Welcome to Tech in the Car! in this video,
we're driving and we're gonna have a look around the pole star ii from Polestar!
This is the Polestar 2
and as i walk around it you can see interesting things about it so you got these
wheels here these are 20 inch wheels so you wouldn't normally switch 20 inch wheels
this is obviously got the performance factors it's got the gold pole star break it's got the
thor's hammers headlights which look really really cool there's no doubt about that
as you look around this car and i really like this three-dimensional grill you know
it obviously doesn't need a grill because it's an electric car but they at least give the impression
of having a grill and there are little gaps here and this is the adapter cruise and the 360 camera
and i like how it tries to look like a normal car even though it's obviously electric now
you know maybe that's something that with time people will change their minds about
but at this moment in time i think that looks really cool i also like this paint it's very cool
it's a white with the fleck in it there's little creases along the side here on the wheels
which are really interesting again it's sculpted down the side of the bonnet here that's very nice
talked about the all-in-one mirrors it's one unit that moves together
and as you go down the side here you can see
all the features again I love this very aggressive line down the side here
that looks very cool it gives it a muscular haunch which looks really interesting
and then from the back we've got a similar idea with that pulsar logo and the very very
iconic I would say or what will likely become iconic tail lights
and it's just got this really muscular horn to it and then obviously from the inside you've got the
panoramic roof as well let's have a look at the infotainment system so this is the main display
if I tap on the four squares there we go back to the main display with all the information it
shows me my maps it shows me the google assistant if I click on driver performance it will show me
my average efficiency it will show me information about what's going on around me
my trip distance it will give me all the information that I need to know
what has been happening as I've been driving I can go to my map so I can see google maps so we need
to navigate to home click on that it shows me I've got 80 battery left when I arrive there will still
be 80 battery left no problems there this is the map settings and I can adjust those as I want to
you know right here I've got Spotify
I can listen to Spotify on here
we can listen to the chain by Fleetwood mac if we want to feel like we're in top gear
although hopefully you'd want to feel like you're in tech in the car instead and this has got google
it's got the play store so I can click on the play store and I can download apps to the car
from google play that work on android automotive which is this is the first car that has android
automotive this is what we are looking at in here pocket cars I love that I can explore all my apps
which is great we've got our 360 camera which is really cool and I can change the
angle so i can see the wheels go back here change it again see the back view
i can see lots of information about what's going on around me i can see my parking
sensor information turn them on turn them off real water break if i reverse it won't
allow me to hit anything behind me it will stop i can turn the wheel guidelines on and off
let's go to the car settings so steering feel light standard firm sport mode your one pedal
drive i mentioned creep on and off so it stops like all to hold if it's off
it creeps full if it's on assistance so i can turn on the driver assistant features
adapter cruise control cruise control limiter lane keeping assist turn it on and off i
can see the settings here steering or just vibration so it will correct it if i want to
driver alert on enough road sign information so do i want the speed camera audio warning do i want
the speed limit warning do i want visual and sound and it will allow me to adjust when it notifies me
collision avoidance early standard late so early means it will break early
i prefer that but some people might prefer it to be on different setting there
and the blind spot assistant very simple to use your charge settings very easy you can see
the charge 82 percent no problems at all you can see 80 is what pulse i recommend okay so
we looked at charge now we can look at more these are all there's different settings so car status
service locking reduce guard off on speed locking keyless unlock
interior lights low high
medium exterior lights triple indicator active bending lights home light safe duration
mirrors and wipers you can adjust all those settings
the wireless phone charger you can turn it on and turn it off
so those are the settings across here this is very simple very easy to use everything
is very intuitive you got your apps you got your user profiles so you can create profiles
and adjust what they can do you can use the car key you can use your phone for that you
can do a screen lock on here as well down here we have a very nice big music
controls that you can turn it up and down bring press play button your windscreen demisting very
nice Polestar 2 gear shift lever there and then coming into the centre of the car here this button
sets the cruise control up and down left and right you can turn the adaptive cruise on and
off from there you can scroll through the menus here on this site you can swap through the screen
on here you can change the songs backwards forwards and get google turning on like that
as you can see and I can scroll through the different display options you've got this
view here then you've got another view like this and then this is your satellite view
if I tap on the circle in the middle you can see your trip information as well and you can
reset that it's a very simple very easy to use system so that's an overview of the infotainment
system on the pulsar too welcome taking a car in this video we're driving and we're going to have
a look around the polestar 2 from Polestar. Polestar used to be and still probably are
volvo's performance part of the company so their performance cars were always named pole star
models but now they off shot into their own subsidiary making electric cars and there's
two Polestar 2's so far the pulse star one which is a hybrid performance sports car and then we
are in the Polestar 2 and this Polestar 2 is very much the competition or an alternative to a tesla
model 3 in terms of size and shape and the way it is but driving the car you immediately can
feel it just feels very very very premium it'd be fair to say this car feels very very premium
this isn't necessarily um you know it feels a lot nicer than the tesla model 3.
so driving this car it feels very much an upgrade in terms of interior quality over the tesla model
3. the model 3 although it's very nice it doesn't feel the premium this feels a lot more premium
it does a little bit dark in here my personal preference is more towards dark colors but
you know i think that it just feels really good the design the wood in the middle here if it feels
like you're in a scandinavian a nordic car while you're driving this and the android automotive in
front of me lets me see very clearly using google maps where i am in relation to everything else
going on i can see my directions i can see very clearly where i'm going to be and what i'm going
to be doing and this car has one pedal driving so as i lift my feet off the accelerator the
car comes to a stop this is a feature which lots of electric cars have it's very common it's not
necessarily something that when you first get in and try it you would feel very comfortable for i
kind of feel myself wanting to go for the pedal for the brake every time which isn't necessary
unless something happens suddenly which obviously requires me to hit the brake i feel very much
like the way i'm driving now uh it's fine you can hear it's got a a cool sound when driving
obviously an artificial sound but you can hear it it sounds kind of like a wind turbine
kind of like you've got a jet engine behind you actually except for a very quiet
jet engine i feel like this is the closest i'm going to get to a holiday for a while
with the engine noise behind me with uh sorry with the motor noise behind me and as i'm driving along
here it's just you know it feels comfortable the road handling is very easy it's you know
it's going over the bumps in the road as you would expect the car to do the the suspension feels very
uh compliant i'm over some rough paving now as you can probably hear and you know what in my car this
would feel a lot more uncomfortable it's fair to say to drive in this car it feels very uh very
relaxed the seating is really comfortable too you get in this car and immediately i feel comfortable
and although there isn't any leather in this car the material is very much
interior material is very much been designed to be environmentally sensitive and recycled materials
it still feels really really high quality it still feels like a really really nice car to drive
you know the panoramic roof here with the glass roof here that's a lot of light in
you know even even the little buttons on the uh lights in the car they have little touch sensitive
areas you tap on to turn the lights on and off and it just you know it just feels very
very very good very high quality hey google what's the weather in the maldives today
In Male today there will be isolated thunderstorms with a forecasted high of 31 and a low of 28.
right now it's 31 degrees and mostly cloudy so google assistant works very well
let's check the acceleration and it definitely has
fast car acceleration there's no doubt about that uh the electric instant torque just
pulling you away is just amazing so pilot assist is on now adaptive cruise control is on now
everything is on now and it's just driving itself and we can increase the speed to
the speed limit which is 50 down here and the car is keeping me in the middle of the road
it's breaking for me I can see it's aware of the road markings
when i just tried to change lanes there to indicate to the
right it told me you're going out of lane
make sure you stay in the lane i'm moving forward now i'm not putting my foot on the accelerator it
knows that the car in front is moving forward and so it's automatically going forward even
the sound of the indicator it kind of sounds like somebody's knocking on a really high quality door
which is it doesn't sound like a normal indicator and for normal indicators sound quite annoying
this very much feels like a high quality door somebody's knocking on it to let you know they're
there as you're driving you know you're saving the environment because it's electric or you're
at least reducing your carbon emissions because obviously electricity comes from somewhere it's
not magic if you have thin air but you can you can feel like you're here in a car which
is thinking about the environment thinking about the driving experience you know as i look ahead
and see a convoy of pulse r2s in front of me and i can see the telltale signature led rear lights
you feel like you're a bit in the future I don't there's any doubt about that and did I
feel that way in a tesla well to be fair I wasn't driving the tesla so to give tesla the benefit of
the doubt here so I don't know how this driving compares to this pulsar 2 can't say I have no idea
but what I can say is that and I've already touched on this the quality feels better
I like having a driver display in front of me don't get me wrong
no issue with the model 3 having the display in the middle with the speed on the side
but I kind of like having it separated now you know that's a design question which some people
don't care about and I'm sure if I bought model 3 I wouldn't care about it the model s obviously has
the digital instrument cluster in front of it driving this car is just a delight as I'm moving
along here I've got my electric car acceleration I can pull forward I've got no issues at all
with how the car feels my adaptive cruise control stopping me very nicely
telling me that I need to be in this lane
on the brake definitely in the one pedal setting when it's on low you have to use
your other foot to brake now on the standard it very much brings you to a stop by itself
would I suggest this car if you're after an electric car
absolutely check out a pulsar 2. it's got a great interior it drives really nicely it's got all
the latest technologies that android built-in 100 try it out 100 get a test drive if you can
is it for you that depends on obviously the cost and it depends on what you're looking for in a car
but what I can say is from this drive today I would buy one of these
I think it would be an awesome car to have I hope you enjoyed this video on taking the car
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