{"id":6739,"date":"2020-04-24T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2528096"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:20:00","slug":"the-polestar-2-will-start-at-59900-deliveries-start-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/24\/the-polestar-2-will-start-at-59900-deliveries-start-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polestar 2 will start at $59,900, deliveries start this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The 408hp four-door started production in March.<\/h2>\n<section class=\"post-meta\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Polestar_2_005-1440x1080.jpg\" width=\"883\" height=\"662\" \/><\/section>\n<section class=\"post-meta\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-2.56.13-PM-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"At first, Polestar 2s will come pretty loaded with standard equipment. But if you want a color other than black, you have to pay for it.\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-2.56.37-PM-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"There is a more expensive interior option.\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-2.55.57-PM-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"The Pilot package comes as standard on the launch edition.\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-2.56.06-PM-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"I think the Performance package will be a popular option.\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Polestar_2_017-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gold seatbelts are like the ones in the Polestar Engineered S60 we drove last year.\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-2.56.43-PM-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"One of the wheel designs will cost you extra, but they&#039;re all 20-inch wheels.\" \/><\/section>\n<section class=\"post-meta\">\n<p>The Polestar 2 is one of the cars I&#8217;m most looking forward to driving this year. It&#8217;s an all-electric fastback sedan from the brand of the same name, with Polestar having been spun off by Volvo and its Chinese parent company as a new brand for performance BEVs. Production of the brand-new BEV&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2020\/03\/volvo-performance-spin-off-polestar-starts-building-its-new-battery-ev\/\">started last month<\/a>&nbsp;in China, ahead of the start of US deliveries this summer. And now we finally know exactly how much a Polestar 2 will cost here: $59,900, before any federal or local incentives.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s actually cheaper than we expected&mdash;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2019\/02\/volvo-spinoff-polestar-reveals-its-battery-ev-the-polestar-2\/\">last year, Polestar predicted<\/a>&nbsp;the launch edition would start at $63,000. And the good news if you&#8217;ve already placed an online deposit is that the new, lower price is the one you&#8217;ll be asked to pay. The online configurator is also live with US pricing, so we can report that the launch-edition Polestar 2 will come pretty heavily loaded&mdash;the only cost options are for colors other than black ($1,200), a fancy leather and wood interior ($4,000), and the performance pack ($5,000), which gives you some fancy &Ouml;hlins dampers, Brembo front brakes, a different alloy wheel design, gold-colored tire-valve caps, gold-colored seat belts, and a shiny black roof. (You can also buy the performance pack wheels separately, for $1,200.)<\/p>\n<p>We also expect a cheaper version in the coming months&mdash;the launch edition comes with both the Pilot and Plus packages as standard, and when European pricing was revealed last year, it included a sub-&euro;40,000 model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullbox sidebar story-sidebar right\">\n<div class=\"story-sidebar-part\">\n<div class=\"story-sidebar-part-content\">\n<h3>FURTHER READING<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"recommendation-further-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2020\/03\/as-volvo-goes-electric-heres-how-its-making-its-batteries-top-notch\/\">As Volvo goes electric, here&rsquo;s how it&rsquo;s making its batteries top-notch<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Otherwise, the car will be much as we expected. It uses Volvo&#8217;s Compact Modular Architecture and shares the same 300kW (402hp), 660Nm (487lb-ft) dual electric motor powertrain as the forthcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2019\/10\/volvos-xc40-crossover-goes-fully-battery-electric-for-under-48000\/\">Volvo XC40 Recharge BEV<\/a>, and the same&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2020\/03\/as-volvo-goes-electric-heres-how-its-making-its-batteries-top-notch\/\">78kWh lithium-ion battery pack<\/a>, also from Volvo.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/02\/the-volvo-polestar-2-is-the-first-google-android-car\/\">It&#8217;s also powered by Google&#8217;s Android<\/a>&mdash;at least as far as the infotainment system is concerned. (The main instrument display is running on a separate real-time OS.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Polestar says it&#8217;s planning to start delivering US Polestar 2s this summer. Like Tesla, the brand is using an online retail model but will have physical showrooms&mdash;at first just on the West Coast and New York&mdash;where you can arrange a test drive or poke around a demo car in person.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listing image by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polestar.com\/\">Polestar<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2020\/03\/volvo-performance-spin-off-polestar-starts-building-its-new-battery-ev\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2020\/03\/volvo-performance-spin-off-polestar-starts-building-its-new-battery-ev\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>JONATHAN M. GITLIN<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>JONATHAN M. GITLIN\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 408hp four-door started production in March. The Polestar 2 is one of the cars I&rsquo;m most looking forward to driving this year. It&rsquo;s an all-electric fastback sedan from the brand of the same name, with Polestar having been spun off by Volvo and its Chinese parent company as a new brand for performance BEVs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/24\/the-polestar-2-will-start-at-59900-deliveries-start-this-summer\/\">Continue reading <span>The Polestar 2 will start at $59,900, deliveries start this summer<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/24\/the-polestar-2-will-start-at-59900-deliveries-start-this-summer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Polestar 2 will start at $59,900, deliveries start this summer - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/24\/the-polestar-2-will-start-at-59900-deliveries-start-this-summer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Polestar 2 will start at $59,900, deliveries start this summer - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 408hp four-door started production in March. 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