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Meh. I just plug my phone into the head unit. Presto! Google OS on a 7 year old Beetle.
But yeah, our last family car purchase was preceded by long discussions about range and the lack of charging points near us. With older family over an hour's drive away, we stayed with the ICE option.
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I had a driveway where I could install a charger
this made me think - is there any progress in developing decent charging points for on-street parking? or do people have to make do with cables lying across pavements... seems like such a pain point in the adoption of EVs - particularly in populous areas like London, who would undoubtedly benefit most from EVs
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I love the Polestar 2. I was on the waiting list too and was soooo close to buying it.
Why didn't I? Range anxiety.
The car is perfect, but where the Tesla beats it is the charging network. And even the Tesla I feel I would struggle with as my drives are London to the Lakes or London to the Highlands in single drives. The time Tesla would add to that journey in terms of achieving range by driving moderately, and then the time to charge... it adds hours to a journey.
If 95% of my driving was <200 miles roundtrips and I had a driveway where I could install a charger... the Polestar 2 would've been my car.
But frankly... for the same price I got the Volvo V60 T8 Polestar... I get the pure electric for barely 25 miles, and have no range anxiety because I just fill it with petrol and just drive and drive, top up in 10 minutes and drive some more.
In terms of performance, the V60 and Polestar 2 are almost identical on 0-60, and the acceleration is there throughout the range... but I get to floor it above 70 without any fear of what that is doing to reduce battery range as it's not using the battery at that end.
The only thing the Polestar 2 has that isn't on the V60 Polestar? That large display and Google OS for the entire dashboard. Which I did want, but not enough to bring range anxiety into my life.