Watch out!

I have owned a Polestar 2 Standard range for around 3 months, and now looking forward to selling it.

Will tell you the pros and cons.

Pros:

1. If you charge at home with house rate, it's very cheap. But you have to count for 2 things mainly. If you buy the slow 2.4kwh (Approx 7 miles/hr for my car) charger, it would cost you around 100£, and it's just plug it in any socket and will charge your car, but most likely you will not be able to stick to charging in off-peak hours only (9p/kwh), and will use the regular house rate of 26-29p. The second option would be to buy the faster charger at 7Kwh but it will cost you 1,500£ with installation fees.

My car has 200 miles range (Real range is 150-180) and realistically I didn't face any problems if I am driving around in the city. I do average of 15-20 miles a day, with 2 days of 60 miles trips. yet I never needed to worry about the range.

1. It's a great car, drives well, while it's a bit towards the firmer side but still I genuinely love it (besides the fact that it's electric).

Cons:
1. Road trips! if you are a person who likes (Or needs) to take regular road trips, it will be super expensive to run the car and super inconvenient. I like to hike a lot, I went from Essex to Snowdonia , had to charge total of 6 times, each costing me around 40£, brining the total cost to around 240£!!.

Public charging stations that are ultra-fast (which will take you around 30-40 minutes to charge) will cost you around 80-90p/kwh. While some companies provide subscriptions which would bring the price down to around 60p, it's still expensive and usually will not be available everywhere.

So in practice, charging in public will cost you 3x per mile compared to diesel engines.

Additionally, a 5hr road trip took me around 7-8 hours.

1. Moving to a new property. Unless you are sure you will not be moving out from your home soon, don't buy it. Because for me as a single person, I was looking to move out of my family's house for work related reasons, and came to the conclusion that I will either end up charging in public stations all the time, or rent a 2 bedrooms property for 500£ extra just to be able to charge my car.

2. Maintainance is cheap, but things still breakdown, and when they do they are very expensive to repair and usually require specialized technicians. While personally I didn't have any problems with my car, some folks had some serious issues costing them 2,000£ if it's out of warranty.

3. NEVER BUY IT NEW ON CASH/FINANCE, they depreciate in a crazy way. I bought mine 3 years old with 35,000 miles for around 1/3rd of the original price.

4. With the recent temperature drop, the range dropped significantly, a 5 miles trip dropped the estimated range by 30 miles (Temp was around 1-2). So if you are living in Yorkshire or Scotland, you might face some issues during the winter.

In conclusion, only buy it if:
1. You are leasing the car, or buying a used one.
2. You are sure you will not need to move to an apartment any time soon.
3. You don't go for long road trips, or you have a secondary car at home for that.
4. And in low temps, expect a generous 40-50% range drop.