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The 4 packs a 102-kwh battery pack, with as much as 200-kw quick charging
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Vary? It’s 270 miles in two-motor type, 300 miles with one (each estimated)
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No 800-volt charging, however the Polestar 4 has Android firmware on deck
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About that rear glass…or the shortage of it…
Polestar has marched by way of its debut as a model with a plug-in hybrid 1 coupe, then on to a conventional-ish 2 hatchback because it leafs out with a full battery-electric lineup.
This 12 months the Polestar 3 swings for environment friendly efficiency with its seven-seat physique model and U.S. meeting website. It appears a surer guess than the Polestar 4, an intriguing new entry that blends coupe, sedan, fastback, and SUV cues as its come-on to drivers lured in any other case by the Genesis GV60, Tesla Mannequin Y, or the upcoming Porsche Macan EV.
When you’re trying to outline it with a body-style label, don’t. Its floor clearance is on the low finish of the SUV norm. Its 4 doorways rule out the coupe tag. The fastened glass over the rear-seat passengers nixes the hatchback concept. Sedan? With that roofline?
For the Polestar 4, style is a assemble. It’s inquisitive about a whole lot of physique kinds however not fixated on any of them. That makes it an interesting new factor that grants it a lot leeway with its distinct however not deadly flaws: a hyperfocus on touchscreen features, reasonably quick charging, and an sometimes brittle trip.
How do I do know? I drove it from central Madrid to the hills northwest close to Segovia, and again. The Polestar 4 does have loads of acquainted electric-car really feel. However in some methods, it’s all by itself.
2025 Polestar 4
2025 Polestar 4: Quick acceleration, fast charging
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0-60 mph: 3.7 seconds (AWD), 6.9 seconds (RWD)
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300 miles of vary (single-motor), 270 miles (dual-motor)
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400-volt DC quick charging at 200 kw most; 10-80% in half-hour
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One-pedal drive in all drive modes—through a display screen faucet
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Extra specs: 2025 Polestar 4
Two Polestar 4s lurk inside its slick physique. There’s an amply fast single-motor automotive with rear-wheel drive, and a quick hustler with two motors and all-wheel drive. Neither has a lot steering sensation and massive wheels tax their adaptive damping, however each nonetheless really feel next-wave.
A 102-kwh battery underpins each variations. Within the single-motor Polestar 4, it’s not precisely juiced, with 272 hp and 253 lb-ft of torque. That’s good for a 0-60 mph time of 6.9 seconds, Polestar says, and for 300 miles of driving vary by their estimates (by EPA requirements, not WLTP). In that case many different EVs didn’t have unnecessarily blinding acceleration, this could all be nice.
Till you drove the two-motor 4, that’s. That very same battery surges right here for a web 544 hp and 506 lb-ft. That clips the 0-60 mph time to three.7 seconds—and vary, too, to 270 miles. It’s the automotive you’d need on the mountain passes that thread northwest towards Segovia, the place Seats and cyclists tempo progress in 20-kph increments. Discover a spot within the lane forward, flick the accelerator, and the dual-motor Polestar 4 snaps to consideration and finds the slot—all with out the zithery soundtrack of another luxurious EVs.
Single-motor vehicles have normal dampers and struts, however the all-wheel-drive, dual-motor Polestar 4 will get adaptive dampers that need to assist it deal with the passion the powertrain can generate. It wants extra compliance, even when it’s fitted with the mid-range 21-inch Michelin Pilot Sport EV tires from my take a look at automotive. (The 4 comes with 20-inch wheels normal, and 22-inchers include U.S.-bound AWD vehicles.) With its energy supply set to efficiency mode and its steering left to its regular weighting—gentle—the 4 may monitor exactly down the freeway whereas it obtained ruffled by stretches of scabby pavement, skittering throughout as a substitute of absorbing it.
The answer? Brake into these patches, or deploy one-pedal drive mode to minimize the impacts. The 2 stopping programs work in live performance properly, although the one-pedal mode feels much less desirous to decelerate than in another efficiency EVs I’ve pushed just lately.
In different bona-fides information, the two-motor Polestar 4 has a 3,500-pound tow score and a claimed 6.5 inches of floor clearance, however with these seems, who’d press both score?
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2025 Polestar 4 exterior and inside: Plenty of area, even within the interface
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Nice model, in and out
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Nice room, too: 190.5 inches lengthy, 118.1-inch wheelbase, 18.6-54.2 cubic toes of cargo area (and a small entrance trunk)
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Too many features buried within the touchscreen
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Inside lighting themed on the photo voltaic system
The 4’s exterior and inside model wrap round a cabin with a number of area—and Polestar takes that to a literal conclusion within the ambient lighting. It’s patterned after objects floating in our photo voltaic system: a rolling planetarium, minus the Doobie Brothers.
The 4 serves up an thrilling wedge form adorned by pickaxe LED headlights, and capped by a Polestar brand. Down its sides, the 4 will get chunky and angular sills that hole out what in any other case can be thick spans of sheet metallic. A single strap of LED taillights pulls within the tail towards the rising rear roofline, all to good spartan impact.
The place I feel the 4 falls flat is with the lengthy panoramic roof that extends over the rear seat, and within the stubby decklid hidden in its profile. Polestar makes use of these two to omit a rearview windshield, and it really doesn’t go far sufficient to make the automotive so visually distinct as to beat the imaginative and prescient issues it induces. For these of us with prescription glasses or movement illness, the Polestar resolution of a digital rear digicam mirror is not any resolution. Mazda took the three hatchback additional to the sting of the styling ice—and it’s extra of a standout.
The 4’s cockpit has been pared down greater than wanted, too. The ten.2-inch digital gauge cluster and 15.4-inch tablet-style touchscreen work nice as shows. After they’re put to work by way of the Google built-in interface to host a number of features usually toggled or switched or spun with a knob, they breed the sort of J.D. Energy dissatisfaction that different automotive firms keep away from like inquiries from reporters. So many features rely upon the touchscreen and on steering-wheel controls—adjusting head-up show peak and data, steering-wheel place, et al—that it will possibly take minutes to arrange the automotive for a driver that isn’t in one of many automotive’s accessible “favourite” setups.
It’s a setback, since the remainder of the cabin perfects the uncluttered and matte-luxury contact of the EV style. The woven-textile seats have wonderful assist and onerous controls for adjustment. Polestar presents actual leather-based upholstery, too. The 4 has a number of footroom and headroom due to the flat ground and type issue. And the shortage of rear glass doesn’t induce back-seat nervousness as a lot as I anticipated. The rear bench wants higher assist stitched into it, although its electric-recline possibility will coddle two massive passengers whereas the third center passenger snoozes on their shoulders.
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2025 Polestar 4
2025 Polestar 4
2025 Polestar 4
2025 Polestar 4 costs and know-how: OTA all the best way
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$56,300 for the rear-drive 4
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$64,300 for the AWD 4
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Wi-fi CarPlay and smartphone charging normal
Obtainable to order now, with deliveries to start in a number of months, the Polestar 4 prices $56,300 for the single-motor automotive, inclusive of a $1,400 vacation spot cost. The AWD dual-motor automotive prices $64,300.
Each Polestar 4 has automated emergency braking, blind-spot screens, adaptive cruise management, energetic lane management, and a surround-view digicam system. Restricted hands-free driving comes with an possibility bundle that knits collectively 12 lidar sensors, 14 cameras, and a radar sensor—and Polestar guarantees upgraded means by way of OTA updates with out committing to the “full self driving” schtick. Different normal options embrace an influence tailgate, a panoramic roof, energy entrance seats, and 20-inch wheels.
Choices vary from the $1,500 lidar-sensor Pilot Pack on single-motor vehicles (dual-motor vehicles carry it normal) to a Professional Pack ($2,000 or $600, single- or dual-motor) which provides 21-inch wheels, gold valve caps, and gold-striped seatbelts.
A Plus Pack lifts costs to $61,800 or $69,800, respective of motor depend. It sports activities 12-way energy entrance seats, artificial leather-based upholstery, heated and reclining rear seats, a head-up show, and Harman Kardon audio.
Twin-motor vehicles with the Efficiency Pack value $74,300, which nets them a sport-tuned suspension, 22-inch cast wheels and summer season tires, in addition to Brembo brakes with upgraded discs and gold-painted calipers.
The primary variations of the 2025 Polestar 4 will probably be assembled in China, an untenable scenario given tariff speak. Early subsequent 12 months, the automobile strikes to a plant in South Korea, which could or won’t resolve these tariff points. For now, the worth is the worth, Polestar says. With its standout model and intentional quirks, the Polestar 4 may become a cult favourite. In EV circles, the place as we’ve seen, often it pays to be completely different.
Polestar paid for journey in order that we may deliver you this take a look at drive evaluation.
