Enlarge / Polestar has fixed the Polestar 2 a caller chemoreceptor attraction for model-year 2024.

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The existent electrical conveyance renaissance has been decently underway for a fewer years now, and we've reached the constituent wherever the archetypal of those EVs are present undergoing a mid-life refresh. Later this year, the revised Polestar 2 volition spell into production, featuring much modular equipment, a caller nose, and all-new electrical motors.

"Typically successful the car industry, a facelift introduces superficial ocular changes that often destruct the archetypal volition of the car’s plan theme. With the caller model-year Polestar 2, we alternatively went beneath the aboveground and upgraded important tech and mechanical components of the electrical drivetrain," said Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath.

The biggest changes are reserved for the single-motor Polestar 2. This volition present travel with an 82 kWh artillery pack, compared to the 78 kWh packs successful the dual centrifugal cars, and should beryllium capable for up to 300 miles (483 km) connected a azygous charge, though Polestar is inactive waiting connected its authoritative EPA scope estimate.

There's a caller imperishable magnet centrifugal and a silicon-carbide inverter, and present the centrifugal drives the rear wheels, not the fronts. Power and torque person accrued rather significantly, too, from 231 hp (172 kW) to 295 hp (220 kW) and from 243 lb-ft (330 Nm) to 361 lb-ft (490 Nm), dropping much than a 2nd from the 0-60 mph time. The larger artillery battalion tin besides fast-charge astatine up to 205 kW.

The dual-motor Polestar 2 had its powerfulness equilibrium shifted, truthful that's present rear-biased arsenic opposed to some beforehand and rear motors having the aforesaid output. Power is accrued marginally, arsenic well, from 402 hp (300 kW) to 416 hp (310 kW), and torque a small much substantially from 486 lb-ft (660 Nm) to 546 lb-ft (740 Nm). Traction is improved, which drops the 0-60 mph clip to 4.3 seconds, and the beforehand centrifugal tin present disengage erstwhile cruising for amended scope efficiency. Polestar says it expects up to 270 miles (435 km) for this version.

Enlarge / If you spot a Polestar 2 with golden brake calipers, that means it has the Performance Pack.

The optional Performance Pack boosts this to 449 hp (335 kW), unneurotic with the summation of Öhlins dual-flow valve dampers, Brembo brakes, 20-inch forged alloy wheels, immoderate bundle changes, and Polestar's distinctive golden seatbelts. But if you conscionable privation the powerfulness boost and not the different go-fast goodies, that's possible via an over-the-air bundle unlock.

"Changing from front- to rear-wheel thrust successful the single-motor variants and recalibrating the torque ratio successful the dual-motor variant for an accrued rear-wheel-drive consciousness elevates the Polestar 2 driving acquisition to a full caller level," said Joakim Rydholm, caput of chassis improvement astatine Polestar. "The updated Polestar 2 is an adjacent much playful and agile car, retaining its compactness and implicit consciousness of control, portion astatine the aforesaid clip becoming much mature with added comfort."

Polestar says the caller artillery chemistry means that c emissions to physique the long-range single-motor mentation person dropped by 1.1 metric tons to 5.9 metric tons per car. It's besides bumping the instrumentality levels of immoderate cars, adding the Pilot Pack (which includes operator assists similar adaptive cruise control, unsighted spot monitoring, and rear cross-traffic alerts) arsenic modular connected the dual-motor Polestar 2 for North America.