like so let's test it into cliche corner and handling is decent on a wet day it can't really flirt today because it's just gonna understeer and it understeers at first and then you get a touch of oversteer sometimes which kind of makes it fun like right there uh you know it's like it scares you with a bit of understeer and then saves you with a little bit more to the back you're like yeah you need a lot more I I was genuinely a little bit uh sport mode uh sport mode ESC yes because there's no actual Drive modes for this there's only steering feel modes and then one pedal drive modes and then your creep on or off yeah I felt all right honestly it's not like too bouncy I haven't noticed it too bouncy for me but it's also not like you also haven't driven it and you've only taken it as a passenger fish right corner on the highway that's when you really notice it like through those undulations and stuff that like like the Maki if you don't get the Magna ride dampers then it's equally as bouncy basically yeah but let's get you into the driver's seat to explore this for the first time oh why are you so high up bro uh you know I like to live life High yeah is the car on uh you actually have to put into drive or reverse drive that's the only way drive time I push Park I what okay launch that's pretty good okay I'm gonna go full breaks rip forehead that's good brakes are there my head my forehead is literally here so if you're a taller adult and you have a child seat in the back sitting behind sit behind the driver and there's still not much oh handling feels freaking awesome yeah no that feels that feels better than the Volvo C30 C40 that I drove yeah and it also feels better than that xc40 which wasn't an electric car yeah and the xc40 is the sister car of this which is kind of identical to this as a recharge fully electric car all right getting in I noticed that we've got normal carpets we don't have fancy blue carpets like that C40 but uh you know what else we don't have what tucks Matt go to tuxmat.com the straight pipes and check out what they have available for your car I think the material that tux mat would fit the luxuriousness of this interior because it's really nice materials everywhere it really would and speaking of wood this wood grain with this white kind of reminds me of my computer desk it looks really nice in Scandinavian yeah I uh I like it don't want to Interior stuff so I thought like what can they do to make it like fancy and Volvo and like yeah no it is it definitely feels like a step up where Volvo would be like all black with like a blue carpet or something yeah it's like I look at everything and I touch everything and I'm like what kind of recycled material was this before like was this a former shoe that I threw out like I don't know but it's cool it's nice and by the way if you are comparing this to a Volvo you can also compare it on tsp.truecar.com yes discounted price offers they do have pole star and they do have Volvos especially a lot of used pole Stars brake check oh let's just stop advisor since it's at my eye level three two one no but I've almost done so why would this this is different Yuri I know but it's a spicy Volvo yes cup holders uh so we have two cup holders if we lift our armrest there's the second hidden one and it does fit fine but then if I want to slide my armrest forward you got to take out the cup and then my elbows just barely touch the armrests while touching the steering wheel so then if you and then I can hold my cup while driving and then put the cup back in and you're not as comfortable because it's a weird position yeah yeah and then this has one pedal driving it's it's not slowing down for me okay so we're gonna go to standard okay what's this creep mode say uh creep oh is it gonna come to a stop no wow okay that's what I get for letting you test the car without me driving I'm so sorry okay creep so I turned it off and now you take your foot off the gas no it doesn't create and I like creep because it makes it feel like a gas car yeah yeah I like that normalness hey a steering feel light firm standard what do you like I like light and standard firm is kind of annoying it doesn't okay please don't oh yeah okay assist do we have Lane centering on the highway yes we do we have uh the pilot assist and it works really well except you have to have a fairly firm pressure on the steering wheel oh yeah or else and this has Google Maps this is full of Google Android infotainment and gauge cluster so you can have full Google Maps in the gauge cluster at the same time as having it on your main display and when your directions are going I guess it's going to be just like the C40 where It'll like have the directions in the gauge cluster too and what I liked about the C40 is that it showed where cops were on the 407 in the gauge cluster that's pretty sick if it was you know registered on Waze it's not following all cops yes it's not one of the features reverse camera and I saw a button that said 360 so but I can't get them both at the same time correct but it does have a 360 camera and it's just like Volvo right that's one of the things about like vertical screens it's never like widescreen perfect and then okay so back to this Android automotive this is different looking than the Volvo was for Android automotive yep and it also has Apple carplay as well so that works really well I've been using that I saw SiriusXM in here yep it's got that nice uh yeah I really like the way in the C40 that it showed me where the charging stations were in Google maps at the same in here in this yes so do you want to get into the rant if we filmed you in the back seat now we have I don't really fit back there okay uh besides the rant stuff like it's pretty nice it's pretty nice all right let's get to it okay here we go I've got some charging math and everything that happened to me during the week of having this car so I use the Google Maps built into the car to find a fast charger now I know there's one particular fast charger because it's brand new well it's not even new it's several months old now at a rest stop at a rest stop it's at an enroute it's called Ivy and the car said that it was not compatible with the car now you can set that through the infotainment to only show you compatible plugs it said it wasn't compatible but I know for a fact this car is compatible so I drove there anyways against the car's better judgment I got there it charged fine after the IV charger failed first and then it charged normally so that was good I do have the cost of charging at Ivy but when I went to Electrify Canada the next day I also have the price of that now I went there and went to the 350 kilowatt charger it did not charge up to the correct speed because we've had issues there in the past we think we think that charger is faulty and I think we talked to someone there and they brought something up that they might be faulty but no way of showing exactly so then I moved over a couple stalls went to the 150 and I instantly got a faster charging rate which I figured would happen and shouldn't be happening at the same temperature because whatever electric cars okay so I wrote down everything in my phone so I wouldn't get everything wrong at Ivy I paid 3.89 for 40.7 kilowatt hours in 34 minutes okay at Electrify Canada I paid 26.50 for 33.9 kilowatt hours in 41 minutes so I paid nearly seven times more it took more time to charge and it's only because Ivy sent out a notification because they know that their Chargers are currently not charging at the optimum speeds so they're actually reducing the cost down to 10 cents a minute at IV Chargers because you're not getting the charging rate that they're advertising however it's still charged faster than Electrify Canada did and that was at the 150 or the 350. that was at the 150 at Electrify Canada so if I stayed at the 350 it would have taken even longer because it was charging slower would you be charged even more money at the 350 than the 150. technically no but here's the crazy part so the charger shows from 1 to 90 kilowatts charging speed costs 27 cents per minute from 1 to 350 it costs 57 cents per minute so how can one to 90 and 1 to 350 be two different numbers it should be 90 to 350 is the higher rate right that would make sense yeah until you read the fine print it says the price depends on the maximum power level your vehicle can accept so even though the vehicle can apparently accept more than 90 it charged me the 57 Cent per minute rate even though I did not get close to the 90 charging rate which is the lower one because the charger can't provide it to you because apparently the battery is too cold or the charger can't provide it it's insane yeah that's and then uh we did try to charge today on the way here at the petrol candidates surprise surprise doesn't work never works I don't know we're look we want it to work yeah we really wanted I don't want to have problems I don't want peace I want problems always I don't want to have to tell people that Tesla is like the only good choice if you need to publicly charge but like I can't say anything else really and Tesla won't even give us cars yeah and like ice you know like and here's the thing and I know you guys are going to say just charge it at home that's not a real world scenario during the holidays people were traveling there was an article about people that couldn't charge along the same Chargers that I was charging at if you have one car which you know that's the ideal solution you have one electric car you have to use these Chargers if you want to go visit your family and apparently Quebec is way better than Ontario yes this is Ontario problems and I'm sure I've seen articles of stuff in like the states and stuff too but like yeah I don't we want it to work we wanted to work I don't want electric cars to not work I don't want Tesla to be better than everyone yeah but like right now I think if you want an EV plug-in hybrids are the current solution to that and I think they work great at that or a Tesla I mean and personally I think Elon could go like a couple more levels of like you know he's going wild before I would not buy a Tesla first okay you know what in my head yeah yeah I was listening to spike Ferris and his wife said she's done with Tesla after this Tesla because he's already off the deep end for her yeah well good luck charging whatever they want an eqs yeah I lived in Quebec yep I didn't like Tesla this would be a good alternative I think it would be a pretty decent alternative other than the space limitations in here but like a lot of people don't need like like for me like my knee is not hitting if I lift my leg up and then like I usually don't drive many people around so whatever yeah and then if you've got like a small kid like you could also like if your wife's not like six feet tall like she could probably sit behind the driver too there was one thing I thought the wife's driving and you're under six feet tall and you could sit in the back too there was also one thing that bothered me is that uh since the car is only on when you have it in reverse or drive you can't preheat it if it's not plugged in so let's say I went to your house I don't live there we had a play date with our kids I wanted to pre-heat my car outside because it's cold out I couldn't do that yeah and I guess the app doesn't work in Canada we couldn't connect to it here yeah so yeah I bet there's an app for the states I think yes it recently got announced so before we get to the price do you like this more than the eqs is I think this is less overwhelming and I think it's more calming to drive I actually think this is better interesting because like the eqs had a bunch of crazy stuff and but I didn't necessarily like all the craziness I like I like the like a lot of the Simplicity of this like I really like the C40 I like a lot about this and yeah I don't know I kind of like all the lights on the eqs but it's like a way more expensive car too yeah and like the ambient lighting is really nice and calming and stuff you can see it during the day like this is a really nice interior overall it's just uh it's got some things to it I feel like it's mostly the charging infrastructure it really mostly is if they could fix that because even Ivy they said like you need an app for that right yep and then they sent out an email saying that apparently they're working with a Canadian company to make uh paying easier and I talked to the guy and that's just literally a QR code that you can scan and pay for my browser still not a credit card tap because that's going to take years to do and you know what in my opinion like I saw an article where a guy was um he was putting fake parking tickets on people's cars with a QR code that just paid him he got in trouble and like you know he went to jail and stuff you can't just steal money from people in fraud or whatever yeah but like I feel like QR codes can get vandalized in public too like I went to Collingwood and I had to park in front of a beach and I had to scan a QR code put in my license plate and pay to a browser that was just a sign outside of the road and I'm like this is so sketchy I'm really giving my credit card to a sign on the side of the road yeah to a browser that yeah I'm like I don't even know if this is a real company or not anyways the Futures now here's electric cars and let's get to the price let's get to the price it starts at 58 950 Canadian and this one is 74 950 not that expensive I mean it's kind of a lot but at the same time compared to other electric cars it's the dual motor version if you want to save five grand right off the bat you get the single motor front wheel drive version but the all-wheel drive version like handles really nice like this is actually this is one of the more fun electric cars for sure surprisingly and it looks gorgeous yeah it definitely looks cool and it's a cool conversation start because we were like what the pulse what's a pole star you can make that joke that I didn't actually make it's just the conversation thing you're my poll star thank you thanks for watching everyone happy New Year Happy New Year from Yuri and Jacob enjoy more electric car rants but we're gonna I don't know I I don't want to rant about these things I just I want everybody to have a good time trying to make the world world a better place I just want people to be able to charge their electric cars in public that's all because we like electric cars yeah yeah they make sense for a lot of people wait my CX-5 the amount of short trips you've taken it like I wish I had an electric car because it was just like if you don't warm up this engine more often come on let us know in the comments what you think of the pollstar too we'll see you at the next videoforeign control my bad oh it's pretty damn quick we're spouring torque 408 horsepower 487 pound-feet of torque from two electric motors making this all-wheel drive heck yeah what's the range in this thing the range is quoted to be 418 kilometers because this is an electric car yes however Polestar recommends that you charge up to 90 so when I did that the range was actually 380 kilometers and did you test the range and everything I did I actually tested a lot of different things I do have a large charging rant which I will save for the end of the video so make sure you stay tuned for that but for now let's get to all the good stuff the looks this thing looks fantastic I love the wheels the wheels are the coolest the coolest wheels of all time the wheels are incredible great job pole star these are the optional wheels and you should 100 optional I feel like Volvo and Pulstar always kill it with their wheel designs yeah they did and uh what would be the Continental recommended tire for a pull star R2 the extreme contact dws-06 plus next thing I love the tail lights I think they look awesome when I was close to a poster on the highway I was like wow that looks sweet but then from a distance when I saw you doing a U-turn I'm like what's this guy in the Sonata doing a U-turn for and I'm like oh yeah it's Jacob the only the rims the rims were the thing that I noticed that were different the tail lights are sonata-ish but they're like squared off on this one they do look really really good though and then the headlights are just like normal I guess whole star headlights yes which are not Volvo headlights okay so if you don't know pole star is owned by the company that owns Volvo geely in China yes it's a spin-off of Volvo because pole star was the performance division of Volvo and now it's its own thing which is a luxury thing which is fully electric and it's also performance-ish because there's a performance package available for this car which we don't have and that's why we don't have the yellow seat belts like we did in the Volvo Pulstar Edition or the pole star the top pole Stars have yellow seat belts the Volvo pull Stars no but the top post are pole stars have yellow seat belts yes and then you have like adaptive olins dampers and whatnot manually adjustable yes also uh wait back to looks okay I really like the body lines I think it looks nice clean design and I don't mind that little sticker with the badge thing I think that's an interesting take on badges yeah and it tells you the battery level and that your kilowatt AKA horsepower so I don't know it's it's weird and then quickly we pop the front there's a little bit of room there and this is a hatchback not a trunk even though it looks like a trunk and there's a decent amount of room in the trunk trunk there is and back to what Polestar is I had a quick conversation with my wife she's like what car is that I said it's a pole star she looked at me weird and she said like the strippers and I said yes like the strippers the same joke that every other car Reviewer is done it's not a joke this actually happened no I know but everyone everyone makes a stripper joke no but it's not a joke I'm not making a joke you know she just she literally she didn't understand what I was saying and I said pole star Zach made a joke that if this was his pull start he'd call her Brandy oh see that's a joke yeah I wasn't trying to make a joke I know but okay we were about there was a reference a reference that never even occurred to me I think like Paul is in Poland shut up like you're you're my pole star oh thank you okay so the rest of this car it is quick this is the dual motor version making it all-wheel drive there is recently just announced a single motor version of this which is I think five thousand dollars less expensive than this but this is nice and quick we're only at 52 battery right now which we'll get to in the rant later but it's nice and quick good acceleration doesn't make you sick just the right amount of Power are we in cold mode or not cold mode we're not in cold mode and that is one of the cool things that this car has that other EVS haven't shown me very clearly is that there's a little uh snowflake next to the battery when the battery's too cold and then it tells you that your performance is limited or your charging's limited so it's a clear indicator I'd be fine with less power like just the front wheel drive version yeah but all-wheel drive is nice to have with these things I guess less power and all-wheel drive would be fine for me in more range I guess they can't make different size batteries yeah back to looks we have uh mirrors that go the full Edge that's cool they're very luxurious looking from here and I love that actually okay what do you think of this sunroof I actually have a great view of it uh what am I why am I sitting so high it's so close in my awesome new puffy jacket I got at the flea market uh because I have my Britax car seat because I actually have to pick up my son from daycare after this so it is taking a considerable amount of room for the front passenger so when I'm there you'll see what that looks like later but there's a decent amount of room overall in here for shorter people but if you're as tall as I am there's no room behind myself well even at like 5.8 sitting there like my head is like almost there into the roof yeah not the sunroof and I'm like okay and then one other thing that I notice is while I'm sitting here you know sometimes you're on a road trip you want to relax your legs you're on cruise control I put my legs back and the floor is so high that my leg is touching the steering wheel because the batteries are all underneath and everything by the way I haven't driven this car yet no so Yuri's first genuine opinion is going to be when he's in the driver's seat yes we're keeping it real this year which we always keep it real we kept it so real that you guys don't even know yeah exactly okay suspension very bouncy just like every other EV which I really don't like so let's test it into cliche corner and handling is decent on a wet day it can't really flirt today because it's just gonna understeer and it understeers at first and then you get a touch of oversteer sometimes which kind of makes it fun like right there uh you know it's like it scares you with a bit of understeer and then saves you with a little bit more to the back you're like yeah you need a lot more I I was genuinely a little bit uh sport mode uh sport mode ESC yes because there's no actual Drive modes for this there's only steering feel modes and then one pedal drive modes and then your creep on or off yeah I felt all right honestly it's not like too bouncy I haven't noticed it too bouncy for me but it's also not like you also haven't driven it and you've only taken it as a passenger fish right corner on the highway that's when you really notice it like through those undulations and stuff that like like the Maki if you don't get the Magna ride dampers then it's equally as bouncy basically yeah but let's get you into the driver's seat to explore this for the first time oh why are you so high up bro uh you know I like to live life High yeah is the car on uh you actually have to put into drive or reverse drive that's the only way drive time I push Park I what okay launch that's pretty good okay I'm gonna go full breaks rip forehead that's good brakes are there my head my forehead is literally here so if you're a taller adult and you have a child seat in the back sitting behind sit behind the driver and there's still not much oh handling feels freaking awesome yeah no that feels that feels better than the Volvo C30 C40 that I drove yeah and it also feels better than that xc40 which wasn't an electric car yeah and the xc40 is the sister car of this which is kind of identical to this as a recharge fully electric car all right getting in I noticed that we've got normal carpets we don't have fancy blue carpets like that C40 but uh you know what else we don't have what tucks Matt go to tuxmat.com the straight pipes and check out what they have available for your car I think the material that tux mat would fit the luxuriousness of this interior because it's really nice materials everywhere it really would and speaking of wood this wood grain with this white kind of reminds me of my computer desk it looks really nice in Scandinavian yeah I uh I like it don't want to Interior stuff so I thought like what can they do to make it like fancy and Volvo and like yeah no it is it definitely feels like a step up where Volvo would be like all black with like a blue carpet or something yeah it's like I look at everything and I touch everything and I'm like what kind of recycled material was this before like was this a former shoe that I threw out like I don't know but it's cool it's nice and by the way if you are comparing this to a Volvo you can also compare it on tsp.truecar.com yes discounted price offers they do have pole star and they do have Volvos especially a lot of used pole Stars brake check oh let's just stop advisor since it's at my eye level three two one no but I've almost done so why would this this is different Yuri I know but it's a spicy Volvo yes cup holders uh so we have two cup holders if we lift our armrest there's the second hidden one and it does fit fine but then if I want to slide my armrest forward you got to take out the cup and then my elbows just barely touch the armrests while touching the steering wheel so then if you and then I can hold my cup while driving and then put the cup back in and you're not as comfortable because it's a weird position yeah yeah and then this has one pedal driving it's it's not slowing down for me okay so we're gonna go to standard okay what's this creep mode say uh creep oh is it gonna come to a stop no wow okay that's what I get for letting you test the car without me driving I'm so sorry okay creep so I turned it off and now you take your foot off the gas no it doesn't create and I like creep because it makes it feel like a gas car yeah yeah I like that normalness hey a steering feel light firm standard what do you like I like light and standard firm is kind of annoying it doesn't okay please don't oh yeah okay assist do we have Lane centering on the highway yes we do we have uh the pilot assist and it works really well except you have to have a fairly firm pressure on the steering wheel oh yeah or else and this has Google Maps this is full of Google Android infotainment and gauge cluster so you can have full Google Maps in the gauge cluster at the same time as having it on your main display and when your directions are going I guess it's going to be just like the C40 where It'll like have the directions in the gauge cluster too and what I liked about the C40 is that it showed where cops were on the 407 in the gauge cluster that's pretty sick if it was you know registered on Waze it's not following all cops yes it's not one of the features reverse camera and I saw a button that said 360 so but I can't get them both at the same time correct but it does have a 360 camera and it's just like Volvo right that's one of the things about like vertical screens it's never like widescreen perfect and then okay so back to this Android automotive this is different looking than the Volvo was for Android automotive yep and it also has Apple carplay as well so that works really well I've been using that I saw SiriusXM in here yep it's got that nice uh yeah I really like the way in the C40 that it showed me where the charging stations were in Google maps at the same in here in this yes so do you want to get into the rant if we filmed you in the back seat now we have I don't really fit back there okay uh besides the rant stuff like it's pretty nice it's pretty nice all right let's get to it okay here we go I've got some charging math and everything that happened to me during the week of having this car so I use the Google Maps built into the car to find a fast charger now I know there's one particular fast charger because it's brand new well it's not even new it's several months old now at a rest stop at a rest stop it's at an enroute it's called Ivy and the car said that it was not compatible with the car now you can set that through the infotainment to only show you compatible plugs it said it wasn't compatible but I know for a fact this car is compatible so I drove there anyways against the car's better judgment I got there it charged fine after the IV charger failed first and then it charged normally so that was good I do have the cost of charging at Ivy but when I went to Electrify Canada the next day I also have the price of that now I went there and went to the 350 kilowatt charger it did not charge up to the correct speed because we've had issues there in the past we think we think that charger is faulty and I think we talked to someone there and they brought something up that they might be faulty but no way of showing exactly so then I moved over a couple stalls went to the 150 and I instantly got a faster charging rate which I figured would happen and shouldn't be happening at the same temperature because whatever electric cars okay so I wrote down everything in my phone so I wouldn't get everything wrong at Ivy I paid 3.89 for 40.7 kilowatt hours in 34 minutes okay at Electrify Canada I paid 26.50 for 33.9 kilowatt hours in 41 minutes so I paid nearly seven times more it took more time to charge and it's only because Ivy sent out a notification because they know that their Chargers are currently not charging at the optimum speeds so they're actually reducing the cost down to 10 cents a minute at IV Chargers because you're not getting the charging rate that they're advertising however it's still charged faster than Electrify Canada did and that was at the 150 or the 350. that was at the 150 at Electrify Canada so if I stayed at the 350 it would have taken even longer because it was charging slower would you be charged even more money at the 350 than the 150. technically no but here's the crazy part so the charger shows from 1 to 90 kilowatts charging speed costs 27 cents per minute from 1 to 350 it costs 57 cents per minute so how can one to 90 and 1 to 350 be two different numbers it should be 90 to 350 is the higher rate right that would make sense yeah until you read the fine print it says the price depends on the maximum power level your vehicle can accept so even though the vehicle can apparently accept more than 90 it charged me the 57 Cent per minute rate even though I did not get close to the 90 charging rate which is the lower one because the charger can't provide it to you because apparently the battery is too cold or the charger can't provide it it's insane yeah that's and then uh we did try to charge today on the way here at the petrol candidates surprise surprise doesn't work never works I don't know we're look we want it to work yeah we really wanted I don't want to have problems I don't want peace I want problems always I don't want to have to tell people that Tesla is like the only good choice if you need to publicly charge but like I can't say anything else really and Tesla won't even give us cars yeah and like ice you know like and here's the thing and I know you guys are going to say just charge it at home that's not a real world scenario during the holidays people were traveling there was an article about people that couldn't charge along the same Chargers that I was charging at if you have one car which you know that's the ideal solution you have one electric car you have to use these Chargers if you want to go visit your family and apparently Quebec is way better than Ontario yes this is Ontario problems and I'm sure I've seen articles of stuff in like the states and stuff too but like yeah I don't we want it to work we wanted to work I don't want electric cars to not work I don't want Tesla to be better than everyone yeah but like right now I think if you want an EV plug-in hybrids are the current solution to that and I think they work great at that or a Tesla I mean and personally I think Elon could go like a couple more levels of like you know he's going wild before I would not buy a Tesla first okay you know what in my head yeah yeah I was listening to spike Ferris and his wife said she's done with Tesla after this Tesla because he's already off the deep end for her yeah well good luck charging whatever they want an eqs yeah I lived in Quebec yep I didn't like Tesla this would be a good alternative I think it would be a pretty decent alternative other than the space limitations in here but like a lot of people don't need like like for me like my knee is not hitting if I lift my leg up and then like I usually don't drive many people around so whatever yeah and then if you've got like a small kid like you could also like if your wife's not like six feet tall like she could probably sit behind the driver too there was one thing I thought the wife's driving and you're under six feet tall and you could sit in the back too there was also one thing that bothered me is that uh since the car is only on when you have it in reverse or drive you can't preheat it if it's not plugged in so let's say I went to your house I don't live there we had a play date with our kids I wanted to pre-heat my car outside because it's cold out I couldn't do that yeah and I guess the app doesn't work in Canada we couldn't connect to it here yeah so yeah I bet there's an app for the states I think yes it recently got announced so before we get to the price do you like this more than the eqs is I think this is less overwhelming and I think it's more calming to drive I actually think this is better interesting because like the eqs had a bunch of crazy stuff and but I didn't necessarily like all the craziness I like I like the like a lot of the Simplicity of this like I really like the C40 I like a lot about this and yeah I don't know I kind of like all the lights on the eqs but it's like a way more expensive car too yeah and like the ambient lighting is really nice and calming and stuff you can see it during the day like this is a really nice interior overall it's just uh it's got some things to it I feel like it's mostly the charging infrastructure it really mostly is if they could fix that because even Ivy they said like you need an app for that right yep and then they sent out an email saying that apparently they're working with a Canadian company to make uh paying easier and I talked to the guy and that's just literally a QR code that you can scan and pay for my browser still not a credit card tap because that's going to take years to do and you know what in my opinion like I saw an article where a guy was um he was putting fake parking tickets on people's cars with a QR code that just paid him he got in trouble and like you know he went to jail and stuff you can't just steal money from people in fraud or whatever yeah but like I feel like QR codes can get vandalized in public too like I went to Collingwood and I had to park in front of a beach and I had to scan a QR code put in my license plate and pay to a browser that was just a sign outside of the road and I'm like this is so sketchy I'm really giving my credit card to a sign on the side of the road yeah to a browser that yeah I'm like I don't even know if this is a real company or not anyways the Futures now here's electric cars and let's get to the price let's get to the price it starts at 58 950 Canadian and this one is 74 950 not that expensive I mean it's kind of a lot but at the same time compared to other electric cars it's the dual motor version if you want to save five grand right off the bat you get the single motor front wheel drive version but the all-wheel drive version like handles really nice like this is actually this is one of the more fun electric cars for sure surprisingly and it looks gorgeous yeah it definitely looks cool and it's a cool conversation start because we were like what the pulse what's a pole star you can make that joke that I didn't actually make it's just the conversation thing you're my poll star thank you thanks for watching everyone happy New Year Happy New Year from Yuri and Jacob enjoy more electric car rants but we're gonna I don't know I I don't want to rant about these things I just I want everybody to have a good time trying to make the world world a better place I just want people to be able to charge their electric cars in public that's all because we like electric cars yeah yeah they make sense for a lot of people wait my CX-5 the amount of short trips you've taken it like I wish I had an electric car because it was just like if you don't warm up this engine more often come on let us know in the comments what you think of the pollstar too we'll see you at the next videoforeign control my bad oh it's pretty damn quick we're spouring torque 408 horsepower 487 pound-feet of torque from two electric motors making this all-wheel drive heck yeah what's the range in this thing the range is quoted to be 418 kilometers because this is an electric car yes however Polestar recommends that you charge up to 90 so when I did that the range was actually 380 kilometers and did you test the range and everything I did I actually tested a lot of different things I do have a large charging rant which I will save for the end of the video so make sure you stay tuned for that but for now let's get to all the good stuff the looks this thing looks fantastic I love the wheels the wheels are the coolest the coolest wheels of all time the wheels are incredible great job pole star these are the optional wheels and you should 100 optional I feel like Volvo and Pulstar always kill it with their wheel designs yeah they did and uh what would be the Continental recommended tire for a pull star R2 the extreme contact dws-06 plus next thing I love the tail lights I think they look awesome when I was close to a poster on the highway I was like wow that looks sweet but then from a distance when I saw you doing a U-turn I'm like what's this guy in the Sonata doing a U-turn for and I'm like oh yeah it's Jacob the only the rims the rims were the thing that I noticed that were different the tail lights are sonata-ish but they're like squared off on this one they do look really really good though and then the headlights are just like normal I guess whole star headlights yes which are not Volvo headlights okay so if you don't know pole star is owned by the company that owns Volvo geely in China yes it's a spin-off of Volvo because pole star was the performance division of Volvo and now it's its own thing which is a luxury thing which is fully electric and it's also performance-ish because there's a performance package available for this car which we don't have and that's why we don't have the yellow seat belts like we did in the Volvo Pulstar Edition or the pole star the top pole Stars have yellow seat belts the Volvo pull Stars no but the top post are pole stars have yellow seat belts yes and then you have like adaptive olins dampers and whatnot manually adjustable yes also uh wait back to looks okay I really like the body lines I think it looks nice clean design and I don't mind that little sticker with the badge thing I think that's an interesting take on badges yeah and it tells you the battery level and that your kilowatt AKA horsepower so I don't know it's it's weird and then quickly we pop the front there's a little bit of room there and this is a hatchback not a trunk even though it looks like a trunk and there's a decent amount of room in the trunk trunk there is and back to what Polestar is I had a quick conversation with my wife she's like what car is that I said it's a pole star she looked at me weird and she said like the strippers and I said yes like the strippers the same joke that every other car Reviewer is done it's not a joke this actually happened no I know but everyone everyone makes a stripper joke no but it's not a joke I'm not making a joke you know she just she literally she didn't understand what I was saying and I said pole star Zach made a joke that if this was his pull start he'd call her Brandy oh see that's a joke yeah I wasn't trying to make a joke I know but okay we were about there was a reference a reference that never even occurred to me I think like Paul is in Poland shut up like you're you're my pole star oh thank you okay so the rest of this car it is quick this is the dual motor version making it all-wheel drive there is recently just announced a single motor version of this which is I think five thousand dollars less expensive than this but this is nice and quick we're only at 52 battery right now which we'll get to in the rant later but it's nice and quick good acceleration doesn't make you sick just the right amount of Power are we in cold mode or not cold mode we're not in cold mode and that is one of the cool things that this car has that other EVS haven't shown me very clearly is that there's a little uh snowflake next to the battery when the battery's too cold and then it tells you that your performance is limited or your charging's limited so it's a clear indicator I'd be fine with less power like just the front wheel drive version yeah but all-wheel drive is nice to have with these things I guess less power and all-wheel drive would be fine for me in more range I guess they can't make different size batteries yeah back to looks we have uh mirrors that go the full Edge that's cool they're very luxurious looking from here and I love that actually okay what do you think of this sunroof I actually have a great view of it uh what am I why am I sitting so high it's so close in my awesome new puffy jacket I got at the flea market uh because I have my Britax car seat because I actually have to pick up my son from daycare after this so it is taking a considerable amount of room for the front passenger so when I'm there you'll see what that looks like later but there's a decent amount of room overall in here for shorter people but if you're as tall as I am there's no room behind myself well even at like 5.8 sitting there like my head is like almost there into the roof yeah not the sunroof and I'm like okay and then one other thing that I notice is while I'm sitting here you know sometimes you're on a road trip you want to relax your legs you're on cruise control I put my legs back and the floor is so high that my leg is touching the steering wheel because the batteries are all underneath and everything by the way I haven't driven this car yet no so Yuri's first genuine opinion is going to be when he's in the driver's seat yes we're keeping it real this year which we always keep it real we kept it so real that you guys don't even know yeah exactly okay suspension very bouncy just like every other EV which I really don't like so let's test it into cliche corner and handling is decent on a wet day it can't really flirt today because it's just gonna understeer and it understeers at first and then you get a touch of oversteer sometimes which kind of makes it fun like right there uh you know it's like it scares you with a bit of understeer and then saves you with a little bit more to the back you're like yeah you need a lot more I I was genuinely a little bit uh sport mode uh sport mode ESC yes because there's no actual Drive modes for this there's only steering feel modes and then one pedal drive modes and then your creep on or off yeah I felt all right honestly it's not like too bouncy I haven't noticed it too bouncy for me but it's also not like you also haven't driven it and you've only taken it as a passenger fish right corner on the highway that's when you really notice it like through those undulations and stuff that like like the Maki if you don't get the Magna ride dampers then it's equally as bouncy basically yeah but let's get you into the driver's seat to explore this for the first time oh why are you so high up bro uh you know I like to live life High yeah is the car on uh you actually have to put into drive or reverse drive that's the only way drive time I push Park I what okay launch that's pretty good okay I'm gonna go full breaks rip forehead that's good brakes are there my head my forehead is literally here so if you're a taller adult and you have a child seat in the back sitting behind sit behind the driver and there's still not much oh handling feels freaking awesome yeah no that feels that feels better than the Volvo C30 C40 that I drove yeah and it also feels better than that xc40 which wasn't an electric car yeah and the xc40 is the sister car of this which is kind of identical to this as a recharge fully electric car all right getting in I noticed that we've got normal carpets we don't have fancy blue carpets like that C40 but uh you know what else we don't have what tucks Matt go to tuxmat.com the straight pipes and check out what they have available for your car I think the material that tux mat would fit the luxuriousness of this interior because it's really nice materials everywhere it really would and speaking of wood this wood grain with this white kind of reminds me of my computer desk it looks really nice in Scandinavian yeah I uh I like it don't want to Interior stuff so I thought like what can they do to make it like fancy and Volvo and like yeah no it is it definitely feels like a step up where Volvo would be like all black with like a blue carpet or something yeah it's like I look at everything and I touch everything and I'm like what kind of recycled material was this before like was this a former shoe that I threw out like I don't know but it's cool it's nice and by the way if you are comparing this to a Volvo you can also compare it on tsp.truecar.com yes discounted price offers they do have pole star and they do have Volvos especially a lot of used pole Stars brake check oh let's just stop advisor since it's at my eye level three two one no but I've almost done so why would this this is different Yuri I know but it's a spicy Volvo yes cup holders uh so we have two cup holders if we lift our armrest there's the second hidden one and it does fit fine but then if I want to slide my armrest forward you got to take out the cup and then my elbows just barely touch the armrests while touching the steering wheel so then if you and then I can hold my cup while driving and then put the cup back in and you're not as comfortable because it's a weird position yeah yeah and then this has one pedal driving it's it's not slowing down for me okay so we're gonna go to standard okay what's this creep mode say uh creep oh is it gonna come to a stop no wow okay that's what I get for letting you test the car without me driving I'm so sorry okay creep so I turned it off and now you take your foot off the gas no it doesn't create and I like creep because it makes it feel like a gas car yeah yeah I like that normalness hey a steering feel light firm standard what do you like I like light and standard firm is kind of annoying it doesn't okay please don't oh yeah okay assist do we have Lane centering on the highway yes we do we have uh the pilot assist and it works really well except you have to have a fairly firm pressure on the steering wheel oh yeah or else and this has Google Maps this is full of Google Android infotainment and gauge cluster so you can have full Google Maps in the gauge cluster at the same time as having it on your main display and when your directions are going I guess it's going to be just like the C40 where It'll like have the directions in the gauge cluster too and what I liked about the C40 is that it showed where cops were on the 407 in the gauge cluster that's pretty sick if it was you know registered on Waze it's not following all cops yes it's not one of the features reverse camera and I saw a button that said 360 so but I can't get them both at the same time correct but it does have a 360 camera and it's just like Volvo right that's one of the things about like vertical screens it's never like widescreen perfect and then okay so back to this Android automotive this is different looking than the Volvo was for Android automotive yep and it also has Apple carplay as well so that works really well I've been using that I saw SiriusXM in here yep it's got that nice uh yeah I really like the way in the C40 that it showed me where the charging stations were in Google maps at the same in here in this yes so do you want to get into the rant if we filmed you in the back seat now we have I don't really fit back there okay uh besides the rant stuff like it's pretty nice it's pretty nice all right let's get to it okay here we go I've got some charging math and everything that happened to me during the week of having this car so I use the Google Maps built into the car to find a fast charger now I know there's one particular fast charger because it's brand new well it's not even new it's several months old now at a rest stop at a rest stop it's at an enroute it's called Ivy and the car said that it was not compatible with the car now you can set that through the infotainment to only show you compatible plugs it said it wasn't compatible but I know for a fact this car is compatible so I drove there anyways against the car's better judgment I got there it charged fine after the IV charger failed first and then it charged normally so that was good I do have the cost of charging at Ivy but when I went to Electrify Canada the next day I also have the price of that now I went there and went to the 350 kilowatt charger it did not charge up to the correct speed because we've had issues there in the past we think we think that charger is faulty and I think we talked to someone there and they brought something up that they might be faulty but no way of showing exactly so then I moved over a couple stalls went to the 150 and I instantly got a faster charging rate which I figured would happen and shouldn't be happening at the same temperature because whatever electric cars okay so I wrote down everything in my phone so I wouldn't get everything wrong at Ivy I paid 3.89 for 40.7 kilowatt hours in 34 minutes okay at Electrify Canada I paid 26.50 for 33.9 kilowatt hours in 41 minutes so I paid nearly seven times more it took more time to charge and it's only because Ivy sent out a notification because they know that their Chargers are currently not charging at the optimum speeds so they're actually reducing the cost down to 10 cents a minute at IV Chargers because you're not getting the charging rate that they're advertising however it's still charged faster than Electrify Canada did and that was at the 150 or the 350. that was at the 150 at Electrify Canada so if I stayed at the 350 it would have taken even longer because it was charging slower would you be charged even more money at the 350 than the 150. technically no but here's the crazy part so the charger shows from 1 to 90 kilowatts charging speed costs 27 cents per minute from 1 to 350 it costs 57 cents per minute so how can one to 90 and 1 to 350 be two different numbers it should be 90 to 350 is the higher rate right that would make sense yeah until you read the fine print it says the price depends on the maximum power level your vehicle can accept so even though the vehicle can apparently accept more than 90 it charged me the 57 Cent per minute rate even though I did not get close to the 90 charging rate which is the lower one because the charger can't provide it to you because apparently the battery is too cold or the charger can't provide it it's insane yeah that's and then uh we did try to charge today on the way here at the petrol candidates surprise surprise doesn't work never works I don't know we're look we want it to work yeah we really wanted I don't want to have problems I don't want peace I want problems always I don't want to have to tell people that Tesla is like the only good choice if you need to publicly charge but like I can't say anything else really and Tesla won't even give us cars yeah and like ice you know like and here's the thing and I know you guys are going to say just charge it at home that's not a real world scenario during the holidays people were traveling there was an article about people that couldn't charge along the same Chargers that I was charging at if you have one car which you know that's the ideal solution you have one electric car you have to use these Chargers if you want to go visit your family and apparently Quebec is way better than Ontario yes this is Ontario problems and I'm sure I've seen articles of stuff in like the states and stuff too but like yeah I don't we want it to work we wanted to work I don't want electric cars to not work I don't want Tesla to be better than everyone yeah but like right now I think if you want an EV plug-in hybrids are the current solution to that and I think they work great at that or a Tesla I mean and personally I think Elon could go like a couple more levels of like you know he's going wild before I would not buy a Tesla first okay you know what in my head yeah yeah I was listening to spike Ferris and his wife said she's done with Tesla after this Tesla because he's already off the deep end for her yeah well good luck charging whatever they want an eqs yeah I lived in Quebec yep I didn't like Tesla this would be a good alternative I think it would be a pretty decent alternative other than the space limitations in here but like a lot of people don't need like like for me like my knee is not hitting if I lift my leg up and then like I usually don't drive many people around so whatever yeah and then if you've got like a small kid like you could also like if your wife's not like six feet tall like she could probably sit behind the driver too there was one thing I thought the wife's driving and you're under six feet tall and you could sit in the back too there was also one thing that bothered me is that uh since the car is only on when you have it in reverse or drive you can't preheat it if it's not plugged in so let's say I went to your house I don't live there we had a play date with our kids I wanted to pre-heat my car outside because it's cold out I couldn't do that yeah and I guess the app doesn't work in Canada we couldn't connect to it here yeah so yeah I bet there's an app for the states I think yes it recently got announced so before we get to the price do you like this more than the eqs is I think this is less overwhelming and I think it's more calming to drive I actually think this is better interesting because like the eqs had a bunch of crazy stuff and but I didn't necessarily like all the craziness I like I like the like a lot of the Simplicity of this like I really like the C40 I like a lot about this and yeah I don't know I kind of like all the lights on the eqs but it's like a way more expensive car too yeah and like the ambient lighting is really nice and calming and stuff you can see it during the day like this is a really nice interior overall it's just uh it's got some things to it I feel like it's mostly the charging infrastructure it really mostly is if they could fix that because even Ivy they said like you need an app for that right yep and then they sent out an email saying that apparently they're working with a Canadian company to make uh paying easier and I talked to the guy and that's just literally a QR code that you can scan and pay for my browser still not a credit card tap because that's going to take years to do and you know what in my opinion like I saw an article where a guy was um he was putting fake parking tickets on people's cars with a QR code that just paid him he got in trouble and like you know he went to jail and stuff you can't just steal money from people in fraud or whatever yeah but like I feel like QR codes can get vandalized in public too like I went to Collingwood and I had to park in front of a beach and I had to scan a QR code put in my license plate and pay to a browser that was just a sign outside of the road and I'm like this is so sketchy I'm really giving my credit card to a sign on the side of the road yeah to a browser that yeah I'm like I don't even know if this is a real company or not anyways the Futures now here's electric cars and let's get to the price let's get to the price it starts at 58 950 Canadian and this one is 74 950 not that expensive I mean it's kind of a lot but at the same time compared to other electric cars it's the dual motor version if you want to save five grand right off the bat you get the single motor front wheel drive version but the all-wheel drive version like handles really nice like this is actually this is one of the more fun electric cars for sure surprisingly and it looks gorgeous yeah it definitely looks cool and it's a cool conversation start because we were like what the pulse what's a pole star you can make that joke that I didn't actually make it's just the conversation thing you're my poll star thank you thanks for watching everyone happy New Year Happy New Year from Yuri and Jacob enjoy more electric car rants but we're gonna I don't know I I don't want to rant about these things I just I want everybody to have a good time trying to make the world world a better place I just want people to be able to charge their electric cars in public that's all because we like electric cars yeah yeah they make sense for a lot of people wait my CX-5 the amount of short trips you've taken it like I wish I had an electric car because it was just like if you don't warm up this engine more often come on let us know in the comments what you think of the pollstar too we'll see you at the next video\n"