Just purchased the P2 with all the packs. Your videos are the equivalent of the owners manual. This is an outstanding car top to bottom. Knowing Volvos history of building safe reliable cars, no surprise.

People get so stressed doing something new like this. Thanks for showing people how charging up and getting on the road is really not as bad as they think.

relaxing music and video congrats! I want the Polestar 3

Congrats on your new vehicle, Joe! Some lovely footage from this inaugural voyage.

The nature in USA is really amazing, I love it! The car is nice too. :) Thanks for the great video!

Drove one for a week. Awesome car. The only problem we had was finding suitable charging stations. Tesla still owns the game on that score, but hopefully that changes.

Thank you very much Joe. Great job. This was a very valuable video to a newbie getting his iX soon and going across country a few months later. Thank you!!!

I have this exact model---very happy

Best car for sure! Enjoy your car it’s great ❤ I got mine 2024, P2. Already orderd a Polestar 3 also😊

Thanks for the video! I look forward to hearing what you prefer or not over your ID.4.

Very good quality of your vid bro! Great job

Mine is arriving this month...apparently...excited!! :D

I didn't have the same experience renting a 2023 Polestar 2. I rented one through Hertz at the Oakland Airport to do an overnight drive to San Diego, CA. They gave the last Tesla to someone else and I was stuck with a Polestar. Tesla usually has a supercharger station map where Polestar has a EV station map. I go to an EV station 60 miles from the Oak Airport to do my first charge. The EV charge kiosk couldn't read my credit card. I called Hertz roadside assistance and I was advised to trade in the Polestar 2 for a Tesla Model 3 at the SFO airport. That was about an hour. They exchanged my rental for a Tesla and even though the situation delayed my trip by 4 hours, I didn't know how impractical a non-Tesla EV is, especially when the charging limit on a Polestar 2 is 150 kwh. My Tesla rebill ends up being $72.00 using the superchargers at the Tesla charging stations. The lesson I learned is any EV that is driven for a long road trip, if it's a Tesla, Rivian, Polestar, Kia, etc, has to be planned because the learning curve for someone to get used to planning routes, and finding charge stations is a challenge if you have never driven a an EV. The only upside that the Polestar 2 had was that it looked more like a regular car. There were too many Teslas in Northern California. The other thing is the Polestar 2 has more analog buttons when the Tesla is a learning curve, since almost everything operates on the touch screen. Since I was familiar with the Tesla settings, Polestar 2 settings weren't difficult even though I had the car for 2 1/2 hours.

Glad you're liking your Polestar2. I love mine. It's also a Snow with 19 inch wheels but I got it with the Plus and Pilot packs.

I let the video play by itself while doing some household chores. come back to around 45:00 mark. I was like..why are there bird poop on my monitor? LOL 😅😅😅

Nice. I was thinking of a Polestar 2 as well, but family found it too small (as is the XC40 Recharge sadly), so eventually ended up with an Audi Q4 e-tron. Did a 400km little trip immediately after. First time in an EV and nowhere near as brave as you, but looking forward to more EV adventures.

Crazy those dealer markups you have there. In Europe its illegal for dealers to do that.

The drive through the Rafael Swell... one of the most scenic stretches of highway in the US.

We’re going that route from Grand Junction to St. George UT in late February. There is no Plan B public charging option, DC or AC, within 50 miles of Green River. Fingers crossed the EA is functioning. It always has been working on our two previous stops. Unfortunately the coffee shop was closed both times.

Congrats on the new Polestar. Great car for what I can see. I have a 21 ID.4 and I’ll miss watching your roadtrips with the ID.4 I learned a lot watching your roadtrips. Keep it up.

Hey Joe, Congrats on the new car. I'm still rocking the ID.4 on my channel. As an old photographer let me give a little helpful hint. Your windshield camera is a little over exposed because too much of the dark dashboard is in the shot. Just tilt up a little and you should have a better exposure on those beautiful vistas you're recording. Keep up the great work! 😊

Thanks for the report mate, very interesting. I think you could have done this trip much faster with more efficient use of chargers and skipping some of your stops. For example, pulling into Baker with 64% charge, you could have easily made it to Barstow, even Victorville, and then charged at a much higher speed. I have done this many times in my PS2, as I do the LV trip from SoCal every couple of months. I normally leave from Home in OC with 90% and reach Baker (177 miles) with 15-20%. I only then need a 10 minute charge to easily reach LV. On my return, if I leave LV with 90%, I'll reach Victorville with 10% left. Again, a quick 10 minute charge would easily get me home (270 miles from LV to home), although I normally have a meal there at Panda Express next to the charger and get home with plenty of battery. I always get to LV in 4 hours, same on my return. If I had been making your trip from LV to SD, I would have made only 1 stop in Victorville for 30 mins charge and would have arrived in SD with over 30% battery, plenty to run around. All in, that would have taken 5 hours 5 minutes.

it is a lovely car to drive.

Nice video, and i love that Polestar 2 :)

Congrats brother. Very happy for you and glad you got something better. We’re still struggling to decide between the Pulsar and Model Y. The price were almost the same when spec. Anyway thanks for the great video. Love the car

I had to FFWD to about where I thought it cut off last time. Exciting to see the upgraded Baker station! EA used to limit most of the Baker chargers to 50kW, hopefully they're all 150kW at a minimum. I'm interested to hear more on your thoughts of the Polestar 2's charge curve vs. the FE ID.4. The Polestar 2's current curve is so much better than it used to be and it looks like it takes a lot more power than your ID4 does at higher states of charge.

I LOVE my Polestar 2. Only car I’ve ever owned that I’m still excited about driving 1 year later. I used to live in Breckenridge, a long, long time ago. Before there were any chain stores (including supermarket) in Frisco or any other area. LOL.

Good choice over the ioniq 5. I owned an i5 as well as a Tesla model y and currently own a gv60 performance and Polestar 2 dual motor with pilot. I prefer the Polestar over the ioniq hands down. This is how I'd list my car's least favorite to favorite Tesla model y Ioniq 5 Gv60 performance Polestar 2 The gv60 is the only one that I'd say I like almost as much as my Polestar. Still prefer the Polestar tho.

How much was your total charge cost for this trip

dude those are some fire glasses what brand and style are they? i literally dont wear sunglasses but yours i need the silhouette is perfect

Hello and greetings from germany :) I will miss the ID.4. I really like your videos and your trips with the car. Also the informations and tips about it. Your videos inspired me, and i bought an ID.4, too :) Wish a good time with the Polstar. Hope the next will be a VW again.

Cool car, congrats!

I have the same exact car with Pilot and Performance packages. Drives like a dream but efficiency is not that great, around 2.8-3.

I thought it was odd that the video last night just abruptly ended.

Well done! I have to say, it seems to me that driving an EV is like driving an ICE car with a half size tank. My Barney basic 2017 Camry has a highway of 400 miles, and in city of 300 miles. I love the tech, and lower maintenance costs, but for most people, that’s not a reasonable trade off. I watch a lot of EV videos but don’t own an EV. Obviously, Tesla currently has a huge lead due in no small part to its strong, reliable, charging network. I’m excited for you and your new vehicle! Keep cranking the videos.

I don't know if you mentioned it but a couple of questions, is that a dual motor model and did you use one pedal driving? Great video

The only advantage Tesla has is the charge station

In Sweden the Tesla-chargers are open to everyone. A bit more expensive compared to if you own a Tesla.

Subbed to your channel. I cannot wait to try this car out for my channel. Really nice looking car here. Def a tesla rival.

Now that you have lived with it for a little while how do you like the Polestar compared to the ID4? I was deciding between those 2 but my Girlfriend didn't like the way the Polestar looks so we went with the ID4.

My wife likes to keep charge receipts. Since you don’t get receipts at charging stations. Do you get some notifications of charging sessions? Thanks. Love the Polestar.

Hey bud, good video, thanks. How much did you spend on the charging for a trip?seems like you stopped every 100 miles?

nice,, did you get a tesla tap mini so you can use tesla chargers are well ??

I happily hesitated on my id4 purchase. Canceled my order. I'm curious as to how your experience has been. Polestar vs. Id4

Great first episode. Does the Polestar have battery pre-conditioning when you route to a charger?

What app are you using to find out which plugs are faster than others? You mentioned others are leaving comments or feedback for each station?

Every time I use the built in Google Maps it crashes the whole Polestar console system. It's been in for service a number of time and they can't figure out how to fix it. Polestar blames Galpin service and Galpin blames Polestar. So fun.

Always love your videos! Long time viewer, glad to see you in a polestar 2, makes me wanna trade in my ID4 up here in Milwaukee

2021 polestar 2 for $39k? Recommended?

Is that a good car , it would do my head in stopping to charge al the time lol

Ya, why is that?

Hi I am also located in greater Chicagoland. I found several at a local Nissan dealer in Northen suburbs. They have 2022 P2 used base and 2021 launch addition with Pilot Package. Is it safe to buy it used? And which one would you go for personally?

Free charging the worst thing a manufacturer could offer. Agree with Tom from State of Charge about it. If charger reliability was close to 99% maybe and there was 10+ charger units at every site perhaps but not now. But not in this world of charger hogs getting their free juice and unreliable broken chargers everywhere.

I'd be afraid to drive anything but tesla, because of awful charging infrastructure.

you probably could have completed the trip faster in a 1973 Mercedes Benz 240D automatic.. diesel

What a pain charging every hour

EV are good grocery getter and commuter cars. HORRIBLE road trip cars.

That is a nice car