Polestar 4 2023 (Spy)

[Maxwell61]

Attendo con ansia qualcosa che costi meno di 2.

[Maxwell61]

Lo chiamano Suv Coupé... 

Vabbè domani vediamo che apre Shangai e lo presentano.

 

https://media.polestar.com/it/it/media/pressreleases/666094

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Fonte wilcoblok

 

Senza lunotto 🤔 ok tutti gli ausili alla guida però non vorrei ci fosse l'effetto bunker per chi sta a bordo.

 

Vedremo domani.

Modificato 17 Aprile 2023 da MotorPassion

[4200blu]

5 minuti fa, MotorPassion scrive:

Senza lunotto

...oppure forse una laminazione a colore per il vetro??

 

 

[MotorPassion]

7 minuti fa, 4200blu scrive:

...oppure forse una laminazione a colore per il vetro??

 

 

 

Potrebbe anche essere visto che c'è un profilo tra le lamiere, potrebbe anche essere un "optional" versione con lunotto classico e versione senza lunotto ma con retrocamera sul tetto.

[MotorPassion]

Sempre da IG wilcoblok

 

 

Questo il frontale, sempre da IG.

 

Modificato 17 Aprile 2023 da MotorPassion

[Maxwell61]

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Modificato 17 Aprile 2023 da Maxwell61

[Beckervdo]

A maggior definizione

 

[MotorPassion]

Grazie alle foto ad alta risoluzione che una testata giornalistica si è fatta scappare, l'articolo è sparito ma i link alle immagini sono rimasti 🤐🤫 si può zoomare sul dettaglio del "lunotto" e delle telecamere.

 

 

Modificato 17 Aprile 2023 da MotorPassion

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Basic info:

* SUV coupé body style
* Dual-motor version with 102-kWh battery, 350-mile range (WLTP)
* No traditional rear window; replaced with high-definition screen displaying feed from roof-mounted rear camera
* Improved aerodynamics with 0.26 drag coefficient
* Rear compartment reimagined for comfort
* Full-length glass roof, optional electrochromic function
* Interior features "soft tech" materials like 3D-knit textile from 100% recycled PET, bio-attributed MicroTech vinyl, and ethically sourced Nappa leather
* Built-in Google Assistant, Google Maps, and Google Play; Android Automotive OS powered infotainment system
* 15.4-inch, landscape-oriented screen in minimalist cockpit
* Dual- and single-motor versions available
* Long-range dual motor: 544 bhp, 0-62 mph in 3.8 seconds
* Long-range single motor: 272 bhp, 372-mile range (WLTP)
* Optional 22-inch wheels, bidirectional charging, vehicle-to-load capability
* Up to 200-kW DC and 22-kW AC charging included
* Built on Geely's Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) platform
* Production in China and South Carolina, USA; 2024 European launch
* Prices expected to start at around £55,000 ($68,283)

 

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This was in the article:

# Polestar’s New Electric Car Has No Rear Window

Polestar is a design-driven, pure-electric brand, so the arrival of the Polestar 4 is no surprise (especially, coming as it does, after Polestars 1, 2, and 3). But what is thought-provoking is that this savvy brand of lateral thinkers and style mavens wants to rescue one of the more egregious automotive niches—the SUV coupé.

It helps that the company’s CEO, Thomas Ingenlath, was a designer in a former life. “Rather than simply modifying an existing SUV, giving it a faster roofline, and as a result compromising elements like rear headroom and comfort, we have designed Polestar 4 from the ground up as a new breed of SUV coupé that celebrates rear occupant comfort,” he claims.

So while the most powerful dual-motor Polestar 4 runs a 102-kWh battery for a claimed range of 350 miles (WLTP), and is the most high-performance Polestar to date, all eyes are understandably on the car’s design—and the rear end in particular. Why? Because Polestar has got rid of the traditional rear window entirely.

**Those in Glass Houses**

Polestar 4 EV on black backdrop

Photograph: Polestar

It’s an idea the company explored with its gorgeous 2020 Precept concept car, but here it is for real. Given that the shape of a car’s “glasshouse,” as designers refer to it, is core to how we read a vehicle, eliminating one major section of it is a punchy statement.

Polestar has done it by embracing the capabilities of the high-definition screen that replaces the age-old rear-view mirror. This displays a real-time feed from a roof-mounted rear camera, and delivers a much broader field of vision. These aren’t new—Range Rover has been using its ClearSight camera mirror for years—but Polestar is the first to max out on the design potential.

The reason? In elongating the Polestar 4’s silhouette, the car’s aerodynamic properties have also been optimized, a key part of an EV’s range-extending armory. The 4 has an impressively slippery 0.26 drag coefficient. But it also enables a reimagining of the car’s rear compartment.

“In the past, we’ve always had to provide an opening at the rear for a physical mirror,” Polestar’s head of design, Maximilian Missoni, tells WIRED. “Camera tech now is very high resolution, it works well at night time, and the software is constantly being upgraded so we can add value into the system over time. We could remove the rear window and move the whole structure further back. It creates a cocoon.”

Ingenlath and Missoni are one of the car industry’s most formidable design double acts, having proven themselves at Volkswagen and Volvo. Some car bosses are tone-deaf when it comes to design, and Missoni admits that Ingenlath’s intimate knowledge of the territory is helpful. But he insists that the Polestar 4 is as much the product of pragmatic thinking as it is conceptual design theorizing.

**Aerodynamic Advantage**

Rear view of the Polestar 4 EV on black backdrop

Photograph: Polestar

“The car’s development has been driven by the availability of technology, but it also improves aerodynamics, and it improves the roominess of the interior,” Missoni says. “On an SUV coupé, these are often in conflict. You aim to get a sleek silhouette, otherwise what’s the point? But then interior space is compromised. This shape frees up all the constituents because of the use of technology.”

“There are some old-school solutions that we’ve learned to live with,” he says. “But as a designer and engineer, it’s obviously good to say, ‘Do we have the technologies now that could compete with this?’ Usually the answer is, ‘Yes, but they’re not quite as good, so let’s forget about it.’ But if you use digital technology, like a camera and the accompanying software, there are more features you can add. The extrapolation of these things gives you so much potential.”

Although the deletion of the back window risks a certain claustrophobia, the 4’s rear compartment seemingly manages to envelope occupants without plunging them into existential gloom. Several things help here. Firstly, a full-length glass roof is standard, with the option of an electrochromic function to switch between opaque or transparent. Crucially, the glass roof stretches back and beyond the rear occupants’ heads, and finishes part of the way into the area in which a traditional rear window would sit.

Missoni and his team have also doubled down on the cocoon effect by angling the exterior belt-line up on the rear doors. This is a very striking car, with some hard—"robotic," says Missoni—surface treatments blending with softer forms. Importantly, the Polestars 3 and 4 are fully differentiated, and the new car sits between the 2 and 3 in the hierarchy.

**Extra Interior**

Interior view of the Polestar 4 EV

Photograph: Polestar

Then there’s the interior. The 4 uses what Missoni loftily calls “soft tech,” inspired by sportswear and featuring new treatments for Polestar. There’s a tailored 3D-knit textile, which consists of 100 percent recycled PET (a form of polyester), codeveloped with the Swedish School of Textiles; bio-attributed MicroTech vinyl, which replaces crude oil with pine oil; and ethically sourced Nappa leather.

The rear headrests are bigger than usual because there’s no need to worry about them obscuring the view behind. Front or back, this is an interior that potentially manages to be stimulating yet calm at the same time.

Polestar’s relationship with Google continues, and again encompasses built-in Google Assistant, Google Maps, and Google Play, while the infotainment system is powered by the Android Automotive OS. A 15.4-inch, landscape-oriented screen (no spinning tablets here) is the main focus of an otherwise minimalist cockpit. Missoni reckons the Polestar 4 has a warmer ambience than the 2 or 3, with an interior lighting setup supposedly inspired by the solar system.

**Vehicle-to-Load Capability**

Performance is impressive, if not quite intergalactic. Dual- and single-motor versions will be available, the long-range dual motor benefitting from a 544-bhp power output, for a 0 to 62 mph time of 3.8 seconds. That iteration also allows the driver to choose between performance or range modes, and it uses semi-active suspension to sharpen its dynamics.

The long-range single motor car has 272 bhp and a claimed range of 372 miles (WLTP). The Polestar 4 can also be specified with 22-inch wheels, the biggest fitted to a Polestar so far. Bidirectional charging is included, and there is vehicle-to-load capability. Up to 200-kW DC and 22-kW AC charging is included on all versions.

Interestingly, the 4 uses parent company Geely’s Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA), an “open source” modular platform that also underpins the Zeekr 001, the company’s new all-electric brand. (It will also be used by the upcoming Smart electric SUV, as part of Mercedes’s joint venture with Geely.) The Polestar 3, meanwhile, uses the Volvo SPA 2 platform that’s also the basis for the new fully electric EX90.

Production begins at Geely’s Hangzhou Bay plant in China in November this year, although the Polestar 4 will also be manufactured at Volvo’s Ridgeville plant in South Carolina, ahead of a 2024 launch in Europe. Expect prices to start at around £55,000 ($68,283).

 

28 minuti fa, Beckervdo scrive:

 

 

 

Confronto con gli interni della cugina Zeekr 001.

 

Modificato 17 Aprile 2023 da MotorPassion