New Polestar 4: Another pointless, overweight EV | Auto Expert John Cadogan
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I've got a PhD in chemistry. The whole net zero and associated EV etc. cr4p is nothing more than deluded science and incompetent politics being well and truly scr3wed by big business. It will all end in tears. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much, Tony.
I've got a PhD in cardboard boxes. CO2 is real.
Well done lad. It certainly is.@@steveinoz8188
yes we all exhale@@steveinoz8188
@StacheD is doing an emissions analysis on a BEV by putting it on a yooj barbecue in February 2024. This should be very informative. I looked hard to find the liquid solvent details published for Lithium NCM and Lithium LFP batteries. It was only when I tracked down the solvent manufacturer (in Japan?) that I saw ethylene was listed for both. Sodium Ion batteries (can) use traces of trimethyl phosphate, fluroethylene carbonate, but it’s going to be Sodium PerChlorate or Sodium hexa Fluoro Phosphate. Plus a bit of water and maybe an Ethel ester. The list looks like the side of a shampoo bottle by now and we aren’t really going to know what is emitted in a fire until someone like @StacheD chucks a few in the fire then measures the result
Why does every electrical appliance in my home have an energy rating but EVs escape this?
Wow dude, that is a damn fine point...
Because the industry doesn't want people to know how bad it is.
They do. It's known as a fuel consumption rating and is derived using a standardized test and required to be printed on every car sold in numerous countries.
Well, I guess if you are charging one off a standard ANZ 240 volt supply, it'll probably use most of the 2400 or so watts it can suck for the whole time it is charging - so the rating would be zero stars - but yeah, nothing designed to charge a battery gets a energy star rating because it doesn't really make sense to.
Politics, pure and simple; reality be damned.
Then, there is the "spillage".
Hmm. So a bankrupt company has a new EV "on sale" months before production starts and is taking deposits - what could go wrong?
Maybe you could acquaint yourself with facts before posting.
They're at the swirling the drain phase... The executives still have time to grant themselves huge bonuses! The people who plunk down a deposit will help them make their yacht payments maybe.
Polestar is not bankrupt. That is fake news. Polestars financial control is just transferred to the over Geely.
Evergrande much :)
Not bankrupt, and the guy talking here apparently dont get that every move me make consumes some sort of energy use. He is a complete idiot to listen to and it is clearly not fact based.
As someone born in the late fifties, remember with horror, the Vinyl seats of the late sixties and early seventies. The third degree burns on the backs of my thighs in the summer, or the frost burn in the winter(yes I had to wear shorts as we were poor-because my dad spent the money on a Ford Cortina "Super" 1300 instead of clothing us and feeding us appropriately).
Definitely recommend a BMW Sensatec or Mercedes MBTex car then.
If you pay $100k+ and fork out another $10k for the pig skin then you might get something different.
Today's vinyls are also much better than those from the 70s
Yes indeed, we drove from east coast to west to visit family throughout the sixties and seventies. Hated the vinyl, still do. We had a toyota corolla as I left for the Marines in 75.
Don't forget that if your cigarette cherry fell on the seat when you got out to go grocery shopping you would come back to a smoking mess as the naugahide went up in flames.
My first car was a 1970 Ford Ltd.
Back seat wide enough for my girlfriend and me to lie full-length.
Vinyl seat hot or cold or sticky enough you didn't want to.
Who in their right mind would forego a new car just to put clothes on their kids?
I've got a 68 V8 Falcon that weighs around 1400kgs . They are trying to make us give up cars like the Falcon . What a joke .
My SClass with all its luxury comes in under 2000kg. Stupid electric cars.
I had a 2001 50cc scooter with a race pipe that did 80km/h behind a bus. It produced more smog than an XD Falcon with the alloy head. It got 23 km/L which was slightly better than my other much larger motorcycle. Nobody is trying to stop us driving anything. Only to change the economics for their own agenda. That’s within the rules. I will never ever miss that scooter
I can remember when people thought 1400kg was heavy. Now they seem to accept 2200kg - 3500kg as perfectly normal.
I'm sure a little Toyota 4 cylinder from the 1970s that weighs 900kg would be 10 times more good for the environment than these idiotic, electric, overweight, Remote Combustion Vehicles.
@@Hydrogenblonde I'm still opting for a later model with five star rating. As much as I loved my older cars, I walked away from a nasty accident in a C Class. The lady in the Cortina not so much sadly. But with better materials, I don't understand why cars are so heavy.
It’s all good until you hit something.
No hills, no wind, no A/C and no heating. All this for a six figure vehicle.
And don't drive on a cold rainy night. Using the heater, lights and wipers.
It will warm up when the battery goes into thermal run away.
Yeah but think of how popular it will make you at the next cocktail party.
The car got all of those things. Grow up.
The idiocracy we're living in, where a heavy and massive electric car is considered more Eco friendly than a small compact 1L 4 banger.
Yeah, a 1980's ford laser sport in it's entirety,would have weighed about the same as the battery in this thing.
A lot of EV owners like myself don't like large cars, be it ICE or EV. I would never consider buying a Polestar 4 or F150 Lightning purely because it's too big. Does everyone think EV drivers defend every EV out there?
The car is heavy becouse of the battery. Grow up. The battery need to be that big for long range and better battery life
IL 3 mostly these days
Polestar is a car? Damn, I came here all excited thinking it was a story all about an exceptional pole dancer😢
I thought it was the sequel to Showgirls! 🥴
When will the pornstar car be available
Very similar. Brought a couple pole stars home over the years and yes, they are fun to have around for a short while. In the long run they are far too much trouble to keep and both can spontaneously burn your house down.
OMG that was so funny. I nearly spat out half of my scotch and soda reading that 🤣🤣
That’s a battery powered pole dancer
Published 15 minutes ago. Lets see if we get the first electric sycophant before the video even ends at 27 minutes.
I'm an ICE Skoda driver but I would take a P4 any day. Hope this helps
Let them eat EV, no problems. If you are prepared to jump through all the hoops and hurtles to own and use an EV then go right ahead. The problem starts when the government overreach forces us into these expensive yet inferior automobile that most of us do not want. That is the problem.
Does it count that I am trying to buy a Daihatsu Midget as a commuter car? ha ha (could be an Urkel-Mobile) ha ha
14:27, where can I get those solar panels that charge at night, should they be called Moon Panels perhaps? and 20;18, Happy Feminist is an oxymoron.
Anthony's All Night Miracle Moonlight Panels.
I understand that they are being sent to all Labor voters. If you keep voting Labor you are sure to eventually get them.
What's wrong with overnight charging solar panels,leaves the daylight charging one for the daytime.
Don't be so negative, you just need a 20,000km long extension cord
Remember it's the southern hemisphere! Everthing is upside down. Trust me, I live down here.
John, your wordsmithing hit new heights with this one! I'm not sure how I laugh, be informed, educated, and be desperately sad about how this planet is being run. Don't ever stop.
The figures for comparing CO2 production and the distance required to recover look even worse if compared to my Mazda 2 D which produces 90g/Km of CO2 and only has a mass of 1115Kg. Could be about 425,000 Km to break even, i.e. approx 30 years. My Mazda may still be going in 30 yrs.
Yep, every chance , my is .
Show us your math
@@robg5513seriously?
Another thing with these EVs and the planned obsolescence of ICE vehicles…consider the number of third party parts companies that rely on and support the ICE industry, from standard engine parts to body panels. These companies and all of their vertical support infrastructure like auto part stores, delivery drivers, even body shops, will all go out of business, because you can’t even do major body repairs on these EV vehicles.
Mazda is for geeks
I like to think of an ICE as an oxygen powered vehicle greening the planet with co2 in my inimitable altruistic style.
Spoken like a true Greeny!👍
Thousands upon thousands of unsold Chinese EV's could be a good thing! Astonishingly there are people actually considering buying one.
Why you talk about byd ? Polestar sel all there cars they make.
The NSW government would love everyone to buy one of these, just think of the revenue it gets in weight tax every year in your rego, plus buying tyres every six months or so, plus the extra electricity costs, plus plus plus .... the list goes on.
You mean Labor voters would love it. They are the ones responsible for this disaster government. Liberal voters are to blame for the previous disaster.
See all the "Plusses" of an EV? 😅😂🤣
Don’t forget the tax hike on your property once you install your electrical generating station on the roof, that should be worth a bit.
@user-kv5gh6le6y tyres every 6 months? No. I expect the tyres on our EV may wear more quickly than on our ICE car but let's not be ridiculous. The tyres we currently have are about 2 years old and still have plenty of life left in them.
@@brettski74 I didn’t say anything about tires, I spoke about increased property taxes, if you install improvements for generating electricity, storing it, and transporting it into your vehicle.
The Polestar 4 is "on sale" the same way the Cyberurinal was "on sale" in 2019.
Not really. Polestar 4 did go on sale 6 months before it got delivered. Grow up mate. It’s the same for all car company’s now days. Porch you buy your car years before get one same with Mercedes, bmw , Volvo and so on. Grow up mate.
This thing is just over 7 feet wide. Here in the UK I have a pretty much average sized drive which is 8 feet wide. Doubtful I could get out but great antitheft device as no one could open a door to get in. Marked out parking spaces at malls, cinema’s, car parks are only about 9 feet wide and once you get off our motorways/dual carriage ways/main roads and onto our "normal" sized roads this thing is going to be a PITA. Better keep a large supply of door mirrors in your garage as they will be wiped off the vehicle regularly. Our buses, at 8ft 6inches wide, will ping them off for on board entertainment for the passengers.
your math a bit off. Its 1544mm wide, I make that a whisker over 5 feet. Still, theres load of even more morbidly obese ICE cars to buy if you want.
That width is insane for anyone who uses cars to actually go places beyond the range of public transport and cycling as all the interesting roads are also much too narrow for this to have any chance of passing a car going in the other direction. For comparison a Suzuki Jimny is about 5'4" wide and can somehow still carry 4 people.
@@peglor So the Suzuki is 3 inches wider than the Polestar 4. The P4 is 1544 mm wide = 5.06 ft.
@@robdavies6682 Not sure where you got the 1544 mm width from, but the previous comment here said it was just over 7 feet, which is more believable given the size of the center console between the front seats.
@@peglorI got it from the Polestar website but I was looking at the height. Silly me.
I live on a boat and I always use my solar panels to charge my batteries overnight. I just don't understand why they're flat every morning. Am I missing something?
The sun
Yep, he needed to be told.
And I quote "Solar panels charging your EV overnight". What a ????...
Yes, 4 panels in your antipodes..
A statement from the so called leader of a country?? We really are in serious trouble.
Don't feel bad about your leather seats. I will be eating Ribeye as long as I can.
I eat grass fed rib eye only. I like that they make people think about where the leather comes from, it's honest at least
You vill own nothing and vill eat zee bugs.
@@PH-kl5qq everything is used from a cow…that’s more ecofriendly than making clothing out of plastics.
Yep. Support the farmers.
@@PH-kl5qqmost people care about it do that’s why they named it. If you don’t care about it then don’t talk about it
14:36 I knew Australia was sunny but charging your EV "overnight"? That _is_ impressive.
Lol
You want to see how well our tomatoes grow here.
That's because in the southern hemisphere daytime and nighttime are switched. Trust me I live downhere.
Maybe ... a battery that is charged from solar?
He means overnight for us north of the equator, long extension cords.
Must be freakin good solar panels if you can charge your ev overnight!
14:36
You don't need a brain to become Prime Minister. You only need to going the Labor or Liberal party and block vote as you are told.
@TritonAdventures-AU why not have a battery connected to solar that you then charge from overnight?
A battery charging a battery. How efficient!
@Hydrogenblonde
Exactly, thank you
It may be on sale in Australia, but the delivery date is optional
Approximate, at best.
Don’t forget to add the truck nut option. It’s good to have a spare in case your wife top her off because you bought this thing.
If it’s not going to arrive they’ve done you a favour…haven’t you wised up yet?
Refer: EX30 delivery halt. Cancelled a Volvo XC40 recharge order a little while ago. It seems every time I made enquiries about the delivery date it was pushed further in to the future and the price kept going up … and would I like last years twin motor model instead for only a few (dozen) thousand dollars more? Also the dealership couldn’t provide any details on the servicing schedule or costs
Put the $1000 on a horse and invest the other $139,000 in shares. Your odds are better.
From what I read on international financial columns, Polestar is in financial do-do’s, with its 3 major Swedish bank financiers considering their position regarding ongoing funding.
Apparently, Polestar is technically insolvent.
Flicked off 400 workers. Now able to seek funding outside of Geeley. Transport Evolved News covered it well
It's parent company is loaded, and 2 new models this year. Time will tell
And a lot of Hollywood movies loose money, despite selling loads of tickets.
There are disincentives to being too successful, so you can expect many unusual flops and writeoffs to help the overall position. We'll have to wait and see!
It will be one of dozens of new Chinese EV companies to fold over the following years.
Amazon runs at a loss the last I heard.
Don't think having a bank balance means much if there is an underlying strategy to pay minimal tax by pretending to be broke.
As someone pointed out many movies never make a "profit". The first Star Wars movie never made a "profit", Dave Prowse knew all about that.
Ok i get it evs are crap in, range lies, the cold, stoopid heavy, undertaxed, resource rape, unethical mining etc. But for some reason i love watching you, mguy, geoff buys cars, macmaster, ev car nage and more. Anyway, my advice is, when asked stupid questions, answer in interpretive dance.
Range don’t lie it’s truly tested on machines so everyone will have same experience of testing the range all EV have it but it doesn’t say real life range. The polestar 2. 2024. Says 610 km. But it does 590 km in Sweden and it’s winter here. So not a big difference. Off course all cars are different. Had a tesla here in Sweden. 3 winters and had no problem with the cold. It’s a fantastic winter car. Now had Polestar 2 for 2 Winters and its even better.
Solar power is NOT free only the generation using the sun is. The panels them selves are very expensive and no one is talking about how we will recycle all these solar panels once they die. That is going to hit us hard in 10 15 years time.
Yes, there is a cost to everything. Not always measured in dollars and cents but a cost nevertheless.
Not so expensive. I have already payed for mine with 6 years on my house. Recycling isnt that expensive. House owners that have solar panels don’t got money problems like brokkies do.
I remember back when 1 ton cars were considered heavyish.
Remember how we would laugh at the 1970s land yachts in USA?
A 1975 Ford LTD Brougham decked out with the optional 460 cu in big block V8 was
5.7m long and just over 2m wide was ONLY 2175 kg.
And they were still slow!
@davidbrayshaw3529 low comp, low octane fuel, emission regs, catalytic converter and single exhaust. Barely 200hp
@@rjbiker66 Terrible engineering. At the same time, Mercedes were producing a 2.8 litre six that produced 180 hp, met all of the emissions requirements and propelled their vehicle to 200kmh.
@@davidbrayshaw3529 How sad that American cars were so awful. Too many bean counters and pinheads?
@@Biosynchro Well, there's always that, but cheap fuel and straight flat roads meant that they didn't have to produce better than what they were.
I'm a three time uni drop out (that is, no PhD). My wife recently bought a petrol guzzler to replace her Vulva (Swedish, not Chinese, and not a Polestar but still a CLINT of a car) and I'm soon to replace my petrol guzzling Jeep after its transmission shit itself. I'll be looking at another petrol guzzler of some sort. FLICK EVs!
What's wrong with EVs?
@@PH-kl5qqhe just a hater and can’t afford one or a house where he can charge it wen he sleeps 😂
Eloquently sarcastic as ever John 😂. You brightened my day again thanks
I couldn't work out how you charge your ev overnight using solar panels, unless of course there's a nighttime sun I've never seen.
Bingo !
That's why Canada in the north all summer long night & day the sun shines then all winter long it doesn't.
How politicians rule us by lies continues to amaze me.
Solar charges the power wall and feeds the grid for 38 cents per KWH paid to you. At night you charge your EV & buy back and run the house at 12 cents per KWH after the Powerwall storage is used up.
@@Dive-Bar-Casanovaalso can charge up a battery and store free solar energy in it and then use it as extra same with the car.
$440 for a set of mudflaps, what the actual $#%^, have they lost the plot or what !!!
I thought Polestar had gone bankrupt?
Close. Volvo will bankrupt them likely. Se said value of company is zero. I don't get the whole thing. They made another brand that is harder to buy because Volvo dealers won't sell it.
@@MrRaitzi The banks have rated it as $0 value, so only time will tell, and remember Volvo is owned by the Chinese, not even the Swedish
Volvo dumped Polestar and it is now 100% Geely owned...
The CCP won't let Polestar be liquidated. Except a lot of creditors to get screwed, but Geely and Polestar aren't likely to go away any time soon.
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. The sign of automotive excellence 😂😂
Looking forward to seeing your video from the Everything Electric Show in Sydney next week ! The Uk and China will be well represented to answer any questions you may have ! 😂 You can meet your hero Robert Llewelyn 👍
Dr John. I love my 2300kg Territory, yes me, my tools and a full tank which will take me 700ks, without having to look for a power plug.
Hey John, here in NZ on the 1st April 24 the whole country EV's are going to be paying Road tax, oh. Phev things included. The Phev guys think they'll be paying twice as much as others. Tough, I say.
I'm sick of following these bloody Eveready cars, who all travel at speed at a minimum of 10ks under the speed limit (city streets) who needs anti-speed bumps when Eveready vehicles travel so slowly. 1 eye on the battery meter. The other, maybe on the road. Cheers John
Bruce
A real cry baby that don’t know reality of life this day. Had EV for 5 years and only time I plug in my car is wen I’m at the gym or when I’m home and sleeping. Some times I have charged it at road trips but charging places are close to places to eat and work out or go shopping. Not a big deal. Grow up
We're going to use solar panels which are pretty inefficient at the best of times, dont work at night, don't present a recycling nightmare as they last forever and definitely don't use any carbon in manufacturing, shipping or installation.
These will then charge a battery. Definitely not made from rare elements or dubiously sourced. These will of course be 100% efficient at charging and again last forever, not presenting a fire hazard or recycling mess.
This home installed battery will then charge the EV battery which is parked in the garage which everyone has and definitely doesn't present the danger of setting fire to your home or the homes of nearby people and their vehicles.
Why it all makes sense.
If only there was a better way where we could extract near limitless stored energy out of the ground in liquid form. That was incredibly energy dense but also incredibly stable and inert. Then the thermodynamic gods would be smiling on us.
Imagine if the byproducts could increase food production to feed the growth in population. Madness 😂
Yes, BMW invented the oversized monstrosities that looked like a regular car mated with a truck. Those X class things that would be better off Xtinct.
Knocking our exes? We were crazy enough to pick them.
He did say they were bad decisions... Probably still better than a Polestar tho
I now know of three apartment blocks that have banned ev charging in their underground parks....go figure
They probably won't let you wash your car down there either...
The EV is for the rich and the best people. Not broke apartment losers.
Someone at my work was considering getting a Polestar and I openly laughed at them during a Teams call......whoops.... I look forward to my counseling session
It’s a great car. The 3 and 4 for sure better than 2. Got four polestar 2 as working cars for the workers and they quit using there gas cars and only use the polestars they all around 40-60 years old but if you can’t charge at work it’s fantastic. Couple of them charge at houses wen they grab the car for extra trips
Sir John, I truly appreciate the homage to "boobies", and contribute one simple thought: "Big or small, love them all." I suddenly found myself wanting to line up my shot on the golf course for some reason, even though I've never played golf in my life.
Maybe instead of rego price based on the old metric of number of cylinders, perhaps a switch to weight categories.
The heavier the vehicle the higher the rego cost levied.
What a splendid idea !
ACT grubberminit went from cylinders to CO2 emissions and are now considering weight as well. After subsiding TAF out of BEV buying. Yeah nice little shell game
Nah!. Remove rego. Ban yearly insurance. Charge by distance only. We can all own a little EV for daily commute and a big heavy gas car for long trips and towing.
That’s how it is in NSW anyway
I don't know about now or other states but I think part of the rego calculation was a Power to Weight ratio, it used to be on the renewal.
??Or was that only on Comercial regos?
Whilst I’d rather have a tooth pulled sans anaesthetic than deal with a car dealer, there is no way I am buying a farken car, of any variety, online using their “blast you in the buttocks” online configurator.
At least the with the car dealer I may get a metaphoric reach around from the Ming mole.
Okey. Cry then.
after listening to you description of car reviews, I have been reading them with the same scepticism. It does appear that the writers are just regulating the car makers blurb. Well done John.
Writers regurgitating is pretty common in other industries. Fucking annoying trying to find info on a new product when 20-30 word salad sites produce no new information.
This is like a pyromaniac racing around his home having lost his match stash, being late to the burning of a witch at the stake. Then "Solar panels on your roof charging your EV OVER NIGHT"? Weird, where I live there is NO sunlight "overnight".
That explains why it's dark out...hmmm. 😆
Where I live my solar panels charge during the night but slow but only 6 months of the gear when it’s almost sunny 24/7. During days I get soul at energy stored to then use to charge my car over night. Wake up
You ain’t going to get a test drive now John
Funny that Albo , i didn't know solar panels work at night to charge EV's . What a fruit cake . Even a solar battery won't be able to charge all night.lol.
Yep. That 10kwh home battery could charge your 40kwh EV for about an hour. A quarter "tank" full in effect. The house then uses grid power at retail prices, both for the EV and house. It's a fool's dream at best.
Yes but think of all the stars in the sky. Millions of them!
Why waste so much money on this EV crap?
Just repair your stuff instead of buying a new one at the first scratch, that should reduce a lot more emissions.
If you can charge at home, do enough mileage and the electricity in your country is clean enough then you can make an argument for an EV, but not everyone will meet the criteria.
And the older the car is the easier it is to fix and the longer it is likely to last.
With the number of computer modules in todays cars many will be JUNK in 10 years simply because a $2 chip in a computer module let out the magic smoke.
Manufactures (USA) only have to be able to supply parts for 10 years, Australia ? is it 7 ? EU ??
I've got a 50 year old Toyota Carola still going strong and you see plenty of Holdens still on the road.
I'll be you won't see many 20 year old EVs and near ZERO 50's
Battery EV- Only place they make sense is in a warehouse forklift! Keeping the fumes out of an enclosed space.
With a bit of luck the boat is sent back like the last lot of Teslas.
LPG is fine for warehouse use
I'm only one minute in, and you've summarised it perfectly!
That's me - concise.
Concise with the occasional detour... Ha@@AutoExpertJC
So you are telling me every person in authority who had a hand in putting these fire bombs on the roads of the world are guilty of putting me and mine in harms way.
Who wants to go first on my list of who to sue?
Boomer here have your lot said about bringing back conscription and at same time undermining national pride?
@@stanwizz2351 What has that got to do with anything?Whats your point?
Put your own name at the top.
I had nothing to do with putting evs on any road any where any time and except for the first 5 minutes of their history I now can't stand the idea of them.
Your statement needs clarification unless of course you are the proud owner of one.@@NeverGonaHappen
August will mark the end of my year of the piss.
I plan to celebrate that year and also celebrate not buying a Polesmoker 4, by demolishing a litre of Bacardi and a few bottles of champagne down at the local with Cletus. Yeee haaa.
Dork.
@@andreasl4507 yeah mate I've been called that many times before.
@@andreasl4507 I can actually learn stuff I've not been programmed with. So I can be, you know, more human, and not such a dork all the time.
Manufacturing an ICE vehicle generates 5.6t of CO2, according to autoexpress. So wouldn't the break even point of the EV Vs Ranger be more like 70000km? I'm not disputing your point, just the calculation.
This polestar 4 got 620 KM RANGE. BUT IN REALLITY IT WILL be around 600 KM. Test drived a Polestar 3 with same battery I believe and got 590 KM in Swedish winter storm
Did the PM just say "Solar panels on the roof charging your EV, overnight".
Solar panels charge batteries during the day so you can use that energy overnight. So yes, what he said is true, even if counterintuitive.
@@Noah_E Please, retake introduction to basic addition and subtraction at your local elementary school.
1) Most people don't have enough roof space for that much energy and why not just use it to power the home in the first place which is the best use of roof top solar.
2) Even more people live in multi-unit townhouses, apartments, condos, etc. Where are they going to put their roof top solar? I know, we can just get the government to take land away from farmers and cover fields with solar panels and then eat high CO2 demanding bugs.
@phprofYT where I am (central VA USA), the average home solar produces enough electricity to drive 200 miles a day. Plus, the OP and quite a few others seemed to be focused on the "overnight" part of the PM's comment. As if the energy produced during the day just dissappears when the sun goes down. Try to keep up.
He meant via batteries 🔋 charged by solar during the day. A misunderstanding but hey if it fits the agenda you’re spruiking go for it
He also said Australia is building a rocket to fly to the sun.He reckons we will go at night,its cooler then.
I watched a vid earlier tonight with the brilliant Johnny Smith's Late Brake Show on CZcams featuring the rather too good looking, with his designer hair style and light shaved face, designer of the '4'. He was wearing a turtle neck too!
Max Missoni is his name and he joined Polestar from Volvo in 2018 where he was Vice President Exterior Design and Chief Designer Exterior for over 8 years.
So from China EV brand 1.0 to China EV brand 2.0?
He was very passionate about it and how he came up with its look.
A Coupe and an SUV but mixed together. As he says a new breed of vehicle.
And I'll admit it looks okay-ish!
Until he got to the bit about him not wanting or them needing a rear window!
Its camera apparently gives way more vision to the rear than a mirror.
Ah really?
Hasn't there been rear windows in cars for like, forever! Because they work?!
He said there was light from the glass roof and the LED lights inside the car that would make rear passengers feel like they were in a normal 'old fashioned' car!
PS4 is the first ever non super car to not have a rear window.
Johnny says in the vid that there are many Polestar 2's on the road in the UK. Ah one should check the sales numbers for them!
Or am I being too much of a journalistic radio broadcaster?
He says too that the P4 has a 2mm longer wheelbase than Range Rover so it has lots of cabin space and not much overhangs. Sculpted for aerodynamics.
As long as a Range Rover?!
Interestingly P4's lit front badge isn't legal in Europe to drive with only turning on when you press unlock for the first time.
Max says the PS4 has much more space in the back by not having a rear window. It means you can put more in the boot without than with.
Interestingly with the two of them in the back seat Johnny admits they had to use studio lights to illuminate them due no rear window!
Johnny does show the massive charge port door. Why so big??
His video said you could buy one now, when his video, after the embargo, was released.
I have an old friend who is way down the path of buying one.
I'll be sending him your vid JC.
As you've done many times before you bring some rational and sense to their mad-arse buying decisions!
Hope you're superb!
Grayson
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My local tyre guy told me that most EVs get through tyres on the drive axle at 12-15000 miles versus 30,000 miles on ICE vehicles, performance EVs chew through them even quicker. Tyre micro particles aren’t hazardous, are they?
I eat ethically grain fed beef, known as ribeye. I shed a tear each & every time I finish that last morsel. Only until the next shopping adventure into the supermarket wilderness!
I’m a little more in touch, I give them their last ride..
Enjoy it while you can. If the rich elite get their way you will soon be eating tofu exclusively. Only the rich will be eating beef while they jet around the world laughing at our naivety.
@@lanejohnson7656 I thank you for your service & dedication!👍🏻
Suzuki X90 was an SUV coupe, and even had a drop top. Didn't go all that well though.
It was pretty fugly. And that's being very kind.
@@grantleyhughes bloody dreadful things
Susukiw X90 was ugly and also for the broke blpeople. Polestar is luxury class modern comfort safety.
As a business owner I had the opportunity to buy an EV 5 years ago, the tax advantage alone made it look very attractive but not much research at all showed up all points your making here. So I’m not saving the planet one 3 ton electric shitbox at a time, I’m still running my now 10 year old Range Rover. I’ve never felt so green.
I heard that some councils in London are raising parking fees for EVs by 1800% because EVs are bad for the environment.
True.Less environment friendly,produce more tyre particles,and surface wear.
Nup. Because they only want pedestrians in London.
The British people are even worse voters than we Aussies!
I see a survey showed 93% of EV owners are onto there 7th booster
What's a booster?
Shot
Oh another brainless anti vaxxer.How much was your tesla again?
9 dart finish
And they double mask in the shower.
Mmmm, my roof top solar panels charge absolutely nothing overnight. Thanks Albo, you numpty.
You have to point them at the stars, silly.
They do. Just save the energy it generates during the day and then use it to charge over night.
Save the planet and buy 2nd hand
Given that weight is a determinant factor in the wear and tear of roads and weight in vehicles increases with size; and that large-sized vehicles are not required (they may be wanted but they are not required); and that EVs are escaping both their fair share of weight taxes and the huge "donation" to GENERAL REVENUE made by ICE vehicle owners every time they fill up; why not remove the excise on fossil fuels and reconstitute the weight tax with a flat tax up to say 1800Kgs and then a sliding scale increasing every 200Kgs or so for the obese vehicles. Should limit sales of the fatties above 2000Kgs.
Elon mightn't like it though!
The FCAI would be all over it. I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m saying the FCAI will claim that cars are heavier in response to stronger crash safety requirements.
Heavier cars do not equate to safer cars. Safer cars are often heavier
Yeah and introduce an emissions tax instead.
NSW does charge rego by weight, Elon wouldn’t mind as Teslas are much lighter than other brands of EV, for instance a model y dual motor is 1980kg at most compared to the polestar atrocity
I have read that road damage = mass to the 4th power. Hence trucks do all the damage to roads.
Read it where?@@davidvanderklauw
Did she also score a perfect round of 18 on the golf course?
She IS a perfect score.
I think I'll sit up all night and checkout my solar panels charging my batteries, on ya Albonese you genius
And remember to make sure the refrigerator light goes out when you close the door.
@@markh.6687 I'll have to check the science on that with Abonese
Push daylight saving to +12 and it’s one less broken promise
Can't believe Magoo is trying to sell EV's by saying solar panels will charge it overnight. Making it wider for the carpark, I have trouble with a Mazda 3 opening the door in the narrow carparks. Rather the Kingswood when it breaks down I just wriggle the wires and it's going again.
"Solar panels charging your car for free overnight". The PM must be referring to the newly released Moon Beam panels.
Not really my solar panels safe the energy it generates over the day then I use it to charge my car during the night. 😊
@@andreasl4507 Solar panels do not save energy. They generate electricity from sunlight, for best case, six to nine hours a day. Batteries are required for electricity storage to use at night.
Solar panels 'charging your EV overnight' the man said (and no-one challenged him). Errr - not sure that's gonna work, unless Aus is different and it's sunny at 1am! ;)
This man represents a majority of Aussie voters. Millions will revote him next time.
He forgot to mention your roof needed to be the size of the MCG.
Well we are always referred to as being upside down or down under.
@@davidvanderklauw Almost right, A majority of Aussie voters. 61%. Millions will remove him next time.
Maybe all our illustrious PM has to do to make the sun shine at night is to drop his daks, bend over and the sunshine out of his fat arse will be there to charge all the EV,s.
Five "Ex's" ? Sorry now, I previously had you pegged as a chronic pessimist. Respect.
I believe Einstein had something to say about repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome as being a barometer of sanity.
The only place for BEVs is in smaller micro cars, bikes, scooters, etc which are great for short distance trips.
Germany set for 14% drop in electric-vehicle sales as carmakers scale back ambitions and demand ‘does not look good’
XC90 - 3 tonnes.
Polestar 4 - 2.3 tonnes. 600km range
Xc90 7 seats… Polestar 4 5 seats….. Apples & Oranges
But still heavier@@robertpatrick3350
Blackout Bowen has one on order...
He'd probably get one thrown in.
I've got a PhD in industrial chemistry and materials engineering with a speciality in corrosion and electrochemistry. You're spot on John. Great vids, keep them coming.
580kmh range, that is 'averaging 46kmh in summer conditions' as per the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). One can only imagine how much you would have to deduct when going 100kmh in winter conditions.
So "on sale now" is a metaphor for "available for 6 month pre-order". Interesting interpretation of English…
On Sales Now's Personal pronoun is Not.
ill keep my v8 thanks
The lefties whine about the "big trucks on our roads" for the Dodges and Chev trucks etc as examples, yet this "EV" is wider and heavier than some of them lol?
Watch no media reports on its size and weight - taking up shopping centre car parks
And the tyre live. Luckily tyres are so easily recycled though.
John, rock on Five Finger Death Punch, Wrong Side of Heaven.
Awesome as usual. T&A was spot on.... How many strokes per hole I'm wondering? Still waiting for the dates for your live in person tour.
Wait, what did that politician say? Put solar panels on your house, to charge your EV over NIGHT? Brilliant minds at work.
Yeah but at least it's free.
/sarc
did Albo actually say the solar will charge your vehicle for free over night?🤣🤣GENIUS
Racks and Flaps? I'm off to polish my golf clubs!
Just wondering if the cars registration costs are still based on tare weights [at least in NSW] must be expensive to register.
You're a brave man to marry #4 if she was rocking Kim Jong Un hair. That's a red flag right there m9.
She made it look enticing - initially.
In Vegas.
@@AutoExpertJC the heart (and other vital organs) want what they want...
I’m seriously disappointed in this video. You neglected to mention that Polstar was recently revalued to NO VALUE. So that $1000 is likely to be a donation to Geely Creditors.
It was a video about the vehicle, not the company. Otherwise, we'd be here all day.
@@AutoExpertJC My point exactly what vehicle? You’re making the assumption that you’re going to get a vehicle at some point. Here in 5hitsville deposits go pop when business go bang.
I wonder if that leather comes from the same contented cows that give us Carnation canned milk?
According to a 2022 article from MIT MECHE for an 80Kw Tesla battery, between 3 and 15 tons of CO2 are emitted.
Charging my EV overnight with solar....?!?...Good on ya PM... I must have missed that part in electronics training...
It's new technology. As well as doping the PV cells with something like phosphorous and boron, they ad microscopic unicorns and fairy dust. The microscopic unicorns
get excited with the gravitational pull of the moon and give off electrons to the fairy dust, thus producing voltage and current.
It's called quantum charging technology. A solar cell somewhere on the sunny side spits out an electron, some dude trying to measure it inadvertently forces it to appear on your solar cell, or maybe even in your battery bank 😊
EV's that are driven as a daily driver, shreds tires faster than a visiting in-laws welcome. A set lasts a year, tops. At $1400 to $2000 for at set. Added to that higher insurance premiums, and if your not fortunate enough to have home charging, and rely on public chargers, then there are virtually no savings. The hole green thing evaporates along with the green in your wallet.
Now wait a second, this is very interesting. "Solar panels on the roof of the car, to charging your vehicle for free, overnight." Yes that is what he said at 14:33 for real. I wonder how i missed that enormous invention that solarpanels can charge a car overnight. A solar panel that can generate power by moonlight. That is really amazing!
Solar panels will produce electricity at night. The average homeowner would only need about 100 square miles of them per car................................ 🤣🤣🤣🤣
15.28 Friendly reminder. The fires that you refer to will not be organic. That is hydrocarbons burning. Sadly, metallurgy is the correct discipline. It's the kind of fire that burnt the destroyer Sheffield to the water line.
Thank You John, Your excellent commentaries on the whole corrupt effort of "Zero Emission" Vehicles should be required viewing for everyone.
"Solar panels, charging your EV overnight" that statement says it all!
Absolute best time for charging is night. With solar panels naturally.
EV-s charging from solar panels for free? Let me ask something:
- Do those panels come for free?
- Get installed for free?
- All the necessary gizmos that accompany those panels, those are free too?
- Maintenance?
No?
Even fruits from home garden don't come for free. Garden has to be maintained, seeds grown and sown, soil plowed etc. DIY? Time is money, they say.
Q2: How much ecological footprint do solar panels have when produced and when (if ever) will they cross over CO2 neutrality line? A little math quiz, that is.
Well people. That is exactly what I needed. A quick short sharp shot of reality . This friends was golden and I thought I was in acid at one stage . Excellent work old mate. Keep up the great offerings as my life would be so much more ……. Boring without these offerings.
I love ya work.
EVs do get a pass on everything, especially Tesla, who is allowed to test their experimental and dangerous 'self-driving' nonsense on public roads.
This channel use to regularly publish great content on engineering and motoring. Now it is nothing but click bait for anti-EV and anti-woke rants that are sounding more like thoughts from the shuffle board court of "Del Boca Vista". I agree that EVs are not the saviours they are marketed to be, and would never contemplate owning one in their current specs, but how much longer are you going to flog the narrative. It is like you have found a whole new bunch of devotees surfing the net looking for bias confirmation and they are upping your view rates. The anti-EV crowd come across as just as unhinged as the EV crowd - usually science denying nutters who think climate change is world socialist conspiracy. I get it you need to make some dollars, and there are a lot of angry anti-woke people to raise your view numbers, but if this channel is now nothing more than click bait for anti-woke LNP talking points, I can watch Sky News after dark, and find my engineering fix elsewhere.
So, no real argument with the facts then...
Didn't question the facts - "I agree that EVs...." Just the diversity of content is gone, and the anti woke talking points is taking away from what used to be a great channel covering engineering. It sounds like Sky News. I watched it for the engineering. @@AutoExpertJC
It's not an "argument with the facts presented" so much as the facts presented are hidden in a bunch of such over-the-top satire that your narrative is beginning to sound like something approved by Mr Murdoch.
Alan's point (above) holds true for many of us old school fans of this channel.
Just one example; playing the clip of Albo"s brain-fart statement repeatedly and out of context. This begs the question: were we better off with the previous lot?
Read your viewer comments and realise how your video is interpreted. Much of your viewer demographic are either beard-strokers or classic anti "everyything socially progrrssive" trolls. What's more important, click baiting or Michael West-like journalism?
I also tend to agree used to like watching this channel but lately it just seems to be anti EV everything and the occasional engineering video thrown in where as before it was a good mix. I mean about 18 months ago he released a video about the Hyundai Kona EV that he had for a long term review and liked it but now it's just EV on fire, EV are heavy etc etc. There was a bus fire in Brisbane today are you going to do a video on how fossil fuels can catch fire under certain conditions... Or what about Toyota's latest stuff up with emissions testing any videos on that coming up???
Would you like a hankie?
It’s disappointing that Ford doesn’t offer the F-150 in England. Looks like they just made them available in Australia. The Ford Ranger is a smaller pickup and the F-150 is far superior.
Thanks for the insightful video and I completely agree with you that there is a considerable upfront CO2 cost associated with EV production. What is the typical CO2 production cost of a Ranger? This would likely be a useful calculation to determine a like-for-like CO2 cost and comparison over the life of the vehicles (manufacture + usage). My assumption is the EV would have a much larger upfront CO2 cost and may only reduce the 100k-odd km payback compared to the Ranger to somewhere around 70-80k km?
Hi John,
You mentioned the New polecat is wider.
Its something I don't need as too many parking spaces are already too narrow ( in my city ).
Indeed many of the car parking spaces vary in width from location to location.
If I had a spare $140,000 to spend it would not be on any vehicle from the place that this Polecat car comes from.
A possible use may be for an official car for Penny Wong.
Thank you for keeping us all abreast of the situation.
GCC