ALMOST EXACTLY 18 months after its Australian release, the Polestar 2 has been brought in for a major update. Not for the vanity tweaks usually associated with a mid-life facelift, mind you, the Polestar 2 is almost entirely unchanged in appearance.
Blink and you’ll miss it. What’s underneath though? That’s a different story. The Swedish-designed, China-made Polestar 2 now claims the longest WLTP range of any car sold in Australia, beating the 100kWh-plus battery-packed Mercedes-Benz EQS (631km) and the Tesla Model 3 LRDM (602km). More on this later.
It’s not that much more expensive than before, either, up by between $2400 and $3500 depending on the variant in question.
For that, you get stacks more power from new electric motors, as well as a retuned chassis, lower carbon footprint (down from 27 to 23 tonnes of CO2 used to make it) and more safety tech as standard.
That’s not even the best bit – the switch from front-to rear-wheel drive for
