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I haven't had a chance to do this yet due to bad weather, but one of the members on the Polestar forum with the exact same build as mine and with the performance upgrade did a 0 to 80 run and posted his results. Battery was cold, but he was able to get 0 to 60 in 4.1 seconds. He measured it using a built in performance monitoring app calle G-Meter
He also posted HP pushed to the wheels, which was 353 kW or 479 HP, which is impressive!
Doing my seventh long distance trip in my Polestar to SoCal . Usually I run into different EV'S at the fast chargers, but this time I ran into the most interesting EV I've ever seen
It has 6 battery packs, a 200 mile range. The driver is delivering it to Salt lake City, it's going to be used as a city bus. I feel really bad for the person who is delivering it to Utah because she has to stop every 100 miles, they don't have their own charging infrastructure (she's using EA), it takes an hour and a half on a 350 kW charger and 3 hours on a 150kW LoL!
Last edited by AMIRZA786; Mar 27, 2023 at 04:29 PM.
As I stated in my previous post, I had to take another 400 mile trek to Southern Cal due to my father's health. I opted to drive instead of fly because I love driving this car every chance I get. It's such an amazing experience, it can't really be explained adequately. I also feel less stressed after the long drive, probably due to the almost lack of NVH and smooth instant on demand power.
EA charging is still a mixed a bag. Their newer generation Hyper-Fast and Ultra-Fast chargers are welcome additions, but they still lag way behind Tesla and need to work out some of the kinks. The number of EV's I'm seeing on the road during my travel has more than tripled since this last summer, lots of Kia EV6, Ioniq 5's, Mach-E's and even some EQS's. But Tesla of course took the cake, I stopped counting all the Model Y's after 30! Also ran into a White Model X Plaid with the new badge, I tried to get him to play, but he wasn't game
Last edited by AMIRZA786; Mar 28, 2023 at 03:26 PM.
@AMIRZA786 Hopefully you don't mind to answer again if it has been asked. What is your actual miles per charge? Let say for optimal driving from 90% to 10%, 30 mph to 50 mph for city, and 65 to 80 for hwy.
I have been looking into ev lately, and I'm more interested in real world range, I don't see how an ev EPA at 300+ miles per charge but actual useable like low 200, or even under 200 miles if not charging daily.
Last edited by Longevite1; Mar 30, 2023 at 10:22 AM.
@AMIRZA786 Hopefully you don't mind to answer again if it has been asked. What is your actual miles per charge? Let say for optimal driving from 90% to 10%, 30 mph to 50 mph for city, and 65 to 80 for hwy.
I have been looking into ev lately, and I'm more interested in real world mileage, I don't see how an ev EPA at 300+ miles per charge but actual useable mileage like low 200, or even under 200 miles if not charging daily.
No, I don't mind answering! I normally charge at 90 percent, and "real world" in winter with heater I'm burning on average 38 kWh per/100 miles, or about 230 miles between charges. In the summer I'm averaging 36 kWh per/100 miles and getting about 235 to 240 miles range.
On my current trip to SoCal, my average speed was 80 mph, my electricity burn rate was about 39 kWh per/100 miles, and with two steep mountain passes with gusty wind conditions, I would say between 220 and 230 miles on a 90 percent charge
Last edited by AMIRZA786; Mar 30, 2023 at 10:34 AM.
No, I don't mind answering! I normally charge at 90 percent, and "real world" in winter with heater I'm burning on average 38 kWh per/100 miles, or about 230 miles between charges. In the summer I'm averaging 36 kWh per/100 miles and getting about 235 to 240 miles range.
On my current trip to SoCal, my average speed was 80 mph, my electricity burn rate was about 39 kWh per/100 miles, and with two steep mountain passes with gusty wind conditions, I would say between 225 and 230 miles on a 90 percent charge
Awesome 👍
That's pretty good range, definitely it on my list, waiting for my lady making her choice first.😁
That's pretty good range, definitely it on my list, waiting for my lady making her choice first.😁
Well the good news is the 2023 Polestar 2's have even more range, I think it's been boosted to 260 from 249 miles. Also if you are going to charge at home, it won't really matter
These Level 2 chargers are popping up everywhere. Right now my father is in the hospital in SoCal, I've been going there everyday, so decided to top off my Polestar
They are mostly power by Solar, and the cost is $1.36 for 4 hours, which is basically a "parking charge". There are about 40 of them all together. In fact, most of the hospitals power comes from Solar, as parking shades are all giant solar panels (notice the inverters)
There are about 8 to 10 of these solar panel covered parking shades just on this side of the hospital.
