Re:Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
by braythwayt on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:56PM
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The Polestar 1 was a hybrid, the Polestar 2 is pure electric. They have some of their own stores, but I believe these are purely retail. They might be serviced in Volvo dealerships at the moment, I don’t know.
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Re:Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
by rasz on Thursday January 23, 2020 @01:22AM
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>The Polestar 1 was
Was??? the car reviews are less than ~30 days old and not a single unit has been delivered to customers
" the Polestar 1 will be delivered to customers first, in early 2020"
Re:Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
by braythwayt on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:04AM
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Fair enough! I tend to gloss over it because it still has an ICE engine in it, even though Polestar are supposed to be the “electrification” brand.
I got the impression that it was a kind of halo car, intended to be made in small quantities just so that Polestar could brag it was making a 600hp sedan. I believe they’re only making 500 a year, for three years.
It isn’t their focus, and given their strategy, it was obsolete the day they announced it. It feels like they took the Volvo Concept Coupe, put a Polestar badge on it instead of a Volvo badge, and announced the Polestar was shipping a car.
But you’re right, they’re supposed to ship it this year, and if demand continues, they’ll ship it though 2022.