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

[@CaryInVictoria]

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.

[@jenesuispasbavard]

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.

[@andreasl4507]

I’m getting my hand on one soon also. Love the car and the brand 🚘 Amazing cool car!

[@andreasl4507]

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

[@everydaymacrocooking]

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

[@AhmedTagelsir99]

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

[@andreasl4507]

Google maps is better than Apple Maps. From a driver that have used both over 10h every day in a ev car.

[@AhmedTagelsir99]

@@andreasl4507 Fair enough. In my experience Google Maps is quite a bit behind apple in actual mapping of the road. Apple seem to get the lane guidance, speed limits and road layouts correct far more often than Google Maps. Also route selection has been better for me on Apple. Google Maps is not as good here in the UK as it is in North America in my experience

[@fowzst]

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

[@MePeterNicholls]

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

[@wiselyauto]

If you are happy with regen, we would simply recommend leaving it on all the time and coast by leaving the accelerator pedal slightly pushed in. The power meter in the instrument display can help you get used to the pedal tuning and you won't ever have to change the settings ever again.

[@MePeterNicholls]

@@wiselyauto I was thinking motorway driving when you need more coasting than regen. ?

[@saxfantastic9925]

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 !

[@wiselyauto]

It should be. In fact, there have been a couple more updates since the video was filmed. (We also have a couple of 2022 Polestar 2s in stock if you were interested.)

[@thetad1242]

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

[@richardpiper4828]

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.

[@andreasl4507]

It’s comparable now ❤

[@j-joe-jeans]

Well Done.

[@steveearley8352]

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?

[@andreasl4507]

Yes it will be a perfect cars for you ❤. I did a drive from Sweden to France and Switzerland. Beautiful cool car. Best trip I have ever done

[@AndrewNC22]

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.

[@TechKingGame]

In theory, maybe. But it is too slow even when it works (rarely) to be a contender for me right now. The 2’s Google maps is pretty good at estimating but to be fair I haven’t tested accuracy with ABRP.

[@andreasl4507]

@@TechKingGamepretty good? It’s amazingly good.

[@TechKingGame]

@@andreasl4507 Eh, I regularly do a 3 hour drive where it has underestimated my arrival % by as much as 20% at the beginning. I have no reference to other systems though

[@edwinklift]

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

[@andreasl4507]

No noises and an amazing car. Love it ❤

[@erric11]

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.

[@andreasl4507]

Polestar is cool company and a special one. Polestar 2 is beautiful. Soon I get my hand on the 2024. Cant wait ❤

[@fluxcapacitor]

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.

[@wiselyauto]

We are afraid it is not at the moment. Definitely makes sense to just use the built-in Google Maps, at least for now.

[@andreasl4507]

Google maps is better then Apple Maps.

[@fluxcapacitor]

@@andreasl4507 Admittedly, and it will stay as is with an AAOS monopole over the whole car industry if carmakers don't let other navigation systems to be chosen by users not by themselves. Give the customers CHOICE.

[@paulj8420]

Car play is essential, only downmarket brands omit this.

[@wiselyauto]

It depends on what you are after and how good the built-in system is. We come across many vehicles without CarPlay where we manage just fine...

[@Sm00th-0perator]

Can you run youtube client while driving?

[@neilkhan2223]

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...

[@andreasl4507]

Use your phone as a navigation isnt a no no.

[@chesterperkins5057]

👍 Promo>SM

[@nimbuskhannk627]

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.

[@MrSenses33]

Hahahahah bro. Your comment could not be more true. That is excactly the behavior of my brother. Generelly he is not an idiot. But we have a new volvo with android automotive. But he still insists on using apple carplay, with his shitty wayze app. I have android. But don't even use android auto. Just the native apps. Nothing would change if I get an IPhone. But man, the Apple brainwashing is crazy.

[@FarnhamTV]

And don't forget the ability to preheat the battery pack in cold weather prior to charging. This is only available when you use the car's Google maps navigation. For me it's one of the best aspects of using Google all the time. I have an iphone but I never plug it in to the Polestar. Phone calls, music, podcasts and even when the kids want to DJ from their phones, it all happens via Bluetooth and media player. I have friends who own Teslas and they are jealous of the Polestar software. The only thing missing is the augmented reality that displays vehicles around you.

[@360theosiris]

I get your point EXCEPT Waze has saved my ass on multiple occasions telling me where there are radars, trajectory speed checks, … Especially on roads I don’t know or the random mobile ones reported by other users. Add that to google maps and I’ll switch in a heartbeat.

[@nimbuskhannk627]

@@360theosiris Where I live, Google Maps conveys the exact same tactical information, offering real-time alternatives to the initially planned route.

[@360theosiris]

@@nimbuskhannk627 In that case I 100% understand your point. 😁

[@driesdebackere5233]

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