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Polestar 2 Vs Tesla Model 3: Devastating Efficiency Difference – They could have the same EPA range only if Polestar 2 had 25-30% higher battery capacity.
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Long range dual motor needing 300 wh/km is just insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNpULosNUCA
Idk how they even manage to get such a high usage.
How is anyone surprised at this? Teslas are literally made to be pretty much as efficient as possible and they have years more experience building EVs. The polestar is based off the CMA platform, which is shared between ICE and PHEV and overall is far less aerodynamic.
This myopic focus on efficiency is asinine. People want vehicles of all sorts of shapes, they don’t all have to look like eggs.
Sigh. Does anyone think this sort of obviously simplistic glimpse is helpful? We don’t even have data on equivalent net battery sizes. We know the EPA range is wildly inconsistent. Why do this, insideevs?
We also know the 3 SR is about as good as it gets for efficiency. The 3 is lighter, has best in class aero, a single very efficient motor, and a silicon carbide inverter. Unless polestar is doing all these things, clearly they won’t be as efficient. Maybe polestar is 10%, or 20%, or whatever percent less efficient – that’s fine, but why even bother with this garbage comparison?
And besides that, efficiency will become less of a talking point as adoption increases (unfortunately). Just look at mainstream car rags, mpg is barely a footnote and it’s usually something like “get the hemi you fucking ass wipe you don’t want Daryll to call you a bitch”.
Lucid is better than Tesla on efficiency per lucid ceo. Fraud or not, we will see.